Your personal garden planner
Plan your garden, look after it and turn it into a wildlife garden
Bladwijzer is your garden planner and plant guide in one. You draw your garden on the aerial photo, choose plants that suit it, get a calendar for the whole year and see what your garden means for nature. Free, without adverts.
- 262species with a full profile
- 1,300+garden plants in the catalogue
- 600+recipes from your garden
- 20guides to a wildlife garden
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Your garden on the map
Your plot comes from the land registry, in Belgium and the Netherlands. Place your trees, hedges, borders and buildings on the aerial photo.
Draw your garden -
Sun, shade and soil
The sun map with compass shows how much sun each spot gets, and the soil map tells you what soil you have.
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Plants that suit
Will it fit here? looks at the light, soil, space and neighbours of each spot, and helps you put a border together.
Browse garden plants
Gardening for nature
See what your garden does for nature
A garden can hold far more nature than you think. Bladwijzer helps you in small steps, with native plants and without pesticides.
- A nature score: native plants, flowers for bees and butterflies, places for wildlife
- The flowering calendar shows the months without flowers, and what would suit your soil then
- Every profile says whether a plant is native, or an invasive alien species you would do better to remove
Every season
Small tasks, a big difference
Leave the leaves, plant three native shrubs, put up a nest box: a few challenges for your garden every season, with badges as a reward.
Challenges and badges
Your garden calendar
Prune, sow and harvest at the right time
Bladwijzer knows your plants and when you last pruned them. So every month you get what needs doing, for all your gardens together.
- Pruning, harvesting, sowing, planting out and watering
- A warning for night frost, and less watering after rain
- In Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook with your own link
Your garden on your plate
Learning to use your garden: harvesting and cooking
Your garden gives more than you think: elderflower, berries, nuts, herbs and wild plants. Bladwijzer tells you when to pick what and what to make with it.
- For each plant, when to pick flowers, leaves, fruit or nuts
- Recipes for preserving, fermenting and cooking
- Save, import and share your own recipes
- For poisonous plants and lookalikes, it is clearly marked what you should not eat
A guide to every plant
Everything about your plants, month by month
262 species in the guide, over 1,300 garden plants and more than 300 species from Europe, with care, pruning and uses.
- Identifying, site, planting, pruning, diseases and uses
- Through the year: what to do each month
- Identify with a photo or the identification key of 144 species
An example
A year in An’s garden
An has a town garden in Ghent with an old oak, an apple and a pear tree, an elder and a hornbeam hedge. This is how Bladwijzer helps her through the year.
- FebruaryPruning the apple and the pearHer calendar says when: in winter, while the trees are dormant.Apple tree pruning guide
- MarchSowing tomatoes indoorsThe sowing calendar gives the sowing depth and the germination temperature.Sowing in March
- MayNo Mow MayShe lets a patch of lawn flower, for bees and butterflies.The wildlife garden
- JuneMaking elderflower cordialShe picks the flowers on a dry morning, as the recipe says.The recipe
- AugustHaving the hedge trimmedIn late August, after the nesting season, by a local tree surgeon.Hornbeam pruning guide
- SeptemberElderberry jellyFrom the ripe black berries, always cooked: raw, they are mildly poisonous.The recipe
- NovemberLeaving the leavesUnder the shrubs, as winter shelter for hedgehogs and insects.The guide
And much more
Vegetable garden and seeds
- Beds and crops plan your vegetable garden bed by bed, with what grows where and when.
- Sowing calendar what to sow, plant out and harvest when, with sowing depth, germination temperature and germination time.
- Seeds and wish list your seed stock and what you are still looking for, to swap with your neighbours.
Keeping track of your garden
- Log photos, measurements and what you did, per plant and over the years.
- Gardening together share your garden with your household or a professional, and plan work days in a community garden.
- Garden plan and export your garden plan as a PDF to print, and all your data to take with you.
- Indoors your houseplants too, with their own watering.
Together in your neighbourhood
- Swapping and sharing seeds, cuttings and your surplus harvest on the noticeboard.
- Open gardens and garden trails visit gardens near you, or open your own.
- Groups and activities a gardening club, a neighbourhood group or a workshop nearby.
- Finding a professional tree surgeons and landscape gardeners nearby, with your garden and a work order attached.
Start with your garden
A free account, and your plot appears straight away. You can export everything and delete your account at any time.
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