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A garden plan that looks like your real garden

24 September 2026 · 1 min read · The Plotera team
A top-down Plotera garden plan with timber-edged beds, stone paths and crops including corn, tomatoes and pumpkins

A garden plan is easier to use when it looks like the garden outside your window. This update gives the planner a more natural, hand-built look.

Real edges and real grass

  • Timber edging around beds, with real thickness, in both the plan and the 3D view.
  • Photographic lawn around the garden, so your beds sit in grass rather than on a flat colour. Each garden gets its own arrangement, so it does not look like a repeating pattern.
  • The 2D plan and the 3D view now stand on the same lawn, so switching between them feels seamless.

Plants that look planted

Crops now vary slightly from square to square, the way real plants do, instead of identical copies in a grid. Edge plantings cluster naturally, and leafy crops can spill over the edge of their bed.

Easier to get around

There is more room to pan around the plan on a phone, and the grid now lines up properly inside raised beds.

Starting from scratch? The beginner's vegetable garden guide walks through choosing a spot and laying out your first beds.

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