Landscape Design
AI Landscape Design Generator for Gardens, Backyards and Front Yards
Upload a photo, a sketch or a 3D model view of your outdoor space and describe the landscape you want. ArchiVinci shows it as a photorealistic image with new planting, paving, furniture and light, and keeps your house and the camera angle.
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Design Gardens, Backyards, and Outdoor Spaces in Seconds
ArchiVinci's AI landscape design tool turns a photo of a garden, a backyard, a front yard or a patio into photorealistic design ideas in seconds. Three before/after examples follow; a new account starts with 3 free credits.
Before & After: Landscape and Garden Transformations
Before ➝ After: Cozy Patio Makeover
Add stone patio with circular borders, lounge seating and outdoor fireplace with TV, dining table set, flower beds with shrubs and small trees, wooden fence and garden lights, lawn with stepping stones, barbecue grill.
Before ➝ After: Elegant Garden Transformation
Add manicured lawn, add colorful flower beds, add shaped shrubs, add round topiary trees, add flowering bushes, add small evergreens, add stone mulch borders, add front porch steps with planters, a pergola in the middle, walking stones.
Before ➝ After: Family-Friendly Backyard Upgrade
Add pergola lounge, add stone patio, add dining set, add kids play area, add stepping stone path, add colorful flower beds, add shrubs and small trees, add fresh lawn, add warm garden lights, add decorative planters.
What is AI landscape design?
AI landscape design is the use of artificial intelligence to show how an outdoor space could look before anything is planted or built. You give an AI landscape design generator a picture of the space as it is, such as a photo of a backyard or a view of a 3D model, and a short description of what you want. It returns a photorealistic image of the same space with new planting, surfaces, furniture and light.
ArchiVinci's AI landscape generator runs in the browser and works on one image of your own site. It is built for architecture: it keeps the house and the viewpoint of your picture and redesigns the ground around them, so the result reads as your own yard and not as a picture of someone else's.
How to Use the AI Landscape Generator
A landscape design needs one image of your outdoor space and a short prompt that says what should grow and stand on it.
Open the app with the button below and sign in or create an account; you need one to upload and to generate. A new account gets 3 free credits.
The button opens the Exterior module, the one for buildings and the outdoor space around them. You also find it under Select module.
Under Input image, upload one image of the space: a photo of your yard or garden, a sketch or a 3D model view, as JPG, PNG or WebP up to 5 MB.
Leave Render engine on the default, ArchiVinci 4.0. Below it, under Add object (optional), the tags Tree and Greenery add trees and greenery to your request.
In Prompt (optional), describe the landscape in one or two sentences: surfaces, planting, furniture and style. There is no style list to pick from, so the style goes into the prompt. With an empty prompt the app only re-renders your picture and may fill empty ground as it sees fit, so say what you want to see.
Under Lighting (optional), pick one of six buttons, for example Daylight, Golden hour or Twilight.
Press Generate. One image costs one credit; on premium plans, Number of images lets one run return up to four design options.
Compare the design with your original in the before/after viewer and download it as a JPEG. For another idea, change the prompt and generate again.
AI Landscape Generator from a Photo, a Sketch or a 3D Model
The starting point is one image in which the ground you want to design is clearly visible.
Starting point | What to upload | What you get |
|---|---|---|
A yard or garden as it is today | A photo of the area, taken as described below | The same view with the new landscape |
A building that exists only as a design | A 3D model view from SketchUp, Revit, Blender or another program, with the plot around the building in the picture | The building in a finished garden, from the same camera position |
An idea on paper | A photo or scan of a hand-drawn perspective of the garden | A photorealistic version of the drawing |
Three things make a photo easier to work with:
Stand far enough back that the whole area is in the picture, with part of the house as a reference.
Shoot in even daylight. Hard shadows and night shots hide the ground the AI has to redesign.
Check the file: the upload takes JPG, PNG or WebP up to 5 MB, so reduce a larger photo first.
The app takes pictures, not project files: a DWG, SKP or PDF has to be exported or captured as a picture first. A plan drawn from above is a different job: a site plan or a 2D landscape plan goes to the Masterplan module, described under AI masterplan design. A drone photo or a model view of one plot from above works in Exterior; the bird's-eye view generator page shows an example.
If the landscape is already designed in your model, describe its materials and planting instead of a new garden: the default engine renders the paths, beds and trees your view shows. That is AI landscape rendering; the AI render generator page covers model views in general. With no picture at all, the Imagine module creates a garden concept from a text prompt; see Dream Space AI.
What to Write in a Landscape Prompt
A landscape prompt works best when it names four things in plain words:
Surfaces: lawn, gravel, stone paving, timber decking, stepping stones.
Planting: plants by type or by look, such as ornamental grasses, lavender, olive trees, clipped hedges or drought-tolerant (xeriscape) planting.
Structures and furniture: a pergola, raised beds, a fire pit, a dining set, a pool, a fence.
Style: modern, Mediterranean, Japanese, cottage garden, desert or tropical. A season works too, such as spring bloom or fall color.
Put together, a prompt reads like this:
Mediterranean garden with a gravel terrace, olive trees, lavender borders and terracotta pots along a stone path.
Name what has to stay, for example "keep the existing tree", and keep the prompt short: one or two sentences work best. Above 200 characters the app shows a warning and still generates; a long prompt can pull the result away from your photo.
Design Ideas for Backyards, Front Yards and Gardens
The steps are the same for every outdoor space; the prompt changes. Each prompt below is a starting point to copy and adapt.
AI Backyard Design
For a backyard, name the zones you want to use, such as a place to eat, a place to sit and open lawn, and the image shows them in your own yard, seen from where you took the photo.
Modern backyard with a stone patio, a timber pergola with a dining table, ornamental grasses and a lawn with stepping stones.
AI Front Yard Design
In a front yard the house stays the main subject. Upload a photo taken from the street and ask for the approach you want: a new path, low planting, lighting along the driveway. It is a quick way to test curb appeal before a sale or a renovation. To restyle the house itself, with new cladding, colors or windows, see the AI exterior design generator.
Front yard with a curved stone path to the door, low boxwood hedges, white hydrangeas and a neat lawn.
AI Garden Design
In a garden the planting carries the picture. Name the plants or the look you want, such as a cottage border, a gravel garden or a vegetable garden with raised beds, and compare a few directions before you buy a single plant.
Cottage garden with deep flower borders, a gravel path, a wooden bench and climbing roses on the fence.
Patios, Terraces and Rooftops
On a patio, a terrace or a roof, hard surfaces and furniture take the lead. Describe the floor, the seating and the planters. Patios have a page of their own: AI patio design.
Rooftop terrace with timber decking, large planters with grasses, a lounge sofa and string lights.
Commercial and Public Landscapes
The same steps work for a hotel courtyard, an office entrance, a restaurant garden or a small park: upload an eye-level photo or a model view and describe planting, paving and seating. A square or a street seen at eye level works the same way. For site plans, massing models and whole districts, see AI urban design.
Hotel courtyard with a reflecting pool, palm trees, light stone paving and lounge seating under shade sails.
Examples: A House on a Bare Plot
The two examples below were made in the ArchiVinci app on the default engine, with the prompts printed on this page. Results differ from run to run.
Example 1: A Bare Plot Gets a Garden
The upload shows a house on an empty plot of bare ground. The result, made with the prompt below, shows the same house from the same camera position in a finished garden, in evening light.
Landscaped garden with a lawn, a stone path to the entrance, ornamental grasses, low shrubs and a few young trees.
Example 2: One House, Two Gardens
The prompt decides the garden. Both images below come from the same upload as example 1, with the Daylight button; only the prompt differs.
Modern garden with large concrete pavers, ornamental grasses, a gravel bed with boulders and three birch trees.
Japanese garden with raked gravel, stepping stones, clipped pines, moss and a small maple by the entrance.
What the AI Keeps and What It Changes
ArchiVinci's default engine follows the image you upload. It keeps the house, the camera position and the perspective, and redesigns the ground and what stands on it: lawn, beds, paths, paving, furniture, trees and light.
Every result is a newly generated image, so a small detail can differ from your photo: a window, a fence line, the exact shape of a path. Check the result against your original in the before/after viewer and generate again if something moved.
What you get is a picture, and it is a starting point. It does not measure your yard, test your soil or choose plants for your climate, and it is not a planting plan or a construction drawing. Use it to decide on a direction and to show a landscape designer, a nursery or a contractor exactly what you have in mind.
How to Refine a Landscape Design
A first image is rarely the final design. Here is what you can do with the result:
Change one area. Edit render opens the result in the Edit module: mark an area with the brush or the lasso, replace the prompt with the change, for example "replace the lawn with gravel and grasses", and only that area is generated again. More in the guide to inpainting AI.
Add a specific item. To place a real object, such as a bench or a planter you plan to buy, press Edit render, mark a clear patch of ground, add the object's picture under Upload object (optional) and say in the prompt what goes there. Without a marked area, the Edit module works on your first upload, not on the new design; see how to add an object to a photo.
See it at night. The lighting buttons go as far as dusk (Twilight). For a garden at night with the lights on, download the design, upload it in the Edit module and describe the change; the AI relight guide shows a day-to-night example with its prompt.
Make it larger. A design comes out at about 1.5 megapixels. On premium plans, Upscale enlarges it up to 4096 px on the long side for print and presentation boards; see the AI render enhancer.
Add motion. On premium plans, Animate sends the image to the Video module, which turns it into a short clip for coins; see image to video.
Designs stay in your render history for 7 days, so download the ones you want to keep. ArchiVinci does not use the photos you upload or the designs you create to train its AI models.
What to Look for in an AI Landscape Design Tool
AI landscaping tools differ in what they start from and how much they let you decide. Five questions separate them:
Does it work on your own picture? A tool that starts from your photo or model view shows your yard, not a generic garden.
Does it keep the house and the viewpoint? If it does not, you cannot compare the idea with what you have.
Can you say what you want in words? Style presets are quick; a prompt lets you name plants, materials and features that no preset covers.
Can you change one area? A good first image usually needs one fix, not a new start.
Can you try it before you pay? A few free images on your own photo tell you more than any gallery.
ArchiVinci is built around these five: your own image, a default engine that follows it, a free-text prompt, area editing in the Edit module and 3 free credits to start.
AI landscaping or a landscape designer: which do you need?
An AI landscape generator, landscape design software and a landscape designer answer different needs.
| AI landscape generator | Landscape design software | Landscape designer |
|---|---|---|---|
You start with | A photo or a model view and a sentence | A plan or 3D model you draw yourself; some programs also work on a site photo | A site visit and a brief |
You get | Photorealistic images of ideas, seconds after the upload | Scaled plans, plant lists and 3D models | A complete design with its documents |
Who makes the design | The AI proposes, you choose | You place every plant and surface | The designer, with you |
Best for | Ideas, options and client conversations | Documentation and detailed design | The final design and its construction |
The three work together: an AI image settles the direction, and software and a professional turn it into something that can be built. Related reading: our overview of landscape design software and our guide to landscape rendering.
AI in Landscape Architecture and Garden Design: Who Uses It
Landscape architects and designers test planting moods, paving and furniture on a site photo or a model view at concept stage, and bring two or three options to the first client meeting.
Landscape contractors and garden centers show a proposal on a photo of the customer's own yard instead of a catalog picture.
Architects give an unbuilt house a finished setting for a competition board or a planning presentation.
Real estate agents and developers show what a bare plot or a tired garden could become, labeled as a visualization.
Homeowners compare directions for a yard makeover or remodel before they spend on plants, paving or a designer.
Grading, drainage, plant selection for the site, codes and construction stay with the professional. Background reading: how AI supports landscape architecture.
Is AI landscape design free? Credits and plans
AI landscape design in ArchiVinci is free to try: a new account comes with 3 credits, and one credit is one design on the default engine, without a watermark. Every run costs one credit, an area edit included, so that is three tries on your own yard. Commercial use needs an active plan: with one, you can use the images in personal and commercial work, as set out in our Terms & Conditions.
Premium plans come as weekly, monthly and yearly subscriptions and as one-time passes, for one person or a team. They include unlimited designs on ArchiVinci 4.0, up to four images per run, Upscale and coins, a separate balance that pays for video and for the other AI models in the Render engine menu. Current plans are on the pricing page.
Frequently Asked Questions About Landscape AI
Can I use ArchiVinci as an AI garden planner?
For the look, yes: ArchiVinci shows how a planted garden could look in your own photo, which makes it easy to compare ideas. It does not draw a planting plan, count plants or schedule the work. Use the image as the brief for that plan.
Does the AI choose plants that suit my climate?
No. It draws the plants you name, or plants that fit the style you describe, and it does not know where you live. Write the climate into the prompt, for example "drought-tolerant planting", and check the species with a local nursery or landscape designer before you buy.
Can I keep an existing tree, shed or pool in the new design?
Name it in the prompt, for example "keep the existing oak tree and the shed", and compare the result with your photo in the before/after viewer. For a stricter result, upload the photo in the Edit module and mark only the ground you want to redesign: only the marked area is generated again, so what lies outside it stays as it is in your photo.
Will a second photo of my yard get the same design?
No. Each image is generated on its own from one photo and one prompt, so a second photo of the same yard gets a garden of its own, even with the same prompt. Pick the view that shows most of the yard for the design, and use the same prompt on other photos to stay close in style.
Is there an AI landscape design app for my phone?
There is nothing to install: ArchiVinci is a web app that runs in the browser of a phone, a tablet or a computer. Upload the photo of your yard from your phone as a JPG, PNG or WebP of up to 5 MB; if your phone saves HEIC or larger files, export a smaller JPG first.