Kultivy is a visual site — our guides are image-led, and the photos do most of the work of communicating a look. Because of that, we take image sourcing and accuracy seriously. This page documents where our images come from, how we use them, and how to request a correction or removal.
Where our images come from
Images published on Kultivy are drawn from the following sources:
- AI-generated images — many of our featured and in-article visuals are created using AI image generation tools. These are produced under terms that allow editorial and commercial use, and they’re used to illustrate plant care, species, and styling. We design them to look like editorial plant photography because that’s the visual language our category uses.
- Owned photography — original photos taken for the site.
- Licensed stock photography — images licensed from stock providers under terms that permit editorial use.
- Public-domain or properly licensed third-party images — including some images used under Creative Commons or similar licenses, with attribution as required.
- Brand or product media used with permission — when a brand provides press images or grants explicit permission for editorial use.
How AI-generated images are used
Because so much of our visual content is AI-generated, we want to be specific:
- We use them for editorial illustration — to show a plant, a care step, a styling idea, a “what this could look like” close-up.
- We do not use them to misrepresent specific real things — a specific real product, a specific real brand, or a specific real person’s hands or photography. We don’t generate fake before-and-afters of identifiable people.
- We don’t claim AI images are personal photography. When a guide describes a look, that’s an illustration of the idea, not a photo of the editor’s own plants. Most guides describe and round up looks rather than claim personal trials.
- We review every plant image for realism. Because AI struggles with plant anatomy, each image is checked for a correct, identifiable species and natural leaves (no fused, duplicated, or invented foliage) before it ships.
- Brand silhouettes and trademarks — we avoid AI-generated images that imitate a recognizable branded planter, pot, or grow-light fixture (signature retailer or designer planter shapes) to prevent misleading brand associations. Pots and tools in our images are plain and unbranded.
Attribution
When an image requires attribution — for example, Creative Commons or a brand-permission image — we include credit near the image, at the bottom of the guide, or in a dedicated credit note. AI-generated and licensed-stock images typically don’t require visible attribution.
Images we share to Pinterest follow the same rules. We don’t pin third-party photography we don’t have the right to redistribute, and our Pinterest creative work is either AI-generated specifically for the platform or built from our own owned visuals.
Image removal or credit requests
If you believe an image on Kultivy is yours — or was wrongly attributed, or used without the right permissions — we want to make it right. Email [email protected] with:
- The page URL on Kultivy
- The specific image (URL or description)
- Proof or details of ownership
- Whether you’d like credit added, attribution corrected, or the image removed
We review image requests promptly and respond within 2–3 business days. We treat these requests seriously — removing or correcting an image is straightforward when there’s a real ownership question.
Questions
General image questions: [email protected].