Know your grass. Then grow it.

Take a photo of your lawn. Garden Rescue names the grass or weed, checks how healthy it looks and builds a watering, feeding and mowing plan for your grass and your weather.

Free to try with one scan a day.

Close-up of a lawn inside the Garden Rescue scanner
Kentucky Bluegrass Poa pratensis 96%match
Today's care
  • Water Due today
  • Mow at 6–8 cm Due today
  • Feed In 3 days

Find out exactly what's growing

Grass type, scientific name, other names it goes by, how tall it grows, how much sun and wear it takes. When two grasses look alike, Garden Rescue says so and tells you what to look for.

Perennial Ryegrass

Lolium perenne

Also called English ryegrass, winter ryegrass

96% match
Lawn grass Cool-season Healthy
Height
15–30 cm
Sun
Full sun, light shade
Wear
High
Drought
Moderate

Spot weeds before they take over

Dandelions, clover, plantain and crabgrass are flagged the moment you scan them, with removal steps that start with the gentlest method that works.

Two dandelions flowering in a lawn
This is a weed

Common dandelion. Its deep taproot steals water from your grass and each flower head spreads hundreds of seeds.

  1. Lift young plants when the soil is moist, taking the whole root.
  2. Mow before the flowers turn to seed.
  3. Thicken the lawn so new seedlings can't settle.

A care plan that follows the weather

Watering, feeding and mowing land on the right days for your grass. The Smart Plan reads your local forecast and soil temperature, so watering waits when rain is coming.

Mon 21°
Tue 17°
Wed 18°
Thu 22°
Fri 24°
Sat 23°
Sun 25°
Rain on Tuesday, so watering moves to Thursday.

Your whole lawn on one screen

Front yard, back yard, the patch by the drive: each gets its own plan. My Lawn shows today's jobs for all of them next to the air temperature, soil temperature and rain where you live.

Portland, Oregon
64°Air
59°Soil
0 inRain
Soil warm enough for overseeding
A striped back lawn in front of a house
Back lawn Tall fescue
2 due today

Every scan, kept

Your history groups scans by day, so you can look back at what you found, compare your lawn against earlier photos and turn any scan into a care plan.

Today

Perennial RyegrassLolium perenne
Common DandelionTaraxacum officinale

Last week

White CloverTrifolium repens

How it works

  1. 1

    Take a photo

    Get close enough that the blades or leaves fill the frame, in daylight.

  2. 2

    Read the diagnosis

    See the grass or weed, how healthy it looks, and what to fix first.

  3. 3

    Follow your plan

    Tick off watering, feeding and mowing as you go, with a daily reminder.

Questions

How accurate is the identification?

Garden Rescue looks at blade width and tip shape, growth habit, colour and texture, then shows how sure it is as a match percentage. When it isn't sure, it lists the closest look-alikes and how to tell them apart. If the answer is wrong, tap "Not right?" and tell it what you think it is. Close, sharp photos in daylight give the best results.

What can Garden Rescue identify?

Lawn grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass, tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, Bermuda, St. Augustine and zoysia, common lawn weeds like dandelion, clover, plantain and crabgrass, and lawn problems such as brown patch, drought stress and thinning turf.

How does the care plan work?

Every scan comes with a care guide. Start a care plan and Garden Rescue sets watering, feeding and mowing dates from it and reminds you each day. The Smart Plan goes further: it reads your local 7-day forecast and soil temperature, moves watering past rainy days, adds jobs like overseeding when the timing is right and lays out the months ahead.

Do I need an account?

No. The app works straight away. Add your email (we send a six-digit code, no password) to keep your scans and lawn plan across devices and to use Garden Rescue on the web.

What does Garden Rescue Pro add?

Free accounts get one scan a day and one lawn zone. Pro removes both limits and adds the weather-aware Smart Plan. You can subscribe in the iPhone app, and cancel any time from your App Store settings.

What happens to my photos?

They are stored so you can see your scans again and compare your lawn over time. A scan is only visible to someone else if you share its link, and you can delete any scan, or your whole account, from Settings.

Your lawn, one photo away.

Scan it today and have a plan before the weekend.