Family lawn with a sunken trampoline
Before: a dry lawn with a trampoline and a slide by the house
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Garden design software that does the design for you
Upload one photo, pick a style, and the software designs your garden for you in about a minute, in your browser. 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.
24 real gardens, designed by the software
Every one is a real garden, designed 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 garden in the same style, with the same plants.
Lawns and patios, redesigned
Tired lawns, plain patios and family gardens, each designed by the software from one photo, with the fences and the house kept just where they are. 8 gardens
Sandstone terrace and a small lawn
Before: worn brick paving and a lawn with a summerhouse at the back
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Patio, lawn and bold leaves
Before: dark decking with a bistro set looking onto a fenced lawn
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Lawn with stepping stones and a bistro table
Before: a lawn beside the house with a metal gazebo over patio furniture
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Box balls and a bird bath beside an oval lawn and block paving
Before: block paving round an oval lawn with a timber shelter and shed
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Cloud pruned pine and box hedging under a pergola, with a lawn beyond
Before: a deck with seating looking through a pergola to a lawn
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Neat lawn framed by grey paving
Before: a patchy lawn with broken paving and a hanging chair
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Striped lawn to a summer house
Before: a plain lawn between fences with a summer house at the end
Get this garden →Landscape designs, without the drawing
New paths, gravel, terraces and seating: the kind of design landscape design software makes you draw, made here from a photo. 8 gardens
White gravel, pale slabs and a pergola
Before: a cluttered yard with loose slabs, a tarpaulin and a shed
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Patchy lawn turned into gravel, stepping stones and loungers
Before: a patchy lawn and bare soil with loungers by a white shed
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Old deck turned into a gravel bed of lavender round a bench
Before: a dark timber deck on a lawn in front of a brick house
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Dry lawn turned into a cobbled path and seats
Before: a dry brown lawn with a washing line, fence and shrubs
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Lawn swapped for a sandstone patio and a sofa
Before: a pale paved patio and small lawn beside raised timber beds
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Seen from upstairs: a gravel circle and stepping stones among pots, an olive and grasses
Before: a patchy brown lawn with stepping stones, pots and a corner sofa
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Stepping stones through gravel to a shed
Before: an overgrown patchy lawn leading to a shed under trees
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Gravel path past a cordyline
Before: a lawn with a cordyline, a small patio and a summerhouse
Get this garden →Small gardens and side passages
Courtyards, narrow strips and side passages, each planned to the space it has. 8 gardens
Small lawn courtyard, from above
Before: a narrow yard from above, patchy grass and clutter under a shelter
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Stepping stone side garden
Before: a rough lawn beside a white house with a young tree
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Pale stone courtyard garden
Before: a lawn with stepping stones, a white wall and a dark fence
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Stone path through a narrow garden
Before: an overgrown weedy strip between a fence and shrubs
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A narrow side passage turned into a stone path between white roses and hostas
Before: a narrow side passage full of rubble between white walls
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Narrow lawn turned into a path and pots
Before: a narrow lawn between green fences with decking at the front
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A town garden seen from upstairs, with a path to a sofa under a palm
Before: an overgrown town garden with a palm and potted plants, from upstairs
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Brick path, pots and a palm
Before: red decking crowded with pots and ornaments, a palm and red fences
Get this garden →How the garden design software works
Most garden design software and garden planning software has you draw your plot, then drag in paths and plants one at a time. This one starts with a photo of your garden and does the design for you, so you don't need to know the name of a single plant.
Add a photo, and choose what to design
One photo from your phone is all it takes. Redesign the planting around the paths and paving you have, or the whole space with a new layout and paths.
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 designed
Your real garden, designed and planted, in about a minute.
What you get for free
- First 3 designs freeSee your own garden designed with no card and no catch.
- It does the design for youYou pick the style, the software creates the garden.
- Nothing to installIt runs in your browser, on your phone or laptop.
- Real, growable plantsReal garden plants that suit your space and where you live.
Try the garden design software free
See your own garden designed 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.
Design software, without the learning curve
What it does, how it differs from landscape design software and 3D planners, and which to choose.
Garden design software anyone can use
This is AI garden design software made for gardeners, not technical drawing. You give it a photo, mark your beds and their measurements, choose a look, and it hands you a designed garden: no complicated plans to draw, nothing to learn. It runs in your browser, keeps your fences, paths and trees in place, and shows you a photorealistic redesign in about a minute. It is the quickest way to go from wondering what to do with your garden to seeing it looking wonderful.
The plants are real, and so are the numbers
Every design is built from real garden plants, chosen for your light, soil and climate by a professional gardener's rules and worked out to the size of your beds, so the numbers add up and the garden you see is one you can genuinely grow. You see the finished garden first, then decide whether to take it further. It works as flower bed design software and planting plan software too: design one bed, and with Pro or Max, get every plant in it named.
Landscape design software, without the drawing
Landscape design software is usually built for professionals: you measure the plot, draw it to scale, then place the paths, paving and plants by hand, and there is a lot to learn. This works from a photo instead. On a whole garden design it can redesign the layout, paths and paving too, and you see the result as a picture of your own garden, not a plan from above. See what it does for landscape design.
Not 3D, but your own garden
3D garden design software has you build your garden as a model, then turn it round on screen. This skips the model. It shows you a photo of your own garden, redesigned, with the real light, the real fences and the house behind it, so you judge the design in the garden you actually have.
Which is the best garden design software for you?
It depends what you want to do. If you want to draw an exact plan to scale, a professional landscape design program, or a free garden design program you draw in, is the right tool. If you want to see what your own garden could look like, and which plants would get it there, this does that from a photo, with nothing to learn and nothing to install. Your first 3 designs are free, so you can try it on your own garden before you decide.
More ways to design your garden
On your phone? The garden planner app works in your browser, with nothing to download.
Changing the shape of the garden? The garden layout planner plans a new layout, with new paths and beds, from one photo.
Ready to start? Design my garden shows how one photo becomes a new garden in about a minute.
Just one bed to plan? The flower bed designer works on just that bed.
Only one border to sort? The garden border planner plans just that border and leaves the rest of the garden as it is.
Ready to plant? See what goes into a planting plan: every plant, how big each grows and where it goes.
Garden styles to design with
Questions about the software
What is the best free garden design software?
For drawing an exact plan to scale, a professional landscape design program. For seeing your own garden redesigned, this: upload a photo, pick a style, and see it in about a minute, in your browser. Your first 3 designs are free, with no card.
Is there any landscape design software free to try?
Yes. This designs your garden from a photo, and your first 3 designs are free, with no card. Most free landscape design software asks you to draw your plot first; this does the design for you.
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.
Do I need to download anything?
No. It runs entirely in your web browser on a phone, tablet or computer, so there is nothing to install and nothing to update.
Is there a free version?
Your first 3 garden designs are free, with no card needed. For more, Pro from £29, one payment, gives you weeks of designing in higher quality, two designs at once, with every plant named and a clean image for every design.
Does it work on a Mac or an iPad?
Yes. You don't need special garden design software for Mac: it runs in your browser, so it works on a Mac, a Windows PC, an iPad or a phone, with nothing to install.
Design your garden from one photo.
Add one photo of your garden and see it designed in about a minute. Your first 3 designs are free, with no card.
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