The plant database landscape architects actually need.
Planting intelligence for design professionals. Live at greencurate.com.
Specifying planting means hours of cross-referencing across PDFs, nursery catalogues and databases written for temperate planting. And the one thing the client actually sees — a palette they can read — gets rebuilt by hand in InDesign on every single project.
GreenCurate holds the catalogue, the palette and the presentation in one workflow. Search, select, compose, send.
01 / The asset
species. Every image is ours.
Licensed photography carries its limits with it: pots and hanging baskets, juveniles standing in for mature specimens, inconsistent framing, mislabelled species, and terms that follow your export around after you have handed it over. Every image in GreenCurate was generated in-house and is owned outright — no licence limit on the palette board you give a client.
That is the part that is hard to copy, and it gets more expensive to replicate every month.
02 / The workflow
Catalogue
Masterlist
Client-ready palette board
Periodic-table grid — filter by light, water, habitat, climate, foliage, bloom season and special features.
Sub-second search — scientific and common names, as fast as you can type them.
Project palettes — aggregate height range and a combined bloom calendar, calculated for you.
AI composition engine — drafts role-balanced palettes you then edit, rather than accept.
Render pipeline — turns a finished palette into a photorealistic scene.
Share and export — PDF or a link, for clients and collaborators.
03 / How the data stays honest
Four sources of truth per species
The database record, stored reference photographs, screened web references, and the licensed subset that may seed a render. References are described, then discarded. They are never published and never fed in as pixels.
A forced morphology contract
Eighteen lines, no free prose. Vague output is rejected and retried, which stops a generator filling a gap with a plausible lookalike.
Authority resolved in code
The record wins on life form, stem count and mature size. The photographs win on posture, colour and flower position. Nothing is decided by whichever source happened to load first.
Two independent checks per image
A ten-code frame linter and a three-vote botanical judge, then a final frame gate and a likeness check against real reference photographs.
Provenance on every image
Which run, which route, source attribution, the verdict, and any residual doubt. Recorded, and kept.
04 / Who it is for
Built first for landscape architects — and ready for architecture and design firms, garden designers, and the developers and contractors who plant what they draw.