Raised beds, gravel and a small pond
Before: raised decking with a picnic table, rendered raised beds and clutter behind
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A garden layout planner that starts from your photo
Plan your garden's layout from one photo: keep the shape you have or try a new one, and see it planted 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.
23 garden layouts, planned from a photo
Every one is a real garden, laid out 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.
Garden layout ideas from real gardens
New paths, a different shaped lawn, beds where there were none: each a whole new layout, planned from one photo. 8 gardens
Round lawn and a stone water feature
Before: bare earth with a raised pond and conifers behind
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Patio and bench with cottage borders
Before: a dry lawn with stepping stones, a summerhouse, bench and patio
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Block paving round an oval lawn, edged with lavender, lady's mantle and clipped balls
Before: block paving round an oval lawn with a timber shelter and shed
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Orange and blue border round a lawn
Before: a patchy dry lawn with a wooden fence and paved corner
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Curved patio with clipped evergreens
Before: a plain striped lawn with a new wooden fence and side path
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Black decking, a pond and a pergola
Before: a patchy lawn with a wooden table and a large stone
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Fire pit circle in orange and gold
Before: a slab patio with pots, a fire pit and a lawn beyond
Get this garden →Small garden layout ideas
Narrow strips, side passages and small yards, each laid out so every metre earns its place. 8 gardens
Delphiniums round a small lawn
Before: a plain lawn beside a concrete path and wooden fence
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Stone path through roses and delphiniums
Before: overgrown beds either side of a narrow gravel path
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Gravel path through lavender down a narrow garden
Before: a narrow overgrown garden with a worn grass path to a table
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Gravel path to a bench
Before: a narrow lawn with planters, a bench and tall hedges
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Shady side passage
Before: a narrow side passage cluttered with bins and tarpaulins
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Slabs in pebbles, olives in pots and a corner sofa
Before: a small garden with slabs in gravel, a lawn patch and pots
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Strip of lawn turned into slate gravel and stepping stones
Before: a narrow worn lawn beside a house and timber decking
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Large slabs, black pebbles and grasses
Before: a patchy lawn beside a white clad wall and a fence
Get this garden →Large garden layout ideas
Long lawns and big open plots, broken up with paths, curves and borders so the garden leads you through it. 7 gardens
Paved walk to the house through deep borders
Before: a long, worn lawn between tall trees leading to the house
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Big lawn edged with roses and delphiniums
Before: a big lawn with young trees, a rotary washing line and loungers
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A stone path off the lawn into a shady border of hostas, hydrangeas and foxgloves
Before: a dry, patchy lawn ringed by trees with a washing line
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A lush lawn with a new border of euphorbias, grasses and silver leaves
Before: a patchy lawn with shrubs, trees and a summer house beyond
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A round striped lawn ringed by gravel, grasses and lavender
Before: a striped lawn with a football goal and basketball hoop
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Agaves, tree ferns and pale paving
Before: a long, patchy lawn between tall hedges and conifers
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Gravel and grasses down the garden
Before: steps down to a long lawn with a narrow path and hedge
Get this garden →How the garden layout planner works
Most garden layout planners have you draw your plot to scale before anything else. This one starts with a photo of your garden and lays it out for you, so you don't need to know the name of a single plant.
Add a photo, and choose what to plan
Keep your garden's shape and refresh the borders, or redesign the whole space with a new layout, paths and planting.
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 laid out
Your real garden, laid out and planted, in about a minute.
What you get for free
- First 3 designs freeSee your own garden laid out with no card and no catch.
- A planted layoutYour borders designed and filled with real planting.
- Sized to your gardenYou pop in your bed measurements, so the planting fits the space.
- Keep your layout, or change itRefresh the borders on the shape you have, or plan new paths and beds.
Try the garden layout planner free
See your own garden laid out 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.
Garden layout plans you can see first
How it plans a layout, why the planting matters, and how it differs from the planners you draw in.
See your garden come together
This garden layout planner works out a layout for your garden the easy way. Upload a photo, pick a style, and see your borders designed and filled with planting that suits the space, so you get to enjoy the finished picture instead of wrestling with rulers and grid paper. It reads your garden, keeps your boundaries, and gives you garden layout ideas you can see on your own space, ready to bring to life. And because it is a garden design tool that runs in your browser, you can start straight away from the photo already on your phone.
The planting is the plan
A garden layout is only as good as what goes in it. You enter your bed measurements and it designs the planting to fit: height graded from back to front, colour through the seasons, and structure that holds the layout together in winter as well as summer. Every plant is a real garden plant, chosen for your light, soil and climate by a professional gardener's rules, so the layout you see is one you could genuinely grow.
Planning a garden layout from a photo
Learning how to plan a garden layout usually means paper first: measure the plot, draw it to scale, then work out where the paths, lawn and beds go. Here you start from a photo instead. Mark your beds and pop in their measurements, choose whether to keep the layout or plan a new one, and see the garden laid out and planted on your own space. Like the layout but not the look? Try another style on the same photo. Your first 3 designs are free, so it works as a free garden layout planner, with no card asked for.
Garden layout ideas, not vegetable rows
Search for a free garden layout tool and most of what you find is built for vegetable plots: rows, raised beds and spacing charts. This one plans the garden you look at from the house, its borders, paths, lawn and planting, and draws it into a photo of your real garden, so there is no garden layout drawing to do. For one bed of flowers rather than the whole plot, the flower bed designer works on just that bed.
More ways to plan your garden
Prefer to draw it yourself? Here is how the app compares with most garden design software.
Just one bed to plan? The flower bed designer works on just that bed.
On your phone? The garden planner app works in your browser, with nothing to download.
Ready to plant? See what goes into a planting plan: every plant, how big each grows and where it goes.
Ready to start? Design my garden shows how one photo becomes a new garden in about a minute.
Filling a raised bed? Design a raised flower bed from a photo and see it full of colour.
Garden styles to plan with
Garden layout planner questions
Is there an app to plan a garden layout?
Yes. This garden layout planner works as a garden layout app in your phone's browser, with nothing to download. Add one photo, choose to keep your layout or plan a new one, and see it planted in about a minute. Your first 3 designs are free, with no card.
How do I design a garden layout?
Start with a photo of your garden. Mark your beds and pop in their measurements, choose whether to keep your layout or plan a new one, and pick a style. The app does the garden layout design and its planting for you, 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 need to draw a technical plan?
No drawing, no design software to learn. You take a photo, mark your beds and pop in their measurements in metres, and the app designs the planting for you. The measurements matter, because they decide how many plants to use, but adding them takes a moment, and everything else is done for you.
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.
Your new garden layout is one photo away.
Add one photo of your garden and see it laid out and planted in about a minute. Your first 3 designs are free, with no card.
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