Getting Started with Right Plant Right Place
Your complete guide to using Right Plant Right Place — the app that takes the guesswork out of garden planning.
Michael Johnson
Founder & Head Gardener
Michael is the founder of Right Plant Right Place and a passionate gardener with several years of experience designing and maintaining gardens.
Expertise
- Garden design
- Plant selection for challenging conditions
- Sustainable gardening practices
- Shade gardening
If you’ve ever bought a beautiful plant only to watch it slowly die, you’re not alone. Most gardening failures come down to one simple problem: the wrong plant in the wrong place. Too much shade, too little water, soil that’s too heavy — plants can’t tell you what they need, and guessing rarely works.
Right Plant Right Place changes that. By creating a 3D model of your garden and analysing exactly how sunlight reaches every corner throughout the growing season, we give you something no garden centre label ever could: certainty. When we recommend a plant for your shady north-facing border, we know it will thrive there. When we suggest companions for your sunny patio pots, we’ve already checked they’ll be happy together.
No more guessing. No more guilt over dead plants. Just a garden that works — and the confidence to make it happen.
Create Your Account
Set up your free account and explore your garden dashboard — your home base for managing all your garden projects.
Creating a Garden
Learn how to capture a video walkthrough of your garden that we’ll transform into a detailed 3D model. It’s simpler than it sounds, and your smartphone is all you need.
Set Up Your Garden Model
Walk through the five-step wizard that sets up your 3D model — orienting it correctly, setting the scale, pointing north, and running the sun exposure analysis that powers everything else.
Draw Your Flowerbeds
Use the Floor Plan Editor to mark out your borders, beds, and containers on your garden’s 2D plan. This is where you define the spaces you want to fill with plants.
Identify Your Existing Plants
Snap photos of plants already in your garden and let our AI identify them. Build a complete picture of what you have before deciding what to add.
Place and Record Your Plants
Position identified plants on your garden plan, record their current size and health, and keep track of what’s where. Your garden, documented.
Get Personalised Recommendations
Meet your AI planting assistant. Tell it what you want — colour, style, year-round interest — and get suggestions for plants that will genuinely thrive in each spot. Then buy them with confidence from UK nurseries.
Ready to get started? Create your account and let’s transform your garden.
Ready to plan your garden?
The Right Plant Right Place app can analyse your specific garden conditions and suggest plants that will thrive in your space.
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