NEW: Duplicate Garden, Maps Layer, Groups and more!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

For this holiday season, I’m giving out a new release that’s stuffed with features! Now, you’ll be able to:

• 👯‍♀️ Create custom groups of plants, plots and hardscapes in your garden

• 📓 Fork or Duplicate your existing garden so you can tweak and save drafts

• 📋 Project-Level Catalog Filters to save your zone, state, etc as default filters applied to the catalog to save you from re-entering the same info

• 🗺️ Add Geographic layers as a map overlay on your space to plot the garden in the real world, or

• 🏞️ Add Background Images to show your design on top of your own photos

I know we’re all getting excited for the growing season ahead, and I’m really hopeful that these features will make it easier to build on the plans you had from last year, and work faster to get the results you’re looking for.

If you’re ready to dive in, go right ahead and check the new stuff out here! But, if you’re more of a detail person, here’s an in-depth look at more of the features

Custom Groups

Now when you select multiple plants, garden beds, or hardscape / pathways, there will be a folder icon to group them all together. Grouping these entities means that you’ll be able to move them all in sync or duplicate them (or delete them) all as a group!

Fork / Duplicate

In every garden’s control panel, you’ll now see a button with a floppy disc icon (a relic from a distant past that signified copying data to external storage). Clicking this will open a small modal to “Save a Copy” of your existing garden, with a new name of your choosing. This means you can save multiple drafts of your garden throughout the planning process and see which versions you like best! It’s also great for charting your own progress year after year, to see how things changed and new plants replaced old, etc.

Project-Level Catalog Filters
There are two ways to set your project filters — from the new onboarding modal that appears for new gardens, or from Garden Settings → Garden Project → Edit Project Filters. This lets you set your project’s zone, state, soil, sun, etc preferences once—and never re-enter them again. These saved defaults automatically apply to every catalog search inside that garden project, making it faster to find the right plants for your space and eliminating repetitive filtering across sessions.

Geographic / Map Layers

From the same onboarding modal for new gardens, Step 2 of the flow allows you to add a geographic layer. Just punch in your address and crop it to your project area, and viola! A background image is applied, to scale, of that geographic region. You can delete this any time from Garden Project → Garden Settings → Background Images, and that’s also where you can add a new one too!

Background Images
Instead of a geographic layer, you can upload any image—your yard, a blank corner, an existing flower bed—and use it as a backdrop to your design. The planner stretches your image to scale so your plants and hardscapes sit visually on top of the photo, helping you preview how your garden will actually look in the context of your home. This can be edited or deleted from the same Garden Project → Garden Settings → Background Images section. Fun fact: You can have multiple layers on the same garden!

Otherwise, happy gardening everybody!

— Hannah <3

P.S. Native plant fun fact of the day: Eastern Red Cedar isn’t actually a cedar at all — it’s a juniper! Its berry-like cones feed over 50 species of birds, including cedar waxwings, which get their name because they love these “berries” so much. The tree’s dense evergreen cover is also vital winter shelter for countless animals when everything else has dropped its leaves.