An app for all gardeners to help them grow crops successfully

Cultivate a garden, be it fruit tree, vegetable garden or ornament requires advice and knowledge to succeed in this green adventure. In addition to experimenting with the help of advice from friends, neighbors, magazines or websites Internet, it is possible to be accompanied by a application, a tool to help you plant and maintain your garden.

Design your garden

Whether for an existing garden, to create entirely or to restructure continuously with plantations of perennials, shrubs, trees or other plants, the work to be done remains tedious. Choose a plant and maintaining it is not a simple exercise! You must take into account the exposure, the quality of the soil, the environment, the weather the region and the criteria for growing plants. Despite these essential criteria, 63% of gardeners questioned, in a Promise of Flowers survey (2021), lose on average 1 plant in 10, and 46%, or nearly one in 2 gardeners, who missed plantations. This confirms that it is not easy to plant plants with 100% success! Cultivation advice is therefore essential for planting plants suitable for your garden.

A personalized application

Since this fall 2021, a free and easy-to-use application launched by Promesse de fleurs, the French online plant specialist, will help you pamper your green corner.

From your type of garden or from Terrace that you will enter in the application, and with the questionnaire (type of soil, climatic zone, exposure to wind, exhibition at Sun, etc.) as well as your gardener profile (frequency and time spent), the Plantfit algorithm will be able to recommend the trees, plants or shrubs most suited to the environment of your garden, from among 18,000 varieties of plants. You will also be aware of unsuitable plants and you will have the details to properly install plants in your garden.

Once you have entered these parameters concerning your garden, your terrace or your balcony), your skills in matter gardening, all combined with climatic data that traces 80 years of history of more than 550 stations from Météo-France, the application will give you all the keys to successfully cultivating your green area and provide you with personalized recommendations. You will feel like you are coached and get expert advice on maintaining and cultivating your ornamental garden or patio.

The anti-waste garden

Gone is the choice of favorite plants installed in the garden but which, unfortunately, do not correspond at all to the location, the climate, or the soil and end up vegetating and then dying. With Plantfit, you will be able to see on all the product sheets recommended according to the criteria you have entered, whether or not a plant is suitable for your bed and why. If you really have a crush on a plant that is not quite suitable for your garden or your terrace, Plantfit will offer you recommendations for cultivating it and may go so far as to advise against it. It is even possible to trace a disagreement with the diagnostic given by the application in order to develop the algorithms.

For each recommended plant, you will have the right cultivation advice concerning thewatering, contributions fertilizer, size and many other things to do. No more water supply in quantity or too little that does not correspond to the needs of a plant, no more excessive fertilizer applications, become an eco-responsible gardener, beginner, apprentice or confirmed.

Before gardening, think Plantfit to choose plants adapted to your green space and avoid unpleasant surprises. Gardening can start with this digital adventure before putting your hands in the soil! Thus, gardening will remain one of the favorite hobbies of the French by approaching 100% success and especially by gardening sustainably, respecting the specific parameters of each plant to enjoy it for many years.

Find this free and intuitive application – version computer, smartphone and Tablet available – on the website of Promessedefleurs.com