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.
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Plant your first garden
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. The demo garden has no ⋯ menu, since every row on it writes or deletes.
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Find your way around the canvas
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 plan gives you 1 garden with up to 50 plants, the full 1,500+ plant catalogue with search, filters and favourites, the core design tools, and a view showing each plant in its most characteristic form. Seasonry+ adds live seasons and the full growing toolkit. See Billing & Seasonry+ below.
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.
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 but cancels the whole outline at the end, and a cancelled one comes straight back from the Undo in the message that appears. The same typing works in the Fence tool and the ruler’s Tape.
Learn more in the Guide: Draw your first area
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.
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, never appears in an export, and it is gone the moment you switch gardens or leave the workspace.
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. Nothing finishes the flow for you, so a picture and its calibration are never thrown away behind your back: cancelling a stroke or switching tools leaves the photo exactly where it is.
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.
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Shapes, surfaces & paint
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Add curves to an edge
Can I merge two areas into one?
Yes. Select two beds that touch or overlap and merge them into a single shape. Curves on the edges that are kept are preserved, so a merged bed stays as smooth as the two you started with.
Learn more in the Guide: Merge areas into one
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Reshape with vertices
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Layering & stack order
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Edge a bed with a stone curb
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Place and resize objects
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Draw fences and gates
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Measure with the Ruler tool
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.
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 and puts you back at the Let’s map your garden choice. 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. Open the same catalogue from inside a garden and its Select mode lets you tick several plants and Add to garden in one go.
Learn more in the Guide: Put plants on the right area
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 plants can I choose from?
The catalogue holds 1,500+ 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.
Learn more in the Guide: Find plants in the catalog
How do I filter, favourite or use planting styles?
The catalogue’s filter bar narrows by type, foliage, bloom month, sun, water, size and style. 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.
Learn more in the Guide: Make a garden that follows a style
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.
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Space plants by mature spread
What does a plant’s watering interval mean?
Every plant shows how often it needs watering once it is established, as a plain interval like Weekly, Biweekly or Monthly, and the catalogue’s Water filter narrows by the same intervals. It is a schedule, not a measure of how much moisture a plant likes: a pond or bog plant standing in water reads Monthly because it almost never needs watering by hand, while a thirsty shrub in a dry border reads Weekly.
Treat it as a guide for a settled-in plant. In a hot, dry spell, or through the first year after planting, water more often than the interval suggests.
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Space plants by mature spread
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 and shrubs 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 and bulbs are never checked: crowding is how a border is supposed to look.
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Space plants by mature spread
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Select, move, copy and undo
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, a click under a faded canopy reaches the plant beneath it, and the tree stays selectable wherever nothing is planted under it.
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.
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
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Read your bloom calendar
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
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Orient your garden to the sun
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.
How do I set up a watering share?
From the View-mode rail, open Vacation Mode and follow the short setup: choose a password, set how often each plant or group of plants needs water, and add any notes. Seasonry captures a frozen snapshot of the garden at that moment, so your caretaker always sees a stable plan even if you keep editing.
Learn more in the Guide: Share a vacation watering plan
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 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?
Go to Profile → Data & backup → Export all gardens to download a .json file of every plan. Keep it somewhere safe. You can import it on any device to restore everything exactly as it was.
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 each plant wears a numbered badge keyed to a legend of species and counts; a plant list and a per-area area report as text; a full garden backup as JSON; 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.
Learn more in the Guide: Export and share your plan
What’s the difference between Seasonry Basic and Seasonry+?
Seasonry Basic gives you 1 garden, up to 50 plants, the full 1,500+ plant catalogue with search, filters and favourites, the core design tools (beds, fences, edging, ruler), a read-only demo garden, and the peak-of-year foliage view.
Seasonry+ adds up to 3 gardens with unlimited plants on a larger canvas, live month-by-month seasons, the bloom calendar, Garden Almanac and sun-path, Vacation Mode, custom planting styles, and clean high-resolution exports.
What’s included in Seasonry+?
Seasonry+ unlocks the full toolkit: up to 3 gardens with unlimited plants on a 4× larger canvas, live seasonal foliage, the garden-wide bloom calendar, the Garden Almanac care timeline, sun-path planning, Vacation Mode, custom planting styles, and clean, high-resolution exports with no watermark. Everything 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 advertising and no cross-site tracking, and no cookie banner, because we do not use tracking cookies. The only storage we use is the kind the app cannot work without: the cookie that keeps you signed in, plus your gardens and preferences held in your browser.
We keep pseudonymous, aggregate usage counts to understand which features help, and they cannot be tied back to you personally. If something crashes we get an error report so we can fix it, with no account identifier attached and the address of the garden you were in swapped for a placeholder before the report leaves your browser.
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.
Learn more in the Guide: Speed up with keyboard shortcuts