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Warmth: find your garden's warm spots (Premium) A new Survey layer shows where your garden is likely warmer: at the foot of sunny brick or stone walls, on slopes facing the sun, and in sheltered sun traps. Borderline-hardy and sun-loving plants move up the recommendations there. Mark a wall as brick or stone on its zone card. Your garden as your trees grow (Premium) The "Show at mature size" switch now works on the Wind, Moisture and Warmth layers as well as Sun. Zone cards say what will change, for example "Will become sheltered as your trees mature". Watering hints (Premium) See which zones are likely to need watering this month, worked out from your climate, each spot and each plant's needs. They're in the Calendar, the To-Do list and each plant's page, with a note when little rain is forecast that week. Site report (Premium) Make a PDF of your garden to keep or share: a plan of your zones, soil and climate, then a page for each zone with its sun, conditions, what's planted and the best-suited plants. Find it in Settings or Export. Smarter moisture and frost • Shade now counts: deep shade keeps ground damp, and a rain shadow in full sun is a hot, dry spot. • Rain shadows now face away from the wind your rain actually comes on. • A warm wall softens frost where cold air collects. Pots and containers Mark a raised bed as a pot or container. Containers get their own watering hints and frost advice, and aren't counted as wet ground. Coastal gardens Tell FloraPlot your garden is near the sea, in Settings. Plants that cope with salt-laden wind move up the recommendations for your windier spots (Premium). And also: • Best spot now works on the plain grid map as well as satellite. • The sun readout gives average hours of direct sun over the year, and how often there's sun on summer evenings. • The To-Do list is grouped into This month, Next month, the season's jobs and your own tasks, and remembers what you've ticked. • The Survey buttons sit on two lines, at full size. • Export is now a shareable Plant List. • A slightly lighter look, with easier-to-read text and buttons. • Clearer frost colours, larger Calendar month buttons, and a fix for the back button in My Plants.
Walk round your garden with your iPhone and FloraPlot maps it for you- beds, lawns, trees, buildings and fences, measured with the camera and placed on the satellite map. Then see exactly where the sun falls, month by month, and find plants that suit each spot. Camera measuring and the sun and shade map are part of FloraPlot Premium. SEE YOUR GARDEN'S SUNLIGHT • Direct sun hours for every part of your garden, month by month • A heatmap over the satellite image, with a month scrubber • Your own structures cast the shadows- sheds, fences, walls, greenhouses • Trees modelled properly, with canopy density • Deciduous trees are bare in winter, so April and July give different answers • Greenhouses and polytunnels let light through instead of blocking it • Check evening sun before you site a seat or a patio • Compare layouts: see what a new shed or a felled tree would do Solar positions use the standard NOAA method, validated against US Naval Observatory data. KNOW YOUR SITE • Soil pH, organic carbon and texture for your exact coordinates • Sand, silt and clay percentages, in plain English • Local temperature, rainfall and daylight by month • Slope and aspect corrected for your latitude • Estimates are always labelled as estimates DESIGN YOUR GARDEN • Draw zones with freehand, rectangle and oval tools • Zones stay pinned to their real GPS position • Raised beds, covered growing, pond, veg patch, tree and more • Area in square metres for every zone • Snapshots to save and compare layouts CHOOSE THE RIGHT PLANTS • 600 curated plants with sun, pH, soil, height, spread and hardiness • Recommendations matched to each zone's measured conditions • Toxicity warnings from the RHS list, filtered for pets or small children • Companion planting warnings • Search 400,000+ species with Trefle STAY ON TOP OF IT • A calendar built from your own plants- sow, plant, prune, harvest • Care reminders in the iOS Reminders app • Notes, photos and costs for what you planted • Correct for both hemispheres PREMIUM- one payment, yours forever No subscription, ever: • Full shade and sunlight analysis • Up to five gardens- home, allotment, holiday cottage • The complete 600-plant database • Snapshots, raised bed controls, weather alerts, budget tracking • See how your trees will change each part of the garden as they reach full size- and be warned before planting something long-lived where it will not stay suitable PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. Your garden stays on your device. No ads, no tracking, nothing sold.