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Placing and copying plants, and adding hedges
Putting trees and plants on the aerial photo with their species, form, year planted, pruning and watering, moving and copying them, and placing a whole row or hedge in one go.
Placing a plant
- In your garden, choose Place a plant and tap the map where the plant is.
- Choose the species. Any species from waarnemingen.be will do, even if it isn’t in the key.
- Fill in what you know:
| Field | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Form | Tree, shrub, hedge, espalier, pollard, coppice, climber or perennial. Determines the pruning advice. |
| Nickname | E.g. “Jonagold” or “the big oak”. |
| Year planted | For its age and the advice. |
| Last pruned | The pruning schedule uses this to work out when the next pruning is due. |
| Pruning months | By default, those for the species; change them, or choose Restore the default for this species. |
| How often (in years)? | For pollards and coppice. |
| Water every … days | For a watering reminder, e.g. every 3 days for a young tree or a plant in a pot. Empty: no reminder. See Watering. |
| Is it already there? | No, planned for something you still want to plant. Later, tap Planted. |
| Also add to my guide | As an observation from today, so it counts towards your checklist. If the species is already in your guide, this is unticked. |
Your plants first, the spot later
You don’t have to put a plant on the map straight away. Under Plants, choose Add plant and pick the species: the plant is then in your garden, with the pruning schedule and reminders, but without a spot yet. Importing a list works the same way if your garden isn’t on the map yet.
Such a plant is at the top of the list with Not on the map yet. Choose Put on the map and tap the map where it stands. At the top of your garden, Getting started with your garden shows how many plants still need a spot (see Getting started).
Moving a plant
Plants are fixed on the map, so none moves when you swipe across the map or zoom in. To move one:
- Choose Move above the map, or tap the plant and choose Move. You can also pick it in the list, under a plant's ⋯: Move on the map.
- The plants wiggle. Drag one to the right spot; you can move several one after the other.
- Put it in the wrong place? Undo puts the last one back.
- Choose Done. The plants are fixed again.
To edit a plant, tap it and choose Edit.
Removing plants
- One plant: choose ⋯ next to the plant in the list and then Delete, or tap the plant on the map and choose Remove.
- Several at once: choose Select under Plants. Tick the plants (or choose All) and choose Delete. Done stops selecting.
- Indoors and in the vegetable garden, there’s a bin next to every plant and crop.
Bladwijzer always asks first. The photos of those plants are deleted too.
Drawing a hedge
You draw a hedge as a line, without placing every plant separately.
- In your garden, choose Draw a hedge.
- Tap the hedge from start to end, with a point at every bend. Below the map you see how long it is. One point too many? Choose Remove last point.
- Choose Done and then the species: tap one of the popular hedges (hornbeam, beech, privet, yew…) or search for another.
- Plants per metre already shows the usual density for that species. You see right away how many plants you need.
The hedge shows as a green line on the map, with a pin in the middle. With Move, drag the pin to move the whole hedge, or tap the hedge and choose Redraw to draw it again. The trimming advice, the calendar, the shade on the sun map and the distance to your other plants and the property boundary take its whole length into account.
Importing a list of plants
Already have a list of your plants, or a pile of labels from the garden centre? Add them to your garden in one go: under ⋯ at the top of your garden, choose Import plants. Three ways:
- Paste a list: one plant per line, with the number if you like (3 x Hornbeam, Lavandula angustifolia - 5). Copying from Excel works too: we recognise the columns.
- Excel or CSV: a file (.xlsx or .csv) with a name column, and optionally count, year (planted) and notes.
- Photo of a label: take a photo of the label. The text is read in your browser (the first time this loads ±7 MB); the photo doesn’t leave your device. We look for the Latin name with the cultivar, such as Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’. Feel free to take several photos in a row.
We find the species for each name, in Dutch, French, English or Latin, even with a small typo (close match). A cultivar becomes the plant’s name. What we can’t find is shown in orange: change the name and we search again. Choose whether they are already there or planned, then Add. In a garden with a map they appear in a grid in the middle: then move them into place. Indoors they simply go into the list. At most 100 plants at a time; in a vegetable garden you add crops in the plan.
Copying and pasting
- Tap a plant on the map and choose Copy, or in the list of plants choose ⋯ › Copy and paste elsewhere.
- Choose Paste above the map and tap where the copy should go. Each tap adds another one.
- Your clipboard stays as long as the tab is open: you can also paste into another garden, or take over a plant from a shared garden. Copy another plant and that one goes on the clipboard. Choose Clear clipboard to remove the Paste button.
A whole row or hedge at once
Under Paste, choose Row or hedge, tap the start and end points and choose the planting distance. Bladwijzer spaces the plants evenly. Choose Place to add them.
Pruned
Tap Pruned on a plant when you’ve pruned it today. The next pruning in the pruning schedule then moves along automatically.
Watering
Does a plant need watering regularly, like a young tree, a newly planted hedge or a plant in a pot? Under Edit, fill in Water every … days.
- The plant then appears under To do in your garden (below the plants), in your calendar and in your morning reminder.
- Tap Watered when you’ve watered it: the next time moves along, and it’s recorded in the log.
- Has the plant settled in well? Then clear the field: the reminder stops.
Updated on 2026-10-14