Know what to plant before you shop
Answer a few questions about each bed and we’ll email you a plant list made for your yard: the right plants for your climate, how many of each, and a guide to growing them.
- One payment, not a subscription. No card kept on file and nothing to cancel.
- Up to eight garden beds in each recipe
- Change your mind as often as you like: email yourself up to 20 updated recipes in 30 days
- A Gardening Guide with every recipe
- Your PDFs are yours to keep, even after the pass ends
- For one home: the pass works for one ZIP code, on up to 3 of your phones or computers
All pass sales are final. Because the full planner opens as soon as you pay, we don’t offer refunds, except where we have failed to deliver the service. See our Terms.
No more guessing at the garden center
It’s frustrating to stand in a garden center and not know what will work in your yard, and on a busy weekend it can take a while to find someone to ask. PlantMyYard does the homework for you.
Many garden centers offer it free: scan the QR code on their benches and you’re off. If you’d rather plan from home, the 30-day pass lets you plan up to eight beds at a time.
How it works
Tell us about each bed
Its size, sun and drainage, plus the style and colors you like. You can even ask for favorite plants.
We do the matching
Every plant is checked against your climate. If a favorite won’t grow where you live, we suggest one that looks and blooms like it.
Get two PDFs by email
Your plant recipe and your Gardening Guide, ready to take shopping.
What you get
Your plant recipe
Sorted by the beds you named, so your shade plants don’t get mixed up with your sunny ones. Every plant pictured and named, with how many to buy.
Your Gardening Guide
So you’re never left with “just” a plant list. The Gardening Guide gives you tips on garden prep, planting combinations and how to care for everything you just bought. Chapter One covers preparing your beds. Chapter Two shows which of your plants to group together and where to place them. Chapter Three lists every plant, A to Z, with how to care for it through the year where you live.
See it before you plant
A bonus chapter gives you two ready-made AI prompts for each bed. Paste them into an AI app such as ChatGPT or Gemini: the Garden Visual Prompt shows how your garden could look in about three years, and the Garden Design Prompt draws a garden design of each bed from above, with every plant labeled.
Plants that grow where you live
PlantMyYard works in all 50 states. Our founders have worked in botanic gardens, nurseries and garden centers, and run their own design firms, from Florida to Michigan, New Hampshire to Hawaii, and the mountains of Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia. Every plant was chosen and checked by hand, not by AI.
Questions
What do I get?
The 30-day pass gives you access to our planting recipe system. You answer several questions about your property and gardening interests. Things like sunlight, drainage, favorite colors and so on. When you’re finished we email you two things: a pdf of all your recipes broken down by up to eight named garden beds. Each recipe includes a picture of the plant and the quantity you’ll need based on the square footage of each bed. We also send you a Gardening Guide. This includes general garden prep best practices, recommendations on which of your plants look best together and how to space them out, a complete list of every plant from all of your recipes in alphabetical order along with how to take care of them, as well as some prompts if you want to see what your gardens may look like in a few years filled in.
Is this a landscape drawing?
No, this is a personalized plant list based on the answers to your questions. Creating a drawing is nearly impossible without seeing your property to plan around buried tree stumps, sewer lines, sight lines from the house and other things. However we include a Gardening Guide with each recipe and this is based on your specific plant lists. We make recommendations on which plants look best together and other design tips. This makes it easy for you to understand how to plant your new gardens!
Do you offer garden design services?
We will never offer traditional design services; ask your garden center about that. Instead we’ve added a garden design prompt to give you an idea of how to lay out your new plants. If you need extra help with this, please ask your local garden center or landscaper.
What do ‘eight beds’ and ‘20 recipes’ mean?
Each recipe session can include up to eight named garden beds (Front Porch garden, Driveway bed, etc). You will answer questions for each garden bed and the answers don’t have to be the same. For example your driveway garden bed might be full sun but the back porch garden is shade, and so on. This lets you create very specific planting recipes based on each bed’s exact conditions.
During your 30-day pass you can create up to 20 recipes. Above that you’ll be asked to buy a new pass, or a commercial subscription if you’re planning gardens for clients.
Can I redo a bed?
During your 30-day pass you can create up to 20 recipes, each with up to 8 garden beds. This gives you flexibility to see different options for each area you’re thinking about.
What happens after 30 days?
After 30 days your pass ends. Nothing is renewed. If you want to sign up again, please do so.
Will these plants grow where I live?
Every recipe is custom designed to thrive in your area. If you specifically requested a plant in a recipe that isn’t hardy in your area, we include it as an Annual that will die at the end of the year, if it can be grown that way. If it can’t, your recipe explains why and suggests a similar plant that will thrive where you live. Some people like to grow tropical plants in cold climates during warm summers. Others like to grow cold-loving plants like roses in tropical areas during cooler winter months.
Where do I buy the plants?
You can email your recipes to local garden centers and landscapers for a quote, or simply bring your recipes to them in person. They can help you find your plants, as well as make any substitution recommendations if they don’t have something in stock. If you bring in several garden beds at once they may be able to custom order everything and deliver it to you.
Is it a subscription?
No. For the 30-day pass we designed it as a ‘here and there’ purchase. Maybe this year you want to focus on trees, shrubs and perennials in your garden beds. Then later on we can help you create recipes for adding bulbs or annuals in those same beds. It’s up to you and we’re here to help whenever you’re ready.
What do you do with my information?
We don’t keep a customer database and we never sell anything about you. We keep your email and a copy of each recipe and Gardening Guide for thirty days, so we can resend them if an email goes astray. After that everything is deleted for good, so save the emails we send you.
I lost my link.
Search your inbox, and your spam folder, for an email from PlantMyYard with the subject “Your PlantMyYard pass.” The link in it works on any phone or computer until your pass ends, and once you’ve opened it on a device, that device remembers your pass. Still can’t find it? Email hello@plantmyyard.com from the address you used to buy the pass and we’ll send it again.
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