Tag: Design
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Teaching AI to Design Our Garden: What We’ve Learned About Prompts
We’ve already admitted that we’re using AI for more than just designing the garden. It’s helping us write about the process too. But we’ve discovered something important: the quality of the advice depends heavily on the quality of the information we give it. What worked well? The biggest improvement came when we stopped asking general…
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The raised beds are getting a makeover
We already have two raised beds in the garden. We bought them a few years ago, during the Pandemic, when growing our own vegetables seemed like a very sensible thing to do. They’re both six feet long by four feet wide and were positioned on the lawn beside the garage, with enough space between the…
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From a sketch to an actual garden design
I’ve already established that I have a garden, and that I have rather a lot of ideas about what I’d like to do with it. The problem is that ideas are easy. Getting them all to fit into an actual garden, with its awkward corners, existing buildings, access routes and rather unhelpful dimensions, is considerably…
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Designing Gardens for Your Family and Climate
Before choosing plants, colours or deciding what goes where, there’s one thing to understand about this garden. It has opinions. The soil is thick clay. Winters are getting wetter, summers are getting hotter and drier, and the garden needs to cope with both without becoming either a swamp or a dust bowl. So the design…
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Transforming Garden Ideas into Reality with AI Assistance
I have a garden. I also have ideas. Quite a lot of ideas, actually. The problem is that not all of them fit together. Some are impractical. Some are probably ridiculous. And some sound brilliant until you ask the most important question: Where on earth am I going to put it? So I recruited some…
