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Free garden design tool, no signup

Design your dream garden online.

Plan your layout to real-world scale. Place trees, patios, beds and furniture, then get quotes from local landscapers to make it real.

  • Free to use, with no signup
  • Everything drawn to real-world scale
  • 80+ trees, plants, furniture and surfaces
  • Export it, or generate an AI preview
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  • Free to use, no signup
  • Everything drawn to scale
  • Works in your browser
  • Export or get an AI preview

Everything you need to plan your garden.

A proper design tool, right in your browser. Draw your space to scale, fill it with real objects, then see it come to life. Free, with no signup.

  • Draw to real-world scale

    Trace your plot point by point, then lay out beds, patios and paths. Everything stays true to size, with snap-to-grid and live measurements as you draw.

  • Trace over a photo

    Drop in a photo or an aerial shot of your plot and draw straight over it, so your plan matches the real shape of your garden.

  • A library of real objects

    Place trees, hedges, furniture, a shed, a firepit and more from a library of 80+ objects, each dropped in at its real-world size.

  • Scatter planting

    Fill a bed with shrubs or flowers in a couple of clicks. Scatter planting drops them in naturally, so beds look planted, not placed in a row.

  • Layers, snap and undo

    Work in layers, lock what's finished, snap to the grid and undo freely. It behaves like the design tools you already know.

  • Export and AI preview

    Export your plan as an image to share, or generate a photorealistic AI preview of the finished garden before you build a thing.

What will you design first?.

Start from the closest garden to yours and make it your own, or begin with a blank plot. However you start, it's free.

How it works

Design it. Then get it built.

It's free and there's no obligation.

Start designing

  1. Draw your plot

    Trace your garden outline on the canvas, point by point, to real-world scale. You can even trace over a photo of your garden.

  2. SurfacesPlantsFurniture
    LawnPatioTreeHedgeShedBenchFirePond

    Fill it in

    Add lawns, patios and paths, then drop in plants, a shed, furniture and more. Every object at its real size, snap to grid, undo freely.

  3. AI preview

    See it come to life

    Export your plan as an image, or generate a photorealistic AI preview of the finished garden. Love it? Get quotes from local landscapers to build it.

Guides, by what you're doing.

Browse the guide library by area, from growing and soil to garden design and herbs.

All guides
  • A productive vegetable garden with beds laid out to scale10 guides

    Growing guides

    Practical, UK-focused guides to planning and growing a productive garden.

  • Healthy garden soil being worked in a planted bed5 guides

    Soil & compost

    Get to know your soil and feed it well, the foundation of every good garden.

  • A designed garden with lawn, paths and planted borders5 guides

    Garden design

    Plan a garden that works: assess your plot, draw it to scale, then design the layout and planting.

  • Culinary herbs growing in pots and a raised bed17 guides

    Herbs

    Grow your own herbs for the kitchen, in a bed, a raised bed or a pot by the door.

Guides to plan, grow and design.

Practical, UK-focused guides, researched from the RHS, Garden Organic and other expert sources, each built to go alongside the designer.

All guides
  • Garden design

    Design a garden from scratch

    Decide how you want to use the space, get to know its sun, soil and shelter, measure and draw it to scale, then settle the layout before you plan the planting.

  • Garden design

    Plan a planting border

    Match plants to your conditions, set the evergreen structure first, group and layer the rest, keep the colour palette tight, and aim for something good every month.

  • Garden design

    Sun, shade and aspect

    Find which way your garden faces, map where the sun falls through the day, then match each plant to the light that spot actually gets.

  • Garden design

    Raised bed sizes and materials

    Keep beds under 1.5m wide so you can reach the middle, 30cm deep for salads or 45cm+ for most crops, built from sleepers, brick or recycled plastic and filled with a topsoil and compost mix.

  • Garden design

    Plant for pollinators

    Grow single, open flowers across all four seasons, plant them in groups, skip the pesticides, and leave a little mess for shelter.

  • Growing guides

    Plan a vegetable garden

    Pick a sunny, sheltered spot, start small, size your beds so you can reach the middle, grow a few easy crops, and set it all out before you build.

Got the vision?
Get it designed.

  • Free to use, with no signup
  • Draw your whole garden to real-world scale
  • Save, export and share your plan

Start designing

Open the free designer, draw your garden to scale, then export it or generate a photorealistic AI preview of the finished result.

No signup. Works in any browser, on any device.

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