AR Garden Design
See Your Garden Before You Plant It
Place real plants in your real yard with AR. Map out lawns and flower beds, browse a catalog built for your climate, and know exactly how it will look — before you dig a single hole.
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The Toolkit
Everything you need to plan a garden that actually works
From placing a single pot on the balcony to laying out a full backyard, our AR tools let you test every idea at real scale — in your own space, in real light.
Place real plants in your real yard
Drop any plant from the catalog straight into your space at true-to-life scale. Move, rotate, and duplicate it, snap plants into even rows or free-form clusters, and walk around to check the view from every angle before you commit.
Draw lawns, beds and paths in AR
Outline any surface right on the ground — walk the perimeter or tap the corners. Fill the zone with lawn, gravel, mulch, decking, or paving, and get instant area and perimeter numbers so you order exactly the right amount of material.
A catalog that knows your conditions
Browse hundreds of trees, shrubs, perennials, and grasses with real photos and 3D models. Filter by sun and shade, soil, water needs, mature size, bloom season, hardiness zone, and pet safety — so everything you place is something that will actually survive there.
Measure once, order right
Every zone and every gap between plants is measured automatically. See distances, areas, and spacing recommendations in metric or imperial, and turn them into a shopping list: square meters of turf, bags of mulch, number of pavers.
See it in five years, not just today
Plants don't stay the size you bought them. Move the timeline to preview how each planting fills out over the seasons and years, and catch crowding, shading, and bare patches long before they become a problem.
1 year
Save the plan, share the plan
Keep multiple versions of the same yard and compare them side by side. Export your layout as a plan view with a full plant list, and send it to your partner, your landscaper, or your local nursery.
Ready to plant with confidence?
Stop guessing from photos and plant tags. YardNest shows you the finished garden in your own yard — accurate, to scale, and free to try.