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You know roughly what you want. This is how you get from an idea to a plant order: measuring your yard, mapping its light, spacing plants so they look right at maturity, and working out how many to buy.

A Plantyd sun-analysis map of a backyard. A large labeled house and ADU sit on the left with a green lawn between them; open yard to the right is shaded by a row of trees. Yellow marks full sun, an orange band marks part sun around the big tree canopy, blue marks part shade including a strip down the east side of the house, and the legend sits in the corner

Garden PlanningJuly 22, 2026 · 9 min read

How Much Sun Does My Yard Get? How to Sun-Map It (Full Sun vs. Partial Shade)

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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