Sep 11, 2026 · 14 min · 8 segments
AI is everywhere at the minute, but what does it actually mean for landscaping? In this episode, Amy and Andy talk about where AI could genuinely be useful in the industry, from helping customers…
Amy AndrewsHost
Andy McLaughlinHost
I'd say that our industry is probably one of the slowest adoptions for anything kind of tech-related.
Anything AI is normally towards, like you say, tech, improving processes, things like that, but I think one part of it where you could probably say it's going to change the most and already has started to, and we have discussions with several different people within the industry, and I would say that one of them probably landscape architects, designers type of situation because everybody has now got...
To be able to just visualise and they're all of a sudden becoming designers as such, which...
So I think it's great because one of the big blockers for people before, especially what we found, was people would say, oh, I can't visualise it.
For them to be able to use it to actually visualise it as a visual, I think it's great because it can give you ideas, inspiration.
One thing I've come across quite a lot, and it might change in AI, I'm not sure if it happens already, is that it's really good for image generation for... your ideals, but when it actually comes to actually doing your garden, it's not got anything, and I might be wrong when I'm saying this as well, but the actual measurements for the garden, it doesn't take in, like what we were speaking with Alex about, it doesn't take metrics in, it takes more the visuals, and obviously landscape architects, designers... one of their biggest jobs is the measurements and how it fits into the space.
So it's all right thinking that, you know, you want it like that, but it's not
No, that thing about reality and what you're trying to achieve is a massive thing on everything, as we've said before, AI.
But I think AI is, you know, you said about positives and negatives, is like the positives from it are, is I think it gives that... person who was having the project done a bit more flexibility to think oh well i can have that and i can have that or at least that's a an objective in their mind to sort like go well if i put that in there then i can do this and that and it might not work no so it's having both
it's like using the ai but then also speaking to professional but i can understand how it is quite worrying for landscape architects and designers, and architects, I guess, as a whole, because it's...
I'd say that our industry is probably one of the slowest adoptions for anything kind of tech-related.
Anything AI is normally towards, like you say, tech, improving processes, things like that, but I think one part of it where you could probably say it's going to change the most and already has started to, and we have discussions with several different people within the industry, and I would say that one of them probably landscape architects, designers type of situation because everybody has now got...
To be able to just visualise and they're all of a sudden becoming designers as such, which...
So I think it's great because one of the big blockers for people before, especially what we found, was people would say, oh, I can't visualise it.
For them to be able to use it to actually visualise it as a visual, I think it's great because it can give you ideas, inspiration.
One thing I've come across quite a lot, and it might change in AI, I'm not sure if it happens already, is that it's really good for image generation for... your ideals, but when it actually comes to actually doing your garden, it's not got anything, and I might be wrong when I'm saying this as well, but the actual measurements for the garden, it doesn't take in, like what we were speaking with Alex about, it doesn't take metrics in, it takes more the visuals, and obviously landscape architects, designers... one of their biggest jobs is the measurements and how it fits into the space.
So it's all right thinking that, you know, you want it like that, but it's not
No, that thing about reality and what you're trying to achieve is a massive thing on everything, as we've said before, AI.
But I think AI is, you know, you said about positives and negatives, is like the positives from it are, is I think it gives that... person who was having the project done a bit more flexibility to think oh well i can have that and i can have that or at least that's a an objective in their mind to sort like go well if i put that in there then i can do this and that and it might not work no so it's having both
it's like using the ai but then also speaking to professional but i can understand how it is quite worrying for landscape architects and designers, and architects, I guess, as a whole, because it's...
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