‘I could use a haircut’: the first AI-powered garden lets you chat flowers and soil


  • ‘Intelligent Garden’, designed in collaboration with Microsoft, will be on display in 2025
  • Sensors monitor the health of the garden with an AI model trained on the plant data
  • Visitors can also ask the garden questions and get answers

AI could soon take the guesswork out of gardening and let you have a conversation with your lawn and plants. By monitoring environmental factors and feeding them into a model trained on plant data, so-called ‘intelligent gardens’ could soon tell you when to water, trim and/or fertilize your plot.

That is the promise of the Avanade ‘Intelligent’ Gardenwhich will appear at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in Great Britain next year. The showpiece, created by garden designer Tom Massey in collaboration with Microsoft, will be embedded with a series of sensors that feed real-time information into an AI model.