Use Claude to map a garden from nursery photos

Emily Gransky and her partner photographed plants they liked during a nursery visit, ending with eighty-five images and no garden plan. Her linked article's accessible introduction explains that the choices had already been narrowed by shade needs and what they wanted the plants to attract or repel.

She used Claude Code to turn that collection into planning material. The agent read nursery tags from the images, looked up prices and produced a spreadsheet organized by garden bed. It also made a visual map arranged around depth and bloom time, plus an HTML plant guide. These were complementary outputs: cost information by bed, a layout and reference material for the selected plants.

When her partner suggested basil at the last minute, Gransky asked Claude to run the work again with that addition. She reports that the totals updated and the map changed without breaking the outputs. That revision is the concrete continuation of the initial planning task.

The account describes generated plans and the successful basil update. It does not report a planted garden, independently checked botanical recommendations or measured savings. No separate review checkpoint for each plant choice is described, so the evidence supports a planning package rather than a verified growing result.

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Source: www.linkedin.com · Emily Gransky