See your whole garden at a glance.
A scaled, drag-and-drop canvas showing every bed, zone, and planting in your garden. Colour-coded by status so you can instantly see what's overdue, what's doing well, and what's empty and ready to plant.
Most gardeners hold their garden layout in their head. Which bed is which, what's in each row, where the fruit trees are relative to the veggie patch. That mental map is fine when you have one small garden you visit every day. It breaks down when you have multiple beds, multiple gardens across a property, or when you're planning six months ahead.
The Garden Designer gives that mental map a permanent, visual home. A bird's-eye canvas of your property drawn to scale, with every bed placed where it actually is. Each bed shows what's in it, what stage it's at, and whether it needs attention — at a glance, without opening a single planting record.
The designer uses a 1-metre grid. When you create a bed, you set its real dimensions — 1.2m wide, 3.6m long — and the bed appears at that exact scale on the canvas. An orchard row 20 metres long looks 20 metres long relative to a 1.5m pot bed beside it.
This matters for planning. When you're working out whether there's room for another raised bed, or figuring out shade patterns across the space, a scaled map gives you an accurate answer. A rough sketch doesn't.
Every bed on the canvas is colour-coded by the status of its current plantings. You don't need to click into anything to know where to focus your morning.
- Red — Overdue. A planting has a task or reminder that has passed. Something needs doing.
- Amber — Due soon. A task is coming up in the next few days. Plan ahead.
- Green — All good. Active plantings with no pending tasks. Looking healthy.
- Grey — Empty. No current plantings. Available to plant or in a rest period.
If a bed has multiple plantings at different statuses, the most urgent one determines the colour. Red always wins.
Clicking a bed on the canvas opens a quick summary panel: the bed name, current plantings, their stages, and any upcoming tasks. From there you can open the full bed record, jump to a specific planting, or log a quick event without leaving the designer.
This makes the designer a genuine control centre, not just a map. You look at the canvas, see something needs attention, click it, act on it. Start to finish in the same view.
Beds are placed on the canvas with drag and drop. Grab a bed and move it. Grab a corner to resize. The 1m grid snaps beds to real-world positions so your layout stays accurate. A Fit button recentres the view to show your whole garden at once, regardless of how far apart your zones are.
You don't need to draw the perfect map on day one. Start with your main beds, add more as you go. The canvas grows with your garden over time and remains editable whenever your real-world layout changes.
For fruit trees and large permanent plantings, the designer renders each plant as a canopy blob — a circle representing the spread of the plant at its current size. Set the canopy diameter when you log the planting and the canvas shows it to scale.
An orchard area with five apple trees at 3m canopy spread looks very different from the same area with ten young 1m trees. The designer makes that visible so you can plan spacing, understand shading, and identify gaps without going outside.