Free garden and landscaping tools

Calculators, a style quiz, a hardiness zone finder and AI feedback from a photo of your own yard. Everything here runs without an account. The only paid thing on this site is the photorealistic redesign generator, and even that starts with three free designs.

Planning and materials

Landscape designer's mood board with garden photos in several styles, plant cuttings and a sketched plan

Garden Style Quiz

Free garden style quiz. Eight quick questions, no signup, and you get your landscape style out of 15 (modern, cottage, japanese, mediterranean and more) with what to plant and build.

Perennial border with ornamental grasses and coneflowers under light frost on a cold spring morning

Hardiness Zone Finder

Find your USDA plant hardiness zone by ZIP code, from the 2023 map. Zone, winter low, growing season, and what actually grows there. Free, no signup.

Freshly mulched bed with dark hardwood mulch around boxwood and hydrangea, wheelbarrow and rake beside it

Mulch Calculator

Free mulch calculator. Enter your bed size and depth, get cubic yards, bag count and a 2026 price for mulch, topsoil, compost, gravel or rock. No signup.

Aerial view of a raised bed with young shrubs planted on an even grid, tape measure along the edge

Plant Spacing Calculator

Free plant spacing calculator. Enter bed size and spacing, or pick a plant, and get the plant count, rows and a planting diagram. Square or staggered. No signup.

Concrete pavers being laid on a screeded sand bed over a compacted gravel base, mallet and stacked pavers

Paver Calculator

Free paver calculator. Enter your patio size and paver size to get the paver count with waste, gravel base and bedding sand in cubic yards and tons, and a 2026 materials cost.

New cedar privacy fence under construction with posts, rails and boards, stacked lumber on the lawn

Fence Calculator

Free fence calculator. Enter the length and style to get posts, rails, pickets, concrete bags and screws, plus a 2026 materials cost per foot for wood, vinyl and chain link.

Rolls of fresh sod being laid on prepared soil, half the yard already green

Lawn Calculator

Free lawn calculator. Enter your lawn size and get pounds of grass seed by type, pallets of sod, or pounds of fertilizer for 1 lb N per 1,000 sq ft, with 2026 costs.

Backyard wood deck under construction with decking boards laid over joists, drill and screws on the boards

Deck Calculator

Free deck calculator. Enter the size and decking to get deck boards with waste, joists, beams, posts, footings, screws and clips, plus a 2026 materials cost by material.

Garden bed under a large tree with hostas and ferns in the shade and lavender in the sunny half

Sunlight Exposure Calculator

Free garden sunlight calculator. Enter hours of direct sun, the direction the bed faces and any canopy, get the exposure category and plants that fit it.

AI tools that start from a photo

AI Design Advice

Upload a photo of your yard and get a designer-style critique: what works, what to fix, what to plant.

AI Plant Finder

Photo in, plant list out: species that suit your light, climate and the look you are after.

AI Cost Estimator

A price range for the redesign you have in mind, from a photo and a few questions.

Cost calculators

Landscaping Cost Calculator

Whole-yard budget by project type, size and finish level, with 2026 installed prices.

Patio Cost Calculator

Installed price range by material and size, with fire pit, pergola and lighting add-ons.

Numbers are the easy part. See the garden.

Upload a photo of your yard, pick a style, and preview the redesign in about a minute. 3 free designs, no credit card.

Try the AI garden designer