Border Builder

Plan a garden border that blooms all year

Border Builder is a garden border planner for iPhone and iPad. See your border drawn out, painted as it will grow in, and flowering across the year, before you buy a single plant.

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Free to download. No account, no ads.

Border Builder showing a painted preview of a planted border

1,323 plants, with hardiness and climate data built in. No account, nothing tracked, works offline.

From a few details to a border you can build

How it works

1Describe your spotTell it your bed size, aspect, soil and the look you want.
2Get your planEvery plant is chosen for your conditions and placed by role, with quantities.
3Plant itTake the drift map and the shopping list out to the garden.

Explore 1,323 plants

Browse the catalogue by what you actually search for, then plan a border with what you find.

All collections Every plant

Free, with an optional Pro unlock

Designing a border and viewing the full plan, the drift map, the elevation and the bloom timeline is free, with no account and nothing tracked. A one-time Pro purchase saves unlimited borders, lets you edit the planting and re-plan around a month, and exports the shopping list and PDF.

Design your border this weekend

Download on the App Store
QR code to download Border Builder on the App Store
Scan to download