Stone path through apricot roses and foxgloves
Before: a long narrow lawn with a washing line and wire fences
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A free garden planner that starts with your photo
Plan your garden online from one photo: pick a style and see your own garden planned 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 free garden plans from real gardens
Every one is a real garden, planned 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 plan your own garden in the same style, with the same plants.
Whole garden plans
Ordinary lawns and patios, each planned as a whole new garden from one photo. 7 gardens
Curved paths and a circle of planting
Before: a large lawn edged by wooden fences and tall trees
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Lavender gravel garden
Before: a lawn and paved patio with pots and an arch beyond
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Amber and orange planting round a garden room
Before: a lawn under a large tree with a glass garden room
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Clipped balls and a stone sphere by the house
Before: a dry, weedy lawn by the house with a table, chairs and a standing stone
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Stepping slabs across a lawn to the hedge
Before: a plain lawn between tall hedges with grasses at the back
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Stepping stones through grasses
Before: an overgrown lawn under a tree with two chairs at the back
Get this garden →Plan a garden from a bare plot
Every one of these started as bare ground: mud, rubble, cracked concrete or a dry, patchy lawn. 8 gardens
Lawn with stepping stones to a pergola
Before: a bare strip of mud between new wooden fences
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Brick paths and a shed, from the window
Before: a bare, patchy plot with a shed, seen from a window
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Narrow path through foxgloves
Before: a narrow bare garden between fences with a shed, from above
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Paved terrace with a round raised bed
Before: bare soil with a wooden table, chairs and a parasol
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Rose and delphinium lawn
Before: a dry, patchy lawn with a table tennis table and washing line
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Raised bed cottage garden
Before: empty raised beds, a wheelbarrow and rubble on cracked concrete
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Paved garden with hydrangeas and lavender
Before: cracked concrete and bare ground with a stone bench
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Lawn with stepping stones and full borders
Before: bare patchy ground with stepping stones and a white shed
Get this garden →Plan one border at a time
One border marked and measured, and the rest of the garden left as it is. 7 gardens
Hot coloured raised border by a lawn
Before: a thin, patchy lawn by an old shed under trees
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Border of lavender and silver leaves by a lawn
Before: an overgrown weedy bed and long grass by a fence
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Dahlias and dark leaves by the terrace
Before: a mixed shrub border by a stone house and paved terrace
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Deep cottage border with roses and geraniums
Before: a sparse soil bed by a brick wall with a bird feeder
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Long cottage border beside a lawn
Before: overgrown shrubs and a tree spilling over a rough lawn
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Cottage border by the gate
Before: a weedy bed along a wooden fence by a blue gate
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Border along a slatted fence beside a lawn
Before: a bed of tired lavender along a slatted fence
Get this garden →Plan your garden online: how it works
Most garden planners have you draw your plot from scratch. This online garden planner starts with a photo of your garden, so you don't need to know the name of a single plant.
Add a photo, and choose what to plan
One photo from your phone is all it takes. Plan the whole garden, or mark and measure just one border.
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 it planned
Your real garden, planted, in about a minute.
What you get for free
- First 3 designs freeSee your own garden redesigned with no card and no catch.
- A style you chooseCottage, Mediterranean and more.
- Real, growable plantsReal garden plants that suit your space and where you live.
- Nothing to installUse the garden planner online, in your browser, on your phone or laptop.
Try the garden planner free
See your garden planned first. When you find the look you love, Pro or Max plans turn it into a garden 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.
How to plan a garden for free
What the free garden planner keeps, what it plants, and how it differs from the planners you draw in.
Plan your garden without spending a penny
You should be able to see your garden reimagined before you decide to spend anything, so your first 3 garden designs are free, with no card asked for. Upload a photo, mark your beds, pick a look, and the free garden planner does the rest: a photorealistic picture of your own garden, freshly designed and full of colour, in about a minute.
Your fences, paths and trees stay
It keeps your fences, paths and mature trees where they are and designs into your real space, so the free design you get is genuinely yours, not a generic picture. It works on your phone too, as a free garden design app that runs in your browser, so you can design from a photo you have just taken in the garden.
Free, but built on real plants
Even on the free design, every plant is a real garden plant, chosen for your light, soil and climate by a professional gardener's rules and sized to your beds. So it works as a garden plant planner too: what you see for free is a garden you could actually grow. Try a style, and if you fancy a different look, a fresh design gives you a whole new scheme to compare.
A garden design planner for the whole garden
Many online garden planners are built for vegetable plots: rows, beds and sowing dates. This one plans the garden you look at, its borders, paths, lawn and planting, drawn into a photo of your real garden. To plan a single flower bed instead, the flower bed designer works on just that bed.
Free garden design software, with nothing to draw
There is nothing to download or install, and no plot to draw square by square. Most garden planner software is a virtual garden planner you build yourself, seen from above; this one is a garden visualiser for your own garden, seen from where you stand, and it does the designing for you. That is the difference from most garden design software, which gives you the tools and leaves the designing to you.
More ways to plan your garden
Prefer a designer's eye? Online garden design redesigns your garden from a photo, with no wait and no bill.
Only one border to sort? The garden border planner plans just that border and leaves the rest of the garden as it is.
Comparing tools? See what the garden design tool does that a drawing tool does not.
Ready to start? Design my garden shows how one photo becomes a new garden in about a minute.
Weighing up a professional? Here is how the app compares with hiring a garden designer.
On your phone? The garden planner app works in your browser, with nothing to download.
Garden styles to plan with
Free garden planner questions
Can I plan my garden online for free?
Yes. Add one photo of your garden and pick a style, and the free garden planner plans it for you: you see your new garden design free, in about a minute. Your first 3 designs are free, with no card, and it runs in your phone's browser, so there is nothing to download.
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.
Is it really free, or a free trial that asks for a card?
Yes, your first 3 garden designs are free, straight away, so you can see your own garden redesigned before you decide anything. Paying is entirely up to you: Pro, from £29, one payment.
What do I get after the free design?
Pro from £29, one payment, gives you weeks of designing in higher quality, two designs at once, and every design you make with it comes with its clean image and its full named plant list with sizes, positions and a flowering calendar, ready to build for real.
Is there a free garden planner app?
Yes, in your phone's browser. This free online garden planner works like an app with nothing to download, and your first 3 designs are free.
Your free garden plan is one photo away.
Add one photo of your garden and see it planned in about a minute. Your first 3 designs are free, with no card.
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