Saved spots

Saving a spot

Save from the bottom of your plant list. The name is yours to choose; the town is suggested. A spot needs a point on the map, so a list started by picking a region can’t be saved. Put the pin down first.

Saved spots live in this browser, on this device, and nowhere else. That keeps them private, and it means you should keep a copy.

A spot’s page

Tap a spot on Saved spots to open it. From the top:

• What’s growing here: how many plants and kinds you’ve logged, and how many raise caterpillars.
• Rename or Move: move the pin if you saved it in the wrong place.
• The season plan, the wildlife, and your plant log, each explained below.
• Plant more: opens the spot’s ranked list again, with the goal you saved it with.

To delete a spot, use 🗑 beside it on the Saved spots list. It removes its plant log too, and can’t be undone.

Logging what you plant

On a plant’s page, 🌱 I planted one asks which spot it went into and opens that spot with the plant already chosen. You can also add one from the spot page, under Add a plant you’ve planted. Then say:

• When it went in. A year alone is fine: “2024” is enough.
• How many. Six milkweeds count as six.

Each row then shows how long it’s been in the ground and how big it should be by now if it’s thriving, from the plant’s measured growth. In the first year it says “First year is roots, not shoots”: most natives grow down before they grow up.

Photographed it on iNaturalist? You can link the photo to the row. Linking iNaturalist explains how.

The wildlife at your spot

• Wildlife in the neighborhood: the animals known to eat or shelter in what you’ve planted, and which of your plants each one uses. ⭐ means no other plant will do. It says they can use it, not that they’ve found it yet.
• Spotted around here: tap Look on iNaturalist to see photos of those animals taken within 5 km. A 👀 badge on an animal counts its sightings. iNaturalist gets a point rounded to about 1 km, never the spot itself.

The creatures your plants feed explains what “host” and “essential” mean.

The season plan

Once plants are logged with a date, Grow more this season names the ones old enough to share and what to do now: collect ripe seed, divide a clump, take cuttings. Plants wildlife needs most come first. Each task links to its how-to.

• See the whole season plan adds what’s coming up next season.
• Plant next, for the wildlife looks up the animals seen near the spot at this time of year, and suggests natives you haven’t planted that would feed them.
• The Saved spots page shows the three most useful tasks across all your spots.

Trees and shrubs wait until their kind is old enough to bear seed: a white oak, about 20 years. Growing more covers every technique.