Garden border planner for iPhone and iPad

Design a garden border that fits your space, soil and sun

Tell Border Builder about your bed, its size, light and soil, and it works out which plants to use, how many to buy, where each one goes, and what flowers in every month of the year.

Free to download. No account, no ads.

QR code to download Border Builder on the App Store — Scan from your phone

Border Builder showing a painted preview of a planted border

What you get

Border Builder's top-down planting map — A planting map, every plant placed and counted

Moving and swapping plants on the map — Adjust the plan before you buy

The shopping list exported as a PDF — Quantities and varieties for the nursery

Planting mapA scaled top-down map showing exactly where each plant goes.
Plant quantitiesHow many of each, worked out for the space.
Bloom timelineWhat is in flower, month by month, all year.
Shopping listVarieties and counts for the nursery, or a PDF.

Chosen for your conditions

Border Builder checks sun, soil, height, spread, season and style before it places a plant, from a catalogue of 1,323 plants whose hardiness and bloom timing are cross-checked against the RHS and Missouri Botanical Garden. It is a planting plan, not a plant list.

Sun and soil, matched to your aspect and ground
Height and role, placed back to front
Season and style, for colour all year in your look

Browse 1,323 plants All collections

Lavender 'Hidcote' illustration — **Lavender 'Hidcote'***Full sunSandyEvergreen*

Coneflower illustration — **Coneflower***Full sunSandyJul-Oct*

Japanese Maple (autumn) illustration — **Japanese Maple (autumn)***Full sunAcid*

Hosta 'Halcyon' illustration — **Hosta 'Halcyon'***ShadeClayJul-Aug*

Mexican Feather Grass illustration — **Mexican Feather Grass***Full sunSandyJun-Sep*

Black-Eyed Susan illustration — **Black-Eyed Susan***Full sunClayAug-Oct*

Hardy Geranium 'Rozanne' illustration — **Hardy Geranium 'Rozanne'***Full sunClayJun-Oct*

Foxglove illustration — **Foxglove***Full sunClayJun-Jul*

Hellebore illustration — **Hellebore***ShadeClayEvergreen*

Free, with an optional Pro unlock

Design a border and view the full plan for free, with no account and nothing tracked. A one-time Pro purchase saves unlimited borders, unlocks editing and re-planning around a month, and exports the shopping list and a PDF.

Design a garden border that fits your space, soil and sun

What you get

Chosen for your conditions

Free, with an optional Pro unlock

Design your border this weekend