Florula

A record of what grows where you live

A plant record built on a map of your own grounds — accurate enough that you can read it, walk outside, and put your hand on the plant.

A florula is the botanists’ word for the flora of one small place. Yours is the plants of your own ground, and this is where you keep it.

The map is the point

Most plant apps give you a list. A list will not tell you which of the four hydrangeas you meant. So the app starts by drawing your property: the buildings, the roads and the driveway, the parcel lines, and the contours of the ground where the county publishes them.

That drawing is a starting canvas, never the finished thing. You confirm which building is your house, then trace the parts only you know — the beds, the paths, the fence line, the tree you plant around. Lines settle into a smoothed curve when you lift your finger.

Then everything hangs off a plant

Each plant sits on the map as a pin, colored by how it is doing and marked with a symbol for what it is. Open one and you get its type, its stage, its health, and everything you have written about it.

Observations are dated notes with photos attached, which over a few seasons turn into a timeline of one plant. A bloom calendar reads across all of them at once and tells you what is about to happen.