Professional Garden Design
Gardencraft takes you from the first client meeting to a finished, exportable garden specification — on web and iPad. No stitching together five tools. No CAD expertise required.
Working drawing view — client project, Amsterdam
The problem
The average landscape architect uses four different tools for one project. AutoCAD for specs. SketchUp for visualization. A spreadsheet for plant schedules. Email for client communication. And iScape if they're lucky enough to have a site photo.
None of these talk to each other. None of them are built for the actual workflow — the one that starts with a client's wishlist and ends with a contractor-ready specification.
Gardencraft replaces all of them.
The workflow
Structured brief intake — style preferences, budget, site constraints, timeline. All in one session, not a chain of emails.
Log dimensions, photograph, map orientation. Import site photos directly. Add soil type, sun exposure, access points.
Place planting beds, paths, structures. Choose plant palettes. Generate a concept for client review — in minutes, not days.
Export full material schedules, plant lists with quantities, and construction notes. Professional format, ready for contractors.
Built for professionals
Structured intake forms that clients complete themselves. Style, constraints, budget, timeline — all captured before you open the drawing board.
iPad-optimized for the site visit. Measure, photograph, annotate. No laptop required. Your working document travels with you.
Climate-aware plant database with mature sizes, bloom seasons, and maintenance profiles. Place with confidence — the spec reflects the reality.
Material schedules, plant lists with quantities, and construction notes — formatted professionally and exportable as PDF or structured document.
Share concepts with clients for review and approval. Built-in comment threads so feedback lives with the design, not in your inbox.
Every project stored and versioned. Reuse planting palettes, material specs, and site templates across new projects without starting from scratch.
The best design tools disappear. You think about the garden, not the software.
— Gardencraft principle
Most garden design software was built for the CAD world and ported to the web. Gardencraft was built for the web from the ground up — because the way landscape architects actually work has changed. Site visits happen on tablets. Clients review on phones. Concepts travel as links, not PDFs.
We didn't add an iPad mode. We started with the iPad.
The mission
Every professional landscape architect we've spoken to has the same story: they know what they want to deliver, but the software fights them at every step. Gardencraft exists to change that.
Professional garden design software that takes you from first conversation to construction-ready specification — on web and iPad.