A curving lawn edge with a bed of pink astilbes and white flowers under a young tree
Before: a lawn with a curved brick edged bed under a young tree
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A flower bed designer that starts with your photo
Design a flower bed from one photo: pick a style and see your own bed planted and full of colour in about a minute. Or start from any garden on this page.
UK, US or anywhere else: plants picked to thrive where you live, in your light and soil.
Design my gardenOver 500 garden designs made.
22 flower beds, designed from a photo
Every flower garden idea here is a real bed or border, redesigned from one photo with the app, and each says what was there before. Tap Before to see the photo. Like one? Tap Get this garden to design your own bed in the same style, with the same plants.
Flower bed ideas from real gardens
Island beds, curved lawn edges and beds round a tree: each one a real bed, redesigned from one photo and layered from back to front. 8 gardens
A round bed of purple salvias and white flowers beside a slate patio under birches
Before: low ground cover beside a slate patio under birch trees
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Gravel bed filled with heleniums, salvias and foxgloves
Before: a mixed border beside gravel, in front of a wooden fence
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Coneflowers and geraniums under a tree by a stone wall
Before: bare, dry soil under a tree in front of a stone wall
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A lawn edged with lavender, euphorbia and silver leaves under a lilac
Before: a lawn beside a bare soil bed and large leafy shrubs
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A dry lawn replaced with gravel and round beds of catmint, salvias and roses
Before: a dry brown lawn with fences, a shed and garden chairs
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A dug bed beside a brick path packed with salvias, roses and lady's mantle
Before: a freshly dug bare bed edged with brick, with a shed behind
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Gravel and stones round a tall pine, with pink and purple flowers for bees
Before: a gravel bed with stones under a tall tree beside a patio
Get this garden →Small flower bed ideas
Narrow strips by a fence, bare corners and beds beside a path, filled so even a small bed has colour from spring to autumn. 7 gardens
A narrow bed along a trellis fence planted with orange cannas, calla lilies and golden grass
Before: a narrow bark bed with a few young plants by a trellis fence
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Path by the house through foxgloves and roses
Before: a block paved path beside a narrow bed of orange flowers
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Grasses and daisies in a bare corner
Before: a bare concrete corner with a young standard tree by a fence
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A corner bed of salvias, grasses and heucheras, with a red trumpet vine on the fence
Before: a bare corner of dry soil by a fence and a small patio
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A fence corner planted with pittosporum, euphorbia, bergenia and black mondo grass
Before: a fence corner with a sparse mixed border and bare soil
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A bare strip below a white wall planted with evergreen shrubs and pink flowers
Before: a lawn running up to a low brick wall below a white building
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Stepping stones through low silver plants and grasses beside a timber house
Before: a crowded bed of white daisies and flowers beside a house
Get this garden →Front garden flower bed ideas
A bed by the front door, a strip along the drive, a corner by the road: flower bed ideas for the front of the house, each from a photo taken out the front. 7 gardens
A bed by the front door of lavender, rosemary and an olive jar behind a sleeper rail
Before: gravel and young roses behind a timber rail by the front door
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A sloping corner by the road planted with white hydrangeas and lavender beside the steps
Before: a sloping, mostly bare bed by a road beside paving and steps
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Weedy strip along a driveway turned into a long border
Before: a thin, weedy strip of plants along a fence beside a drive
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Tired corner bed under a tree filled with catmint and foxgloves
Before: a tired corner bed under a large tree beside a lawn
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A strip beside the drive packed with lavender, rudbeckia and flowers for bees
Before: a narrow strip of grasses and shrubs beside a block paved drive
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Feather grass and catmint round a front lawn
Before: an overgrown raised bed of grass and bark inside a brick wall
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A new lawn inside a picket fence, edged with lavender, salvias and grasses
Before: bare soil inside a new picket fence with paving round it
Get this garden →How to design a flower bed from a photo
Most flower bed planners have you draw the bed and drag plants in one at a time. This one starts with a photo of your bed, so you don't need to know the name of a single plant.
Photograph your bed
One photo from your phone is all it takes. Mark the bed and pop in its measurements, so the planting fits.
Choose the look
Pick one of 15 styles and a colour scheme, then ask for anything you want, like "add a wildlife pond". Or tap Get this garden on any garden on this page.
See your bed designed
Your real bed, planted and full of colour, in about a minute.
What you get for free
- First 3 designs freeSee your own bed redesigned with no card and no catch.
- Your bed, redesignedA photorealistic picture of your own flower bed, freshly planted.
- A layered lookHeight at the back, colour in the middle, softness at the edge.
- A long seasonColour across spring, summer and autumn, not one short flush.
Try the flower bed designer free
See your own bed redesigned first. When you find the look you love, Pro or Max plans turn it into a bed you can plant.
See what goes into a planting plan before you choose.
Your first 3 designs are free.
Watermarked and lower quality. No card needed.
| One payment, no subscription. | ||
| What you get | ||
| Designs | 20 | 50 |
| Days to use them | 14 | 30 |
| Free designs on top | 5 | 10 |
| Designs at once, side by side | 2 | 4 |
| With every design | ||
| Every plant named, ready to buy | ||
| The materials, gravel to fence, with whole garden designs | ||
| Care guide and flowering calendar | ||
| Higher quality images | ||
| No watermark | ||
| Change any design in your own words | ||
With the Pro and Max plans
Every plant named, ready to buy
The pot size to buy and how tall each grows. Measured borders also say how many to buy.
From a whole garden plan
| Plant | Pot | Height |
|---|---|---|
| Catmint 'Walker's Low'Nepeta × faassenii | 1 to 2 L | 10 to 50 cm |
| Avens 'Totally Tangerine'Geum | 2 L | 50 cm to 1 m |
| Giant montbretiaCrocosmia masoniorum | 2 L | 1 to 1.5 m |
| Tellmann's honeysuckleLonicera × tellmanniana | 3 to 5 L | 2.5 to 4 m |
A care guide for every plant
Where it grows best, how to prune it and how it gets through winter.
From a care guide
Avens ‘Totally Tangerine’
- Grows best in
- Fertile soil that drains well, in full sun
- Pruning
- Deadhead to promote more blooms, and cut back old stems after flowering
- Hardiness
- Very hardy: tolerates the coldest UK winters
- Habit
- Dies back in winter and returns in spring
Catmint ‘Walker’s Low’
- Pruning
- Trim after flowering to keep plants compact and to encourage a second flowering
A flowering calendar
Every plant, the months it flowers, in its own colour.
From a flowering calendar
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Avens 'Totally Tangerine'
Catmint 'Walker's Low'
Clematis 'The President'
Lady's mantle
Clean pictures, no watermark
Higher quality images of your design, yours to keep.
gardendesignapp.aiChange any design in your own words
Say what you want different, and see it redrawn.
ExampleMake the path wider and add a bench.
The materials, gravel to fence
On whole garden designs: the paving, gravel, edging and fence in the picture.
Example
Golden gravelSandstone pavingOak sleepersFeather edge fence
Plants that thrive where you live
In the UK, the US or anywhere else, we take your location and only give you plants that will thrive in your conditions.
Your locationYour lightYour soilPlants that thrive there
Why not a garden designer?
Save over £1,900. The average UK garden design costs £1,950.
A designer can visit, measure and oversee the build. When you want that, bring the look you found here.
Flower bed design you can see first
How it designs a bed, how it picks the plants, and what you get when you love one.
See your flower bed at its best
This flower bed designer takes the guesswork out of designing a flower bed. You upload a photo, pick a style, and see a proper flower bed design laid out for the space you actually have, so you can enjoy the picture first and plant with confidence after. The bed comes back layered the way a designer would build it: taller plants drawn to the back, a generous middle of colour, and softer things spilling over the front edge, with your fence, path and everything around it kept just as it is. Working on a long border rather than a single bed? The garden border planner plans classic herbaceous and mixed borders, worked out to the length and depth of yours.
Real plants, chosen for your spot
Every plant in the picture is a real garden plant, chosen for your light, soil and climate and arranged by a professional gardener's rules. So the flower bed you fall for is one you can genuinely grow. Shady flower bed ideas come from the same rules: a bed under a tree gets plants that like shade; a hot, dry strip by the drive gets plants that love the sun.
Flower bed ideas, drawn into your own bed
Flower bed design ideas usually come as pictures of other people's beds, to save and hope to copy. Here they are drawn into a photo of your own bed, so you can see how a cottage bed, a gravel bed or a front garden full of lavender would look in the space you actually have. They are beautiful, believable ideas: a look you could actually recreate, not a made-up image. Try one style, then another on the same photo.
How to design a flower bed
Most flower bed plans start on paper: you measure the bed, draw a flower bed layout, then work out the plants: tall ones at the back, mid height in the middle, low ones spilling over the edge, and enough of each to flower from spring to autumn. Here you photograph the bed instead, mark it and add its measurements, and the flower bed designer works out the layout for you, sized to the bed you have.
A flower bed planner that does the planning
Look for a flower bed planner, a flower garden planner or a flower garden layout planner and most of what you find is a drawing tool: you sketch the bed from above and drag in plant symbols, or it is built for vegetable rows. This flower bed design tool works the other way round. It plans the planting for you and shows you the finished bed as a photo, so you see the colour before you buy a single plant.
From picture to planting plan
The design is free to see. When you find one you love, unlock its full planting plan: every plant named, how big each grows, where it goes in the bed and a month-by-month flowering calendar. Professional garden designers often charge over £1,000 for this. Here it comes straight from your own design.
More ways to design your garden
Changing the shape of the garden? The garden layout planner plans a new layout, with new paths and beds, from one photo.
Ready to plant? See what goes into a planting plan: every plant, how big each grows and where it goes.
Comparing flower bed design software? Here is how the app compares with the garden design software you draw in yourself.
Filling a raised bed? See raised flower bed ideas from real gardens, and design yours from a photo.
On your phone? The garden planner app works in your browser, with nothing to download.
Planning the whole plot? Landscape design shows your garden's new planting, full of colour, before you lift a spade.
Garden styles to design with
Flower bed designer questions
Is there an app to design flower beds?
Yes. This flower bed design app runs in your phone's browser: photograph your bed, pick a style, and see it designed in about a minute. There is nothing to download, and your first 3 designs are free, with no card.
How does the AI garden design work?
Upload a photo of your garden or a single border, and tell us what you'd like: refresh your borders, keeping your garden's shape, or redesign the whole space with new layout, paths and planting. Pick a style, and we generate a photorealistic redesign of your actual garden. When you love one, unlock its planting plan: every plant, how big each grows, and where each goes.
Are the plants real? Can I actually buy and plant them?
Yes. Every design can become a planting plan of real plants you can buy, chosen for where you live, with each plant's mature height and spread, where it goes and a month-by-month flowering guide. The plans are built on real horticultural data and shaped by a professional gardener, not generic AI guesses, so the garden in the picture is a garden you can genuinely plant.
Do I need a special photo or camera?
No, a normal phone photo is perfect. Photograph your whole garden if it's small and simple, or one border at a time for larger or more complex gardens, where each bed has its own light and soil.
Is it really free, and what does it cost after?
Yes, your first 3 garden designs are free, straight away. Free designs carry a small watermark. Pro is £29 and Max £49, each one payment that covers your whole project, and every design you make with either comes with every plant named, plus a clean, higher quality image that is yours to keep. Pro makes two designs at once, Max four.
Can I design just one bed rather than the whole garden?
Yes. Photograph a single flower bed or border and design that on its own: it is often the best way to work, since each bed has its own light and soil. You can come back and do the next bed whenever you like.
Where do I buy the plants?
Wherever suits you. The planting plan names real, widely available garden plants, so you can take it to any good garden centre or order them online, all at once or a bit at a time.
See your flower bed designed from one photo.
Add one photo of your bed and see it redesigned in about a minute. Your first 3 designs are free, with no card.
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