Golden grasses and a small pond
Before: bare dry earth with a wooden table and parasol by a house
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A garden design tool that does the work for you
Design your garden from one photo: pick a style and see your own garden designed 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.
24 real gardens the tool designed
Every one is a real garden, designed from one photo with the tool, 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.
Whole gardens, designed for you
Bare plots, dry lawns and cluttered yards, each designed as a whole new garden by the tool, from one photo. 8 gardens
Gravel path through red and orange planting
Before: a dry bare path between hedges with a metal arch
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Lavender and gravel garden
Before: a dry lawn with a hose, sun loungers and a hot tub
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Bare earth turned into a gravel path winding past a rockery to a stone terrace with chairs
Before: a large patch of bare levelled earth with rubble at the edge
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Box squares round a paved centre
Before: a sunken lawn walled with grey fencing and a few shrubs
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Long lawn framed by borders, from the deck
Before: a dry patchy lawn seen from a deck with pots
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A dusty yard turned into a lily pond, a wisteria arbour and flowers for bees
Before: a dusty bare yard with a parasol, table, chairs and a greenhouse
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A long lawn turned into a stone path past a bird bath and deep borders
Before: a long worn lawn between tall trees, with a house beyond
Get this garden →Designed from an ordinary photo
Nobody drew these. Each started as one photo, taken from the back door, a kitchen window or upstairs, and the tool drew the new garden into it. 7 gardens
Seen from upstairs: a long deck and a narrow pond leading to a garden room
Before: seen from upstairs: bare soil, a lawn strip and a garage
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Long grass and brambles seen from a kitchen window, turned into a gravel path through pink planting
Before: long grass and overgrown shrubs seen through a kitchen window
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Lawn and cottage borders, from above
Before: a cluttered narrow garden with weedy grass, seen from above
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Seen from upstairs: a crazy paving circle among dense planting
Before: a dry lawn between a white wall and a fence, seen from upstairs
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Modern water rill garden
Before: a worn lawn and brick outbuilding, seen through a glass roof
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A tangled shady garden seen from upstairs, replanted with hostas, ferns and hydrangeas round a curved lawn
Before: an overgrown sloping garden of conifers and shrubs, seen from upstairs
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A square lawn reshaped into a curve, with evergreen shrubs filling the corners, from upstairs
Before: a square lawn with fences, a shed and greenhouse, seen from upstairs
Get this garden →Pick a style, and it designs it
The same tool, a different look each time: cottage, modern, Mediterranean, Japanese, prairie, tropical, formal, a wildflower meadow and a pond for wildlife. 9 gardens
Cottage gazebo garden
Before: a dry lawn with a pale blue summerhouse at the back
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Paved garden with a rill and a tree
Before: wet paving slabs with folding chairs and a dry lawn behind
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Lavender gravel garden by an A frame house
Before: a dry lawn beside gravel vegetable beds and old sheds
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Raked gravel and stepping stones
Before: an overgrown strip of grass and weeds under tall pines
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Gold grasses in raised beds
Before: a long, open lawn beside a paved path and brick house
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Steps beside raised sleeper beds of agaves, hostas and big leaved plants
Before: brick steps beside a sleeper bed leading up to a lawn
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Clipped balls and cypresses beside a stone fountain
Before: a curved gravel path round a mixed border beside a stone fountain
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A big lawn turned into a wildflower meadow with a mown path and young birches
Before: a big open lawn with a few shrubs and houses beyond
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Lawn turned into a path past a pond to a bench
Before: a long lawn between panel fences with a summer house at the end
Get this garden →How the garden design tool works
Most garden design tools hand you a blank grid to draw on. This one starts with a photo of your garden and does the designing 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. Design 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 designed
Your real garden, 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 designs for youNo drawing and nothing to learn: you pick the style, it does the design.
- Works from a photoIt designs straight from a picture of your own garden.
- Real, growable plantsReal garden plants that suit your space and where you live.
Try the garden design tool 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.
How it differs from other garden design tools
What it does that a drawing tool does not, how it picks the plants, and when another tool is the better fit.
A garden design tool that does the designing
Most garden design tools are really drawing tools: they hand you a blank grid and expect you to lay the garden out yourself. This one is different. It is a garden designer tool that does the design for you: you give it a photo, mark your beds and their measurements, pick a look, and it creates the garden, keeping your fences, paths and trees exactly where they are. No drawing, no software to learn, nothing to install. It runs in your browser and shows you a photorealistic redesign of your own garden in about a minute.
Real plants, and the numbers to match
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 garden the tool shows you is one you can genuinely grow. It is a planting designer as well as a layout tool: pick a style you love and the planting is tuned to it, then sized to your space so it looks generous and full.
No need to draw your garden
Search for a garden builder online, or a way to draw your garden, and you mostly find a garden maker that hands you a blank plan seen from above and a library of shapes to drag into place. That suits someone who already knows what they want. This tool works the other way round: take a photo from the back door or an upstairs window, and it draws the new garden into the photo for you, seen from where you actually stand.
Which garden design tools suit which job
If you need a measured plan drawn to scale, garden design software that you draw in will do that. If you want to see what your garden could look like, and which plants would get it there, this tool is quicker. For a single bed, the flower bed designer works on just that bed, and if you would rather hand the whole job over, here is how the app compares with a garden designer.
More ways to design your garden
Weighing up a professional? Here is how the app compares with hiring a garden designer.
Prefer a designer's eye? Online garden design redesigns your garden from a photo, with no wait and no bill.
Planning the whole plot? Landscape design shows your garden's new planting, full of colour, before you lift a spade.
Just starting out? The free garden planner plans your garden from one photo, and your first 3 designs are free.
Filling a raised bed? Design a raised flower bed from a photo and see it full of colour.
Only one border to sort? The garden border planner plans just that border and leaves the rest of the garden as it is.
Garden styles the tool designs in
Questions about the tool
Is there a free garden design tool?
Yes. This is one of the garden design tools free to use straight away: your first 3 designs are free, with no card, and it runs in your browser, so it works as a free online garden design tool with nothing to download. Add one photo, pick a style, and see your own garden designed in about a minute.
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 have to draw or design the garden myself?
No. Unlike drawing-based tools, this one does the design for you: you take a photo, mark your beds and their measurements, and pick a style, and it creates the garden. There is nothing to draw and no software to learn.
Do I need to download or install 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.
Your garden, designed 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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