AI concept preview · made in Trowel
Container Designs
That Sell Themselves
Trowel gives professional garden designers AI-powered previews, smart plant reviews, and one-click shopping lists — so you can impress clients and install faster.
7-day free trial · Card required to start · No plan charge until it ends · Cancel any time
The Magic Moment
You place the circles.
AI paints the picture.
Design on a scaled canvas, press one button, and show your client a concept preview they can say yes to.
Real Container Designs
Every pot tells a story
AI previews of real designs made in Trowel
Features
Everything a serious
container designer needs
Built by people who understand the workflow. Every feature exists because a designer needed it.
Visual Design Canvas
Pick a plant and click it into place on a scaled canvas. See exactly where every plant sits — before a single plant is purchased.
AI-Generated Previews
One click turns a design into an AI concept preview of the planting. Show clients the idea before you order a single plant.
Smart Design Review
AI analyzes every design for plant compatibility, density, and seasonal fit. Catches problems before they become expensive mistakes.
One-Click Shopping Lists
Export beautifully formatted shopping lists and wholesale orders in seconds, filtered by client and season.
Approval Workflows
Submit designs for manager review, track feedback, and keep every project moving forward with built-in status tracking.
Plant Intelligence
Start with a plant library that is already loaded. Add your own by name, and one click of AI Fill suggests sun, water, color, size and growth habit — saving hours of data entry.
Where this came from
Not built from a whiteboard
Trowel has brought us up to speed with the times from our old ways of pen & paper designs. The app is user friendly & easy to use, and the tech support is incredibly responsive and quick to fix/update when bugs have popped up or we’ve had formatting suggestions. I would definitely recommend Trowel to anyone looking to streamline their design process.
Ported from a system that already works
Trowel is the web version of a tool that has been planning real container plantings, season after season, at Pleasant View Gardens — the company it was built for, and still its first customer. The AI review, the row-grouped image prompts and the purchasing exports are the same behaviors — rebuilt, not reimagined.
Shaped by designers using it on real jobs
Every release so far has come from feedback by practicing designers — season-and-year planning, clearer plant colors on the canvas, a crew-friendly print without the sales render. If something does not survive contact with a real install, it changes.
New, and saying so plainly
Trowel is new, and we would rather say so than dress the page in reviews we have not earned. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial you can cancel before it charges, your designs stay yours, and you can export everything and delete the account yourself if it is not for you.
Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing
Start free for 7 days. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing for the plan.
Switch to annual and get 2 months free.
Starter
Billed monthly · Cancel any time
- ✓25 AI preview images/month
- ✓100 AI actions/month (AI design generation)
- ✓150 active designs
- ✓1 user
- ✓Visual design canvas + plant library
- ✓Excel shopping list (by client, with totals)
- ✓Print & PDF design sheets
- ✓Need more? Add a Boost — $29/month
- ✓Email support
7 days free
Professional
Billed monthly · Cancel any time
- ✓75 AI preview images/month
- ✓300 AI actions/month (deep analysis + AI design generation)
- ✓400 active designs
- ✓3 team members
- ✓Deep AI analysis
- ✓Bulk CSV/Excel plant import
- ✓Custom roles & permissions
- ✓Need more? Add a Boost — $29/month
- ✓Email support
7 days free
Business
Billed monthly · Cancel any time
- ✓250 AI preview images/month
- ✓1,000 AI actions/month (deep analysis + AI design generation)
- ✓Unlimited active designs
- ✓10 team members
- ✓Deep AI analysis on Gemini Pro
- ✓Bulk CSV/Excel plant import
- ✓Custom roles & permissions
- ✓Your own logo and colors on client sheets
- ✓Need more? Add a Boost — $29/month
- ✓Priority email support
7 days free
Premier
Billed monthly · Cancel any time
- ✓750 AI preview images/month
- ✓3,000 AI actions/month (deep analysis + AI design generation)
- ✓Unlimited active designs
- ✓Unlimited team members
- ✓Deep AI analysis on Gemini Pro
- ✓Bulk CSV/Excel plant import
- ✓Custom roles & permissions
- ✓Your own logo and colors on client sheets
- ✓Expert setup session included
- ✓Priority email support
7 days free
FAQ
Common questions
Everything you need to know to get started.
▸Do I need to know anything about AI to use Trowel?
Not at all. Trowel handles the AI for you — every save gets a free quick review score, one click fills in plant attributes, and one click generates a concept preview of the planting. Nothing that costs a credit is ever generated without you pressing the button, and the button tells you the price first. You just design.
▸Can multiple designers on my team use it?
Yes. Professional includes 3 team members, Business 10, and Premier is unlimited — and every plan lets you add a Boost for $29/month, self-serve, which adds a user along with more designs, AI actions and preview images. Each person has their own login with a role — Designer, Senior Designer, Manager, or Admin — and admins can change any one person's permissions, and on Professional and above what each role is allowed to do.
▸What happens to my designs if I cancel?
Your designs are always yours. You can export your data at any time from the Settings page, and your designs stay in your account after cancellation — you can sign back in to view and export them whenever you like.
▸Does it work for flower beds as well as pots?
Yes. Trowel detects flower beds from the location name and adjusts both the AI review and image generation accordingly — different density expectations, different image style.
▸Can I export designs for client presentations?
Yes. Each design can be printed as a PDF showing the planting diagram, AI-generated image, plant list, and design details. Perfect for client presentations and install crews.
▸How does the AI image generation work?
When you press Generate AI Image, Trowel sends the plant placement data to Google's Gemini AI. It understands pot shape, dimensions, season, back/middle/front rows, and your design notes — and returns a concept illustration of the planting in 15–30 seconds. It is an illustration of the plan, not a photograph of the finished pot. Every image is one you asked for, and the button shows how many your plan has left before it spends one.
Get Started Today
Your next design is
one click away
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