Planting and seasons
How do you choose a garden colour palette without copying every plant in an image?
By GardenRender AI · Planning ideas and concept comparisons
Start with the colours you already live with: the house, boundaries and large existing surfaces. Use the concept to compare the overall emphasis, then verify actual plants and materials separately.
Pick the dominant relationship
Perhaps you want a quiet green background, pale flowers against a darker boundary or warm furniture beside a brick wall. Choose one relationship that matters from your usual viewpoint. A long list of favourite colours can produce a busy image without a clear decision.
A genuinely small courtyard
Look at the bench against the wall, table and containers without losing the open centre.
The requested growing box is not clearly present. Furniture sizes, screen fixings and gate clearances are unverified.
Both images are AI-generated editorial demonstrations, not a customer project or completed landscaping. Generated 2026-11-14. A case may be reused where it answers a different planning question.
The courtyard example uses planting around a compact furnished area. Look at how much of the view is foliage, ground and furniture, rather than trying to identify each leaf.
Cottage direction
Look at the curved route, flower borders and remaining open lawn.
Plant identities, flowering seasons and care requirements cannot be inferred; this used its own brief.
Both images are AI-generated editorial demonstrations, not a customer project or completed landscaping. Generated 2026-11-14. A case may be reused where it answers a different planning question.
The cottage-style fictional scene has more flower colour and a different layout. It illustrates another overall emphasis, not a controlled colour-only comparison or a planting recipe for the courtyard.
Make a small palette record
| Element | Note to keep |
|---|---|
| Existing house and fence | Colours that really remain |
| Main surface | One preferred colour family |
| Planting | Desired visual emphasis, pending suitable species |
| Movable objects | Colours you could change later |
If the AI repaints the building, judge the new palette against the original wall before choosing it. Flowers in a render do not establish simultaneous flowering or year-round colour.
Test what you can touch
Preview a direction, then compare actual samples in the space and ask about locally suitable planting. If the main uncertainty is between entire styles rather than colours, the style comparison guide is a better starting point.
Planning references
General context, not measured demand or proof of a generated example.
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