Every change

How growing more grew, newest first — the same plain notes that go out with each update.

October 9, 2026

A season plan for every saved spot. It picks the plants you've had long enough to share, says what to do now — collect ripe seed, divide a clump — and puts the ones wildlife needs most first, linked to the how-to.
the season plan can also suggest natives to add, for the animals photographed within 5 km of your spot this season. It asks iNaturalist when you tap to look, then remembers the answer for a month.
your Saved spots open with the three most useful things to grow more of this season, across all of them.
the season plan now names its sources — the RHS, the USDA Woody Plant Seed Manual and Audubon — and each technique page links to further reading. Seed tasks on plants birds eat from say to leave some standing.
trees and shrubs get seed reminders only once they reach the age their species first bears seed, from the USDA Woody Plant Seed Manual, and in the months its fruit ripens. White oak waits 20 years.
every technique page was checked against published guides and corrected where they disagree — cold stratification takes one to six months, and semi-ripe cuttings go in a pot within half a day.

October 2, 2026

the satoyama flora joins the catalogue — wild cherry, keyaki, bush clover, susuki grass. Enoki hackberry is the one tree Japan's national butterfly can raise its young on.
American bittersweet, virgin's bower and sensitive fern join the catalogue. Bittersweet's orange capsules split to scarlet seed in October and feed waxwings through February, when nothing else is left.

September 24, 2026

the yarrow you buy as seed is often the European kind, naturalized here rather than native. The plant's page now says so, and says to ask for the western one instead.
The "what to do this season" card now knows which side of the equator your garden is on, so a spot in Sydney or Cape Town sees spring now, not autumn.

September 24, 2026

heather flowers from July into October, the emptiest stretch of the southern year for nectar — everything else has shut down for the drought. That is why it is on the Mediterranean list.
eight more Pacific Northwest natives — Sitka spruce, shore pine, wild rhododendron, fringecup, sweet coltsfoot, western skunk cabbage, vanilla leaf and stream violet. Sweet coltsfoot flowers in February, on bare stalks, when a bumblebee queen has almost nothing else to feed on.

August 7, 2026

Every way to grow more, and when in the year to do it. Each of the fifteen techniques now has a page of its own, with the season to do it in. Ways to grow more lays them all against the four seasons.
Every technique page says how long you'll be waiting, and how it usually goes wrong. Three to six weeks for a soft green cutting; eighteen months for a seed with double dormancy. Each names the one slip that wastes the attempt.
The windows are seasons and signs, never dates. February in the Florida Keys is April in Pennsylvania. So: take the cutting if a bent shoot tip snaps cleanly, collect fern spores when the frond backs turn brown, sow fresh seed the week it ripens.
A reading list for anyone who wants more than one page. Ways to grow more now names the eight free resources every propagation note is written from, with a line on what each is good for.
Sharing one of these pages shows a picture of the year. Post a link to taking hardwood cuttings and the preview arrives with winter lit, before anyone has tapped anything.
"Ways to grow more" uses the whole screen on a computer. The page was a narrow strip of cards with empty space either side; the techniques now lay out three across, and it is half as tall. On a phone, nothing changes.

July 18, 2026

Every plant now has "how to make more of it": plain-words tips for growing new plants from seed, cuttings, or division — free plants for you, your neighbors, and the birds.