Satellite canvas

Start from a satellite view of your actual yard

Type your address and trace your property line. Two minutes later you have a to-scale design of your yard with the house, the driveway, and the existing trees already on it — and you never touched a tape measure.

Plantyd is in closed beta. Ask for an invite — we send them as places open up.

The Plantyd design canvas showing a traced property line and drawn buildings over a satellite photo of a yard — A real Plantyd project. The orange line is the traced property line. The gray blocks are the house and patio, drawn to their measured size.

Why a photo beats an empty rectangle

Most garden design tools hand you a blank white box and ask for your dimensions. So you spend an evening with a tape measure, working out where the driveway meets the lawn. The drawing still comes out wrong — in ways you find at planting time.

Plantyd starts from the aerial photo of your property instead. Your house, your fence line, your neighbor's shade trees, the awkward corner where the garage juts out — they are already there, at the right size, in the right place.

That matters most when you buy plants. A shrub sold as “6 ft spread” either fits the space you have or it doesn't. Now, you can see that on screen, before you pay for it.

Trace your property once, and every design reuses it

Setting up a new project takes about two minutes. Plantyd reads the scale from the map's coordinates, so a foot on screen is a foot on the ground — you never type a dimension.

Type your address. The map moves to your property.
Click each corner of your lot to trace the property line. Double-click the first corner to close the shape.
Trace the things that already exist — house, driveway, patio, shed — straight off the photo.
Hide the photo when you are done, and work on a clean design.

A Plantyd design over an aerial photo: the traced property line, the house and the patio sit on top of the roof and paving in the photo beneath them — One design, one view, one click apart. Hiding the photo moves nothing — it is a layer under your drawing, not the drawing.

The same design with the aerial photo hidden: the property line, house, patio, path and planting stand on a plain grid, each edge labeled with its length — One design, one view, one click apart. Hiding the photo moves nothing — it is a layer under your drawing, not the drawing.

Everything you draw is measured

Because the design knows its own scale, so does everything you add to it. A patio you trace reports its real dimensions on the drawing. The Measure tool gives you the distance between any two points in feet and inches — the gap between the house and the fence, the width of a bed, how far apart two trees will sit.

Your address does three jobs, and then it is done

Plantyd uses it to find the aerial photo of your property. It uses your latitude to work out where the sun sits in your sky through the year, which is what the sun analysis is built on. And it uses the frost dates at your nearest weather station to date the sowings and harvests in the bed planner. Nothing else needs it.

The satellite image is a starting reference, not a permanent background. Exported plans and PDFs use the clean version, because that is what a contractor or a nursery wants to read.

See this on your own yard

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