Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the things gardeners ask most: planning beds, placing plants, moving through the seasons, sharing your work and getting the most out of Seasonry+.
What is Seasonry?
Seasonry is a garden planner for designing to scale. Sketch your beds, add plants at their real mature size, and see how the whole garden changes through the year. Everything uses real-world measurements, so a layout that looks balanced on screen will be balanced in the ground.
What’s the difference between a garden-planning app and a simple plant list?
A plant list shows you which plants you’ve chosen. Seasonry also shows how they work together in space. Beds, paths, fences and plants appear at their real position and size on the scaled plan, so you can see how the whole garden comes together before you plant anything.
Is Seasonry only good for planning new gardens, or can I redesign an existing one with it too?
You can use it for both. Start by drawing your existing garden as it is now, then try out different layouts without changing anything in reality. You can see in advance, for example, how a relocated bed, a new planting strip or a different plant combination would look, before you actually start the work.
How do I create my first garden?
On the home screen, press the dashed Create a new garden tile at the end of your gardens and give it a name. The blank canvas then offers three ways to map your plot: Draw it freehand with the pen, Enter measurements if you took them with a tape (add a diagonal and the shape comes out exact), or Trace it from a map, the recommended route, where you drop in a satellite screenshot and draw over it at true scale. All three are free on every plan, and a traced picture stays in your browser: it is never uploaded or saved to your garden.
Not sure where to start? Begin with a rough rectangle the size of your bed. Getting the scale roughly right matters more than perfect edges, and nothing here is permanent, so you can reshape, resize and rename at any time.
Can I trace my plot from a satellite map instead of drawing it?
Yes, and on a new garden it is usually the quickest way to start. The starting card offers Trace it from a map: open Google Maps, switch to satellite view, zoom in until your plot fills the screen, and take a screenshot with the little scale bar in the corner still in frame. Drop that picture onto the sheet, paste it with ⌘V / Ctrl+V, or use Choose a file (PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 25 MB; if you have a PDF, screenshot the page instead). A land-registry plot map, a utility-map export or an architect’s site plan work just as well.
Your picture stays on your device. The tracing happens in your browser, and the photo is never uploaded and never saved to your garden.
How do I create, switch between or delete gardens?
Your gardens live on the home screen, each tile showing that garden’s own plan. Click a tile to open it, and press the dashed Create a new garden tile at the end of the grid to add one. The free plan includes one garden and Seasonry+ lets you keep up to three. At your plan’s limit that last tile shows a padlock instead: on the free plan it offers an upgrade, and on Seasonry+ at three gardens it simply says so, because there is no tier above it.
Each tile carries a ⋯ More actions button in its top-right, with Rename, Duplicate, Export and Delete garden. Renaming happens in place on the tile, where Enter saves and Esc reverts. Deleting asks you to confirm and names the garden and how many plants go with it, and it is permanent, so export a backup first if you might want it back. In demo mode there is no ⋯ menu at all, since every row on it writes or deletes. The demo garden’s own menu leaves out only Rename, whose name is a translated label rather than a name; Export is there and comes out at full quality whatever your plan. Copying it gives you a garden that renames like any other.
How do I find my way around the canvas?
Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, and click a plant or bed to inspect it. The pill between the − and + buttons at the bottom of the canvas reads the zoom as a multiplier, from 0.5× to 14.0×. Click it to type a number, and that number is the multiplier: type 3 to land on 3.0×, while an old-style 200 simply clamps to the maximum. A full stop or a comma both work as the decimal point.
As you zoom in, trees fade back and then shrubs do, so the planting underneath becomes the subject. Nothing ever disappears, and anything you select or hover stays at full strength, but a faded canopy passes your click through to the smaller plant beneath it. The Depth pill on the canvas bottom bar turns that off.
Can I use Seasonry on my phone?
Seasonry is built first for desktop browsers. A laptop or desktop browser is where you have room to design in Edit mode and use every tool. On a phone browser you can still open a garden in View mode, browse the plant catalogue, and read the FAQ and Guide, so it is handy for checking a plan while you are out in the garden. Designing and editing are not available on a phone: the canvas tools need the space and precision of a bigger screen, so a phone lists the gardens you already have without offering to create one.
On a phone a garden always opens in the peak-of-year Full splendor view. Live season and the season timeline are desktop-web only, on every plan including Seasonry+, because a phone renders a single seasonal frame per plant to stay within its memory. Your per-garden Open this garden in Live season setting still applies on a computer. There is no separate app to install; it all runs in your mobile browser.
Do I need an account to use Seasonry?
No. You can try out the demo mode. There you can open a demo garden and see how the app works. When you are ready to make your own garden, link a Google account from Profile → Account, and you can start planning right away.
Is Seasonry free?
Yes. The free Seasonry Basic plan lets you plan 1 garden with up to 50 plants. You get access to the full catalogue of more than 2,000 plants, to search, most filters and favourites, and to the core garden-planning tools. You can view the plants in a view that shows each in its most characteristic form.
Seasonry+ adds the garden views that change through the year and the full care toolkit. The subscription costs $6.99 a month or $49 a year. You’ll find the details below, under Billing & Seasonry+.
Is a garden-planning app worth using, or is sketching the garden on paper enough?
For planning a simple bed, paper can be enough. But Seasonry shows you not just where the plants go, but also what the garden will look like later. It shows every plant at its expected, mature size on every plan, so already at the planning stage you can see how much space they’ll need in a few years. With Seasonry+ you can also watch the garden change through the year, for example from April to August, before you plant anything.
What’s the most common mistake people make when planning a garden?
One of the most common mistakes is picturing plants at their current, potted size rather than how they’ll look in a few years. Many people also only plan for a single moment, typically spring. Seasonry helps with both: it shows plants at their expected, mature size on every plan, and with Seasonry+ you can watch the garden through every month of the year.
Do I need a garden designer, or can I plan my garden myself?
You can plan most home gardens yourself. What most often goes wrong without help is a plant’s later size, and how a bed’s appearance changes through the year. Seasonry helps with both: it shows plants at their expected, mature size on every plan, and with Seasonry+ you can watch the garden change month by month. A garden designer is mainly worth it when the site or the technical layout is complex, or when you want to bring in a professional design eye.
Is Seasonry available in other languages?
Yes. Seasonry is fully available in English and Hungarian (Magyar): every screen, the plant catalogue, care guidance and this Help Center are translated. Switch language any time from the Language control in Profile → Settings, or from the account menu behind your avatar. Your choice is remembered on this device.
Where can I learn to use the tools?
The Guide has short, illustrated lessons for every part of the planner, from drawing your first bed to shaping curves and spacing plants. Open it from Profile → Guide, or look for the Guide card on the Gardens screen. Many answers below also link straight to the matching lesson.
Where can I see what’s new in Seasonry?
Open the What’s new page from the Product section in the footer of any page. It shows what was added in each release, starting with the newest, and lets you move between earlier versions using the version chips at the top.
The page is intentionally concise. It only includes new features you can actually use, while smaller fixes and refinements are left out.
How do I draw a garden bed or area?
Switch to Edit mode, pick the Draw tool, and click to drop each corner. The corner you have just placed shows its turn in whole degrees, so you can square one off by eye, and holding Shift keeps a line perfectly straight. Close the shape by clicking back on the first corner. The perimeter and area update as you go.
To set a side exactly, type a number and press Enter. The next corner then lands at that distance whichever way you point, up to 100.99 m, and a full stop or a comma both work as the decimal point. Backspace steps back one rung at a time: the digits you are typing, then the locked length, then the last corner you placed. Esc walks the same ladder and cancels the whole outline at the end. Discarding an area you have drawn asks you to confirm first, because that step removes the area itself rather than a corner. The plot outline still cancels straight away, and either way a cancelled drawing comes straight back from the Undo in the message that appears. The same typing works in the Fence tool and the ruler’s Tape.
Can I type in my plot’s measurements instead of drawing it?
Yes. On a garden that has no plot yet, pick Enter measurements on the Let’s map your garden card, then type what you took with a tape: Width × Height for a true rectangle, or Each side if your walls are different lengths. Four side lengths on their own can still make more than one shape, so there is an optional Corner to corner section. Add one diagonal and only a single shape fits those numbers, so every side comes out exactly as you measured it, and a second diagonal cross-checks the first. If the numbers cannot close into a shape, Seasonry tells you the range the diagonal has to fall in instead of quietly adjusting an edge.
Can I plan my garden without exact measurements?
Yes. You can draw the plot freehand, enter the measurements you know, or import an aerial photo or map screenshot. You can bring an imported image to scale using even a single known distance, for example the length of a fence, a wall or a property line. So you can start planning even if not every measurement has been precisely surveyed yet.
How does Seasonry know how big my map screenshot is?
You give it one distance you already know, and everything else follows from that. The calibration step offers three ways to do it: Scale bar puts a ruler on the map’s own printed scale bar so you can type the number beside it, Known distance measures something whose length you know, like a house wall or a fence run, and Coordinates takes two coordinate pairs copied from Google Maps plus a click on each of their spots in the picture. Coordinates also set your garden’s north and the sun path’s location.
The read-out below then shows how many centimetres one pixel is worth and roughly how many metres across the photo spans. If that comes out larger than your canvas page, calibrate again against a shorter distance, or crop the screenshot closer.
Do I have to find the scale bar on the map myself?
Usually not. When the screenshot loads, Seasonry looks for the map’s printed scale bar, and if it finds one the calibration step opens already zoomed in on it with both ruler points sitting on its ends, so all that is left is to check they line up and type the number printed beside it. Go to the scale bar brings you back there whenever you have panned away.
If nothing was found, the two points wait near the bottom-right corner, which is where most maps draw their bar. Drag them onto it yourself, or switch to Known distance and measure something whose length you already know instead.
The scale bar is tiny. How do I place the calibration points precisely?
Zoom in on it. The calibration preview zooms and pans just like the canvas: pinch or use the + and − buttons to magnify up to twelve times, drag or two-finger swipe to move around, and Fit to see the whole picture again. The closer you zoom, the more exactly the two points land, and the closer the traced plot comes to its true size. If you leave the measured line so short that the scale cannot be trusted, Seasonry says so and asks you to drag it wider.
What happens to my map picture while I trace over it?
Once it is calibrated the picture sits faded under your plan at true scale, with the pen already armed so you can start dropping corners straight away. A floating Map card appears at the top left of the canvas with an Opacity slider running from 10% to 100%, so you can fade the photo back as your outline takes shape.
Grid snap pauses while the map is visible, so corners land exactly where the photo says rather than on the nearest grid line; holding Shift to keep a line straight still works as usual. The picture is only a tracing aid: it is never saved with your garden and never appears in an export. It waits in this browser until you put it away, so reopening this garden on this computer brings it back.
How do I finish tracing and put the map away?
When your plot outline is closed, the Map card switches to Plot traced and grows a full-width Put the map away button. Until you press it, the map is the step you are on. Reaching for another tool, or leaving edit mode, asks you to finish with the picture first, and the plot's own panel keeps just its name, its look and its measured sides. That is on purpose: it leaves you free to go on correcting the outline against the photo for as long as you need, and nothing else is waiting on you.
Nothing finishes the flow for you either, so a picture and its calibration are never thrown away behind your back. Putting it away is final, though. It clears the photo for good and brings grid snap back, and there is no way to reopen it; if you needed the map again you would have to bring in a new picture and calibrate it from scratch.
I traced my plot and the scale came out wrong. Do I have to start over?
No. Adjust the scale on the Map card reopens the calibration step with your picture and both handles exactly where you left them, and re-calibrating rescales everything you have already traced by the same amount, as a single step you can undo. It is offered only while the garden holds nothing but what you traced, because re-scaling would pull the plot out from under any plants, objects or fences already standing on it.
From that step you can also go Back and bring in a different picture. Two unrelated screenshots have no ratio between them, so that clears what you traced on the old one, and the sheet warns you before it does.
I traced my plot from a map and it sits at an angle. Can I straighten it?
Yes. Open Turn on the Edit-mode tool rail. A plot traced from a map arrives with north at the top of the screen, so it lands at whatever angle it really sits at, and every bed you draw on it afterwards has to fight a grid the garden does not agree with.
Under Select a side you get one picture per side of your plot, each drawn as the garden would actually sit. Pick the side you want lying along the bottom of the screen and the whole plan turns to match. Compass offers North up instead, which turns the plan until the needle points straight up, and the two 90° turn buttons move the side you chose round a quarter at a time. No angle is ever printed: the useful question is which fence should look straight, not what that works out to in degrees.
Everything turns together, so beds, plants, objects, the house, fences, paths and your measurements all keep their places. North turns with the plan as well, which is what keeps the sun path and the compass correct. A turn is an ordinary edit, so Ctrl+Z (⌘+Z on a Mac) puts it back, and it saves with the garden, which means your exports, a shared link and the home thumbnail all show the new framing.
You need a plot before the sides can appear. Draw or trace one first.
Can I use preset shapes and fill areas with colours or textures?
Yes. From the Edit-mode tool rail you can drop ready-made shapes (rectangles, circles, rings, half- and quarter-circles and triangles), then paint each one as grass, soil, mulch, gravel, paving, water or decking. The pattern rotates with the shape, so rows and grain stay aligned.
Every area also has a Planting switch that tells Seasonry whether plants are meant to grow there. Its default follows the surface texture you chose, but you can override it at any time: a gravel garden can be planted, while a decked-over bed does not have to be.
What does the Planting switch on an area do?
The Planting switch tells Seasonry whether an area is intended to contain plants. Select an area in Edit mode and you’ll find the switch in its settings panel.
Its default value follows the surface texture you chose. Grass, mulch, soil, gravel and untextured areas are treated as plantable, while hard surfaces such as paving, decking and water are not. You can override the setting in either direction: a gravel garden may contain plants, while a deck built over a former bed may not.
The setting also controls Auto-fill, which can only be used on areas marked for planting.
How do I add curved edges?
Select an area in Edit mode and pull the handle on any straight side to bow it into a smooth curve. It is how you get flowing, natural borders instead of straight lines, and you can mix curved and straight edges on the same bed.
Can I merge two areas into one?
Yes. Select two or more beds and merge them into one area. They do not have to touch: a merged bed is made of separate pieces, and each keeps its own texture, so a patio and a lawn stay visibly different while counting as one bed with one name, one plant list and one total size. Curves on the edges that are kept are preserved, so a merged bed stays as smooth as the ones you started with. Drag a piece to move it on its own, or hold Alt (Option on a Mac) to move every piece and everything planted on them together. Splitting a merged bed back into separate areas is always available.
How do I reshape an area after drawing it?
Open the area in Edit mode and drag its corner points to move them, or add and remove points to refine the outline. Nothing is locked once it is drawn, so you can keep adjusting a bed as your plan evolves.
I measured my beds with a tape. Can I make the drawn shape match?
Yes. Select the area in Edit mode and open Measured sides in the panel on the right. Every side is listed with its current length: type the figure you measured and that side is held to it, while the shape shifts as little as possible and the sides you have not measured give way. All the measured sides are solved together, so correcting a fourth side cannot un-correct the first three, and curved edges keep their bow.
Each row is lettered a, b, c and the same letter sits beside that side’s measurement on the plot, so matching a row to an edge is a glance. Lengths run from 1 cm to 200 m. If your numbers cannot close into a shape at all, Seasonry says so rather than drawing something else.
Why did a side length I typed stop holding?
A measured side is held only while it still measures what you typed. Undoing a step or dragging a corner releases just the sides that actually changed and leaves the rest held, while moving or rotating the whole area changes no length at all, so every side keeps its figure. A side starts being held the moment you change its number, or when you press Enter to hold it at the length it already has, so clicking through a row without editing it never holds a side by accident. The × beside a row releases that side by hand.
What happens when areas overlap, and how do they stack?
Overlapping areas stack automatically, with smaller ones sitting on top of larger ones so nothing gets hidden. When you want a different order, you can pin an area to the front or back and set the stack exactly.
How do I select something hidden under a tree or another object?
Whatever you point at outlines itself, so you can see what a click will land on before you make it. Where several things overlap, hold the pointer still and a badge appears showing how many items are under it. Right-click to open the What’s here list, which shows every item beneath the pointer from top to bottom. As you move through the list, the corresponding item is highlighted on the plan, so you can select exactly the one you want.
Two other behaviours make selection easier. A tree faded by Depth fading keeps a small selectable handle at its trunk, while the rest of its canopy allows clicks to pass through to items underneath. Round and hexagonal objects are also selectable only within their visible shape rather than the rectangular box around them, so clicking just outside a circular pond can still reach the bed beneath it.
How do I add a stone edge or curb to a bed?
Open a bed and turn on Edging to draw a stone curb just inside its outline. You can set the curb width, stone length, and stone and joint colours, and edge the whole outline or just one run of it. Edging is cosmetic and never changes the bed’s footprint or measurements.
Can I add objects like stepping stones or a pond?
Yes. Alongside plants you can drop objects onto the canvas, things like stepping stones, ponds and other structures, then resize, reshape and recolour them to fit the space. They select, move and copy just like plants, so a path or a water feature is just as easy to place.
Alongside decorative garden features you will also find the practical parts of a garden that usually go undrawn. The Service group holds wheelie bins, a washing line and an outdoor tap, and Structure holds a wall and a lean-to store beside the shed, the greenhouse and the compost bin. The bin store resizes itself automatically to fit the number and size of bins you choose.
Can I draw my house?
Yes. Open House from the Edit-mode toolbar and choose from twelve footprints, including a rectangle, L, T, U, Z, H, cross and porch layouts, plus mirrored versions where needed. Place the footprint on your plot, then drag its walls to match your house. When you move one wall, the adjoining walls automatically adjust so the outline stays closed.
If you have exact survey measurements, you can enter a wall’s length in the panel on the right instead of dragging it. Rotated houses can be edited in exactly the same way, with all measurements following the house’s orientation.
Can I add fences and gates?
Yes. The Fence tool draws a run of posts that snaps to bed edges and corners, and you can drop in gates (pedestrian, double or sliding) as openings along a run. Pick the texture (slats, post-and-rail, solid or lattice), width, post shape and colours in the fence panel. Fences are a web, Edit-mode feature.
How do I measure or line things up precisely?
In Edit mode the ruler tools help you place things exactly. Tape measures a distance: click to plant one end and click again to finish, or type a number and press Enter first to lock the tape to an exact length, leaving the cursor to pick only the angle. A tape stays editable once placed, drag either end or the line between them, and its ends grab an area’s corners and edges as you go.
The Ruler is a graduated bar whose marks plants, objects and area corners snap to, and a tape’s endpoints pull a corner the same way, so you can lay a tape, lock it to 4.5 m and land a corner exactly on its end. A Link binds a plant to another plant, object or grid point and keeps that distance as you move things, and it is saved with the garden; to remove one, click the plant to reveal its links, click the line and press Backspace. Tapes are never saved, so they survive moving between Edit tools but a reload clears them, and Clear tapes on the Ruler toolbar wipes them in one go. The ruler tools live in Edit mode, on the desktop web app.
Can I undo a change?
Yes. In Edit mode every change can be undone and redone, so you can experiment freely. Press Ctrl+Z (⌘+Z on a Mac) to undo and Ctrl+Y (⌘+Shift+Z on a Mac) to redo, or use the Undo and Redo buttons in the top ribbon. Undo covers moving, adding, deleting and reshaping as you design, and it saves to your account like any other change. The history belongs to the garden you are in and to this visit, so switching gardens or leaving the workspace empties it. Finish an experiment before you navigate away.
Cancelling a drawing or a fence part-way through is not an undo-stack change, but Drawing cancelled appears at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds with an Undo button that rebuilds your points and drops you back mid-shape.
Can I stop something moving by accident?
Yes. Select it in Edit mode and turn on Lock at the foot of its panel. A locked bed, plant, object, house, path, fence or gate stays exactly where it is: it cannot be dragged, resized, rotated or reshaped, and it will not travel along when you move a bed it is standing in. You can still select it, rename it, recolour it and remove it, and its own panel is where you turn the lock off again.
Select several things at once and the same Lock switch sits at the foot of the group’s panel, so a whole border can be pinned in one press and released the same way. It works on a mixed selection too, such as a bed together with everything standing in it.
If you try to drag something locked, nothing moves and a short message at the bottom of the screen says why. Locks save with your garden, so they are still there when you come back, and they travel with a backup.
How do I clear my plot and start over?
Select the plot, your garden’s main area, and in Edit mode press Backspace or Delete, or use Delete area at the foot of its panel. Seasonry asks Clear the plot? first, because it removes the outline and everything planted on it. Your other areas and their plants stay, and you can map the plot again whenever you like. Your garden itself is not deleted, so the name and settings stay, and Ctrl+Z (⌘+Z on a Mac) brings the plot back if you change your mind.
Can I clear all the plants, objects or fences at once?
Yes. In Edit mode open the Delete tool at the bottom of the tool rail: it offers Clear all plants, Clear all objects, Clear all fences and Clear all areas, each behind a confirmation and each undoable afterwards.
Fences are stored separately from beds, so clearing areas never removes them, and clearing a fence takes its gates with it. Clear all areas keeps the plot itself and leaves the plants where they stand, and clearing plants also removes any ruler links measuring from them.
What does the grid in the background mean? Can I also use feet?
The faint grid is a real-world scale reference: each square is one metre across to start with, so a bed or plant covers the same relative space it would in your actual garden. The Grid pill at the bottom of the canvas hides or shows it and switches the spacing between 1, 0.5, 0.25 and 0.1 m, which is also the step Snap to grid uses when you drop something.
Every measurement in Seasonry, from plant spread and spacing to the ruler, is in metres, and plants are drawn at their true mature size, so the layout you plan is the layout you get. There is currently no feet or imperial option.
How do I add plants to my plan?
Open a garden, pick Plants on the Edit-mode tool rail, and drag a species from the Catalog tab onto the canvas, or click the plant and then click where you want it. Drop it inside a bed and it is assigned to that bed automatically, which keeps its bloom and care grouped correctly. Each plant is painted as real foliage at its mature spread, so what you see is roughly the ground it will cover once grown.
The full-screen Plant Catalog you reach from the home screen is for browsing and reading up on species. Planting itself always happens on the canvas, from the Plants panel.
How do I place plants: drag-and-drop or click to place?
Two ways, and you pick whichever feels natural. Drag & drop (the default) means grabbing a plant from the catalogue and dragging it onto the garden, then releasing to drop it where you want, one plant per drag. Click to place means clicking a plant to pick it up, then clicking anywhere on the garden to drop it, and you can keep clicking to place as many as you like (press Esc when you are done). Both gestures work the same way for garden objects.
Seasonry asks which you prefer the first time you place a plant, then remembers it. It is an account-wide choice, so it follows you across gardens and devices. To switch at any time, open Profile → Settings and choose Drag & drop or Click to place under Placing plants.
What is Auto-fill, and what happens to plants I placed myself?
Auto-fill is a Seasonry+ option that plants an area for you from a mix of plants you choose. First turn on Planting, then Auto-fill. Neither of those plants anything, and nor does choosing a mix: the mix just says where the plants should come from. Nothing goes in the ground until you press Plant this bed, so what grows there is your choice from the very first plant. That press fills the bed with trees, shrubs and groups of perennials sized and arranged for the available space.
It plants only when you ask, and nothing refills behind you: delete a plant and the gap stays a gap, and a bed you empty stays empty until you press the button again. What reshaping the bed does do is trim the planting to its new outline, so a plant the new edge would leave standing outside the bed is removed as you drag, and the whole change can still be undone in a single step. To plant the ground a reshape opened up, press the button again.
Use Mix to choose where Auto-fill takes its plants from: your favourites, one of the eight built-in planting styles, or a style you created yourself. Once the bed is planted that same button reads Shuffle, and generates a different arrangement from the same mix.
Plants that you place or move yourself are never repositioned by Auto-fill. If you switch Auto-fill off, the generated plants remain in the bed as normal plants that you can edit, move or delete yourself.
What plants can I choose from?
The catalogue holds 2,000+ species chosen to thrive in dry, continental gardens (Dunántúl and USDA zones 6b–7b): trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, ferns and bulbs. Search by common name in either language or by Latin name, so lavender and levendula land on the same plant, and accents are optional: korte finds körte.
Everyday word forms work too, so oak tree, nyárfa and tölgyek all reach the right plant, and the words of a search can come in any order. The part of the name you matched is tinted, and when the hit came from the name in the other language the row prints that name on a muted third line, so you can always see why a result is there.
Every plant also has four Conditions — soil, ground, sun and water — which you can use as catalogue filters. This lets you narrow the results to plants that suit the conditions in a bed you already have.
How do I filter, favourite or use planting styles?
The catalogue’s filter bar lets you narrow plants by type, foliage, bloom month, size and style, as well as by the four Conditions — soil, ground, sun and water. This makes it easy to find plants that suit the bed you already have. Seasonry+ also adds a Care filter, showing how much work a plant typically needs over the course of a year. Tap the heart on any plant to favourite it; favourites sync to your account and follow you across gardens. You can also browse by one of eight built-in styles like Cottage or Mediterranean, and Seasonry+ lets you build and reuse your own custom styles.
Can I add my own plants?
Yes. In a garden, open Plants on the Edit-mode tool rail, switch to the Custom tab and press Create custom plant. Start blank, or start from a catalog plant, which fills in everything but the name so you only change what differs.
A name, a Category and a Radius (m) are all it needs to save. Latin name, foliage and bloom colours, type, sun, water, wildlife, bloom months, foliage interest and notes are optional. It drops onto the canvas just like a catalogue plant, so you are never limited to the built-in list.
A plant I want is not in the catalogue. Can I still use it?
Yes. Try searching once more first, because the search is more forgiving than it looks: it reads both languages and Latin names, accents are optional, and everyday word forms work, so oak tree, tölgyek and Quercus all reach the same plant. A species listed under a name you did not expect is the commonest reason one looks missing.
If it really is not there, make it yourself. Open Plants on the Edit-mode tool rail, switch to the Custom tab and press Create custom plant. Starting from a catalogue plant that resembles yours fills in everything but the name, so you only change what differs, and what you get drops onto the canvas and behaves exactly like a catalogue plant.
The catalogue also grows over time, and what people ask for is what shapes it. Send us the name from the Still need help? card below, or from Profile → Help & support.
How accurate is the plant spacing and sizing?
Every species carries a real mature radius in metres, and the planner scales that to your plot, with heights and bloom timing from the same catalogue data. A plant is drawn at the size recorded for it, which starts at its full mature spread, so the spacing you plan now is the spacing you get in a few years.
If you would rather see a specimen at the size it is today, type a smaller Current radius in its detail panel. Turn on the Footprint pill under the canvas and every plant you have set smaller is ringed at its grown spread, so the gap between foliage and ring reads as growing room. Catalogue data may occasionally be incomplete or inaccurate; you can report an issue from the plant’s detail page.
How far apart should I plant shrubs and trees so they don’t outgrow their spot?
The right planting distance is set by the plant’s mature size, not its current size in the pot. Seasonry’s catalogue carries verified size data for more than 2,000 plants, and each plant appears on the plan at that size too. So you can see in advance how much space they’ll need, and avoid the bed becoming overcrowded a few years later.
Is it worth planning a small garden or balcony too, or does this only matter for bigger gardens?
The smaller the space, the more every centimetre counts, which makes planning especially useful there. In Seasonry you can draw a balcony, a small yard or a narrow bed just as precisely as a larger garden. You place plants at their expected, mature size, so you can already see in advance what the available space will actually hold, and avoid it becoming overcrowded a few years later.
What are a plant’s Conditions?
Every plant in the catalogue has four Conditions, available on every plan: Soil (sand, loam, clay or chalk), Ground (dry, ordinary, damp or wet), Sun, and Water. Together, they describe the conditions in which the plant is most likely to thrive.
You’ll find them on the Conditions card in the plant’s detail panel, and you can also use them as filters in the catalogue. This makes it easy to find plants suited to the bed you already have. If a plant requires lime-free soil, that is shown on its Soil row.
If our research does not contain information for a particular condition, it is shown as not recorded rather than guessed.
What does a plant’s Water condition mean?
It is how thirsty the plant is: Very little, A little, Average or A lot. You will find it as one of the four Conditions, beside Soil, Ground and Sun, both on a plant’s detail and in the catalogue filter. A bed that gives at least as much water as the plant asks for counts as suiting it, because watering a bed more than one plant needs is your own choice to make.
Watering intervals are a different question, and they live in Vacation Mode, where they belong: a list of what to water and how often, for whoever is looking after the garden while you are away.
Whatever the plant asks for, water more often in a hot, dry spell and through the first year after planting.
Can I tell Seasonry what my bed is like?
Yes, with Seasonry+. Select a bed in Edit mode and its Conditions card lets you describe five things: its soil, moisture, sunlight, water supply, and whether the soil is lime-free. If you are unsure about anything, leave it blank. An unanswered condition never counts against a plant.
Once you have described the bed, every plant can be compared with it. The plant’s Conditions card shows a tick or cross for each condition, together with the number of matches. If you place a plant whose needs do not match the bed, a short message tells you which conditions conflict. Find plants for this bed opens the catalogue with the bed’s conditions already applied.
Beds you described while subscribed continue to work if your subscription ends. Your answers remain saved, and the plant comparisons remain visible.
How do I know which plants will thrive next to each other in the same bed?
In Seasonry’s catalogue, every plant lists its most important needs, such as soil, moisture, light and water. This information is free on every plan. With a Seasonry+ subscription, you can also enter your bed’s own conditions, and Seasonry helps you find plants that suit it. So you can see not just which plants look good together, but which ones will actually thrive in the same spot.
What does a plant’s Care rating mean?
The Care rating estimates how much work a plant needs over the course of a year, from Minimal to Very high. It is researched separately for each species and is part of Seasonry+. You’ll find it on the Upkeep card in the plant’s care view, as a Care filter in the catalogue, and as a set of small pips on catalogue grid cards.
The same card also shows what the plant sheds and roughly how much, including leaves, needles, fruit, nuts, cones, petals and bark. This can help you judge, for example, whether a particular tree is a good choice beside a patio or pond.
One important exception always applies: even a drought-tolerant plant needs regular watering during its first year. Keep newly planted specimens watered until they have had a full growing season to establish.
What is the dashed ring around some of my plants?
That is the Mature footprint ring: a dashed circle at the size the plant will reach once fully grown. The foliage itself is drawn at the plant’s Current radius, so the gap between the leaves and the ring is the growth still to come. Only plants you have recorded as smaller than their Max radius get a ring, and a trimmed hedge or clipped specimen never does, because there would be nothing left to show.
It is off by default. Switch it on with the Footprint pill on the canvas bottom bar, in View or Edit mode, or with Mature footprint under Settings → Canvas display in the View-mode rail. To record a specimen’s real size, open its detail panel and edit the Current radius field.
How does Seasonry flag plants that are too close?
Crowded pairs are listed by the Overlaps tool on the Edit-mode tool rail, which carries a badge with the count, rather than being marked on the canvas. It checks trees, shrubs and fruit trees only, measured at their full spread or the size you recorded, and skips trimmed hedges, because a clipped hedge is meant to touch. Perennials, grasses, bulbs and soft fruit are never checked: crowding is how a border is supposed to look, and strawberries, currants and canes are grown in dense rows on purpose.
Crowding is not always wrong. If you meant a run of shrubs to knit into one mass, press Accept on the pair to mark it Intentional, or Accept all to clear a whole bed at once. You can bring back overlaps you dismissed earlier from Profile → Data & backup → Reset accepted conflicts.
Can I move or delete plants after placing them?
Yes. Select a plant to drag it somewhere else, nudge it with the arrow keys, copy it with Ctrl+C (⌘+C on a Mac) and paste it under the cursor, or remove it with Backspace. Hold Shift and drag a box to select several at once, Shift-click to add one to the group, then hold Alt (⌥ on a Mac) and drag to move them together, or arrange them in a line with an even gap. Selected plants are traced with a clay outline that follows their real silhouette.
Why do my trees fade out as I zoom in?
That is Depth fading, and it is on by default. As you zoom in, trees fall back to a faint ghost first, then shrubs, so a drift of hostas under a cherry becomes the subject of the view instead of vanishing into leaf texture. Nothing ever disappears: every plant keeps at least a quarter of its opacity, and a click under a faded canopy reaches whatever is beneath it, whether that is the plant standing there or the bed itself. A faded tree keeps a small handle at its trunk, so it stays selectable too; anything else you click in its canopy belongs to what is underneath.
Pointing at a plant also pulls back anything larger standing over it, and selecting one holds that canopy back while you work in the right-hand panel. To switch the whole thing off, use the Depth pill on the canvas bottom bar, in View or Edit mode, or Depth fading under Settings → Canvas display in the View-mode rail. It is a per-garden setting, so turning it off in one garden leaves your others as they were.
A canopy that overlaps an object follows a separate rule and is not affected by either switch. It is always drawn at 70% opacity so that a bench, pond, bin or other object beneath it remains visible on the plan, whether Depth fading is on or off.
My plant’s colour looks wrong. Can I fix it?
A plant’s foliage and bloom colours come from the catalogue, but in Edit mode you can recolour an individual plant’s bloom from its detail panel when you want a specific variety. If a species itself looks wrong, send us the plant name from the Still need help? card below. We refine catalogue colours on an ongoing basis.
Can I see how my garden looks across the seasons?
On the free plan, plants appear in their peak-of-year Full splendor view, with full foliage or in full bloom for flowering species, so your plan shows them at their most recognisable. With Seasonry+ you can switch the canvas to Live season on the desktop web app: month by month, plants leaf out, flower, change colour and lose their leaves, reflecting how a real garden changes through the year.
On a phone the garden always stays in Full splendor. A phone renders a single seasonal frame per plant to stay inside its memory, so Live season is not offered there on any plan.
Learn more in the Guide: See your garden through the seasons
How do I make sure my garden isn’t bare for most of the year?
Many gardens are planned mainly around how they look in spring, or right after planting. With a Seasonry+ subscription, you can view the same planting in any month of the year, so already at the planning stage you can see if a bed is lush and colourful in May but almost completely empties out by autumn. That way it doesn’t take years to discover the garden only really works for part of the year.
What is the “Full splendor” peak view?
On the free plan every plant is shown in Full splendor (also called the peak-of-year view): each one drawn at its own peak at the same time, with full foliage, full bloom for flowering species and ripe fruit for fruiting ones. It is a best-case portrait, so the plan always looks its finest and you can judge form, colour and spacing with everything on show.
It is deliberately not a single real day in the garden. No actual date looks quite like this, because every plant peaks at a different time: spring bulbs and blossom come and go early, many roses and perennials peak in high summer, fruit ripens in late summer or autumn, and some trees flower on bare wood before their leaves even open. To see the garden on a real date and watch it move month by month, switch the canvas from Full splendor to Live season, a Seasonry+ view on the desktop web app. On a phone the garden always stays in Full splendor.
How do I move through the year?
Switch the canvas from Full splendor to Live season, then press Show timeline: a season bar appears near the bottom of the canvas, and sliding along it walks the garden through the months, trees leafing out, perennials blooming and fading, evergreens holding steady. Play the year runs all twelve months for you. It is the quickest way to spot a month when nothing is in flower.
Live season and its timeline are Seasonry+ features on the desktop web app. A phone shows the Full splendor view instead, on every plan.
Learn more in the Guide: See your garden through the seasons
Why do some trees show flowers before leaves?
Because many really do. Magnolia and cherry, for example, bloom on bare wood in early spring, so the planner draws blossom before foliage for those species. The look follows each plant’s real bloom timing, not a generic template.
Is there a bloom calendar?
Every plant carries a month-by-month Bloom & foliage strip on the Overview tab of its detail panel, on any plan, so you can see when it leafs out and when it flowers. Seasonry+ adds the garden-wide bloom calendar, opened from Overview on the View-mode rail: a 12-month matrix for the whole garden and for each plot, highlighting your peak months and the gaps where nothing is flowering. You can export the whole thing as a multi-page PDF.
How do I plan so there’s always something in bloom in my garden?
You can find when each plant flowers on its own detail page, available on every plan. With a Seasonry+ subscription, the bloom calendar shows month by month, summed across your whole garden, when the plants placed in your plan flower, so you can immediately spot if part of the year has little or nothing in bloom. You can then search the catalogue for species that flower in that period, and fill the gap before you plant anything.
What is the Overview panel?
Overview is a Seasonry+ panel on the View-mode toolbar that gives you a bed-by-bed summary of your garden. At the top, you can see the total number of plants and species, the garden’s peak month, a month-by-month view of the year, and a shortcut to the bloom calendar.
Below that, each bed appears as a sortable row showing its colour, name, the ground it still shows in m², peak month and what is in bloom today. Hover over a row to highlight the corresponding bed on the plan. Expand it to see the plants and objects it contains, along with the months when nothing is in bloom.
Areas containing only objects are included too, so a paved terrace with a bench, for example, still appears in the Overview.
Does Seasonry tell me when to prune, remove spent flowers or divide plants?
Yes, through the Garden Almanac, a Seasonry+ feature. It works out year-round care for your specific plants (pruning, deadheading, dividing, cutting back and more) and lists what is worth doing this month in a Tasks panel, with per-plant guidance under each plant’s Care tab. The Almanac is on the desktop web app, in View mode.
Learn more in the Guide: Keep plants on schedule with the Almanac
How do I know when to prune, water or feed each of my plants?
The right timing depends on which plants are actually in your garden. Seasonry’s Garden Almanac, available with Seasonry+, builds a month-by-month task list from the plants actually placed in your plan. So instead of a generic gardening calendar, you get tasks tailored to your own garden.
Learn more in the Guide: Keep plants on schedule with the Almanac
What is the Water panel?
Water is a Seasonry+ panel on the View-mode toolbar that gives you an overview of your garden’s watering needs.
It separates two things that are easy to confuse. How much water a plant wants ranges from very little to a lot. How well it copes without watering ranges from poorly to very well. These two traits are independent: a plant may need only a small amount of water but still react badly if that water is missing.
The panel also shows the soil conditions preferred by your planted areas, highlights beds containing plants with conflicting moisture needs, and identifies the plants most likely to be affected first by a dry spell. You can dismiss a finding you no longer want to see and restore it later if needed.
Can I see which direction the sun comes from throughout the day and year?
Yes, with Seasonry+. Open Compass on the View-mode rail and the sun-path overlay appears over your plan. Rotate the garden until it matches its real orientation, paste your plot’s coordinates under Location, then move Time of day and Season to see the direction the sun comes from. The angles are calculated for that location, so sunrise, solar noon and sunset are specific to your garden. Leave the coordinates unset and the view uses an approximate Central European location.
If you traced your plot from a map and calibrated it on the Coordinates tab, north and the location are already set from the two points you entered, so you do not need to align them again.
Press Watch the day on your garden at the bottom of the overlay and it docks into a bar under the plan: the sun travels its arc over your garden, every tree, fence and building casts a shadow the right length for that hour, and plants standing in shade are tinted. Drag the hours, play the day, or change the date from the bar. Plants cast at about two thirds of their mature height, so the picture is the garden you will have in a few years rather than in twenty.
How do I know which parts of my garden get the most sunlight?
Set your garden’s location, and Seasonry+ calculates the sun’s path over the plot at different times of day and year. So already before planting you can see which areas get plenty of sun, and which fall into part shade or shade instead.
What is Vacation Mode?
Vacation Mode, part of Seasonry+, turns your garden into a simple, shareable watering plan for whoever looks after it while you are away. They see a read-only version of your garden and a plant-by-plant checklist, with no app to install and no account to create.
What does the person I share with see?
They open a private link, enter the password, and see your garden as a read-only map plus a watering checklist they can switch between Water today and All plants. They cannot change anything, and the link is password-protected and expires on its own, so you stay in control.
Your caretaker needs no account. If they mislay the link, they can press Got a watering link? on the Seasonry home screen, the sign-in screen or the public site and paste it there, and once unlocked the garden sits in their Shared with you list until the share expires. If the password is entered wrong many times over, the link pauses itself for a while as a safeguard. Nothing is lost: it opens again on its own, and a correct password clears the count.
What can I do in demo mode?
Demo mode lets you explore Seasonry through a ready-made garden. You can look around and try the features, but you cannot make changes. Sign in with Google to create and save your own gardens.
Can I use Seasonry on more than one device?
Yes. Once you link a Google account your gardens sync automatically: plan on your laptop, check it on your phone out in the garden, and everything stays in step.
One of my styles is marked "Not synced". What does that mean?
On the Garden styles screen, a Not synced badge means the style is saved on this device but not in your account, because your plan has no room to store it: the free plan stores no custom styles, and Seasonry+ stores up to three. It still works here exactly as before, it just will not follow you to another device.
When upgrading would give it a home, the badge carries an Upgrade to sync link. A subscriber who already has three styles sees the note without a link, because there is no larger allowance.
How do I back up my gardens?
You can back up a single garden from the Exports menu in the planner view, or back up all of them at once from your profile with Export all gardens.
How do I restore a garden from a backup?
Use Profile → Data & backup → Import from file and choose a backup you exported earlier. Imported gardens are added alongside your current ones, so nothing is overwritten by surprise.
What can I export from my garden?
Quite a lot, all from Exports on the View-mode rail: a garden image or a single area image as a plan sheet, where every plant has a numbered badge linked to a legend listing each species and its quantity. If several plants of the same species share one position, the badge shows it as 20×7, making the quantity clear directly on the plan. Each row of the legend includes the common name, Latin name and total count, so it can also be used as a shopping list; a plant list and a per-area area report as text; a full garden backup, which carries the whole garden and every plant exactly where you put it, so importing it back gives you the garden just as it was the moment you exported it; and New garden from area, which clones one area into a garden of its own.
Seasonry+ adds a multi-page bloom-calendar PDF and removes the watermark, so exported images come out clean and high-resolution. On the free plan, image exports carry a light watermark at standard resolution. You can also grab a garden’s image without opening it: press the ⋯ More actions button on its tile on the home screen and choose Export.
The demo garden is where you can try all of that for free: every download runs at full Seasonry+ quality there, on any plan, bloom-calendar PDF included. Two rows are the exception, because both end with a garden rather than a file: Garden backup re-imports as an ordinary garden, and New garden from area skips even the file. Duplicate the demo instead, from its tile or from Edit, and the copy does everything a garden of your own does.
What’s the difference between Seasonry Basic and Seasonry+?
Seasonry Basic is free to use and includes 1 garden with up to 50 plants. You get access to the full catalogue of more than 2,000 plants, to search, most filters and favourites. You can use the core design tools, such as beds, fences, edging and the ruler, explore the demo garden, and view each plant in its most characteristic season.
Seasonry+ is $6.99 a month or $49 a year, and gives you up to 3 gardens, each with up to 500 plants, and a larger design canvas. You can copy the demo garden into one of your own and edit it freely.
It also unlocks the garden view that changes month by month through the year, the bloom calendar, the Garden Almanac, sun-path, and detailed plant-care information with the filter that goes with it. You can enter your beds’ conditions and search for plants that suit them, use Area Auto-fill, the Water overview and Vacation Mode, create custom planting styles, and export high-resolution plans with no watermark.
What’s included in Seasonry+?
Seasonry+ unlocks the full toolkit: up to 3 gardens of up to 500 plants each on a 4× larger canvas, live seasonal foliage, the garden-wide bloom calendar, the Garden Almanac care timeline, plant upkeep (how much work and water each plant is, and what it sheds), bed conditions with every plant matched against them, Area Auto-fill, the Water overview of your garden’s thirst and drought, sun-path planning, Vacation Mode, custom planting styles, and clean, high-resolution exports with no watermark.
The four Conditions themselves (soil, ground, sun and water) stay free on every plan, as filters and on every plant’s own card. Everything else on the free plan keeps working exactly as before.
How do I upgrade to Seasonry+?
Open the Pricing screen from your profile, choose monthly or annual, and check out securely in your browser. Your plan updates as soon as the purchase completes, so you can start using the Seasonry+ tools straight away.
Where do I find my receipts, and how do I change my payment card?
Open Profile → Billing. The card lists your plan, the recurring price, any discount applied, the date and amount of your next charge, and the payment card on file, plus links to your two most recent receipts.
Manage in Stripe opens the secure billing portal, where you can change the card, download older invoices and update your billing details. Payments and card details are handled by Stripe, so Seasonry never stores your card number.
I have a promo or gift code, where do I enter it?
In Seasonry, not on the payment page. Open the checkout sheet and tap Have a promo code?, or use the Redeem a code card on your profile. A discount code takes a percentage off, and the reduced figure shows in the order summary and on the pay button before you confirm anything.
A gift code is different: it unlocks Seasonry+ for a set number of months right away, with nothing to pay and nothing to cancel, then reverts to the free plan when the time runs out. Codes are not case-sensitive, and this is the only place to enter one, so if the Stripe payment page offers no box for your code, come back and apply it here.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel subscription sits at the foot of the Billing card on your profile. You keep Seasonry+ until the end of the period you have already paid for, then move back to the free plan. Change your mind before then and Keep Seasonry+ clears the cancellation with nothing extra to pay. Once the period has fully ended you start a fresh subscription instead.
Your gardens are never deleted. Gardens beyond the free plan’s allowance stop syncing and become read-only, and where a garden holds more plants than the free plan allows you can still open it and remove plants but not add new ones. Nothing is removed and nothing is hidden. Your profile’s What you can still add strip shows exactly where you stand.
What happens if my card payment fails?
Your subscription is paused, not cancelled. A banner appears across the top of the app, and your profile shows a Payment failed status with an Update your card button that opens the secure Stripe portal, which is where card details live. Seasonry+ stays paused only while the payment is outstanding, and it comes back the moment one goes through.
Your gardens are never deleted. They simply return to the free view in the meantime, with every plant exactly where you left it.
Do you offer refunds?
If something went wrong with a payment, email support@seasonry.app and we will help you sort it out.
Can I start a Seasonry+ subscription while my gift pass is still running?
Yes, and it costs you nothing today. The checkout summary shows Total due today as Nothing, and names the amount and date of your first charge, which lands on the day your pass runs out. The days left on your pass are never shortened or lost.
If the pass has only a day or two left, the subscription simply starts and bills straight away instead.
I redeemed a gift code. Is that a subscription?
No. A gift code simply switches Seasonry+ on until the date shown on your profile, where the plan appears as a Gift pass. There is nothing to pay, no card on file and nothing to cancel, so there is no billing portal to open. Redeem a second gift code and it stacks on top of the time you already have rather than replacing it.
When the pass ends, the account goes back to Seasonry Basic. Every garden and every plant you made is still there, exactly as you left it.
Who can see my gardens?
Only you. Gardens are private to your account and are never shown to other users or made public. There is no social feed.
The one exception is a Vacation Mode link you choose to create. It is password-protected, so your caretaker sees nothing of the plan until they enter the password, and it is read-only once they do. The link expires on its own, and you can extend it or close it early with End now whenever you like.
How and where is my data stored?
Synced gardens are stored securely on Cloudflare in the EU data region and tied to your account. Demo mode stores nothing: it is a ready-made garden to look around, and nothing there is uploaded. Backups you export are plain files that live wherever you choose to save them.
A map screenshot you trace your plot from never leaves your browser. The tracing happens on your device, the picture is never uploaded and never saved with the garden, and it is cleared when you put the map away or after seven days. Messages you send us are delivered by our email provider, and the Privacy Policy lists every company that processes anything on our behalf.
Do you use cookies or track me?
No tracking cookies, no advertising and no cross-site tracking, so there is no cookie banner to click. The only cookie we set is the one that keeps you signed in, and your gardens and preferences are held in your browser.
We keep pseudonymous usage records to see which features help. They are not tied to your name or email, and nothing about them is stored on or read from your device. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what those records hold. If something crashes we get an error report so we can fix it, with no account identifier attached.
How do I delete my account and data?
Go to Profile → Account → Delete account. For a registered account this starts a 30-day grace period: sign back in during that window to restore everything, and after it passes your gardens are permanently removed. Demo mode stores nothing, so there is nothing to delete. Payment records are kept only where accounting law requires. Export a backup first if you might want your plans later.
How do I report a bug or request a feature?
Use the Still need help? card below, or Profile → Help & support, to send us a note. Specific reports help most: what you did, and what happened. We read every message.
How quickly will I hear back?
We read every message and reply as soon as we can.
Which browsers and devices does Seasonry work in?
Seasonry runs in current Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge. The full editor is on the desktop web, a laptop or desktop, with Edit mode and every design tool. Phones and tablets open Seasonry in their browser too, but the experience is view-only: handy for checking a plan, not for designing. There is no separate app to install anywhere. If you run into trouble, please get in touch through the support options above.
On a phone a garden always opens in the peak-of-year Full splendor view. Live season and the season timeline are desktop-web only, on every plan including Seasonry+, because a phone draws a single seasonal frame per plant to stay within its memory.
Are there keyboard shortcuts?
Yes, on the web. Press E to toggle Edit mode, Ctrl/Cmd+C and Ctrl/Cmd+V to copy and paste, Shift+drag to marquee-select several things at once, and Alt/Option+drag to move an area with everything on it. The full list lives in the shortcuts panel on the bottom bar.