Your Knollwood Gardener
A master gardener in your pocket
Show us your yard and the flowers you love, and get garden designs made for your zone, your sun and your style. Then keep asking, all year: what to plant next, what's wrong with that leaf, when to dig your dahlias. Plan as many gardens as you like, and change them anytime.
Includes your first year · unlimited gardens · then $49 a year, only if you want it
How it works
Plan it once, then keep growing together
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Show us your space
Your ZIP code and a few photos. Not sure how big it is or how much sun it gets? We'll work it out from your photos, and a quick three-photo sun check settles it.
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Get your designs
One to four garden designs for each space, each with a layout, a plant list with quantities, a bloom calendar and a month-by-month plan. Plan the front border, the back fence and the porch pots.
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Keep asking
Ask anything, anytime, and send photos. Swap a plant, blend two designs, plan next year: your gardener knows your garden and changes the plan whenever you ask.
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Choose up to three for each garden
Garden styles we design
Not sure? Choose "Surprise me" and we'll pick the styles that suit your space best.
- Cut flower gardenRows of long stems for bouquets
- Cottage gardenLoose, layered and abundant
- Pollinator gardenBees, butterflies, hummingbirds
- Native & low careTough natives, little watering
- Classic borderStructured layers, tidy and planned
- Color-themedOne palette all season
- Moon gardenWhite blooms and evening scent
- Shade gardenFlowers for less sun
- Containers & patioPots, boxes and raised beds
- Meadow & prairieNaturalistic drifts and grasses
- Dahlia-forwardDahlias as the stars
- Fragrance gardenScent from spring to fall
- Kitchen gardenFlowers with herbs and vegetables
- Rain gardenFor soggy spots and downspouts
- Dry & gravel gardenHot, dry spots, little watering
What you get
Everything you need to plant it, and someone to ask as it grows.
Look through a sample garden- ∞
- gardens to plan
- 1–4
- designs for each garden
- 365
- days of questions
- 24/7
- answers, photos welcome
- Your growing conditions Zone, frost dates, sun and soil, worked out from your answers and your photos.
- Plants with quantities Real varieties that grow well where you live, how many to buy and how far apart to plant them.
- A bloom calendar & timeline What's flowering every month, and what to start, sow, plant and cut back when.
- Ask anything, anytime Pests, sick leaves, watering, dividing, seed starting, storing tubers. Send a photo and get a real answer.
- Change it whenever Swap colors, add a design, make it lower maintenance. Your gardener updates the plan and keeps the old version.
- Yours to keep Every plan and conversation stays in your Knollwood account. Print any plan or save it as a PDF.
Questions
Good to know
Who answers my questions?
Your Knollwood Gardener uses AI (Claude, made by Anthropic) guided by the way we grow and plan gardens at Knollwood: right plant, right place, real varieties, and timing set by your frost dates. It isn't a person, and it isn't reviewed before you see it, so treat it like a very knowledgeable friend: check plant tags and your local conditions, and call your county extension service for anything serious.
I don't know my garden's size or how much sun it gets.
That's fine. Choose "I'm not sure" and add a few photos. A fence, a door or steps in the shot lets us estimate the size, and we read the light from shadows, which way it faces and what's already growing. For sun, the best answer is the three-photo sun check: one photo each in the morning, at midday and in the afternoon. Every plan tells you what we estimated, so you can correct it.
What happens after the first year?
Your plans and conversations are yours to keep forever. To keep asking questions, plan new gardens and change your plans, renew for $49 a year. There's no automatic charge: you renew only if you want to.
Is there a limit?
Plan as many gardens as you like and ask as much as you like. To keep things fair for everyone there's a generous monthly cap (hundreds of questions) that everyday gardeners never come close to.
What happens to my photos?
They're stored privately, used only to answer you, and deleted as soon as your gardener has replied. What it noticed in them is saved in your plan so it can keep helping.
Does it work outside New Hampshire?
Yes. Your ZIP code sets your growing zone and frost dates, so it fits anywhere in the United States. Outside the U.S., type your town and country and we'll estimate.
Will it only recommend Knollwood plants?
No. It recommends whatever grows best in your garden, from any nursery or seed company. When a Knollwood dahlia or seed fits, it says so, with a link.
Does it make a good gift?
It does. Get in touch with their name and email, and we'll set it up so it's waiting for them.
Can Megan design my garden in person?
For local custom work, get in touch and tell us about your project.