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We take a photograph of your actual yard and build the design on top of it — real plants, at the size they will be, in the position they will occupy. You are not looking at a picture of somebody else’s garden and imagining yours. You are looking at yours.

No. Every design is drawn by a designer working from photographs of your own property, and it is judged against the things software cannot see — how much sun that bed actually gets, what the ground does after rain, what is already growing there and how big it will be in five years. An AI image generator makes a picture that looks like a garden: plausible plants, no species, no sizes, nothing you can buy. What you get here is a design you can act on — real species by botanical name, real mature sizes, real quantities, in the positions they will occupy, with a plant list you can hand to a nursery. The one place software takes the first pass is AP Design, which is labeled as such and is a starting point to react to rather than a finished design.

Published prices start at $95. QuickSnap is $95 for a planting design, QuickSnap Plus is $170 once hardscape is involved, 3D Mini Snap is $250 per snap, 3D Snaps start at $450 and Blueprint Snaps at $565. Add-ons are $25 for an itemized plant list and $45 for the labeled design option. There is no fixed ceiling — a design can run upwards of $1,000 depending on the complexity of the design and the size of the project. The free online consultation is where we work out which end of that you are at, before you commit to anything.

No. Plenty of clients take the plan and the plant list and build it themselves, or hand it to their own contractor — that is exactly what the documents are for. We do install, and we are happy to quote it, but the design stands on its own.