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Description

Plants

The Plants property determines the total number of plants that are added to the plant row. To change the plant number, move the Plants slider or type a value in the text field.

Spacing

The Spacing property displays the average distance between each plant.

Closed

The Closed property determines whether the plant row’s shape is open or closed. To change the state of the plant row’s shape, click the Closed checkbox to toggle it.

Line style

The Line Style… property determines the appearance of the plant row line. To change the line style, click the Line Style… button and select the style you want to use from the dialog that appears.

Explode

The Explode property is used to separate each plant in the Plant Row into plant objects, effectively replacing the Plant Row with a selection of individual plants. To break the Plant Row into separate plants, click the Explode button.

Edit points

Click the Edit points button to enable or disable point editing mode, which will allow you to modify the plant row’s shape. See Editing Points for details.

Shape options

Click the Shape Options button to save the shape of the plant row, or to load an existing shape. For more details, see Saving and Loading Shapes.

Plants

Description

Current plant

The Current plant property determines which plant you currently are able to edit. There are slots for 8 different plants; to change the current plant, click the drop-down menu and select the plant slot you would like to adjust.

Enabled

The Enabled property determines whether the current plant is added to the plant row. To toggle the plant’s appearance in the plant row, click the Enabled checkbox.

Plant

The Plant property determines the type of plant to use in the plant row. To change the plant, click the picture that displays the current plant used.

Plant options

The appearance of the plant can be modified by clicking the small button that appears to the right of the plant’s picture.

Ignore growth limits

The Ignore growth limits property determines whether the plant can be enlarged past its maximum size. To toggle this size limitation, click the Ignore growth limits checkbox.

Information

Description

Plant names

The Plant names property displays the common name of the plant on the first line, and the botanical name of the plant on the second line. The botanical plant name is displayed in italics.

To change one or both of these names for the currently selected plant, click the options button on the top-right of this property and enter the desired names.

Season

The Season property determines which seasonal variation of the plant you want to use. You can pick a specific season, or select Use global season to use the season currently specified in the environment settings. This property only applies to UltraRes Plants®.

Starting age

The Starting age of the plant determines the current size of the plant. Note that the starting age does not include any age added through the Plant Growth setting. To change the plant’s starting age, move the Starting age slider or enter a value in the text field.

Plant growth

The Plant growth property displays the current Plant Growth setting.

Current age

The Current age property displays the sum of the plant’s starting age and the current Plant Growth setting.

Mature age

The Mature age property displays the age at which the plant will reach its mature height.

Current height

The Current height property displays the height of the plant at its current age.

Mature height

The Mature height property displays the height that the plant will reach when it reaches its mature age.

Planting zones

The Planting zones property displays the zones that the plant will thrive in. To view a map of these zones, click Tools and Plant Hardiness Zones.

Note: Plant hardiness zones do not apply to annuals.

Key

The Key property displays an abbreviation of the plant’s name. To change the plant key, click the text field.

Size

The Size property displays the size of the plant when it is planted. To change the size, click the text field.

Plants

Description

Use default symbol

The Use default symbol property determines whether the plant should use the standard symbol or allow you to select from the symbol library. To toggle the default symbol, click the Use default symbol checkbox.

Symbol

The Symbol property determines the symbol that is used when displaying the plant in the Plan view. To change the symbol, click the picture that displays the current plant symbol.

Note: Before the symbol can be changed, the Use default symbol property must be unchecked.

Symbol options

The appearance of the plant symbol can be modified by clicking the small button that appears to the right of the plant symbol image.

Scale

The Scale property determines the size of the symbol relative to the size of the plant. If the scale is set to 50, then the symbol will be one half of the plant’s size. To change the scale, move the Scale slider or enter a value in the text field.

Transparency

The Transparency property determines the opacity of the symbol in the Plan view. To change the symbol opacity, move the Transparency slider or type a value in the text field. Note that the Transparency property is only available when the Custom appearance in each view option is checked.

Symbol width

The Symbol width property displays the size of the plant symbol that is displayed in the Plan view. The symbol size is a factor of the plant’s Starting age and Scale.