Home Guide Guide Learn the planner by doing.
Short, visual lessons that show you exactly how the editor moves. Draw beds, merge areas, bend curves and place plants. Watch the demo, then try it in your own garden.
Updated November 2026
Browse all lessons Six topics, all lessons in view.
Getting started Set up your first garden and find your way around the canvas.
5 lessons
Plant your first garden Beginner From an empty plot to a planted bed in three moves, the whole loop, start to finish.
Find your way around Home Beginner Your gardens, what each tile tells you, the actions behind the ⋯ menu, and where everything else lives.
Find your way around the canvas Beginner Pan, zoom, the grid scale, and how selection works on the planner canvas.
Set up how your plan looks Beginner Realistic plants or drawn shapes, plant labels, the mature footprint ring and depth fading, all switched in the Settings panel.
Select, move, copy and undo Beginner Select and move anything, grab several at once, copy and paste, and undo any change.
Design your beds Draw, shape, curve, merge and edge your areas and surfaces.
8 lessons
Draw your first area Beginner Use the pen to drop vertices and close a custom bed, with the perimeter running live as you go.
Trace your plot from a map Beginner Drop in a satellite screenshot, set its scale from the map’s own scale bar, and draw your plot over it at true size.
Shapes, surfaces & paint Beginner Drop rectangles and circles, then paint them as lawn, soil, mulch, stone or water.
Merge areas into one Intermediate Combine two or more beds into a single multi-piece area, then restyle each piece on its own.
Add curves to an edge Intermediate Pull a control handle to bow a straight border into a smooth, natural curve.
Reshape with vertices Intermediate Drag corners, nudge whole edges, and round corners to refine any area after you place it.
Edge a bed with a stone curb Beginner Add a tidy stone curb inside any area, then set its colour, width and which sides it runs along.
Layering & stack order Advanced Control which areas sit on top when beds overlap, with auto and manual ordering.
Structures & objects Place objects and stepping stones, draw fences with gates.
2 lessons
Place and resize objects Beginner Drop stepping stones, ponds and structures, then resize, reshape and recolour them on the canvas.
Draw fences and gates Intermediate Lay a fence post by post, edit a post from its tray, add a gate, and resize any side.
Plants & styles Browse the catalog, space and arrange plants, save your own styles.
7 lessons
Find plants in the catalog Beginner Search the Plants panel, filter by sun, water and bloom, open any plant for the full picture, then drag it straight onto a bed.
Describe a bed and find plants that suit it Seasonry+ Intermediate Describe a bed’s soil, pH, moisture, sun and water, see which plants suit it, and open the catalogue filtered to match.
Space plants by mature spread Beginner Why every plant is drawn at its grown size, and how the Overlaps tool reads the crowding.
Put plants on the right area Intermediate Plants snap to the area on top. How to override that, and why the right area matters.
Arrange and trim groups of plants Intermediate Multi-select plants, trim them all to one matching shape and size, then line them up into a continuous hedge.
Make a garden that follows a style Beginner Create a new garden from a curated style, then drag its plants straight onto the canvas.
Browse styles and make your own Intermediate Open the Garden styles page, build on a preset in the full catalog, and save a reusable style of your own.
Seasons & care Follow your garden through the seasons and know what care comes next.
6 lessons
See your garden through the seasons Seasonry+ Intermediate Switch from full splendor to a live season, scrub the year, and watch foliage, bloom and bare branches change.
See your garden in every season Beginner Place a view, make a picture for each season and the year picture, refresh it when the plan changes, and improve it with AI Enhance.
Read your bloom calendar Beginner Open the 12-month bloom calendar, read each species row, spot the current month, and see the whole garden at once.
Keep plants on schedule with Tasks Seasonry+ Intermediate Open Tasks, read this month's stickers, stick a job on the day you plan it, and follow each plant's year-round timeline.
Read your garden’s water Seasonry+ Intermediate See how much water your garden wants and how well it copes without watering, which plants to check first in a dry spell, and what to do about mixed beds.
Orient your garden to the sun Seasonry+ Advanced Open the sun-path overlay, align to north, and scrub the time of day and season to see where the sun travels.
Share, export & tools Export your plan, share a watering trip, measure with precision.
5 lessons
Export and share your plan Beginner Open the Exports popover, save a garden image, and pick from PNG, PDF and text formats.
Share your garden with a link Beginner Choose what visitors can do, create a link anyone can open, and see what a visitor sees of your garden.
Share a vacation watering plan Seasonry+ Intermediate Set watering frequencies, protect it with a password, share a link, and see what your caretaker sees.
Measure with the Ruler tool Intermediate Link two plants, tape a quick distance, drop a ruler guide, and snap placement to a step.
Speed up with keyboard shortcuts Beginner Toggle edit mode, copy and paste, marquee-select and move areas with their contents, all from the keyboard.
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