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I remember stumbling across http://www.plantwithbloom.com/ in the past and thinking it was amazing. Consider this at least a small thank-you for your efforts!

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Thanks! Bloom is my latest endeavor, and one that I don't think belongs on the scrap heap yet.

I'm just not sure how to market it. I was going down a path of appealing to data-nerds with yards, focusing on the data techniques used to make decisions.

I've also experimented with using a physics ending to design beds, but haven't got it tweaked right: http://www.plantwithbloom.com/physics.html

(pretty fun if you want to see some plants get wrecked)

The value seems too low as it to get people purchase it. I'm considering partnering with nurseries, but the build out to use their inventories would be ambitious.

I just checked out that link you posted. The idea seems like it could introduce a certain "naturalness" to the gardens by resisting the temptation to exactly plant in rows. "Organic" planting plans! https://ibb.co/nfnQh5 (screenshot of one that I found particularly interesting).

Yeah, gravity seemed like a good way to do circle packing with different sizes. Also would be a way to place neatly in irregularly shaped (non-rectangular) beds.

I was just thinking about something like this over the weekend when I was working on my garden. Something I was not sure if you did consider was the blooming times. When I first moved into my house I did not have much of a garden. The previous owner did not really keep the garden up. The first year I had a mish mash of different plants. By year 3 I have everything almost figured out where I have different stuff starting to bloom as other plants are finishing.

I was talking to a professional landscaper about this (a relative of my significant other) during a family event earlier this summer. The casual spouting of information about keeping the garden in color all summer was intriguing. It of course helped that he had done the entire backyard at her mother's house.

Japanese beatles are one of the things that can really ruin plants like roses. If you can find a solution for them, you can really have a nice garden.

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