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#October 2026

#Share your finds

• A new species in your guide, a milestone (10, 25, 50 … species) or a badge? Now and then Bladwijzer asks at the bottom of the screen whether you’d like to share it, with an image for Instagram, WhatsApp or Facebook. At most once a week; turn it off with Don’t ask again or under Account › Privacy. See Sharing.

#Your garden: everything together or each part on its own

• At the top of your garden, choose All, Garden, Vegetable garden or Indoors: everything on one page, or only outdoors, only your vegetable garden or only your houseplants. See Everything together, or each part on its own.

#Your house, the vegetable garden and the greenhouse on the map

• Tap your house on the map and choose Put a plant indoors. You draw your vegetable garden and a greenhouse on your plot; Vegetable garden on the map zooms in on it, and from a bed or the greenhouse you add a crop straight away. See Your house, the vegetable garden and the greenhouse on the map.
• Already had a separate Vegetable garden or Indoors? Add it to your garden: everything comes along. See Adding a separate vegetable garden or indoors.
• The vegetable garden and indoors now span the full width below the map, and the map stays in view beside your plants.

#One garden, divided: outdoors, the vegetable garden and indoors

• Your garden now also has the parts Vegetable garden and Indoors, on the same page. You draw a vegetable bed on your plot; a tray on the windowsill goes indoors. Your houseplants are listed room by room under Indoors. See One garden: outdoors, the vegetable garden and indoors.
• Getting started with your garden: at the top of a new garden, three steps in the order you choose: your plants, your garden on the map, and your plants in their spot. A plant can first be in your garden without a spot.
• Removing plants is quicker: per plant in the list or on the map, or several at once with Select.
• The soil and the sun are looked up faster, with a counter, and Bladwijzer tries again by itself if it doesn’t work.

#Garden mapping: we map your garden for you

• No time to draw your garden yourself? Request Garden mapping: Bladwijzer comes round, identifies every tree, shrub, hedge and plant and draws it all into your garden. You then have a complete pruning plan, your harvest with recipes and tailored advice.
• Request it at the bottom of your garden under Help from a professional, on the page itself or from your worksheet. You first receive a quote; you pay after the work, with the invoice in Bladwijzer. See Having your garden mapped.

#Ten new comparisons: oaks, maples, cedars, berries and fruit

• Ten more pairs in Side by side have their own, detailed text: Turkey oak or English oak, red oak or pin oak, sycamore or silver maple, Atlas cedar or cedar of Lebanon, redcurrant or gooseberry, highbush blueberry or bilberry, nashi pear or pear, apricot or peach, quince or pear and white or black mulberry.
• Sixty pairs now have their own text. See Side by side.

#Wildlife garden: bats, amphibians, composting and the butterfly bush

• Under Wildlife garden there are four new guides, bringing the total to twenty-four: bats (moths, water, a dark garden and a bat box), frogs, toads and newts (a pond without fish and hiding places for the winter), composting (mixing green and brown, keeping it moist and turning it) and replacing a butterfly bush with native plants that also feed caterpillars.
• Each guide has the steps, why it helps, the plants that suit it (native ones first) and the months you work on it. See Challenges › Wildlife garden.

#Ten new comparisons: roses, willows, spruces and non-natives

• Ten more pairs in Side by side have their own, detailed text, this time for roses, willows, spruces and firs, herbs and non-native plants next to their native lookalike: sweet-briar or dog rose (smell the leaf), burnet rose or Japanese rose, osier or white willow, goat willow or grey willow, Colorado blue spruce or Norway spruce, Douglas fir or silver fir, English lavender or common sage, Japanese barberry or barberry, common or white dogwood and snowy mespilus or bird cherry.
• For the non-natives, you can read which native species to choose instead and how to stop them escaping into the wild. Fifty pairs now have their own text. See Side by side.

#A hundred pruning guides with their own text

• The last ten of the hundred pruning guides with their own, detailed text are here, this time for ornamental shrubs and a tree: mountain hydrangea (only the old flower heads, in March), Japanese snowball (as little as possible, keep the tiers), wayfaring tree and ninebark (after flowering, take out old wood), Japanese barberry (trim before the berries ripen, as it runs wild), skimmia and pieris (hardly at all, straight after flowering), bluebeard and golden clematis (cut back hard every spring) and sweet chestnut (lightly, or as coppice).
• Each guide says what wildlife notices, with bees on bluebeard and chestnut blossom, the viburnum berries for birds, and which prunings fall in the nesting season. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Pruning guides: clematis, hydrangeas, rowan, dogwood and alder buckthorn

• Ten more pruning guides have their own, detailed text, this time for clematis, hydrangeas and shrubs: mountain clematis (only if needed, straight after flowering), Italian clematis and old man’s beard (cut back hard every spring), climbing hydrangea and oakleaf hydrangea (lightly, after flowering), smooth hydrangea (in March, to 20–30 cm), rowan (lightly, in winter), red-barked dogwood (every spring, for red stems), alder buckthorn (rarely, before mid-March) and Japanese spiraea (in March, to 15–20 cm).
• Each guide says what wildlife notices: the brimstone on alder buckthorn, rowan berries for thrushes and waxwings, old man’s beard fluff as nesting material, small fertile flowers for bees in hydrangeas, and which prunings fall in the nesting season. Ninety guides now have their own text. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Pruning guides: rhododendron, camellia, heather, Californian lilac, morello, nashi and mulberry

• Ten more pruning guides have their own, detailed text, this time for acid soil, ornamental shrubs and fruit: rhododendron and camellia (straight after flowering, as next year’s buds form quickly), heather (the faded spikes in March–April, never into bare wood), rose of Sharon and Californian lilac (evergreen or deciduous: very different pruning), barberry and Japanese kerria (after flowering, take out old wood), morello cherry (straight after harvest, cut out the shoots that fruited), nashi (like a pear, in winter and summer) and black mulberry (lightly, only when fully dormant).
• Each guide says what wildlife notices: bumblebees on rhododendron and camellia, the heather colletes on heather, blue ceanothus and late rose of Sharon for bees, berries and mulberries for birds, and which prunings fall in the nesting season. Eighty guides now have their own text. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Pruning guides: blackthorn, dog rose, wild privet, lime, sycamore, Virginia creeper and honeysuckle

• Ten more pruning guides have their own, detailed text, this time for hedges, trees and climbers: blackthorn (a shrub in winter, a hedge after flowering, never everything at once), dog rose (lightly, at the end of winter, so the hips stay), wild privet (a formal hedge twice, a wildlife hedge once), Cornelian cherry (lightly, after flowering), juneberry and cotoneaster (keep the natural shape, cut out fireblight well back, and don’t plant them near nature reserves), sycamore (in summer, as it bleeds in spring), lime (as a pleached tree, pollard or hedge), Virginia creeper (every winter, well clear of windows and gutters) and honeysuckle (shorten flowered stems, remove old ones).
• Each guide says what wildlife notices: the brown hairstreak’s eggs on young twigs, nests in hedges and climbers, lime and sycamore for bees, the white admiral on honeysuckle, and which prunings fall in the nesting season. Seventy guides now have their own text. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Logging in with Google or Apple

• The pages for logging in and creating an account now offer Continue with Google and Continue with Apple. Without an account, Bladwijzer creates one straight away, with a confirmed email address and no password; if you already have an account with the same confirmed address, you log in to that one.
• Under Account you link Google or Apple to your account or remove the link. If you created your account with Google or Apple, you can also choose a first password there. See Logging in with Google or Apple.

#Your garden first on the home page

• The home page now starts with your garden. When you’re logged in, you see My gardens at the top and what needs doing this month; without an account, the garden planner, with cards for your garden on the map, the wildlife garden, your garden calendar, harvesting and cooking, the vegetable garden and your neighbourhood. Identifying (search, photo, identification key and the species of the day) is further down the page.
• In the menu, My garden is now at the top, before Identify.
• New: the garden planner brings together everything you can do with your garden, from the sun map and Will it fit here? to the nature score, the recipes and the vegetable garden, and Bladwijzer for businesses does the same for tree surgeons, landscape gardeners and gardeners. See Getting started.

#Reporting a garden trail

• Does a garden trail not belong in Bladwijzer, is it advertising or misleading? Choose Report on the trail’s page, as for an open garden: the administrator gets a notification and checks it. See Reporting and blocking.

#Pruning guides: dogwood and guelder rose, witch hazel, flowering cherry and almond, hardy kiwi and blackberry

• Ten more pruning guides have their own, detailed text, this time for native shrubs, shrubs pruned after flowering, stone fruit and soft fruit: common dogwood (a third of the oldest stems out in late February–March, for red stems in winter), guelder rose (lightly, after flowering, so the berries stay for the birds), mock orange and deutzia (straight after flowering, some of the oldest stems out at the base, never in winter), witch hazel (hardly at all, but wild shoots from the rootstock out), Japanese flowering cherry and almond (lightly, in summer, against silver leaf and gummosis), hardy kiwi (in winter and in July, like a kiwi), jostaberry (like a blackcurrant) and blackberry (fruited canes out, young canes tied in, and a corner of wild brambles for wildlife).
• Here too, every guide tells you what pruning means for wildlife: nests in brambles and dogwood, guelder rose berries for bullfinches and waxwings in winter, witch hazel for the first bees, bramble flowers for butterflies, and which prunes fall in the nesting season. Sixty guides now have their own text. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Pruning guides: hazel and walnut, pollard willow, elder, ivy and winter fruit

• Ten more pruning guides have their own, detailed text, this time for nuts, pollard willow, berrying shrubs, evergreens and winter fruit: hazel (a few old stems out every year, or coppiced every 7–10 years), walnut (only in July–September, as it bleeds in winter and spring), pollard willow (pollarded in winter every 3–7 years, and hollow pollards left standing), elder (old stems out at ground level, for flowers and berries at picking height), firethorn (after flowering and in summer, sparing the young berry clusters) and photinia (twice a year, for fresh red shoots), ivy (keep gutters and windows clear, but spare the flowering shoots at the top), rosemary (after flowering, never into old wood), quince and medlar (lightly, in winter, as the flowers sit at the shoot tips).
• Here too, every guide tells you what pruning means for wildlife: little owls and bats in hollow pollard willows, the late flowers of ivy for bees and butterflies, berries for thrushes and waxwings in winter, and which prunes fall in the nesting season. Fifty guides now have their own text. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Pruning guides: soft fruit, peach and apricot, holly and ornamental shrubs

• Ten more pruning guides have their own, detailed text, this time for soft fruit, stone fruit and ornamental shrubs: blackcurrant (a third of the oldest stems out every year, as it fruits on one-year-old wood), gooseberry (an open bowl, against mildew and thorns), blueberry (old stems out after about five years, but acid soil first), peach and apricot (in the growing season, never in winter), holly (poisonous berries, male and female plants), weigela and spiraea (after flowering, or in March for a summer-flowering spiraea), magnolia (as little as possible, after flowering) and Japanese maple (hardly anything, and never in spring: it bleeds).
• Here too, every guide tells you what pruning means for wildlife: which prunes fall in the nesting season, which early flowers help bumblebees and bees, and which berries birds eat in winter. Forty guides now have their own text. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Pruning guides: evergreen hedges, lilac and southern fruit

• Ten more pruning guides have their own, detailed text, this time for evergreen hedges, spring-flowering shrubs and southern fruit: box (watch out for box tree moth and box blight, without poison), cherry laurel (with secateurs, removing the faded flower spikes, and ideally replaced by a native hedge), thuja and Leyland cypress (never into the brown wood), forsythia and lilac (straight after flowering), grapevine (in winter and summer, not in spring), fig and olive (only once the frosts are over) and kiwi (winter and summer pruning, and the male plant after flowering).
• Here too, every guide tells you what pruning means for wildlife: conifer hedges are favourite nesting sites in the nesting season, and you can read which shrubs have something to offer bees and butterflies, and which don’t. Thirty guides now have their own text. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Pruning guides: roses, hydrangeas, lavender and climbers

• Ten more pruning guides have their own, detailed text, this time for spring and summer: bush rose and climbing rose (prune a rambler after flowering), hydrangea (the mophead flowers on old wood: only cut off the old flower heads) and panicled hydrangea (flowers on new wood and can be cut back firmly), butterfly bush (remove the faded spikes before it seeds itself), lavender (never into the bare wood), raspberry (summer and autumn raspberries), redcurrant, large-flowered clematis (early or late-flowering) and wisteria (twice a year).
• Here too, every guide tells you what pruning means for wildlife: the nesting season, bees and butterflies on the flowers, and hips and berries for the birds. Twenty guides now have their own text. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Rose hips from harsh downy-rose and Rosa nitida

• Two more wild roses among the garden plants have Edible and useful on their page: the native harsh downy-rose and Rosa nitida, with the harvest and recipes of dog rose (rose hips, with the seeds and hairs removed). See Edible plants and recipes.

#Every poisonous garden plant now has its own warning

• The last 30 poisonous garden plants have a warning of their own under Edible and useful: hosta (for dogs, cats and horses), peony (the glossy seeds), milkweed and amsonia (milky sap), soapwort, yarrow, chrysanthemum, pyrethrum (for cats), sneezeweed, asarabacca and Dutchman’s pipe (never as a herb or tea), Japanese spurge, periwinkle, primroses (not the cowslip), biting stonecrop (not a pepper), false indigo, Kentucky coffeetree, eucalyptus (the oil), Chinese arborvitae and Carolina allspice.
• All poisonous garden plants, over 370 of them, now have a text of their own: what is poisonous, what it can be mistaken for, who is most at risk and what to do. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Poisonous garden plants: poppies, annuals and climbers

• 37 more poisonous garden plants have a warning of their own under Edible and useful: poppies (not the opium poppy: poppy seed comes from another species), plume poppy (orange sap for skin and eyes), morning glory (seeds taken as a ‘drug’), flowering tobacco (nicotine), four o’clock plant, lantana, wallflower, Madagascar periwinkle (no tea for diabetes), corncockle (not in chicken feed), lobelia, baby’s breath in bouquets (for cats), pinks and geraniums (not the edible pinks or scented geraniums), rough horsetail, and silver ragwort, hemp agrimony and other plants that damage the liver of horses and cattle, in hay too.
• Over 340 poisonous garden plants now have a text of their own. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Poisonous plants indoors: arums, figs, kalanchoe and begonia

• 42 more poisonous garden plants have a warning of their own under Edible and useful, mostly houseplants: monstera, philodendron, scindapsus and other members of the arum family (crystals in the sap, for cats that chew trailing stems), dieffenbachia, giant taro (alocasia, which is not taro) and caladium, dragon trees, snake plant and lucky bamboo, figs (milky sap and latex allergy), croton, desert rose (which acts on the heart), kalanchoe, begonias (tuberous and wax begonia too), wood sorrel, tradescantia, coffee plant (caffeine for dogs and cats), poison primrose (a rash; not the cowslip in the garden) and more.
• Over 300 poisonous garden plants now have a text of their own. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Poisonous garden plants: irises, anemones and buttercups

• 41 more poisonous garden plants have a warning of their own under Edible and useful: twelve irises (the bulbs of bulbous irises look like shallots, do not make your own orris root from the rhizome of bearded iris, and the red seeds of stinking iris tempt children) and 29 plants of the buttercup family: anemone, ranunculus, buttercup, marsh marigold, hepatica, pasqueflower and globeflower (an acrid sap for skin and mouth, and a danger to rabbits, guinea pigs and livestock), winter aconite, columbine, delphinium, yellow pheasant’s eye (which acts on the heart), bugbane and meadow rue.
• Over 260 poisonous garden plants now have a text of their own. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Poisonous garden plants: crocus, cyclamen and other bulbs

• 40 more poisonous garden plants have a warning of their own under Edible and useful, all of them bulbs, corms or tubers: crocuses (not to be confused with the highly poisonous Colchicum, and saffron comes only from the saffron crocus), squills and glory-of-the-snow, snake’s head fritillary and crown imperial, gladiolus (in winter, do not store the corms with the potatoes and onions), African lily, cyclamen (florist’s cyclamen too: the tuber is dangerous to dogs and cats), belladonna lily, crinum, nerine, sprekelia and sternbergia (like the daffodil), as well as hollowroot and fumewort.
• Over 220 poisonous garden plants now have a text of their own. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Supporting Bladwijzer: Buy Me a Coffee and bank transfer

• With Support Bladwijzer (at the bottom of every page) you can now give via Buy Me a Coffee (by card, on their page) or by ordinary bank transfer: choose an amount and scan the QR code with your banking app, and the beneficiary, amount and reference are filled in for you. Or copy the IBAN and reference with the copy button. The bank transfer needs no extra account.
• A donation goes to a private individual and isn’t tax-deductible. See Supporting Bladwijzer.

#Poisonous garden plants: ornamental onions, berries and box

• 39 more poisonous garden plants have a warning of their own under Edible and useful: fifteen ornamental onions (poisonous to dogs and cats, like onion and garlic, and not for eating, even though they are true alliums), the berries of honeysuckles, ivy, pernettya, Italian buckthorn, skimmia, butcher’s broom, jetbead, tutsan and asparagus fern (the honeysuckle with edible berries is the honeyberry), the sap of clematis and calla, which irritates the skin and mouth, and box, whose clippings are dangerous to livestock and dogs.
• Over 180 poisonous garden plants now have a text of their own. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Lime blossom, rose hips and large pink

• Nine more garden plants have an Edible and useful section on their page. Seven share the harvest and recipes of a species or plant in the guide: American basswood (like small-leaved lime), Oriental beech (like beech), Japanese rowan (like rowan, only cooked), red-leaved rose, cinnamon rose and Virginia rose (hips as with dog rose) and large-flowered evening primrose (like common evening primrose).
• Large pink has recipes of its own with its scented, fringed petals: a flower vinegar and a panna cotta. Only unsprayed, without the base of the petals, in moderation and not during pregnancy.
• French lavender is not for the kitchen (use English lavender for that), but it is lovely in sachets and pot-pourri. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Poisonous garden plants: pets, livestock and sap

• 42 more poisonous garden plants have a warning of their own under Edible and useful, this time mainly for people with animals: lilies are life-threatening to cats (even the pollen and the vase water), rhododendron, azalea, kalmia and leucothoe to goats, sheep, alpacas, rabbits and guinea pigs (never give them the clippings), and sago palm and zamia to dogs, each with when to call the vet. Also the berries of cotoneaster, the milky sap of spurges (what to do if it gets in your eyes) and burning bush, which blisters the skin in sunlight.
• Over 140 poisonous garden plants now have a text of their own. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Umeshu, pinks and maple syrup

• Ten more garden plants have an Edible and useful section on their page, all plants you may not have known were edible: red chokeberry, Japanese apricot, Siberian crab apple, sugar maple, musk mallow, common pink (and Cheddar pink), cuckooflower, rosebay willowherb, meadow clary and lady’s bedstraw. With recipes such as umeshu and umeboshi, pink apple sauce with red chokeberry, fruit leather, maple syrup, sugar scented with pinks, cuckooflower butter, fermented willowherb tea (Ivan chai), gnocchi with meadow clary and fresh cheese with lady’s bedstraw.
• With clear warnings: never eat Japanese apricots raw, and never the stone; do not blend the pips of chokeberries and Siberian crab apples; only unsprayed pinks, without the white base; cuckooflower in moderation and only from your own garden; do not confuse lady’s bedstraw with ragwort; only tap sugar maple during frost and thaw, with one hole a year. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Poisonous garden plants: what they are mistaken for

• 41 more poisonous garden plants have a warning of their own under Edible and useful instead of the general one: what is poisonous, what they are mistaken for and how to tell the difference, who is at risk and what to do in the garden. Such as bluebells among wild garlic, tulip and hyacinth bulbs that look like onions, buckeyes that children take for sweet chestnuts, savin and juniper, Labrador tea and marsh Labrador tea (not for tea, and not rosemary), viper’s bugloss and borage, bishop’s flower among the umbellifers, opium poppy (poppy seed, yes, but never tea from the seed heads), shoo-fly plant and Cape gooseberry, male fern and ostrich fern, the pods of broom, wisteria, tree lupin and hyacinth bean, and the berries of holly and privet.
• Over 100 poisonous garden plants now have a text of their own. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Nuts from the pond, roses and crab apples

• Ten more garden plants have an Edible and useful section on their page: blue sausage fruit (decaisnea), yellowhorn, European nettle tree, black walnut, water chestnut and pineapple, as well as garden plants you may not have known were edible: lesser calamint (nepitella), garden rose and Japanese crab apple. With recipes such as boiled water chestnuts, banana bread with black walnuts, mushrooms with nepitella, crystallised rose petals, rose petal vinegar, crab apple jelly, pectin stock for your jams, pineapple salsa and tepache. Lavandin is not for the kitchen (choose English lavender for that), but it is perfect for lavender wands and bath salts.
• With clear warnings: never eat water chestnuts raw, only take them from your own pond and never from the wild; with black walnut, not the husk, juglone for other plants and sawdust for horses; yellowhorn seeds only roasted and in moderation; lesser calamint in moderation (pulegone); only unsprayed roses. See Edible plants and recipes.

#To pick in the sowing calendar: garden plants too

• Under To pick, the sowing calendar now also shows the garden plants with an Edible and useful section: the trees, shrubs, fruit plants and climbers (strawberry tree, feijoa, Japanese quince, kumquat…) together with those in the guide, and separately To pick from perennials and herbs (wild garlic, mint, thyme, sorrel, daylily, violets, saffron crocus…). In June that is about 50 more.
• Everything in order of name, with the scientific name when two plants share a name; a long list shows part of it first (Show all for the rest). Each plant links to Edible and useful on its page, with the recipes and the warnings.

#Fruit from the greenhouse, the wall and the pergola

• Ten more garden plants have an Edible and useful section on their page: pomegranate, passion fruit, Chilean guava, jujube, loquat, Arctic raspberry, purple chokeberry, Japanese cornel, schisandra and chocolate vine (akebia). With recipes such as bulgur salad with pomegranate, passion fruit curd, loquat clafoutis, jujube and ginger tea, chokeberry muffins, dried Japanese cornels, a Korean-style cold schisandra drink and Japanese-style stir-fried akebia skin with miso.
• Honest about what ripens here (pomegranate and jujube only after a warm summer, loquat after a mild winter, passion fruit in a pot or greenhouse) and with clear warnings: never eat or grind loquat stones or leaves, only eat ripe passion fruit, do not grind chokeberry seeds, use schisandra in moderation and not during pregnancy, and only eat akebia skin cooked. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Leaf vegetables, edible flowers and citrus

• Ten more garden plants have an Edible and useful section on their page: Corsican mint, bloody dock, society garlic, garden orache, love-lies-bleeding (amaranth), crown daisy (shungiku), common evening primrose, bladder campion, lime and mandarin. With recipes such as stoemp with bloody dock, popped amaranth, shungiku with sesame dressing, Spanish-style scrambled eggs with bladder campion, key lime pie and a chicory salad with mandarin.
• With clear warnings: Corsican mint only as a garnish (pulegone), bloody dock, garden orache and amaranth leaves in moderation and preferably cooked (oxalic acid and nitrate, not for babies), daisy-family allergy with shungiku, and do not confuse the evening primrose rosette with foxglove. Lime and mandarin overwinter frost-free indoors; only use the zest of your own untreated fruit. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Herbs and spices from around the world

• Ten more garden plants have an Edible and useful section on their page: common vervain, valerian, elecampane, curry plant, Moldavian dragonhead, Mexican tarragon, Vietnamese coriander, anise, black cumin and fenugreek. With recipes such as aniseed milk, naan with black cumin, a fenugreek dal, summer rolls with Vietnamese coriander, candied elecampane root and a tea blend of vervain and lemon verbena.
• With clear warnings: anise only from seed you sowed or bought (poisonous hemlock looks like it), do not confuse black cumin with love-in-a-mist, no fenugreek with blood thinners without your doctor’s advice. Valerian is not a kitchen herb, so it has no Edible label: its root goes into a toy for your cat. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Identify by feature

• Seeing pinnate leaves, red berries or a white trunk? Under Identify by feature, choose what you see and you’ll straight away find the species it usually is: 34 features of leaves, needles, blossom, berries, fruit, trunk and twigs, such as Pinnate leaves and Red berries.
• Every page gives the answer in the first sentence, the species with a photo and the feature that identifies each one (native, poisonous or an invasive non-native you had better not plant), a tip, the question in the identification key where you carry on, and the comparison pages between species on the list.
• You’ll also find the features on the home page, on every species page, on the comparison pages and alongside the identification key. See Identify by feature.

#Wildlife garden: No Mow May and twenty guides

• Wildlife garden (in the menu under Explore) explains what No Mow May (Maai Mei Niet) is and how to take part, with twenty guides to make your garden richer in wildlife: a hedgehog-friendly garden, a native hedge, a wildflower meadow, a pond, nest boxes, a bee hotel, taking up paving, replacing invasive non-natives and more.
• Every guide gives the answer at the top, the steps, why it helps, the plants that go with it (native ones first, never an invasive non-native), the months and the matching challenge. The challenges offer Read the guide, and the garden jobs show the guides for the month. See Wildlife garden.

#Old herbs for tea, sweets and the wardrobe

• Ten more garden plants have an Edible and useful section on their page: hyssop, catnip, white horehound, liquorice, marsh mallow, Roman chamomile, clary sage, southernwood, costmary and feverfew. With recipes such as horehound drops, liquorice sticks, a cold marsh mallow root infusion, clary sage fritters and a catnip cushion for your cat.
• Most of them are old medicinal herbs, with clear warnings: small amounts, not during pregnancy, no liquorice with high blood pressure. Southernwood and feverfew are not kitchen herbs, so they have no Edible label: southernwood goes into sachets for the wardrobe, feverfew into a vase, without a recipe. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Garden jobs month by month, a monthly email and a widget

• Garden jobs month by month puts everything for a month on one page, like Garden jobs in October: the answer at the top, the jobs, what to prune (with the pruning guides), sow, harvest (with recipes), what flowers for bees, nature this month (nesting season, hedgehogs, leaving the leaves), the challenges and the articles. Each page is updated every year and links to the month two months ahead. The former Season page has become this page; old links still work. See Garden jobs month by month.
• Garden jobs this month: one email a month, on the last Friday of the month before, with the jobs, nature this month and a few pruning guides and recipes. Off by default: turn it on when you sign up or under Account. See Garden jobs this month.
• A council, school or gardening club can show the month’s garden jobs on its own website with the widget: free, without ads, cookies or tracking.

#Side by side: species that look alike

• Torn between two species? Every pair that looks alike now has a page of its own, such as English oak or sessile oak or Sweet chestnut or horse chestnut: the difference right in the first sentence, photos of both and a table with leaf, flowers, fruit, bark, shape and height, position, native or not, value for wildlife, toxicity and pruning months side by side. Nearly 300 pairs in all.
• Forty pairs have their own text: how to tell them apart at a glance, the best feature in each season (winter included), where they grow and what it means for your garden, for instance when one of the two is poisonous or invasive.
• On every profile, Looks like it, but isn’t now links to the comparison page, the pruning guide links to it too, and in the identification key you’ll find them under Torn between two species? All pairs are in the Side by side overview, with a search box. See Side by side.

#The Bladwijzer Garden Report

• Once a year Bladwijzer publishes a Garden Report with its own figures for all participating gardens together: which trees and plants are most common, how many gardens have a native hedge, a rain barrel or a compost bin, the average nature score, which vegetables are sown most, what gardeners identified and how many challenges they completed, by region (Flanders, Brussels, Wallonia and the Netherlands).
• You are only counted if you switch it on yourself under Account › Privacy: My garden data may be counted anonymously in the annual Bladwijzer Garden Report. It is off by default, separate from the newsletter, and you can withdraw at any time.
• The report contains only totals: never your name, your address, where your garden is or your garden on its own, and a figure is only shown from 10 gardens from 10 different gardeners. See Privacy and security.
• Once the administrator publishes it, the report is available to everyone on a page of its own for each year, with the figures to download.

#Pruning guide by plant

• Every plant with pruning months now has its own pruning guide, such as Beech or Apple tree: when to prune (with the months right in the first sentence), how, how much and how often, and what it means for wildlife, with common mistakes and related guides. Over 1,500 guides in all.
• Ten guides have their own, detailed text: hedges and fruit trees for the winter (beech, hornbeam, privet, yew, hawthorn, field maple, apple, pear, plum and cherry).
• On every profile, Pruning: when and how takes you to the guide; in the pruning calendar every tree and hedge links to its guide, and at the bottom you’ll find Pruning guide by plant with a search box. See Pruning guide by plant.

#Groups: members, a noticeboard, a calendar and a conversation

• Under Nearby there’s a new Groups tab: for your allotment association, beekeepers, vegetable garden club, nature society or school. A group is public (found nearby; anyone can join or send a request first) or private (by invitation only).
• Members and roles: whoever creates the group is its admin. Admins invite people by email or with a share link, approve requests, make others admin and remove members.
• Every group has its own noticeboard (posts with photos, pinned by an admin), a calendar (activities with sign-up, in your calendar and as .ics) and a conversation for the members. For each group you choose which notifications you get: all, pinned posts only or nothing.
• Public groups near you also appear in the weekly neighbourhood email. Reporting and blocking work as elsewhere in the Nearby section.

#Seed swapping: it’s a match, and harvest for the food bank

• On the noticeboard, Seeds and cuttings now starts with It’s a match: listings nearby offering something on your wish list, and who nearby has seeds of what you’re looking for. The other way round, you see who is looking for what you have among your seeds. One button lets you reply or post a swap listing.
• You choose whether others see your seed stock or your wish list; by default they don’t (Swap settings). They then only see what matches, with your name, your town and the distance to the nearest kilometre. If you like, you get a notification when there’s a match; the neighbourhood email has an It’s a match section.
• With Look for seeds you put a vegetable, herb or flower on your wish list, and your seeds and wish list show straight away what’s wanted or up for swapping nearby.
• Food banks, community restaurants, social supermarkets and schools request the organisation label under Account › Nearby. Once an administrator confirms it, they get a badge, and their request for harvest goes to gardeners nearby. Giving away harvest? You can set it aside for a food bank or community restaurant. See Harvest for a food bank.

#About Bladwijzer and key facts

• The About Bladwijzer page now tells you who makes Bladwijzer: Jani Van Quaethem, a trained arborist and beekeeper. Why Bladwijzer exists (nature-friendly gardening plant by plant and month by month, free of charge), why it is independent (no web shop, Bladwijzer sells nothing) and where the data comes from. How identification, the keys, the maps and your data work is now explained under How does it work?.
• Every species profile now starts with Key facts: the pruning months, the height, whether the species is native, whether it is good for bees, butterflies and birds, whether it is poisonous to people and pets, and the flowering months. A few headings are now a question with the answer right below, such as English oak: when to prune it? See Species pages.
• Species profiles, monthly pages and recipes show Updated on: the day the text last changed. Season now also shows, for each month, what to do in the garden and what you can see in nature.
• At the bottom of every page there is a fixed list of links to the species, garden plants, calendars, recipes, articles, diseases and pests and the identification key. Search engines and AI assistants now read the same text as you, even without the app.

#Shared recipes: photos, stars and comments

• Add up to 4 photos to your own recipes. The first one is shown at the top and on the card in the list; if you share the recipe, everyone sees them.
• Give a shared recipe or a recipe from Bladwijzer 1 to 5 stars. You see the average and how many people rated it, and under Shared by gardeners, Top rated puts the best recipes first.
• Below a shared recipe there are comments (with a photo if you like) and I made it too: a photo of your version with a short note. The person who shared the recipe gets a notification. You can report and block here too.
• Tap the name of whoever shared a recipe: you see all the recipes they shared, with the stars. See Edible plants and recipes.

#A team for professionals

• Professionals invite their team members by email to their team, as a team member or a planner, and assign jobs to them: on the job itself or straight from the schedule. Whoever you assign gets a notification and sees the job on their own worksheet, schedule and calendar, with a button for directions.
• A team member only sees their own jobs, a planner all of the team’s jobs (they also assign, accept and schedule). They record hours, materials and photos, write messages, fill in a tree inspection and mark the job as completed, but see no prices, quotes, invoices or figures.
• Every job shows the hours per person, and on an invoice you put them per entry, per person or together. In the schedule you filter by team member. See For professionals › Your team and For team members.

#Edible uses and recipes for garden plants

• About 75 garden plants from the catalogue now have an Edible and useful section on their page: when to harvest what, how to store it, what to watch out for and 1 to 3 recipes. Herbs such as mint, marjoram, wild garlic and lemon verbena, edible flowers such as violas and daylilies, and fruit such as wild strawberry, loganberry, Cape gooseberry and feijoa.
• A poisonous garden plant has no recipes but a clear warning instead: what is poisonous, what it is mistaken for (autumn crocus or lily of the valley for wild garlic, daffodil bulbs for onions) and what to do if someone has eaten some.
• If they grow in your garden, their harvest times appear in your calendar and on the map. You can now also link a recipe of your own to a garden plant. See Edible plants and recipes.

#Open gardens and garden trails

• Under Nearby there’s a new Open gardens tab: gardens you can visit on an open garden day, on a map and in a list, with the distance, the date and filters (this weekend, free, wheelchair accessible).
• Sign up for a day, for a time slot if the owner offers them. You get a confirmation with the address, a reminder the morning before and the appointment in your calendar. Before you sign up you only see an approximate location and a circle on the map: you get the exact address afterwards.
• Open your own garden on one or more days, with times, time slots with a maximum number of visitors, what there is to see, photos from your garden, the accessibility and free entry or a voluntary contribution for a good cause. You see who’s coming, and you can cancel a day with a reason: everyone who signed up is notified.
• A garden trail links open gardens on the same day in a sensible order on the map, with a link to Google Maps. The weekly neighbourhood email also lists upcoming open gardens.

#Recurring maintenance with maintenance contracts

• Professionals agree a maintenance contract with a client, with one or more recurring visits: e.g. the hedge every year in June, the espaliers from November to February or garden maintenance every three months, with the plants and a guide price or lines for a quote. It can also be created straight from a completed job.
• The client accepts or declines the contract online; either of you can stop it at any time.
• Six weeks before each visit, Bladwijzer proposes it itself: the client gets a notification and confirms with one click, or skips the visit. The professional sees the next visits and the proposals on their worksheet, can already propose a date and, with lines, gets a draft quote straight away. See For professionals and A maintenance contract.

#Blocking, suspensions and new accounts

• Don’t want to see or hear from someone in the Nearby section any more? Choose Block on a listing, a question or answer, a shared recipe, equipment, a booking or an activity. You then no longer see each other’s content, and that person can’t send you messages, respond or book from you. They aren’t notified; you unblock under Account › Nearby.
• In case of abuse, the administrator can suspend an account, temporarily or indefinitely, with a reason you receive by email. You can then still log in and view your data, but not post in the Nearby section.
• Against spam, a new account can post less in the Nearby section for the first few days and can’t use links yet. Confirm your email address and this usually ends straight away. See Blocking, suspensions and new accounts.

#Weekly neighbourhood email

• New: the weekly neighbourhood email. Once a week, your inbox gets what’s new near you from the past week: listings on the noticeboard, upcoming activities and work days in community gardens, equipment to borrow or hire and questions from neighbours, each with the distance, the place and a link.
• You choose around which place (a garden, your location or your town), within what distance (5, 10, 25 or 50 km) and what’s in it, under Account › Weekly neighbourhood email. It’s off by default and separate from the newsletter, and you can unsubscribe in one click at the bottom of every neighbourhood email. If there’s nothing new, you get nothing.

#Hours, before and after photos and tree inspection per job

• Record your hours worked (day, duration, what you did) and the materials you used on a job, with or without a price. Only you can see them. With Put on an invoice or Put on a quote they become lines on a draft, at your hourly rate.
• Before and after photos of the work appear side by side on the job and on the work order (PDF). The professional and the client can both add them, straight from the phone’s camera.
• A tree safety inspection (VTA) per tree: measurements, vitality, a checklist of defects with location and severity, the risk, the actions with their timeframe and the next inspection, with a PDF report. The client gets a notification when you share it, and the next inspection becomes a task in their garden. See For professionals.

#Schedule, holidays and figures for professionals

• The new Schedule page (from the worksheet) shows your scheduled jobs by day or week: garden, client, type of work and place. For the chosen day they are numbered on a map, in a sensible driving order: you set off from your base and go to the nearest client each time. A button opens the route, with the stops in between, in Google Maps or Apple Maps.
• Your calendar link now also contains your scheduled jobs as appointments, with the client, the place and a link to the job.
• Set a period Holiday or no new requests in your profile, with a short message: the list of professionals then shows a badge, and a new request is politely refused. Jobs in progress simply carry on.
• When you schedule a job you immediately see the warnings for the chosen date: the nesting season and, for felling, the permit with a link to the Omgevingsloket (it differs from one municipality to the next).
• The worksheet shows your figures per month: requests, how many you accept, your average reply time and the turnover from paid invoices. See For professionals.

#Ask the neighbours

• Under Nearby there is a new Questions tab: ask a question with photos (what is this? what’s wrong with my apple tree?) and let people nearby answer. A question can be linked to a species.
• The person who asked picks the best answer: the question is then resolved, the answer comes first with a badge and whoever wrote it gets a notification. You vote an answer Helpful.
• A resolved question also appears on the species profile, under Asked nearby. If the identification with a photo isn’t certain, you ask the neighbours with one button, with your photos already attached.

#Quotes and invoices for professionals

• From a job, professionals make a quote with lines, VAT (21%, 6% or 0%), a validity period and a PDF. The client gets a notification and accepts or declines it online (with a reason); a change means a new version.
• Then comes the invoice, also from an accepted quote: with a continuous number per year, a due date, a structured payment reference and the mentions of a Belgian invoice, including for professionals under the exemption scheme for small businesses. You mark it as paid with the date.
• A mistake on a sent invoice is corrected with a credit note: it refers to the invoice, has its own number series (C2026-0001) and takes back all or part of the amount.
• The worksheet shows what is outstanding (quotes, unpaid and overdue invoices, the total to receive) and exports the invoices of a period as CSV for the bookkeeping. See For professionals.

#Hiring and lending equipment

• Under Nearby there is a new Equipment tab: borrow or hire garden equipment from people nearby, or put something online yourself. Search by distance (5, 10, 25 or 50 km), type, free and date, and see for each item the photos, the price, the deposit, delivery, the conditions and a calendar with the booked days.
• Offering equipment takes a few steps: type and name, description and photos, place, price (hire out or lend for free), delivery and cancellation, and conditions. Professionals can also offer equipment with operator. Under My equipment you change, pause and delete listings and block days.
• You can now book too: choose the days in the calendar and you see the price, the deposit and the date until which you can cancel for free straight away. The owner accepts or declines, you message each other, and after the return you review each other. Confirmed bookings appear in your agenda and in your agenda link, and you get a reminder the day before collection and before the return. Everything is under My bookings.
• What’s on offer is now also on a map: choose List | Map above the list. You see a marker per place with the photo, the title and the price, with the same filters and the circle of your search distance.
• Payment and the deposit are settled when you collect it.

#Tool library

• A community garden now has a tool library: the garden’s equipment, which members borrow for free and straight away, with a lending list. For each item you choose whether non-members may hire or borrow it too.

#Hire for professionals

• Professionals see a Hire block on their worksheet: the equipment online, requests waiting, what is booked and the income per month (see For professionals).
• Their equipment also shows on their profile, and anyone who requests a job can ask for equipment as well: the shredder for the prunings, or a cherry picker with an operator.

#A full profile for every plant

• All 1,368 plants in the catalogue now have an extended profile in the new layout: the last 374 were added, mostly houseplants, bulbs, trees, ornamental grasses, rhododendrons, roses and salvias. Each profile covers position, planting, care, pruning, propagation, winter, problems, a calendar, companions and facts.

#Many more recipes

• Edible and useful now appears for 96 species instead of 60, including apricot, persimmon, nashi, almond, hardy kiwi, honeyberry, aronia, bilberries, cranberry, goji, rose hips (sweet briar, field rose, burnet rose), barberry, Japanese quince, wild apple and pear, hawthorn, hazelnuts, thyme, sage, hops, bog myrtle, lilac and limes.
• Bladwijzer now has 383 recipes, including two new ones for each of the 60 species that already had some (pine-shoot biscuits, elderflower fritters, chestnut soup, beech-leaf pesto, sour-cherry clafoutis, rosemary focaccia…). Each has the harvest months of the part it uses and what to watch out for.

#Share recipes

• Share your own recipes with other gardeners: choose Share with everyone in your recipe book. Your notes stay private.
• Recipes has a new part, Shared by gardeners, and a species page shows the shared recipes for that tree or shrub. Save one to your own recipe book with a single tap.
• Does a shared recipe not belong there? Choose Report: the administrator will take a look.

#Every text is yours

• In the back office you can now also edit the extended profiles of garden plants and European species, Bladwijzer’s recipes and the articles per language. An empty field or Restore the default brings back the original text.

#Garden, recipes and season finished

• In your garden, Watch out sits under To do, next to your tasks, and the map sits next to the list of your plants.
• A recipe shows a photo of the species and the harvest months of the part it uses: elderflower syrup in May and June, elderberry jelly in August and September.
• Season has a full-width band at the top. Map popups and buttons now follow the dark theme too.
• Gorse, wintersweet and panicle hydrangea are now marked as poisonous.

#Worksheet and notifications redesigned

• Notifications are grouped by day, with a dot for anything new. Tap them or choose Mark all as read.
• The worksheet shows your numbers, the new requests next to what is scheduled, what is due for pruning soon and your clients.

#Nearby, challenges and professionals redesigned

• Nearby has one header with tabs: community gardens, activities and the noticeboard. Choose which garden (or your location) to search near.
• Challenges and badges shows the current challenges as cards with their progress, and your badges per group with how far you’ve got.
• Professionals shows the people on Bladwijzer as cards, and other businesses nearby as a list with Call, Mail or Website.

#My guide and your garden year redesigned

• My guide shows your numbers at the top and the way to your garden year. Each species has a card with coloured labels (native, naturalised, planted, harvest now, prune now, poisonous). Your observations on the map are under On the map.
• Your garden year is now part of My guide, with your numbers, a chart per month, your badges and the sharing buttons at the bottom.

#Gardens, calendar and seeds redesigned

• My gardens shows your gardens as cards with a sketch, and you open How it works when you need it. Community gardens, activities and the noticeboard are now together under Nearby in the menu, with tabs at the top.
• In the calendar you filter by pruning, harvest or watering and by garden, and tick things off straight away: Pruned, Harvested, Watered. Your own calendar link is on the right.
• Seeds and wish list are together on one page, with what to sow and plant this month at the bottom.

#Settings in a new order

• Settings now starts with your statistics and badges, then your profile, notifications, language and view. At the bottom you’ll find your agreement with Bladwijzer.

#Pruning and sowing calendars and articles renewed

• The pruning calendar and the sowing calendar have a switch at the top, and the months. Each month: the seasonal text, the trees with their labels, the hedges and what is better removed.
• Under Tips and articles, this month’s articles are cards, and all articles a list.

#Species, photo identification and the key renewed

• Species: pick a group and combine it with Show only (native, bees, prune now…), sort by name or scientific name.
• Identify by photo: drag a photo onto the box, say what it shows, with tips for a good photo.
• The identification key shows cards with a drawing for each question, and alongside the species still possible.

#The dark theme everywhere

• Maps, their cards, the weather, the agenda and the number tiles now also follow the dark theme.

#Map and Season

• The Map shows your sightings, the plants in your gardens and your garden boundaries on one map, with layers, filters (prune now, harvest now, native, group, period), a card for each point and what is in view.
• Season shows month by month what to prune, sow and harvest, with what needs doing in your own gardens and the tips for that month.

#Recipes in the new design

• Recipes has three parts: My recipe book (with filters), To make this month (what grows in your own gardens first) and the Ideas from Bladwijzer by tree or shrub, with a search box at the top.
• Every recipe from Bladwijzer has its own page: choose 1×, 2× or 3× the quantities, tick off ingredients, write your own notes and share or print the recipe.

#An extended profile for every tree and shrub in the guide

• All 262 trees, shrubs and climbers in the guide now have an extended profile, like the garden plants. They also cover why they suit your garden, position, planting, care, propagation, winter, pests and diseases and the year round, with what to plant alongside.
• For invasive species such as tree of heaven and black cherry, we honestly advise against planting them, with native alternatives and how to remove them. Poisonous species always have a Caution.
• For a number of species the pruning time is also more precise: it names the months from the pruning calendar.

#Your garden in 7 parts

• Your garden has a new header with Place a plant and Share, and four numbers: plants and species, area, nature score and the tasks for today and tomorrow.
• Below it, the garden is shown in 7 parts, each with a title and its sections as cards. At the top there is one button per part.

#Every species profile with the same layout

• Trees and shrubs, garden plants and wild plants now share the same profile: 5 parts (Identify, In your garden, Maintenance, Use, and You and this species) with always the same 22 sections. What isn’t there yet is marked still empty.
• At the top, At a glance shows light, moisture, soil, hardiness, size and flowering, plus the contents of the profile.
• Does it suit my garden? checks the species against the sun, soil, winter and space of each of your gardens, with advice.
• On a phone, pick a part at the top and expand the sections.

#A new look, light or dark

• Bladwijzer has a new design. On a computer, all features are in a sidebar on the left, in groups: Identify, Explore, My garden and Together. The button next to the logo collapses the sidebar to icons only; Bladwijzer remembers this.
• On a phone, the bottom bar has Home, Species, a round button to identify, Gardens and More. More has all other features.
• In your account, under View, choose Field guide (light), Forest night (dark) or Automatic, following your phone or computer. Your choice applies on all your devices.
• The home page shows what to do in your gardens this month (pruning, harvesting, watering), to tick off right away.

#Photos load again

• Photos in the species list and on the species profiles load again. Because of a bug in the app, they had not loaded since 4 October.
• Photos now come from our own server: each photo is fetched from Wikimedia once and stored, then loads straight away. If Wikimedia is busy, the photos and the extra photos on the profiles stay in place.

#Easier to find your way around your garden, and going deeper into a section

• At the top of your garden, small buttons, one per section, are now all in view at once. Further down the page, the Sections button at the bottom right shows the same buttons and Back to top.
• Open next to a section’s title, or Show all … below a long list, opens the section on a screen of its own, with everything in it. On the page itself, long lists show only their start, so you can take in your garden faster.
• The map is back right below To do, and at the top of the Plants screen. When it is fixed on your plot, you only see your garden: everything around it is darkened and you cannot zoom out beyond your garden; zooming in still works.
• A vegetable garden and Indoor plants work the same way.

#94 more garden plants with a detailed profile

• A tenth series: perennials (perennial sunflower, green hellebore, American alumroot, Dalmatian iris, heath aster, sea lavender, great blue lobelia…), shrubs (dyer’s greenweed, seven-son flower, junipers, sheep laurel, leucothoe, tree lupin…), bulbs (autumn crocuses, foxtail lily, pineapple lily, angel’s fishing rod), annuals (baby’s breath, heliotrope, garden balsam), houseplants (calathea, peacock plant, Dutchman’s pipe cactus), trees (Hinoki cypress, cockspur thorn, Oriental beech), herbs (pennyroyal, sweet cicely, black cumin), grasses and ferns. There are 994 so far.

#100 more garden plants with a detailed profile

• The ninth series is complete: perennials (golden marguerite, Cheddar pink, yellow coneflower, red barrenwort, spurges, trumpet gentian, cranesbills…), shrubs (St Dabeoc’s heath, tree heath, shrubby cinquefoil, Japanese cornel, silk tassel, paperbush…), bulbs (giant Himalayan lily, autumn crocus, camassia, crocosmia, crocuses, hardy begonia), annuals (plains coreopsis, cigar plant, blue daisy, Livingstone daisy), houseplants (kangaroo vine, ti plant, noble dendrobium, Siam tulip), trees (river birch, incense cedar, red buckeye, Japanese hornbeam, nettle tree), herbs (liquorice, curry plant, elecampane), sedges and ferns. There are 900 so far.

#100 more garden plants with a detailed profile

• An eighth series: perennials (wolf’s bane, eastern bluestar, grape-leaf anemone, asarabacca, stemless carline thistle, rose turtlehead…), shrubs (bog rosemary, Japanese mahonia, rockrose…), bulbs (blue globe onion, small yellow onion, agapanthus), annuals (summer cypress, Madagascar periwinkle, clarkia), houseplants (Norfolk Island pine, Rieger begonia, fishtail palm), trees (Fraser fir, noble fir, Montpellier maple), herbs (Korean mint, southernwood), grasses and sedges, and ferns. There are 800 so far.

#100 more garden plants with a detailed profile

• A seventh series: perennials (Canadian columbine, straw foxglove, rattlesnake master, Corsican hellebore, stinking iris…), shrubs (abelia, ceanothus, sweet pepperbush, enkianthus, fothergilla), bulbs (golden-rayed lily, Abyssinian gladiolus, Tuolumne fawn lily), annuals (corncockle, cup-and-saucer vine, lisianthus, poached egg plant), houseplants (desert rose, bird’s nest fern, Easter cactus), trees (Scotch laburnum, stone pine), herbs (garden angelica, caraway, summer savory), fruit (jujube, date-plum) and climbers (winter-flowering clematis, Chinese magnolia vine). There are 700 so far.

#100 more garden plants: grasses, ferns and pond plants

• A sixth series for a natural garden: ornamental grasses and sedges (quaking grass, Korean feather reed grass, Mexican feather grass, pendulous sedge…), ferns for shade (Japanese painted fern, soft tree fern, common polypody), pond and bog plants with the right planting depth (yellow water lily, water soldier, water violet, bulrush…) and wild flowers for a meadow (cuckooflower, brown knapweed, ragged robin, lady’s bedstraw). There are 600 so far.

#100 more garden plants with a detailed profile

• A fifth series: perennials (spiny bear’s breeches, monkshood, burning bush, hepatica, globeflower, Chinese rhubarb…), shrubs (gum rockrose, Japanese witch hazel, sweet osmanthus, red-leaved rose, yew), bulbs (Italian lords-and-ladies, camas, desert candle, ornamental onion), annuals (viper’s bugloss, dame’s rocket, four o’clock flower), houseplants (coffee plant, pitcher plant, string of hearts), a few trees, herbs (wormwood, catnip, garden cress) and fruit (mandarin, loganberry). There are 500 so far.

#Your garden back on one page, with a button per section

• A garden, a vegetable garden and Indoor plants are back on a single page, now in a clearer order: today, your plants, maintenance, sun, soil and weather, nature, together and sustainable, and outline and settings.
• A bar with a button per section stays at the top: one tap and you are there. The button of where you are lights up; plants, points to watch and the log show how many there are.
• Of the points to watch you first see the three most important; the rest is under Show the other.

#100 more garden plants with a detailed profile

• A fourth series: perennials (bugbane, meadow cranesbill, pasqueflower, sweet woodruff, sweet violet, giant rhubarb…), scented or winter-flowering shrubs (witch hazel, winter daphne, French lavender, oleander), bulbs (winter aconite, English bluebell, saffron crocus, meadow saffron), annuals for bees and butterflies (lacy phacelia, California poppy), houseplants (Venus flytrap, sky plant, string of pearls), herbs (horseradish, German chamomile), and a few trees and climbers. There are 400 so far.

#Every species from Europe with a detailed profile

• With a third series of 112 species, every species under More species from Europe now has a detailed profile, 312 in all: kitchen herbs and vegetables (dill, chives, lovage, basil, asparagus, Jerusalem artichoke), beach and dune plants (sea-kale, sea rocket, sea sandwort, sea spurge), orchids and sundew, clovers and vetches, wild flowers of verges and fields, and poisonous species such as cowbane and henbane, with a clear Watch out.

#100 more wild plants with a detailed profile

• A second series under More species from Europe: trees and shrubs from all over Europe (firs, downy oak, carob, mastic tree, caper…), grasses, sedges and rushes, horsetails and ferns, wild orchids, gentians and other wild flowers, and the invasive narrow-leaved ragwort. There are 200 so far.

#100 more garden plants with a detailed profile

• A third series: border and shade perennials (hellebore, primrose, peony, cranesbill, mullein, lily of the valley, Solomon’s seal…), spring bulbs (crocus, species tulip, dog’s-tooth violet, martagon lily), bedding plants, grasses, ferns, water plants and a few shrubs, trees and houseplants. There are 300 so far.

#Detailed profiles for 100 wild plants

• Under More species from Europe, a hundred well-known species now have a detailed profile: wild flowers such as common poppy, cornflower and foxglove, but also nettle, mistletoe, ferns, grasses and garden classics. With At a glance, how to recognise them, get them into your garden, mow them, and the year round. An invasive species, such as Japanese knotweed, explains how to remove it and what to plant instead.

#The vegetable garden and indoor plants in blocks too

• A vegetable garden now opens with To do, your beds and a block per topic: plan and sowing calendar, sun, soil, weather, nature, log and more. Indoor plants shows To do and your rooms, with blocks for the log, jobs and settings.

#100 more garden plants with a detailed profile

• A second series of a hundred plants: more perennials (bear’s breeches, coneflower, phlox, speedwell…) and shrubs (camellia, witch hazel, oakleaf hydrangea…), small trees (redbud, paperbark maple), fruit for pots or walls (lemon, pomegranate, kiwi vine), climbers, herbs, annuals and houseplants. There are 200 so far.

#Importing plants

• Import plants: paste a list, choose an Excel or CSV file, or take a photo of the label. We find the species for each name.

#Popular near you

• In every garden, the Popular near you block: what others in your area plant most, anonymously.

#Your garden year

• Your garden year: what you did this year in your guide and gardens, month by month, with an image to share.

#Push notifications on your phone

• Night frost, watering, pruning, tasks and other notifications as a push notification on your phone or computer. You choose which, per device.

#Reporting on waarnemingen.be

• On every species page and for a species in your guide, Report on waarnemingen.be opens their entry form, with the species already filled in.

#Detailed profiles for 100 garden plants

• A hundred popular garden plants now have a detailed profile: why grow it, features, position, step-by-step planting, care, pruning with a calendar, propagation, winter, pests and diseases, the year month by month, good companions and fun facts. Every garden plant now starts with At a glance: light, moisture, hardiness, size and flowering. More series will follow.

#Moving plants without accidents

• Plants are now fixed on the map: swiping or zooming no longer shifts any of them. To move one, choose Move, with Undo and Done.

#Your garden in blocks

• A garden now opens with an overview: to do, the map and a block per topic (plants, sun and aspect, soil, weather, nature…). Tap a block for everything about that topic.

#Garden report your way

• In Garden report (PDF) choose what goes in: besides the plan, per plant the info, the care and your notes, the nature score, the soil and what is still to do.

#All species faster, with dots

• The species list loads faster: we fetch the photos and data of all nearly 2000 plants in advance. The garden plants and the wild plants from Europe now have status dots too.

#Search with /

• One search bar for everything: species, garden plants, diseases and pests, pages, your gardens and plants, and your guide. Tap the magnifying glass or press /.

#A simpler menu

• The menu now has five buttons: Home, Identify, Species, Gardens and Guide. The pruning schedule, challenges, worksheet and back office are under your name at the top right.

#A new look for your profile and garden

• Your profile now shows your statistics as tiles, your days in a row with a small flame for each day this week, and your badges as achievements with levels and a progress bar. Each garden shows its numbers as tiles at the top too.

#Drawing hedges

• Draw a hedge as a line on the map: you see how long it is and how many plants you need, and the shade and the distance to the boundary count along its whole length.

#Rainwater and compost

• Add your rain barrel to your garden: we add up the rain and tell you when it will overflow. And your compost bin: turning it shows up in To do and your calendar, with what can and cannot go in.

#Challenges and badges

• Each season a few challenges for your garden and nature (put up a nest box, No Mow May, plant 3 native shrubs…), and badges for what you already do in Bladwijzer.

#Garden plan as a PDF

• Print your garden plan: the plot with numbered plants, north arrow, scale and legend, and the pruning calendar per plant.

#Growth per plant

• Measure your trees and plants every year (height, trunk girth, crown spread) and see their growth in a chart, with the photos from then and now side by side and all photos by year.

#Garden help

• Find someone on the noticeboard to water while you’re on holiday, help prune or dig, or offer your own help. With the period and type of help; from To do in your garden, the listing is ready to go.

#Sharing your harvest

• Too many courgettes or apples? Give them away on the noticeboard, with the day until when they can be collected. From your vegetable garden in one tap.

#Noticeboard

• On the noticeboard you swap or give away seeds, cuttings and seedlings with people nearby. Replies are messages only the two of you can see; you agree on the address together. From My seeds it takes one button.

#Suggestion box

• In the suggestion box you suggest a new feature, report a missing plant or a bug, and vote on other people’s ideas. You can see what is planned and what is done, with the reply from Bladwijzer.

#Activities nearby

• Activities nearby: pruning courses, seed swaps, plant fairs and open gardens. Sign up (with a maximum number of places), lend a hand, or organise one yourself. With a reminder and in your agenda.

#Work days

• In a shared or community garden, propose a work day. The others say whether they’re coming, get a reminder and see it in their agenda. Afterwards, the report goes into the log.

#Diseases and pests

• A guide to Diseases and pests: search by what you see and find the cause and what to do, with a page per problem.
• Watch out now in your garden: what’s active this month on your plants, e.g. box tree moth in May.
• The page of a tree or shrub shows its diseases and pests.

#Wish list

• Add plants to your wish list with the heart on their page. For each plant you see whether it suits the soil in your gardens, and one button puts it in your garden.
• In What fits here?, the plants on your wish list come first.

#More houseplants indoors

• Under Houseplants you now also find the 120 houseplants from the catalogue, with light, water and temperature; how often to water is already filled in.
• Add to my garden on a houseplant’s page puts it straight into Indoors.

#Nature score

• Every garden and vegetable garden gets a nature score from 0 to 100: flowers, wildlife, native plants, layers, species and birds. Invasive exotics cost points.
• With the tips that earn the most, and the score with what’s planned.

#Flowering calendar

• Every garden and vegetable garden has a flowering calendar: what flowers each month, including what’s planned.
• If nothing flowers in a month between March and October, Bladwijzer suggests plants that flower then and suit your soil.
• The page of every tree and shrub from the guide now shows when it flowers.

#Weather and frost

• Every outdoor garden has a Weather block: seven days with temperature and rain (Open-Meteo).
• Night frost: a warning with the plants to protect, in your garden, under Today and in the reminder every morning. A plant in a pot freezes sooner.
• After a good downpour (8 mm in two days), watering outdoors waits.

#What fits here?

• What fits here?: tap a spot in your garden and see which plants suit it, with the light, soil and space at that spot. Choose Put here to plan one.
• Make a border: plants in layers that flower together from March to October, with the number of each and bulbs for spring. Added to your garden as planned with one button.

#Sun and aspect

• Bladwijzer works out how much sun each spot in your garden gets, with the shade of your house, the buildings around it (OpenStreetMap) and your trees: sun, partial shade or shade, as a layer on the map. With a north arrow.
• Your garden’s aspect (e.g. south-west-facing) comes from the map. Without a map, choose it yourself or measure it with your phone’s compass.
• Will it fit here? now looks at the light at the spot: lavender against a north wall gets Not enough sun.
• Draw a shed or wall that isn’t on the map yourself; choose the height of your house in storeys.

#Garden plants

• Garden plants: almost 1400 perennials, annuals, bulbs, grasses, shrubs, trees, climbers, fruit, herbs, water and marginal plants, ferns and houseplants from the garden centre, each with a page: light, soil type, acidity, moisture, height, hardiness, flowering and planting months and a tip, in three languages.
• What grows well in my soil? Choose one of your gardens or your soil type, and see for each plant whether it suits it. You get there straight from your garden’s Soil block.
• Put such a plant in your garden and Will it fit here? gives tips for your soil. Searching under Species and when adding a plant finds them too.

#Your garden soil

• Bladwijzer looks up your garden soil: sand, loam, clay or peat, acid or chalky, dry or wet, from the soil map of Flanders or Wallonia and SoilGrids. You can always change it yourself.
• Will it fit here? and the vegetable garden give tips for that soil: adding lime, working in compost, a raised bed or a different plant.
• Tick a plant or bed as in a pot or container: then you get no tips about your garden soil.

#More species in the guide

• 40 more trees with a full species page: features, look-alikes, uses, pruning and good companions, in three languages. Among them the elms, cedars, thujas, common lime, silver lime, wild apple and pear, cork oak and holm oak, the handkerchief tree and Persian ironwood. They aren’t in the identification key (yet).
• 41 more shrubs: wild roses and willows, bog-myrtle, mezereon, wayfaring-tree, barberry and red-berried elder, and garden shrubs such as Japanese holly (the box replacement), Mexican orange blossom, holly olive, panicled hydrangea, flowering quince, smoke-tree and wintersweet. They aren’t in the identification key (yet) either.
• 37 more climbers, dwarf shrubs and fruit plants: among them hop, trumpet vine, winter jasmine and star jasmine, cowberry and bilberry, bearberry, thyme and sage, and apricot, Japanese persimmon, nashi pear, almond, hardy kiwi, honeyberry, black chokeberry and jostaberry.

#Sowing calendar

• The sowing calendar: month by month what to sow indoors, sow outdoors, plant out and harvest, with for each crop the sowing depth, the germination temperature and how many days it takes to come up. Also what you can pick from trees and shrubs, and the basics of sowing and harvesting.
• The crop sheet and the window for adding a crop show the same sowing tips.

#More species from Europe

• More species from Europe: almost 600 extra trees, shrubs, climbers, wild flowers, ferns and grasses, with their name in Dutch, French and English. Every species has a page with a description from Wikipedia, photos and the status in Belgium. Searching under Species finds them too.

#Clearer, especially on your phone

• The home page shows Today: watering, tasks and your vegetable garden plan from all your gardens, to tick off straight away.
• The menu: Identify (with the choice between photo and key at the top), Species, Gardens, Calendar and Guide.
• In a garden, To do is at the top. Less-used buttons are under ⋯, e.g. Copy and Edit for a plant, and Rename and Delete garden at the top. Good for wildlife, Pruning schedule and Plots and outlines expand when you need them.
• Under Species you can choose a compact list; on a phone the filters are under Filter.
• On a touchscreen, buttons and links are bigger, so they’re easier to tap.

#Vegetable garden and houseplants

• With New garden you now choose from three kinds: a garden on the map, a vegetable garden or indoors.
• A vegetable garden with beds and crops from about 60 vegetables and herbs and 36 flowers. Bladwijzer suggests a plan (sowing indoors, sowing, planting out, harvesting), with tips about good companions and crop rotation, and a sheet for every crop.
• Houseplants: your plants room by room, with a reminder to water them (less often in winter) and a warning for poisonous plants.
• My seeds: your seeds and own varieties with your own sowing and harvest times, to schedule in your vegetable garden.

#To do, log and problems

• In every garden: To do, with watering, your own tasks (one-off or repeating) and the steps of your vegetable garden plan. For a plant on the map you can now also fill in Water every … days.
• A log for each garden with updates and photos, which everyone in the garden can see.
• Report a problem: choose what you see, and Bladwijzer shows what it could be, what to do about it and when it’s better to call in a professional. The others in the garden get a notification.
• Fireblight is notifiable: if you choose it under Report a problem, Bladwijzer warns you in red and prepares an email to the FASFC for you. The log shows whether, and by whom, it has been reported. Such a problem can’t be deleted, and the administrators get a notification straight away.
• Good for wildlife: on the species page and for each garden, for bees, bumblebees, butterflies, birds, hedgehogs and more.

#Calendar and reminders

• The pruning schedule is now the Calendar: besides pruning and harvesting, it also has sowing, planting out, watering and your tasks, in the calendar feed for Google, Apple and Outlook too.
• Every morning a reminder with what needs doing that day, in the app and (if you like) by email. You can turn it on or off for each garden.

#Community gardens

• Community gardens: a neighbourhood, school or allotment garden where everyone takes part as a participant, via a link or because the garden is findable nearby.
• You can also choose the new Participant role when you share a garden by email.
• A participant can request a job if the owner ticks Can request jobs under Share.

#Professionals and reviews

• Besides tree surgeons there are now also plant care specialists and landscape gardeners, with new services such as garden maintenance, vegetable gardens, houseplants and lawns. Search by profession.
• A job for a vegetable garden or houseplants offers the kinds of work that fit.
• Reviews: after a completed job you give 1 to 5 stars and a text; the professional can reply.

#Signing up

• When you sign up, Bladwijzer suggests a username based on your email address, and you can see straight away whether it’s free. Professionals tick I’m a professional and choose their profession.

#Edible plants and recipes

• On the species pages of some 60 trees and shrubs: Edible and useful, with the harvest months, storing, fermenting, what to watch out for and 122 recipes. See Edible plants and recipes.
• Your own recipe book: save recipes from Bladwijzer, write your own, import them from a website (with the link to the original), and import or export them as a file.
• The harvest times are in your pruning schedule and in the calendar feed for Google, Apple and Outlook.
• Eating, picking and using plants is at your own risk: this is now article 6 of the terms of use, with a link in the edible section of the species page, in every recipe and in the advice on problems.

#Tree surgeons

• Tree surgeons now also shows other tree surgeons and landscape gardeners nearby, from OpenStreetMap, nearest first. Your garden is selected straight away.

#Species and guide

• Status dots for every species: native, rare, Red List, invasive, poisonous, and whether you prune or harvest it this month.
• Many more Did you know? facts for each species, in all three languages.

#Account and profile

• You sign up with your email address; a username is optional. You log in with your email address.
• A fuller profile page under Account, with your figures and shortcuts.

#Emails

• At the bottom of the newsletter, the tips and every notification there’s an unsubscribe link for exactly those emails, next to your email preferences. In Gmail and Outlook, the Unsubscribe button next to the sender works too.
• You get emails, notifications and the work order (PDF) in your own language.

#Account and security

• Straight after you sign up, a welcome email asking you to confirm your email address; the welcome email follows after that.
• Log in with your email address, as well as with your username.
• Two-step verification with an authenticator app, with recovery codes.
• Log in without a password: with a passkey (fingerprint, face or PIN) or with a link by email.
• Forgotten password by email, and password reset links from the administrator.
• Unsubscribe from all emails in one click under Account.
• An eye in every password field to show or hide your password.

#Tighter security

• Changing your email address requires your password, and your old address gets a message. After setting a new password via a link, you also get an email.
• Too many wrong passwords now only lock that account for 15 minutes, not everyone on the same network; with a link by email or a passkey you can still get in.
• Anyone you remove from a garden immediately loses access to that garden’s jobs too. People with the View role don’t see jobs or prices.
• Only the owner can give a new tree surgeon access to a garden.
• Bladwijzer only sends invitations and requests itself if your own email address is confirmed.

#Languages

• Bladwijzer is now also available in French (/fr) and English (/en), with translated species pages, keys and pruning calendar. Choose your language at the top (the globe icon), under Account or at the bottom of every page.
• This manual and the articles are now also available in French and English.

#Species

• 35 new species in the guide and the keys, including pin oak, whitebeam, Judas tree, giant redwood, Leyland cypress, olive, bay laurel, quince, medlar, peach, camellia, snowberry, sea buckthorn, climbing hydrangea, kiwi fruit and rosemary.
• Search the complete waarnemingen.be database, and Add to my garden on every species page.

#The website

• Tips and articles: choosing and trimming hedges, planting a tree, pruning fruit trees, identifying trees in winter, shrubs for birds and bees, invasive non-native plants.
• Every month of the pruning calendar has a seasonal text: what to do in the garden and what to look out for in nature.
• Every page has its own address (e.g. /soort/zomereik), making it easier to find in search engines. Old links still work.
• A new home page, and the pages Why Bladwijzer, For tree surgeons, Frequently asked questions, Contact, Privacy, Terms of use and Cookies.
• The pruning calendar by month, e.g. /snoeien/maart.
• This manual.
• Google Analytics, only if you allow it in the bar at the bottom: without your consent nothing is sent to Google. You can change your choice on the Cookies page (see Privacy and security).

#Email

• A status page showing whether Bladwijzer is up and running, and visitor statistics without cookies.
• The weekly email with what to prune this week, and a monthly pruning reminder for your garden.
• Work order (PDF) and attachments for requests to tree surgeons.

#Earlier

• PostgreSQL as the database, with a migration script from SQLite.
• Tree surgeons and jobs, garden sharing with roles, and copying and pasting plants and whole rows or hedges.
• The donate button.

Updated on 2026-10-15