Plan your garden the smart way with these online planners.

To help you build your garden, the planner walks you through a wizard.

First, just select a background scene from the pre-made templates, like the house you see here.

well-laid out flower bed

The Spruce / Autumn Wood

Your garden can be saved online so you never lose your progress.

GardenPuzzleis another garden planner that’s very similar in layout to Plan-A-Garden.

The result is an approachable garden design in a hand drawn style.

Grow Veg garden planner

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Plus, you’ve got the option to track progress to refer back to next year.

This online garden planner also haspre-made garden plansthat you’re free to use as inspiration.

Tons of products can be added to your garden with Marshalls Garden Visualiser.

Screenshot of the BHG.com's Plan-A-Garden website

Better Homes & Gardens

Some of these include paths,garden edgings, garden surfaces, summerhouses, walling, and paving.

This website requires theUnity Web Playerto be installed.

Also available when you print your design is a coded system that matches up with the item list.

Gardena’s My Garden

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Download the free trial for Mac or Windows.

The full version costs $38.

This means you must not close out of the website or you could lose your progress.

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Adding plants is as simple as dragging them from the sidebar directly onto aplanting bed.

The cost is only $10 for 90-days of unlimited access or $30 for 360-days.

The full version costs $599.

Screenshot of a garden plan built using Gardeners.com

Gardener’s

Uvision 3D Landscape Creator

Another program very similar to Realtime Landscaping Architect isUvision 3D Landscape Creator.

However, there are more plants to choose from in its trial version.

The price point for the full version is $579.95.

Screenshot of a garden plan designed using Marshalls Garden Visualiser

Marshalls

When you’re first starting out, plant straight, long rows in a north-south alignment.

Ideally, as space allows, sow the tallest plants at the north end of the row.

Plant from tallest to shortest moving south.

Screenshot of a garden designed using Garden Planner at SmallBluePrinter.com

Small Blue Printer

Typically, vegetable gardens are planted within rectangles whether the garden is wide or long and narrow.

Subdivide larger spaces into smaller rectangular sections.

Screenshot of a garden designed using Smart Gardener

Smart Gardener

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Unilock Software

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