Does the preview show plants at mature size, or how they'll look freshly planted?

The AI generates the border at the size and fullness it will reach once established — typically the two-to-three-season mark designers use as the design intent. That's the visual homeowners are approving, so it's the visual they need to see, not bare-root stock in fresh mulch.

Can it show a pond, rill, or other water feature realistically?

Yes. The model renders standing and moving water — reflections, surface texture, and how the feature sits against surrounding hardscape and planting — on the actual site photo, not a stock water feature inserted into a generic garden.

Does it work from a formal planting plan, or just a design brief?

Either. Feed it a plant list with species and layout for a precise match to your planting plan, or describe the palette and style — naturalistic border, formal structured planting, cottage garden — for a faster concept-stage preview.

Can I preview hardscaping — gravel paths, timber edging, pergolas — alongside the planting?

Yes. Paths, edging, raised beds, retaining walls, and structures like pergolas and arbors can be included alongside the softscape so clients see the complete scheme, not just the borders.

Does it account for existing trees, hedges, or shrubs that are staying in place?

Yes. Existing structural planting you're designing around — a mature tree, a boundary hedge, an established shrub bed — stays put in the preview. Only the new planting and hardscape you're proposing gets added.

Can I show the same garden in two different styles for a client who's undecided?

Yes. Run one preview in a naturalistic, prairie-style palette and another in a formal, structured scheme on the same site photo. Clients who can't articulate a preference from swatches usually pick immediately once they see both on their own garden.

Are client photos stored or retained?

That's your call, not ours — it's your software. We build the storage and retention policy around what your business needs and make sure it meets GDPR, CCPA, or any other regulation that applies. No training on your data, ever.

There's no off-the-shelf plan, so there's no published price list. Share your details and we'll discuss project scope and pricing on a free consultation call — see /pricing for details.

Landscaping

Show homeowners their garden in full bloom before a single plant goes in the ground

Photograph the existing garden. Makeover generates a photorealistic planting and hardscape preview in under 10 seconds. Homeowners see their own beds, borders, and water features exactly as they'll look once established — not a plant list with Latin names and a spacing diagram.

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What is a garden design preview?

A garden design preview tool uses AI to generate a photorealistic image of what a garden will look like once a planting scheme, hardscaping, and water features are installed and grown in. The designer photographs the existing site, and the tool produces a before-and-after showing the proposed borders, structural planting, paths, and any water features in place on the client's actual plot — not a mood board or a stock garden photo. Garden and landscape designers use this during the design presentation to help clients approve a scheme they'd otherwise have to interpret from a plan-view drawing and a plant list.

Why it matters

A residential garden design commission typically runs $3,000–$15,000 for the design phase alone, with full design-and-build packages reaching well into six figures once specimen trees, water features, and hardscaping are priced in. The friction isn't the concept — clients already want a better garden — it's that a planting plan is drawn in plan view, with dot-density symbols and Latin binomials, and asks the client to trust that a drift of Salvia 'Caradonna' and a clipped yew hedge will look the way the designer sees it in three growing seasons. That trust gap is exactly where deposits stall. A photorealistic preview of their own garden, planted and established, closes it in the same meeting instead of a follow-up call.

Who uses this

Residential garden designers presenting planting schemes and soft landscaping concepts to private clients. Landscape architects handling the softscape half of a larger hardscape project. Garden centers and nurseries offering design-and-plant packages alongside stock sales. Design-and-build landscaping firms that need client sign-off on the planting palette before ordering stock for the season.

Heard this from a homeowner?

You hand them a planting plan with dot-density symbols and Latin names, and they ask "but what does that actually look like in my garden?"

They worry the border will look sparse and bare for the first two or three growing seasons and want to swap in bigger, cheaper-looking specimens instead of trusting your establishment timeline.

They can't picture how a pond or rill will sit against their existing lawn and patio, so they quietly cut the water feature and scale back the whole design.

How garden design previews work

Three steps. Under 10 seconds. No design skills needed.

Photograph the existing garden

Any angle from a phone camera — the bed lines, the lawn, existing trees and hardscape you're designing around. No drone shots or CAD survey required.

AI generates the planting and hardscape preview

The model applies your proposed borders, structural planting, paths, and any water features to the actual site, at the size and density the scheme reaches once established.

Present at the design sign-off

Their own garden, planted and grown in. The conversation moves from decoding a plan-view drawing to approving what they can already see.

Common questions about garden design

Straight answers. No jargon.

Let's build the version made for your business

Every preview on this site is a variation of the same engine, tuned to one industry. Tell us about yours, and we'll show you exactly what we'd build for it.

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