For gardeners and the people who look after gardens

Your garden's year, worked out.

Tell Garden Matters what you grow. It sets out the jobs, from winter pruning to the first mow, and when each one is due. Frost and weather alerts for your postcode tell you when to act.

Apply for the beta Free while it's in beta. Works on any phone.

Good morning, Jo.

Frost tomorrow Down to −2 °C overnight at IP24. Time to fleece anything tender.

Upcoming

Winter pruneApple tree, by the shed

Due today

Last leaf rakeFront lawn

In 3 days

Ericaceous feedBlueberries

Next week

How it works

Pick a plant. Get its year.

Every plant type comes with a typical year of jobs for England and Wales. Untick what doesn't suit yours, and change any timing. Each job becomes a schedule of your own that comes due on the right day.

Apple tree, dwarfing rootstock, in a pot 7 jobs a year

JFMAMJJASOND Winter pruneOnce, Dec to Feb Top-dress the potOnce, in March Liquid feedEvery 2 weeks WaterEvery 2 days Thin the fruitOnce, in July Summer pruneOnce, in August HarvestAug to Oct

Timings are typical for England and Wales. Up north or high up, things often run a week or two later.

For your own garden

Less remembering, more gardening.

Everything in your garden, front lawn to fruit cage, with the jobs each one needs.

A year of jobs in one tapChoose a plant type and get its pruning, feeding, watering and harvest, with dates.
Weather alerts for your postcodeFrost, ground frost, heat, rain on the way, and when the soil is warm enough to sow.
Set up a whole garden at onceStart from a garden template and get the lawn, beds and fruit in one go.
A record of what you didEvery feed, cut and spray, so next year you know what worked.

For garden businesses

Every client's garden, one place.

For gardeners, landscapers and maintenance crews looking after other people's gardens.

All your clients' gardensEvery site with its own items, jobs and access notes, like the side-gate code.
Your team, with the right accessOwners, admins, managers and crew. Give each person the gardens they work on.
Customers in the loopInvite clients to see their own garden, and let them log a watering between your visits.
Your own care plansCopy a plant type, adjust its jobs to how you work, and reuse it for every client.

Plant facts in plain words

Hardiness you can read at a glance.

Each plant type carries its hardiness on the familiar H1 to H7 scale, its sun and water needs, and whether it suits a pot. You see it in words. Hover for the rating.

H7Hardy below −20 °C

H6Hardy in a very cold winter, to about −20 °C

H5Hardy in a cold winter, to about −15 °C

H4Hardy in an average winter, to about −10 °C

H3Half-hardy, to about −5 °C

H2Frost-free glasshouse, 1 to 5 °C

H1Needs glass or heat for some or all of the year

Join the beta

Try it in your garden.

We're letting people in a few at a time. Tell us who you are and we'll email you an invite.