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 lets you do it in an afternoon.

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Capture your yard

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

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02

Design with confidence

Place hardscapes, turf, and plants on your to-scale canvas. The sun & shade engine maps the light across your whole yard, and the plant filter narrows the catalogue to species that will thrive in it.

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See your future garden

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
See how the satellite canvas works
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 — so you can filter the plant library to 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
See how the sun & shade engine works
Bed planner

Plan your vegetable beds
week by week

Draw a bed, lay crops out on a real grid, and Plantyd works out the schedule from your own frost dates — when to sow, when the bed frees up, and what can still finish before the cold.

  • Sowing and harvest windows from your local frost dates
  • Succession planting — the next crop is proposed as the bed empties
  • Companion and antagonist warnings, with the reason spelled out
  • Per-bed sun and shade analysis, accurate for every season
See how the bed planner works
Plantyd's bed planner: a four-by-eight foot raised bed laid out on a square-foot grid with tomato, basil, bean, carrot, lettuce and radish blocks, above a crop timeline of sowing and harvest windows
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+ plants in our database

See how the growth timeline works
From Learn

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 →

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Your best garden
starts with a plan.

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

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