Real designs, real plant lists, and the thinking behind them. Walkthroughs of landscapes planned (and exported) in Plantyd, plus the practical guides for planning your own.
Permaculture's most reproduced diagram gets taught as a planting list, seven slots waiting to be filled. Read it that way and in ten years you will have shaded out five of them.
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A step-by-step guide to mapping the sunlight in your yard: the free paper-and-pencil method, what "full sun" and "partial shade" actually mean in hours, and how to see where shade will fall as your trees grow.
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Plantyd's sun analysis maps the light in a real native garden at year 1 and year 15: watch several hundred square feet of full sun turn to part shade as the trees grow, and see how the 26-species planting was designed for it.
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A whole home landscape design on one sheet: a butterfly garden, raised vegetable beds, a pergola terrace, a spruce screen, and a small orchard on a quarter-acre zone 6a lot, with the design moves worth copying in your own yard.
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