Using an AI image generator to mock up design ideas before planting

I've been using a free browser-based AI image generator to rough out planting ideas before I commit anything to the ground - mostly to show my family what a young food-forest patch might look like in a few years, since my pencil sketches mostly get blank stares.

The one I've been using is https://nanobanana2lite.tools/ - nothing to install, you just describe the scene (for example: hugelkultur bed on a gentle south slope with comfrey, yarrow and a young apple guild) and it hands back a reference image in a few seconds.

To be clear, I don't treat the output as a design. It knows nothing about my soil, my slope, frost pockets or water. I use it strictly as a communication aid - it is much easier to get real feedback from family and neighbours when they can actually see something.

Two things I'd love input on:
1. Has anyone else used AI images this way for design mock-ups?
2. How do you keep the results honest? Mine always come out suspiciously tidy - evenly spaced, weed-free, nothing half-eaten. Any prompt tricks to get realistic chaos?

Curious what others think.

I would love to see the pictures you generated.

My problem with ai, is it's not very good at gardening. It either gives too vague instructions or too over generalized.  Example, applying information from new york growing season as if it aplies everywhere.

I wonder if you ask the ai to take into account more local to you problems and climate.  I don't know if ai is good enough to do this yet, but it would be cool if it could.