A day and a half.
For every single proposal.
Professional garden designers spend 1 to 2 days writing every client proposal. The process is manual, repetitive, and a direct brake on earning potential. Copy-pasting from previous projects, manually sourcing plant availability from nursery websites, writing the same seasonal interest notes from memory.
At 25 to 30 projects a year, that is up to 45 days of productive time consumed by administration. Time that could be spent designing, growing the practice, or simply not working.
Everything a garden designer
actually needs.
Pleach is built around the real workflow of professional garden designers, not adapted from generic project management software. Every feature exists because a designer asked for it.
AI Specification Engine
Generate complete, RHS-verified planting specifications in minutes. Seasonal interest, soil requirements, spacing, maintenance notes, and plant substitution suggestions, all produced from a simple project brief.
Core FeatureLive Nursery Stock
Check real-time plant availability across a curated network of UK trade nurseries. No more manual website searches. Pleach surfaces what is actually available, at what size, and at what price.
Phase 1 LaunchBranded Client Portals
Deliver proposals through a beautiful, branded online portal. Clients can view, comment, and approve without email chains. You control what they see and when they see it.
Core FeatureClient Brief Intake
Structured AI-assisted brief capture covering sun and shade, soil type, style direction, budget, maintenance appetite, and phasing. Feeds directly into the proposal engine.
Phase 1 LaunchPlant Schedule Export
Automatically generate a structured plant schedule with species, quantities, pot sizes, and approximate unit costs. Ready to send to contractors without reformatting.
Core FeatureProject & Client CRM
Manage your entire practice from one place. Project history, client records, proposal versions, and communication logs, all searchable and organised.
Core FeatureFour steps from brief
to signed proposal.
Pleach is designed around the way garden designers actually work, not how software engineers think they should work.
Capture the Brief
Answer a structured set of questions about the site, client, style, and budget. Pleach's intake form is designed by garden designers, covering everything from soil type and aspect to maintenance appetite and phasing preferences.
Generate the Specification
Pleach's AI engine produces a complete planting specification: RHS-verified plant names, seasonal interest, soil requirements, spacing, and maintenance notes. Review, edit, and refine until it is exactly right.
Check Live Stock
Every plant in your specification is checked against live nursery stock. Pleach shows you what is available, at what size, and from which nursery. Substitution suggestions appear automatically for anything out of stock.
Deliver to Client
Publish the proposal to a branded client portal with a single click. Your client receives a link to a beautiful, professional presentation. They can view, comment, and approve without a single email attachment.
Live stock.
No more phone calls.
No platform currently connects garden designers to live nursery stock in real time. Pleach is building the first. A curated network of UK trade nurseries, with live availability updated weekly and direct API feeds launching in 2026.
When a plant in your specification is unavailable, Pleach suggests the closest alternative that matches the brief, soil conditions, and aesthetic, and shows you where to get it.
We researched the top UK trade nurseries — Provender, Johnsons, Creepers, and Kingsdown. Not one of them offers a live stock API or real-time availability data.
This is not a gap we are imagining. It is a structural absence in the market, and Pleach is the first platform positioned to fill it.
Pays for itself
on the first proposal.
At £195 per month, Pleach represents a 4:1 to 5:1 return on investment against the value of recaptured time alone. A designer charging £400 per day who saves a day and a half per proposal covers the subscription cost on the first project of the month.
Start with 3 free proposals — no credit card required. If Pleach does not save you time on the first one, you owe us nothing.
"A day and a half coming up with these proposals and specifications. That is obviously time we can save using AI."
Catherine PayneFlower and Stone, Garden Designer