Landscape & Garden Design

AI Landscape Design From a Photo or a Sketch

Upload the site as it stands. Name the species, the paving and the season, and get an image of that plot, with the scheme you drew on it.

A pencil line drawing of a courtyard terrace, with an oval opening in the roof, a slender multi-stem tree in a planting bed and rough heath beyond the glazing
The same courtyard built: a poured concrete terrace under an oval roof oculus, a multi-stem tree in a planted opening, dense palms and banana leaves to one side and rocky grassland beyond

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What AI Changes

Clients cannot read a planting plan

AI landscape design closes the gap between the drawing and the garden the client pictures. Four things it changes.

Clients see the finished garden

Upload the plan or a photo of the plot and describe the scheme. What comes back is the planting built and grown, not hatch patterns and Latin names.

Show the planting at maturity

Describe the growth stage and the same scheme appears at handover and at year ten. Nobody value-engineers a canopy they have already seen.

Revisions in seconds

Swap one plant or one paving material and see it immediately. No visualiser fee and no week of waiting for it.

Turn the scheme into a video

Animate a finished image into a short clip so the route, the levels and the moment a view opens up read the way you designed them.

Draw it, then show it built

The drawing and the render are the same viewpoint. The tree, the opening in the roof and the line of the terrace stay where you put them.

One sketch, redrawn as the built scheme.

Workflow

How to Use AI for Landscape Design

A site photograph, a hand sketch or a site plan is enough. No 3D model and no CAD export.

Step 1

Upload the site

A photograph of the plot as it stands, a concept sketch or a site plan. JPG or PNG.

Step 2

Describe the scheme

Species, paving, level changes, season, time of day. Mask an area to confine a change to it.

Step 3

Take it to the client

Take the image into the client meeting, or send it through the video step for a clip.

One scheme, every view you need

Generate the plan view, the eye level shots and the detail crops from the same scheme, so a consultation board or a client pack holds together.

The same terrace seen from above.

Name the species and it changes

Same terrace, same decking, same wall. Only the specimen tree was described differently, and the fallen blossom came with it.

Stepped timber decks beside a dry stone retaining wall, with a green multi-stem tree in a planting bed and tropical foliage along the glazing
The same stepped terrace with the tree swapped for a cherry in full pink blossom, petals fallen across the decking

Capabilities

Direct the planting, the ground and the light

Describe the change in plain language. Mask an area first if you want it confined to one bed or one terrace.

Planting & species

Paving & hardscape

Growth stage

Season & weather

Time of day

Water features

Test a different layout, not just a different plant

Stepped decks on one side, curved terracing on the other. Same site, same outlook, a different idea about how you move through it.

Stepped timber decks beside a dry stone retaining wall, with a multi-stem tree in a planting bed and tropical foliage along the glazing
The same site laid out with curved timber seating steps cut into a grass bank, planted with purple flowering perennials

Make a Landscape Design Video

A single still is enough. Choose the camera move and it comes back as an MP4: along the path, across the planting, or rising over the site. Ready for a client presentation or a consultation board.

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Landscape and Garden Design Questions

What landscape architects, garden designers and design-build teams ask before putting AI in front of a client.

Upload a site photograph, a sketch or a site plan, then describe the scheme: species, paving, levels, season, time of day. It comes back in seconds and you refine it by describing the next change. No modelling step, nothing to install.
Yes. Name them and the planting matches habit, leaf and scale: birch, hornbeam hedging and a perennial understorey reads differently from trees and shrubs. It is a visualisation, not a specification, so the planting schedule stays yours.
Either. A photograph anchors the result to the real plot, so the client recognises their own garden. A plan or sketch works when the site does not exist yet.
Turning a landscape design into an image a non-designer can understand: site plans, planting schemes and hardscape layouts as they will look built and grown in. Traditionally that means a specialist visualiser working from your drawings. With AI it happens from a photo or sketch in seconds, during the design instead of after it.
Yes. Any finished image animates into a short clip with a chosen camera move and downloads as an MP4. These are video clips generated from the still, not interactive walkthroughs, so the footage matches the scheme you approved.
Everything generated on a paid plan comes with full commercial rights. Fenestra is private by default and we do not train on your uploads, which matters when the site plan belongs to a client.
Two things. Whether it works from a photo of the real plot or invents a generic garden. And whether you can name species and growth stage, or only pick a style.
Yes. Describe the growth stage and you get the same scheme at handover and at year ten. That is the difference between a client seeing bare soil and a client seeing what you drew.
Yes. Season, weather and light are directed by description, so the same scheme can be shown in July, in February, at midday and at dusk. Winter structure is the hardest thing to sell and the easiest to skip.
Yours to use commercially, including in planning and consultation material. They are illustrative visualisations, not survey-accurate documents, so label them as you would any artist’s impression and check your authority’s rules.
Both. The same workflow covers a private garden, a public realm scheme, a campus landscape or a street tree strategy. Larger sites need more than one viewpoint: an aerial for the layout, eye-level views for the routes.
Plans start at $10/month on Individual and $35/month on Pro, with Team plans for studios. Annual billing saves 20%. Generations draw on a shared credit pool and the cost varies by model, shown in the app before you run it.

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