Last week, I wrote a post on several different drought tolerant plants that are an effective and attractive way to reduce the amount of water you use outdoors on your landscape. While doing that research, I tripped across this cool product that helps you pick out appropriate plants for your climate. The EasyBloom plant sensor has environmental sensors to detect sunlight, shade and soil moisture levels. You stake the sensor in the soil of the area of your yard you are looking to landscape, and leave it for 24 hours. After which, you plug it into your computer, where it downloads the sensor readings into an online database. The database contains 5,000+ plants, which it cross-references, to offer a recommendation for an appropriate plant or plants it thinks will work in that area of your yard. You can even click to buy those plants, direct from their website. (I haven’t tried this yet.)

I have used it in two different sections of my yard, and so far the recommendations the EasyBloom sensor gave me, seemed appropriate and innovative! Very fun and very cool!
You can buy it on Amazon here.

EasyBloom plant sensor hard at work