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Four ways in. One garden you can edit.

A photo, a sketch, a map or a starter: each becomes the same thing, a model made of real objects at real scale, that you then shape, check and walk through.

A hand-drawn garden plan: house, patio, pergola, pond, gravel path, trees, greenhouse and vegetable beds with handwritten labels
Sketch on paper
The same plan as an editable GrowDraft garden seen from above: house, patio, pergola, pond, path, trees, greenhouse and beds
→ Editable plan in GrowDraft
An example plan drawn on paper (an illustrative image, not a customer’s drawing), GrowDraft’s recorded reading of it, and the plan the app built from that reading.
A real photo of a yard: a greenhouse, planter boxes and three trees along a fence line
Photo of the yard
The same yard as an editable GrowDraft garden seen from above: greenhouse and beds in place, finished with a fence, paving, a bench and more trees
→ Editable plan in GrowDraft
A real yard photo, and the garden built from it: the greenhouse, beds and trees GrowDraft saw in the same places, then finished in the planner with a fence, paving and more trees.

  1. Give it your garden

    From a photo of your yard: GrowDraft first reports what it sees, lawn, patio, beds, fence, trees, each with how sure it is. You remove anything it got wrong. Only then does it place objects, and only the ones you kept. If it did not see something, it cannot put it in your garden. Photos that are not a yard are refused, with a request for a better one.

    From a sketch: photograph a plan drawn on paper, or draw one with your finger. It reads the shapes and the handwriting, shows you what it read beside a live plan, and lets you fix a shape or set one known length before anything is created.

    From the map: type your address, confirm your house on satellite imagery, tap the corners of your plot and mark your trees. The traced outline becomes the ground, at true scale and facing true north.

    Or skip all three and open a planted starter.

  2. Make it yours

    Drag the boundary to your real plot, move and resize anything, and add what the photo or sketch missed from a catalog of real objects. Every item keeps its true size, and measurements read out as you go.

  3. Check the light, the season and the years

    Colour the ground by hours of direct sun, move through the day and the months, and set each tree’s age to see how big it will get and where its shade will fall.

  4. Walk it, then take it with you

    Stand in the garden at eye level, export a scaled plan sheet with a plant schedule, turn what you placed into a shopping list, or send a read-only link to whoever is helping you build it.

Start with whichever one you have.

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