Warmth: find your garden's warm spots (Premium) A new Survey layer shows where your garden is likely warmer: at the foot of sunny brick or stone walls, on slopes facing the sun, and in sheltered sun traps. Borderline-hardy and sun-loving plants move up the recommendations there. Mark a wall as brick or stone on its zone card. Your garden as your trees grow (Premium) The "Show at mature size" switch now works on the Wind, Moisture and Warmth layers as well as Sun. Zone cards say what will change, for example "Will become sheltered as your trees mature". Watering hints (Premium) See which zones are likely to need watering this month, worked out from your climate, each spot and each plant's needs. They're in the Calendar, the To-Do list and each plant's page, with a note when little rain is forecast that week. Site report (Premium) Make a PDF of your garden to keep or share: a plan of your zones, soil and climate, then a page for each zone with its sun, conditions, what's planted and the best-suited plants. Find it in Settings or Export. Smarter moisture and frost • Shade now counts: deep shade keeps ground damp, and a rain shadow in full sun is a hot, dry spot. • Rain shadows now face away from the wind your rain actually comes on. • A warm wall softens frost where cold air collects. Pots and containers Mark a raised bed as a pot or container. Containers get their own watering hints and frost advice, and aren't counted as wet ground. Coastal gardens Tell FloraPlot your garden is near the sea, in Settings. Plants that cope with salt-laden wind move up the recommendations for your windier spots (Premium). And also: • Best spot now works on the plain grid map as well as satellite. • The sun readout gives average hours of direct sun over the year, and how often there's sun on summer evenings. • The To-Do list is grouped into This month, Next month, the season's jobs and your own tasks, and remembers what you've ticked. • The Survey buttons sit on two lines, at full size. • Export is now a shareable Plant List. • A slightly lighter look, with easier-to-read text and buttons. • Clearer frost colours, larger Calendar month buttons, and a fix for the back button in My Plants.

Survey your garden: wind, levels, frost and moisture (Premium) Survey on the map now has five layers. Alongside sun and shade: -Wind shows which parts of the garden your walls, fences, hedges and trees shelter, and where the wind usually comes from. -Levels shows which zones sit higher or lower than your house, measured with the camera, with arrows pointing downhill. Shade and wind now allow for raised and sunken ground. -Frost shows where cold air settles on still nights, and where frost lingers or the early sun catches it. -Moisture shows where the ground is likely wetter- hollows, the foot of a slope- or drier, beside walls and fences and under trees. Best spot (Premium) - Pick a plant and see every zone in your garden coloured by how well it would do there, with the best one starred. Tap a zone to see why. Smarter plant matches (Premium) - Recommendations now take wind, frost and wet or dry ground into account, using new wind-tolerance and wet-soil information for hundreds of plants. A plant that would struggle in a spot moves down the list and says why- it's never hidden. Weather from Apple Weather - A 10-day forecast on the Calendar, with official weather warnings for your area shown in full *(Premium)*. A simpler layout - Climate is now part of the Calendar, with the forecast above this month's jobs. - The tab bar uses the latest iOS design. - Repeated jobs for the same plant are combined in the Calendar. Levels from the camera (Premium) - Camera scans now record how high each zone sits, from a mark at your back door. - You can also measure the level of a single zone from its card.

Map your garden with your camera (Premium) Walk round your garden and mark each bed, lawn, tree, building and fence on the ground with your iPhone's camera. FloraPlot measures them, places them on the satellite map for you to line up, and works out the sun and shade straight away. Trees and buildings can have their height measured at the same time. Measure heights and slopes (Premium) Point your camera at a tree, shed or wall to measure its height, or at a sloping lawn or bed to measure how steep it is and which way it faces- so your shade and sun figures start from real numbers. Back up your garden Save your gardens to a file and restore them on a new phone or after a re-install. Free for everyone. A clearer map The satellite map is now always on, with simple zoom buttons above it and more room for the map itself. If the satellite picture can't load, you can carry on drawing on a grid. An updated guide The How to use guide now starts with the quickest way to map your garden.

Tidy up zones that don't belong - FloraPlot now spots zones that are far away from the rest of your garden- for example one drawn while you were somewhere else- and tells you how far away they are. You can remove them all in one go, and they no longer affect your garden's shade. Delete zones from the Zones list - Every zone can now be deleted straight from its card in the Zones tab, not just on the map. Other zones keep their names when you delete one. Garden location check - If your garden's location has been set somewhere other than where your zones are, FloraPlot now tells you, and can move it back to your zones with one tap. Sun and shade are worked out for the garden's location, so this keeps them accurate. Better planting suggestions - "Where would it do best?" in My Plants now warns you when a suggested spot already has a plant that may not grow well alongside the one you're placing. Small zones - For pots and other very small zones, the sun reading now says it's taken at the zone's centre. Faster and more consistent - Switching between tabs is quicker, and changes made on one screen now show on every other screen straight away. Shade also updates immediately when you draw a bed or lawn beyond the area already worked out.

Version 1.9: Tell FloraPlot about a plant and it will suggest where to put it. • Suggested spots for any plant in My Plants, best first- with the reason each part of your garden was ruled in or out • Adding a plant no longer means deciding where it goes. Leave it as "not yet decided" and FloraPlot will suggest a spot when you are ready • Premium: a note on any bed your trees will materially shade as they grow, so a long-lived plant is not put somewhere that will not suit it in ten years • Zone outlines are easier to see against satellite imagery • A refreshed look on iOS 26 • Fixed: exported garden plans showed 60% sun for every zone instead of the calculated figure • Fixed: working out a garden's shade could stop part-way after an edit, and stay unfinished until something else changed • Fixed: plants filed to a patio or shed could disappear from My Plants when grouped by zone Version 1.9.1 • Fixed: small bug fix that could cause crashes in certain circumstances (such as very large garden with low available device memory)

Tell FloraPlot about a plant and it will suggest where to put it. • Suggested spots for any plant in My Plants, best first- with the reason each part of your garden was ruled in or out • Adding a plant no longer means deciding where it goes. Leave it as "not yet decided" and FloraPlot will suggest a spot when you are ready • Premium: a note on any bed your trees will materially shade as they grow, so a long-lived plant is not put somewhere that will not suit it in ten years • Zone outlines are easier to see against satellite imagery • A refreshed look on iOS 26 • Fixed: exported garden plans showed 60% sun for every zone instead of the calculated figure • Fixed: working out a garden's shade could stop part-way after an edit, and stay unfinished until something else changed • Fixed: plants filed to a patio or shed could disappear from My Plants when grouped by zone

Everything you draw can now be changed. Plus fences and walls at any angle, and a look at your garden fifteen years from now. - Edit any zone after drawing it- move it, resize it, rotate it, or drag individual corners into shape - Line zones for fences and walls, drawn along whichever way they actually run, so their shadow falls where it really does - Name your zones from the map, instead of hunting through "bed 3" and "bed 4" - Shade at mature size- see what a spot will be like once your trees have grown, without changing anything about your garden today - Smoother panning and a closer zoom level for placing things accurately - Bigger, clearer controls throughout, and native iOS icons

This is the biggest update since launch. Two things changed: FloraPlot now models the sunlight in your garden properly, and the plant database has more than doubled. SUNLIGHT, PROPERLY MODELLED FloraPlot now works out how many hours of direct sun every part of your garden receives, for every month of the year. • A heatmap over the satellite image, with a month scrubber • Every zone reports a distribution instead of a single label- "62% full sun, 31% partial, 7% shade in July"- so a lawn that is shaded in one corner is no longer described as if it were all the same • Your own structures cast the shadows: sheds, fences, walls, houses, at their real heights • Trees are modelled as a canopy on a trunk, with dense, medium or open density • Deciduous trees are bare in winter, so the same tree gives a different answer in April and July • Greenhouses and polytunnels transmit light rather than blocking it • Slope is corrected for your latitude and hemisphere • Evening sun: check what proportion of summer evenings a spot catches the sun after five, before you put a seat there • Snapshot comparison: see what adding a shed or removing a tree would do, in sun hours per day Solar positions are calculated using the standard NOAA method, including atmospheric refraction and the equation of time, and validated against published US Naval Observatory data. The model integrates in 15-minute steps. Your existing sun settings are kept exactly as you left them. Calculated shade is something you opt into, zone by zone, whenever you are ready. 600 PLANTS, UP FROM 250 • 600 curated plants, with 100 now free (previously 50) • Every plant now carries spread, deciduous or evergreen, flowering months and soil texture tolerance • Big gains where they were thinnest: groundcover 8 to 60, climbers 11 to 38, vegetables 34 to 68, trees 25 to 71 • Toxicity now fully sourced, and flagged by route- whether the risk is from eating or from contact • Edible crops that appear on that list, like rhubarb and potato, now carry the specific caveat rather than a blanket warning • Companion planting warnings extended BETTER RECOMMENDATIONS Plants are matched against your zone's measured conditions rather than a single sun figure. Where data is missing, the rule is skipped rather than guessed, and the app tells you which caveats applied. pH matching has been fixed: plants with a wide tolerance were being demoted for no good reason. SOIL Soil estimates are now clearly labelled as estimates. If the lookup fails, FloraPlot says so, and recommendations are made without it. Soil data now refreshes when you move a garden to a new location. COSTS Plant costs are now what you actually paid, with quantity and purchase date, rather than an average price. Costs appear in the export. ALSO FIXED • Toxicity warnings were reaching only a fraction of the plants they should have- all 93 checked plants now show correctly • Several plant entries were duplicated or carried the wrong botanical name • A greenhouse was casting a solid shadow over its own interior • Trees were not shading the ground directly beneath them • Tree shade was invisible on the heatmap on long summer days • Various smaller corrections to plant data Thank you to everyone who has sent feedback. It genuinely shapes what gets built- if something is missing or wrong, please get in touch.

Corrected several plant database entries, fixed soil data refreshing when a garden's location changes, and added ten new plants.

Cover your garden Add greenhouses, polytunnels, cold frames and cloches to your plan. Mark them heated or unheated and set a soil mix — FloraPlot adjusts sowing and harvest windows to reflect the extended season. Custom structure heights Beyond the preset fence/shed/garage/house options, enter an exact height for precise shadow calculations. Know your soil See your plot's sand/silt/clay breakdown alongside pH and organic matter, with a plain-English read on what it means for planting. Avoid bad plant combinations FloraPlot now flags known problem pairings — like tomatoes near potatoes, or beans near alliums — when you're planning a zone, based on real horticultural guidance. Clearer map experience Redesigned the Map tab so the canvas sits right where you'd expect it, streamlined satellite providers, and added proper attribution. Browse My Plants by zone Switch between viewing your plants by status or by garden zone — easier to manage a busy garden. iPad support FloraPlot now runs natively on iPad- but as data stays local to your device it does not synchronise across devices.