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Design Your Garden

✨ Plan before you plant — annual membership $25

Plan a beautiful garden with plants that actually work together.

Choose plants with confidence before you buy. Find plants with Gardenia Plant Finder, get inspired by ready-made Gardenia design ideas, then save your collection, check how well each plant fits your garden conditions, compare seasons of interest, estimate quantities, and create a nursery-ready shopping list.

✓ Trusted by thousands of gardeners
♡ Costs less than one nursery impulse buy
✓ Helps you avoid mismatched plants before you buy

Featured Gardenia design

A welcoming garden hedge with pink roses, purple salvia and catmint along a white picket fence

Hardiness 4–8 Full or partial sun Spring to fall Low maintenance Average water Fragrant Butterflies + hummingbirds
🌸 Rosa Gertrude Jekyll

Fragrant English rose · Rich pink blooms · Spring to fall
🌸 Salvia ‘May Night’

Deep violet spires · Full sun · Early summer color
🌸 Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’

Lavender-blue flowers · Aromatic foliage · Pollinator friendly
🌸 Alchemilla mollis

Lady’s mantle · Chartreuse foliage · Soft path edging

Choose plants that thrive together

Compare each plant with your garden conditions, including sun, climate, soil, drainage, water, care needs, and mature size.

See your garden through every season

Compare seasons of interest so your collection offers color, foliage, and structure throughout the year.

Shop with confidence

Estimate plant quantities for your space and turn your collection into a practical nursery shopping list.

Compatibility made clear

See which plants fit your garden before you buy or plant.

Add your garden conditions once, then review clear fit badges and warnings for the plants in your collection. Gardenia helps you spot potential conflicts early and understand why a plant may — or may not — work in your plan.

Site fit

Sun, hardiness, climate, soil, pH, drainage, and water

Space fit

Mature height, spread, spacing, and quantity planning

Goal fit

Native fit, wildlife value, tolerances, style, care, and toxicity

Catch mismatches early

See warnings for unsuitable sun, climate, drainage, water needs, care level, or mature size.

Build a more balanced collection

Compare season of interest, height, wildlife value, and other useful plant characteristics.

Plan quantities

Use your garden dimensions and plant spreads to estimate how many plants you may need without overcrowding the space.

Why gardeners subscribe

Bring your favorite plants together in one smart garden collection.

Save and compare your plants, review compatibility with your garden conditions, plan seasonal interest, estimate quantities, and build a shopping list you can take to the nursery.

Plant fit

Fit badges and warnings for your garden conditions

Collections

Save up to 25 separate garden projects

Shopping ready

Quantity estimates and nursery shopping lists

Simple pricing

A year of smarter plant planning for less than one plant.

Try the tool free, then unlock complete collection planning whenever you are ready.

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  • ✓ 1 starter garden collection
  • ✓ Add up to 5 plants
  • ✓ Explore the collection-planning experience
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Start with plants from Gardenia, a saved collection, or a plant list you already have.

Start Your First Collection

Find plants or browse Gardenia design ideas, then save your favorites into a new collection.

Best if you are new to Gardenia or still exploring plant options.

Choose a Plant Collection

Open one of your saved Gardenia collections and continue planning with plants you have already selected.

Best if you are returning to compare, refine, or complete a garden project.

Refine before you plant Gardenia helps you compare compatibility, seasons of interest, color, height, water needs, care level, spacing, and quantities before buying plants.

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  • Add as many plants as you wish
  • Create and save up to 25 garden collections

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    Create a membership account to save your garden designs and to view them on any device.

    Becoming a contributing member of Gardenia is easy and can be done in just a few minutes. If you provide us with your name, email address and the payment of a modest $25 annual membership fee, you will become a full member, enabling you to design and save up to 25 of your garden design ideas.

    Join now and start creating your dream garden!

    Join Gardenia.net

    Create a membership account to save your garden designs and to view them on any device.

    Becoming a contributing member of Gardenia is easy and can be done in just a few minutes. If you provide us with your name, email address and the payment of a modest $25 annual membership fee, you will become a full member, enabling you to design and save up to 25 of your garden design ideas.

    Join now and start creating your dream garden!

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