Identifying a plant is the easy part, and a dozen apps do it well. The hard part is everything after: remembering what you planted where, when it flowered, what went wrong last August, and what it needs this week. That is a tracking problem, not a recognition problem — and most plant apps stop before they get there.
Sow starts at identification and keeps going. Point the camera, get the species, save it into one of your spaces — and from that moment the plant has a file: its care schedule, its bloom window, its photos over time, and its current price if you want another one.
From identification to a real record
A camera identification in Sow is not a dead end — it is an entry point. The plant is added to your garden with its real hardiness range, mature size, sun and soil needs, and care calendar attached, so the app immediately knows how to look after it.
Care that fits the plant and the week
Different plants want different things in different months, and outdoors the weather gets a vote. Sow builds each plant's tasks from its real care data — prune in late winter, divide in early spring, watch for scale in May — and then adjusts for what the sky is actually doing where you live.
Years of history, not a snapshot
Photograph a plant through the seasons and Sow builds its timeline. Two years in, you can see the same hydrangea in three consecutive Junes and know, with evidence, whether it is thriving or slowly failing.
