Free planting kits, made for your state

Three printable sheets built from the same species records the rest of this site runs on. What to plant where you live, when to plant it, and how to get it through its first year.

Plant shortlistPlanting calendarFirst-year checklist

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The three printed sheets in a state starter kit: a plant shortlist, a planting-window calendar, and a first-year care checklist. — The real sheets, not a mockup. Yours are built from the species native to your state and hardy in your zones.

What is in the kit

Three sheets, each worth the paper.

The plants

Plant shortlist and bed groupings

The natives that suit your state, grouped into beds that work together: full sun and dry ground, sun and heavy clay, shade. Sizes, bloom times, and what each one feeds, with botanical names to say at the nursery counter.

The timing

Planting-window calendar

A month grid for your state: when to plant, when each species blooms, and when to cut back. Built from the same range and hardiness data as the guides, sized for a fridge door.

The first year

First-year care checklist

The only period most native plantings need anything at all. When to water, when to stop, and what to leave standing for the birds when winter comes.

After the kit

Then one note a month. That is the whole program.

Nothing else is scheduled behind it, and one click unsubscribes.

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The monthly note

What is arriving, blooming, plantable and worth doing in your region that month.

12 a year

What a first-year planting needs, the short list, from a pH kit to mulch.

Rather start with the ground than the paper? Draw your bed to scale and watch it worked out: whether the space works, what the plants would cost, and which natives suit it. Free, and nothing to sign up for there either.