Read your garden’s water
How much water does your garden really need, and which plants suffer first when the summer turns dry? The Water panel (Seasonry+) reads your whole planting at once and shows where a change is worth making.
1. Open the Water panel
In View mode, open the Water panel on the right rail. It reads the whole garden at once, the plants standing in your drawn areas, so you can see where a change is worth making without opening plants one by one.
The panel is part of Seasonry+. On the Example Garden it is open on every plan, so you can try it before you subscribe.
2. Two readings and the soil
The top card holds two readings. How much water it wants runs from very little to a lot: how much watering your plants need over a season. How well it copes when you do not water runs from badly to very well: how they manage when the watering stops. They measure different things. Even a plant that needs little water suffers if watering stops for too long, so read the two side by side rather than as one score.
Below them, The soil your plants want counts your plants by the ground they prefer, Dry, Ordinary, Damp or Wet, across your planted areas. Compare it with how damp the soil in your garden really is. If the longest bars sit at Damp and Wet and your ground dries out fast, expect to water more.
A comparison, not a measurement The readings place your planting on a scale and never give litres or hours. If someone else will water while you are away, Vacation Mode makes a schedule for them.
3. Plants to check first, and mixed beds
Further down, on a tinted band, the panel points out what is worth a look. In a dry spell lists the plants that cope worst without water. You do not necessarily have to move them, and nothing is wrong where they stand, but in a dry summer, or after you have been away, these are the ones to check first. Open the card and they are grouped by the bed they stand in.
Hard to water evenly lists the beds where plants that disagree about water grow side by side. A Mixed card means dry and damp lovers share the bed; Worth knowing means one plant is only a little drier than its neighbours. Open a card to read Why, and on a mixed bed What would settle it as well. The plants are split under Likes dry and Wants damp, and Show in garden frames that bed on the canvas.
Only neighbours are compared The panel compares only plants that stand next to each other, close enough that watering one waters the other. So at the two ends of a long bed the plants can need different amounts of water without raising a card. Plants on a patio or terrace are left out of the comparison too, since pots there are watered one by one.
4. Hide a note or find a replacement
If you water the thirstier plant separately, press Not relevant and the card leaves the list. A line at the foot of the band counts what you have hidden, and Show brings those cards back, muted, each with Restore. You hide that one situation, not the bed: if a new species later joins either group, the note comes back.
If you would rather replace a plant, each group carries a link to plants that share its taste. To swap a dry lover for something that suits its damp neighbours, use the link under Wants damp, such as Find plants for damp ground. It switches to Edit mode and opens the Plants catalogue already filtered: the Ground row of Conditions is set to match, and any other filter you had stays as it was.
The panel knows what your plants want, not how damp your ground really is. Set that on the bed’s own Conditions card, also part of Seasonry+.
Saved with the garden What you mark Not relevant is saved with the garden itself. On the Example Garden, which never changes, the button is not offered.