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Plan a Bed (Perennial Garden)

Plan a bed is a design tool in the Perennial Garden: set your real bed's size, light and zone, pick plants or let it fill the bed, and get a top-down drawing, a bloom calendar and a plant list.

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Overview

This tab is for your own yard. It draws the bed from above with every plant at its real mature width, tallest at the back. The plan is saved with your farm.

Settings

  • Bed length 4–40 ft and depth 2–12 ft.
  • Light: Full sun (6+ hours), Part shade or Full shade.
  • Your hardiness zone (3–10).
  • "🦌 Deer visit my yard" toggle.
  • ✨ Fill the bed for me builds a design that fits; + Add plants opens the catalog so you choose; Start over clears it.
  • Up to 14 kinds of plant.

What it tells you

  • Months from April to October with nothing in flower.
  • Plants in the wrong light or not suited to your zone.
  • Plants deer love (plan on a fence or repellent).
  • Plants that do not fit at mature size, or how much depth is still open at the front.
  • When everything is about the same height.
  • A What blooms when calendar (March–November) and Your plant list with counts, sizes and a link to each plant in the Companion Plant Library. You can copy or print the list.

Reward

Designing a bed with 4 or more kinds of plant completes the "A plan on paper" garden goal (30 coins and 15 XP).

See also

Written from the game itself. Spot something out of date? and our farm team will check it.

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