The Weatherstaff PlantingPlanner is a unique type of intelligent garden design software.

Sophisticated logic generates stunning, bespoke planting plans, tailored for your garden’s growing conditions, with your choice of colour and style. Flexible interactive tools allow you to take full control of your garden border design.

PlantingPlanner for Home Gardeners

Metallic-blue Eryngium flowers in a garden border.

The elegant, drooping flowers of the Nectaroscordum siculum plant in a garden border.

A late summer flower border with upright, densely packed spikes of tiny, tubular, purplish-blue flowers of the Veronica plant.

Bright red Cotinus rubrifolius leaves providing striking impact for an autumn garden border.

Suitable for all levels - from beginner to experienced gardeners.

Selects the right plants for your flower beds - simply enter your growing conditions and your choice of style, mood and colour.

Creates stylish, planting plans for your garden borders, with stunning year-round impact, uniquely tailored to your garden.

Revamp old borders by pre-positioning existing plants in your plan and then let the program generate a new planting design around them.

Low-maintenance, contemporary, family, wildlife, woodland, etc. - the choice is yours!

Inspiring photographs and Maintenance Calendar with full cultivation and maintenance advice.

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PlantingPlanner Pro for Professionals

Acer japonicum Vitifolium (Vine-leaved Full Moon Maple) flowering in a garden border.

Vivid purple-pink Centaurea montana flowers in a garden border in early summer.

Delicate white Astrantia flowering in a garden border throughout summer.

Crocuses flowering in a spring garden border.

Interactive planting plan design software, enabling you to quickly create stunning plans for clients.

Select plants by attribute and requirements – then drag and drop them into your garden planting design.

Sophisticated plan generation logic - the complex, intelligent design logic whizzes through thousands of plant combinations, selecting plants which suit your client’s garden growing conditions, colour and style preferences, and which work well together to create year-round interest.

Use the program to generate an initial planting plan – and then, if required, easily modify the plan using the various interactive tools.

Alternatively, develop a garden border plan manually using the design tools, and let the generator fill in the gaps in your evolving plan.

Present your client with an elegant printed plan - along with its Maintenance Calendar, containing cultivation and maintenance advice.

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What’s different about the Weatherstaff PlantingPlanner?

The Weatherstaff PlantingPlanner is a completely new type of garden design software, unlike any other. It’s not just a plant encyclopaedia - it does far more than simply provide a list of plants which satisfy certain criteria (red flowers in summer, for example). Neither is it merely a drawing tool for setting out garden layouts.

The PlantingPlanner is horticulturally based software with built-in intelligence, enabling gardeners with all levels of experience to start creating spectacular garden border designs.

The bright daisy flowers of the Erigeron karvinskianus plant in a garden border - opening white then soon turning to pinkish-purple

The deep reddish-purple flowers with white bases and purple bracts of Astrantia major ‘Abbey Road’ in a garden border

Delicate soft pink flowers of the Campanula lactiflora ‘Loddon Anna’ plant in a flower bed in early summer

Tall hazy Verbena bonariensis with small jewel-like purple blooms in a summer flower border

Plan Generation

Using complex, intelligent design logic, the PlantingPlanner whizzes through thousands of plant combinations, selecting colours which harmonise (if you want shocking colour combinations – it can do that too!) and finding plants which not only suit your garden’s growing conditions, and your colour and style preferences, but which also work well together.

The best combinations are then arranged within a sophisticated structural framework, to create a tapestry of colour throughout the seasons.

Generating a plan takes less than a minute – a little longer for very large borders. A click of a button and the whole process starts again, randomly creating a new plan each time.

Plan Design Tools

A range of interactive tools can be used to modify and adjust the planting plan. You can accommodate existing plants, add favourites or even design the whole plan yourself. These tools work seamlessly with the auto-generation function giving you full flexibilty to create exciting planting designs.

The Planting Plan

Roll the cursor over the plan and the individual plants are highlighted, together with detailed information, colour photographs and comprehensive maintenance advice. Each plan has its own bespoke Maintenance Calendar.