Why we built PlantMyYard

Have you ever wanted to build a dream garden on a budget? You didn't want to slice off hundreds or thousands of dollars for an expert designer to show you what to plant where?

Well that's where PlantMyYard comes in. In all 50 states it helps gardeners custom design their landscaping, bed by bed, allowing you to easily design your dream gardens.

My name is Chad Brunette and I've spent my life in the horticulture industry. In the past 30+ years I was a manager at the Frederik Meijer Gardens in Michigan, the assistant director of horticulture at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Colorado, as well as the founder of two award winning multi-million dollar design firms in Colorado and Florida. And when I wasn't gardening I was visiting or volunteering at other gardens around the country, from Hawaii to Maine.

PlantMyYard is my attempt to help the everyday gardener be able to plan out their own gardens by answering a few simple questions. Nothing to download, nothing to verify or approve; just instant access to a custom-built recipe engine. You can name up to 8 garden beds per session and each garden bed can have its own answers/requirements. From colors to style to available sunlight, native plants or not, whatever you want you can customize your needs with PlantMyYard.

But just having a pile of pretty plants isn't enough, is it? How will you know where to put everything, how to combine them and so on? When you're done answering questions we'll send you two pdfs: the first one is a short pdf of your recipes, broken down by garden bed and with a picture of each plant along with how many you'll need of each. The second pdf is much bigger and we call it the Gardening Guide. You'll learn about basic garden prep techniques to prepare your beds for planting. You'll get a list of every single plant from all of your recipes, including a description of the plants and how to take care of them throughout the year. And best of all we have a unique chapter customized just for you. It tells you recommended plant combinations and layouts based on the exact plants from your recipes! And as a bonus we've included prompts to generate images of your garden beds that imagine what they can look like after a few years of growth, and a prompt for an overhead 2D layout of each garden bed.

Once you have your recipe you can hire someone to install everything or do it yourself, but either way you'll have the confidence of knowing that what you're going to plant will actually thrive at your address.

We had a lot of fun creating this project and we hope it brings you as much joy as it has us. Happy gardening!