Garden
Plant labels say full sun, part shade or shade, and they mean hours of direct sun a day. Shade Map measures your house and trees and counts those hours for every patch of your yard, so the tomatoes go where the six hours really are.
See the shade at your home
Plant labels mean hours: full sun is six or more, part shade three to six, shade under three. This is every patch of the example yard, counted every ten minutes from sunrise to sunset.
Morning sun with afternoon shade suits most part-shade plants better than the reverse: afternoon sun is hotter.
A bed in full sun in June can drop to part shade in spring and autumn, when the sun is lower and every shadow longer. Check the months your plants grow in: for vegetables, March to September; for winter greens, the short days.
Shade Map rates every patch of your yard, so you can see where a new bed belongs before you build it, and which corner will stay shady enough for ferns.
Six or more hours of direct sun a day during the growing season. Part sun or part shade is three to six hours, and shade is under three.
You can watch it through a day, but it changes through the year. Shade Map measures your house and trees and counts the hours for any spot, any day.
For plants that like part shade, morning sun with afternoon shade is usually better: the afternoon sun is hotter and harsher.
