Professional landscape design for everyone

Design your garden.
Watch it grow.

A design tool that shows you exactly how your yard will look in sun and shade, season by season, and 15 years from now — all from a satellite view of your actual property.

We’ll only email your invite and the occasional update. No spam, and we’ll never share your address.

Satellite view of the property
Plant Schedule
  • RBee Balm
  • ZBroadleaf Whitetop Sedge
  • LLanceleaf Coreopsis
  • FCanadian Columbine
  • UGoldenrod
  • KCommon Coreopsis
  • NConeflower
  • PAlumroot
  • MEchinacea Kismet Intense Orange
+17 more species
Watercolor render of the finished native garden

A real Plantyd plan, built over the satellite view of a zone 7a native garden. Read the design walkthrough

Why Plantyd

Right plant.
Right place.

The principle every landscaper knows. The tool that finally helps homeowners do it.

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Start from your yard

Import a satellite view of your actual property and instantly generate a to-scale canvas. No guessing measurements, no blank page.

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Know your light

Our sun & shade engine classifies every square foot of your design by light exposure across the full year — not just midsummer noon.

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See the future

Watch your garden mature from Year 1 to Year 15. No surprises when that little sapling fills your whole fence line.

No blank page

Start from a satellite view
of your actual yard.

Every other design tool starts with an empty rectangle. Plantyd starts with a real aerial photo of your property. Trace your boundary, and you have an instant to-scale canvas with your house, driveway, and existing trees already in place.

  • Automatic scale detection from GPS coordinates
  • Live satellite imagery
  • Trace your property boundary in under 2 minutes
A satellite view of a yard imported into Plantyd, with the property boundary traced as a dashed outline and a measuring line reading 42 feet 8 inches across the lawn42'-8"
Plantyd's sun and shade overlay coloring a yard by light exposure — full sun, part sun, part shade and full shade — with tree canopies casting shadow
Light exposureFull sunPart sunPart shadeFull shade
Sun & Shade Analysis

Know exactly where
every shadow falls.

Most plant placement fails because the light conditions are wrong. Plantyd's sun analysis engine maps your entire yard by light exposure — full sun, part sun, part shade, full shade — and filters the plant library to only show species that will actually thrive where you put them.

  • Yearly light exposure modeling, not just summer noon
  • Plant recommendations filtered by your specific zones
  • Visual overlay on your canvas — see it at a glance
Growth over time

Watch your garden mature
before you plant a thing.

Watch it fill in across Year 1, Year 3, Year 5, and Year 15 — every plant at mature size, so you can spot which ones will crowd each other and make spacing decisions you'll still be happy with a decade from now.

Year 1Year 3Year 5Year 15
Year 15

Actual plant growth models from 10,000+ species in our database

Simple process

From satellite to
finished design in an afternoon.

01

Capture your yard

Search your address, drop a pin, and trace your property boundary on live satellite imagery. Plantyd calculates your scale automatically.

02

Design with confidence

Place hardscapes, turf, and plants on your to-scale canvas. The sun overlay and plant filter ensure every choice works in your specific conditions.

03

See your future garden

Scrub through the growth timeline. Adjust spacing. Export your design when you're ready to buy plants or brief a contractor.

From the blog

Real designs,
explained.

See how real gardens get planned in Plantyd: the layout decisions, the plants that made the cut, and the finished PDF.

Hand-illustrated preview of the zone 7a native garden: a light stone path curving between two beds of colorful perennial drifts, under a green shade tree and a golden fall-color tree
July 1, 2026 · 10 min read

Sun and Shade Analysis for a Zone 7a Native Garden: Mapping the Light from Year 1 to Year 15

Plantyd's sun analysis maps the light in a real native garden at year 1 and year 15: watch several hundred square feet of full sun turn to part shade as the trees grow, and see how the 26-species planting was designed for it.

Read the walkthrough →
Top-down backyard master plan detail showing raised vegetable beds ringed by a peony drift, a curved stone path with a bench, labeled perennial masses, and a spruce privacy screen
June 12, 2026 · 8 min read

Whole Home Landscape Design, Piece by Piece: A Zone 6a Master Plan You Can Copy

A whole home landscape design on one sheet: a butterfly garden, raised vegetable beds, a pergola terrace, a spruce screen, and a small orchard on a quarter-acre zone 6a lot, with the design moves worth copying in your own yard.

Read the walkthrough →

Your best garden
starts with a plan.

Design smarter, not harder.
See your garden before you plant it.

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