AI landscape design looks to be the way of future for landscape gardening. Artificial intelligence is a polarizing topic deemed useful in some industries and threatening in others. Regardless of your view of AI technology, it looks like it’s here to stay. One industry that’s learning to embrace the potential of artificial intelligence is AI landscaping.
AI for landscape design is an amazing tool that allows the gardener to envision their dream landscape on an entirely different level before a shovel even hits the soil. AI garden design allows you to easily and quickly look at various garden ideas, shifting among them and combining them at will. Learn how this new frontier of technology in landscaping can help you achieve the garden of your dreams.
What Is AI Landscape Design?
The use of AI for landscape design simply means utilizing AI to help create the ultimate landscape. AI can recommend plants, estimate costs, provide visuals, identify problem areas, aid in coming up with green landscaping ideas, and even incorporate access landscaping trends.
There are specific landscape design tools (Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion) that are being used by professional landscape designers, but even the average home gardener can access and use ChatGPT for assistance in planning their landscape. Other design tools include DreamzAR, Neighborbrite, REimagineHome, and Rescape AI.
How Can Gardeners Benefit from AI Landscape Design?
AI design tools can help the gardener to learn about plants suited for their landscape, combine or suggest designs for hardscapes, aid in determining management for problem areas of the landscape, identify plants, integrate different designs into a whole, estimate costs and so much more.
Dangers of AI Landscape Design
While AI use has many benefits, not the least of which is as a source of brainstorming ideas, it does have its limitations. AI is limited in its interpretation and thus presents inaccuracies on occasion. This means that the onus is on the gardener. You must be the one to verify the accuracy of a certain plant recommendation or building plan.
While some of this may be resolved using common sense, sometimes landscape design plans should be looked over by professionals, especially if they’re very involved and costly. You might look at it like a medical issue; asking for a second opinion is never a bad idea.
Also, AI generators lack spatial awareness along with variable accuracy which can lead to an errant vision. It has challenges regarding user and model comprehension and data restrictions involving site specificity.
How To Try AI Landscape Design
As mentioned above, the DIY home gardener can utilize AI by using Chat GPT or any of the above-listed design tools. Some may be more specific to your design than others. For instance, REimagineHome specializes not only in garden design but also in pool installation and fire pits.
Photoshop has been around for quite some time and can be a valuable tool. It has generative AI features that can help you create a concept for your landscape, letting you add or subtract elements easily when creating a design plan.
When all is said and done, AI continues to improve, evolve, and will no doubt continue to prove itself as a major player in not only landscape design but elsewhere as well.
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