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Plant care that knows a 45° June.

Kyari tells you what your plants are and when to water, feed and cover each one, worked out for our 45°C summers, the monsoon and January frost. The plant apps made for London don't.

A kyari is the garden bed outside the house. This one keeps track of everything in it.

Open it in the morning. See what needs you.

Today shows your city's weather and the plants that need feeding, water or cover, each with your own photo. Tick them off as you go. The camera in the middle names any plant you don't know.

A first look at the app, with plants from our own garden.

Snap a photo. Kyari tells you what it is.

Not sure what a plant is called? Take a photo. Kyari names it in English and Urdu, and fills in how to look after it where you live: water, sun, food and cold.

A Khalifa plant with green and cream leaves and pink catkins, in a terracotta pot — Our own Khalifa, in a pot.

Five seasons, not four

Our year has five seasons. Kyari plans every plant around them.

FrostDec to Jan
SpringFeb to Mar
HotApr to Jun
MonsoonJul to Sep
AutumnOct to Nov

Dec to Jan

Frost nights

Clear January nights can reach freezing, and a pot on a roof gets colder still.

Kyari warns you the evening before, naming each plant at risk.

Apr to Jun

44°C afternoons

June days average 36°C in Islamabad, and the hottest have reached 44°C.

Kyari shortens each plant's watering for the heat, so nothing dries out.

Jul to Sep

The monsoon

Islamabad gets about 480 mm of rain in these three months.

After a downpour, Kyari tells you the pots are still wet.

Made for gardens here

A year for every plant

See when each plant grows, flowers and rests, and the months to feed it, prune it and take cuttings.

Names you actually use

Khalifa, Kaghazi phool, Kangi palm. And fertilizers you can buy here: DAP, urea, potash, cow dung, bone meal.

خلیفہ · کاغذی پھول

Care filled in for you

Type a plant's name and Kyari fills in its watering, feeding and cold limit for your city. You check it and save.

Vegetables and seasonal flowers

Know what to sow this month, when it will be ready to pick, and when its season is over.

Free to start

Free covers a home garden. A Plus plan with more comes later, and the waiting list hears its price first.

Free

For a home garden

As many plants as you like, each with its year
Watering, feeding and frost reminders in the app
What to sow this month
Some plant IDs from a photo each month

Plus

Coming later

For the keen gardener. Price to be set.

Everything in Free
Unlimited plant IDs from a photo
Care filled in for your city
A photo diary for each plant, backed up
Reminders on WhatsApp
Share your garden with your mali or family

Questions

Is it free?

Yes, the Free plan stays free. Plus comes later and adds the extras that cost us to run: unlimited photo IDs, filled-in care, photo backup and WhatsApp messages.

Which cities does it work for?

Kyari is for gardens across Pakistan, India and the Gulf, with care worked out for your own city's weather. Tell us your city in the note when you join, so we know where to start.

What happens to my number?

We only use it to message you on WhatsApp when Kyari is ready. We never share it. Reply to that message and we'll delete it.