A raised front bed behind a brick wall, packed with grasses, a white hydrangea and purple flowers
Before: a raised front bed behind a brick wall, mostly bare with shrubs
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Design a raised flower bed from a photo
Design a raised flower bed from one photo: pick a style and see it planted and full of colour in about a minute. Or start from any garden on this page.
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13 raised beds, designed from a photo
Every one is a real garden, 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.
Raised flower bed ideas
A brick bed behind a front wall, a timber bed under a window, a round bed on a terrace, a bed against a fence: raised flower bed ideas for the front of the house and the back, each planted to the space it has. 7 gardens
Empty raised bed under a window filled with hostas and grasses
Before: an empty wooden raised bed of soil under a window
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Raised bed of salvias and sedums against a fence
Before: a timber raised bed of mixed plants against a fence
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Raised gravel bed with lavender
Before: a lawn with a parasol, a shed and bright bedding plants
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Raised bed cottage garden
Before: empty raised beds, a wheelbarrow and rubble on cracked concrete
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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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Gold grasses in raised beds
Before: a long, open lawn beside a paved path and brick house
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Railway sleeper terraces, beds that step up a slope, steel planters round a patio: raised border ideas, each filled with planting that suits it. 6 gardens
Raised sleeper beds and steps planted with lavender, red hot pokers and silver leaves
Before: empty sleeper terraces of gravel and steps below a summer house
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A raised sleeper bed in gravel filled with a cordyline, cannas and golden grass
Before: a new raised sleeper bed of bare soil with one cordyline
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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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A bare sunken terrace turned into raised beds, a gravel path and a corner sofa
Before: a bare terrace behind a low fence, with steps and black pots
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Patio with steel planters and a seating corner
Before: a slab patio with raised brick beds, a shed and fake grass
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Raised beds, gravel and a small pond
Before: raised decking with a picnic table, rendered raised beds and clutter behind
Get this garden →How to design a raised flower bed
Most raised bed planners are built for vegetables: rows, spacing and sowing dates. This one is for flowers, and starts with a photo of your bed, so you don't need to know the name of a single plant.
Photograph your raised 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 raised 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.
- A finished picture of your bedYour flower bed shown designed and in full flower, from your own photo.
- Planting sized to the spaceLayered so a narrow bed reads full without ever looking crammed.
- Colour through the seasonsA scheme chosen for flower after flower, not one summer flush.
Try the raised 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
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The materials, gravel to fence
On whole garden designs: the paving, gravel, edging and fence in the picture.
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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.
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Why not a garden designer?
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Raised bed ideas you can see first
How it designs a raised bed, what it plants, and how the design becomes a plan you can plant.
See your raised flower bed come alive
Upload a photo of the bed you already have, and watch it come back full of colour: a photorealistic picture of your own raised bed, freshly designed and planted, with your timber, the path and everything around it kept just as it is. Because it starts from your real space, the design belongs there. A bed against a fence gets height at the back and something pretty to trail over the front; an island bed you walk all the way around looks lovely from every side. It is like having a designer wander into your garden and show you what it could be.
Designed with real plants
Every plant in the picture is one you can genuinely grow. Each design is built from a library of real garden plants, chosen for your light, soil and climate, and arranged by a professional gardener's rules, the classic raised flower bed layout: structure at the back, a generous middle of colour, and softer things spilling over the front edge. So the beautiful flower bed you see is a real one, not a made-up image you could never recreate.
Colour right through the seasons
A raised flower bed should give you something to enjoy for months, not a fortnight. The planting is chosen for a long season of interest, so there is always something coming into flower, from the first of spring to the last of autumn. Pick a style you love, cottage, Mediterranean and more, and the scheme is tuned to it, then sized to your bed so it looks generous and full.
What to plant in a raised flower bed
A raised bed drains fast and warms up early, so it suits plants that like good drainage: lavender, salvias, catmint, grasses and sedums, with perennials for the long season and a few evergreens to hold it together in winter. Which ones depends on your light and soil, so the design picks them for your bed, and sizes them so nothing outgrows it. Those are raised bed planting ideas you can see before you buy.
A raised bed planner for flowers, not vegetables
Search for a raised bed planner and most of what you find is built for vegetables: square grids, spacing charts and sowing dates. This one designs raised beds for flowers. It shows you the finished raised flower bed design as a photo, so you can see the colour and the shape before you buy a single plant.
From a picture to a plan you can plant
The design is free to see. When you find one you love, unlock its full raised bed planting plan: every plant named, how big each grows, where it goes in the bed and a month-by-month flowering calendar, so you can go and create it. Professional garden designers often charge over £1,000 for this. Your first 3 garden designs are free, so you can see your own flower bed reimagined before you spend anything.
More ways to design your garden
Ready to plant? See what goes into a planting plan: every plant, how big each grows and where it goes.
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Not a raised bed? See flower bed ideas from real gardens, and design yours from a photo.
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Changing the shape of the garden? The garden layout planner plans a new layout, with new paths and beds, from one photo.
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Raised bed questions
What flowers are good to grow in a raised bed?
Plants that like good drainage do well: lavender, salvias, catmint, grasses and sedums, with longer-flowering perennials for colour from spring to autumn. The design picks them for your light, soil and climate, and sizes them to your bed.
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.
How does it work for a raised bed?
You take a photo of your raised bed, mark it out with its measurements, choose a style, and the app shows it redesigned and full of colour in about a minute. Love the design, and you can get a planting plan that names every plant and shows you how to build it.
What kind of plants does it use?
Real garden plants, perennials, shrubs, grasses, climbers and bulbs, chosen to suit the look you pick and the conditions in your garden. Every design is a beautiful ornamental flower bed you can genuinely grow.
Can it plan a vegetable raised bed?
No. It designs ornamental planting: flowers, grasses and shrubs. For vegetables, a planner built for rows and sowing dates is the better tool.
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 raised bed in full flower.
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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