Low maintenance garden design, built around your space.
Low maintenance garden design from your own photo: structure, evergreens and grasses chosen to look good year-round with very little work, plus a planting plan of low maintenance garden plants.
First 3 designs free · no card · UK plants
A beautiful garden that looks after itself
Low maintenance garden design is not about paving everything over – it is about choosing the right plants so the garden looks after itself. Tough, long-lived perennials, evergreen structure and grasses that need cutting back just once a year give you a garden that stays handsome with a fraction of the work.
Garden Design App reads a photo of your real garden and designs to it, keeping your paths, fences and trees where they are. The result is a planted, colourful space that will not run away from you – no weekly battle to keep on top of.
The plants that make the look.
The planting plan lists them in full, with how big each grows and where each goes – so the garden in the picture is one you can actually plant.
Ornamental grasses
movement and structure that need only one cut a year
Evergreen shrubs
reliable backbone that looks good every month
Lavender
silver, scented and drought-tough once established
Hardy geraniums
spread to smother weeds and keep flowering
Sedum
fleshy, unfussy, and loved by late bees
Euphorbia
thrives on being forgotten entirely
Catmint
long-flowering haze that shrugs off dry spells
Hellebores
winter flower that arrives without being asked
Box or evergreen balls
one clipped shape, trimmed once a year
Salvias
months of colour with almost no attention
Perovskia
airy blue spires that love a hot, forgotten corner
Ground-cover roses
colour without the pruning of a classic rose
Low-maintenance planting that still looks good
The trick is planting densely with reliable, drought-tolerant plants that smother weeds and hold their shape, plus a little evergreen backbone so the garden reads well even in the depths of winter. The planting plan names the full list, with how big each grows and where each one goes.
From idea to a plan you can plant
When you find a design you love, unlock its professional planting plan: every plant named, how many of each, exactly where it goes, and a month-by-month flowering calendar – plus simple care notes so you know the little that each plant needs.
Professional garden designers often charge over £1,000 for this. Your first 3 garden designs are free, so you can see your own garden reimagined before you spend anything.
Where to go next
Low maintenance is mostly about choosing plants that do not need deadheading, staking or dividing, which means long-flowering perennials doing the work.
Leaning on foliage rather than flower is the other half of it. Leaves look good for eight months; flowers look good for three weeks.
Good to know.
Everything people ask about low-maintenance garden design.
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, available UK plants, 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.
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