Yard Studio

Yard Studio is an AI landscape design tool that turns a photo of your garden into realistic, ready-to-use landscape concepts with planting plans you can actually buy from. The core idea is that most AI garden tools start with a pretty generated picture and then try to reverse-engineer which plants appear in it, which leads to made-up species, unsuitable plants and designs that will not grow in your garden. Yard Studio works the other way around: it starts with thousands of real, buyable plant species and builds every design around your exact location, climate, sunlight and soil conditions. When you open the tool you upload a photo of your outdoor space, tell it about your location, and optionally add sunlight and soil details for better results. You then pick a design style — modern, cottage, Mediterranean, tropical, Japanese and more — and the tool generates a beautiful, realistic concept in under two minutes. Every result comes with a ready-to-buy plant list, so there is no separate plant identification step: the planting plan is tailored to your yard and every plant on it is a real species you can purchase. The visuals are seasonally accurate, meaning plants are shown as they would realistically appear together in summer rather than as an impossible mix of spring and autumn flowers. You can also edit designs: layout changes, planting adjustments, and adding, removing or replacing up to five plants at a time. Yard Studio is designed for UK and US climates, uses a credit-based pricing model where one credit creates a new design or applies one change, and offers five free credits to start. It is operated by Influence Grid Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. The tool targets the gap between purely decorative AI garden images and serious landscaping work: it is equally useful for a homeowner imagining a new patio border and for a designer preparing a client proposal. Because each result bundles visuals with a plantable plan, the output is actionable rather than aspirational, and the credit system keeps costs predictable whether you need a single design or a full season of projects.