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open-garden-planner
Open-source garden planning tool with CAD-like precision. Plan your garden with metric accuracy, track plants with rich metadata, and export to standard formats. Free forever.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- plant species, varieties, planting dates and growing requirements · garden layout objects (property structures, beds, containers, trellises, paths, fences) · harvest tracking, task reminders, succession planting and soil health records · live plan exposed to AI agents via embedded MCP server for reading, visualisation and export
- Resolution docs-verified
- centimeter-level precision on a calibrated canvas (spatial)
- Formats docs-verified
- JSON (.ogp project files) · PNG · SVG · PDF · DXF · CSV
- Access docs-verified
- Free and open source under GPL-3.0; desktop application (Windows installer or install from source); optional online plant search requires Plant API setup
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Scale a site plan by calibrating imported satellite imagery to real-world dimensions · Draw scaled planting and hard-landscape layouts with coordinate-based CAD input · Export plant schedules to CSV and layouts to PDF/DXF for client or contractor handover
- Audience llm-inferred
- gardeners · landscape designers · landscape architects
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- Recommended installer is Windows 10/11 (64-bit); other platforms need a source install (Python 3.11+ and Git) · Installer is not Authenticode-signed, so Windows SmartScreen or Defender may warn · Online plant search is optional and needs Plant API setup (Trefle.io, Perenual, Permapeople) · Needs at least 1 GiB free for the application, download, temporary install and plan storage; minimum RAM not measured · Agent editing is token-gated and optional; MCP server is embedded in the desktop app, not a standalone service (inferred) · Garden-scale planning tool with no geographic or hydrological datasets; not suited to civils or water data work (inferred) · Entry metadata lists no tools and auth is null; tool names are not documented in DOCS
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- 28
- Last commit
- 14/10/2026
- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Auto-extracted, unverified fields: tools, install, auth. Check upstream documentation.
Provenance & evidence
Daily discovery 2026-10-17: GitHub search; verified via GitHub API. Tools/install/auth auto-extracted from README.
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · daily-2026-10-17 (github-search)
- https://github.com/cofade/open-garden-planner
- https://api.github.com/repos/cofade/open-garden-planner
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