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Copying a garden or a bed

Copying a whole garden

On your gardens, press Duplicate. You land in the copy, because the reason to duplicate a garden is usually to change the copy.

You can copy any garden you can see, including one somebody has shared with you — that is how you take an idea somewhere you can edit it. The copy belongs to you and starts fresh: no checkpoints, and nobody else has access to it until you share it.

Copying a bed with its planting

Select a bed and press Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+V. The planting comes with it. Anything whose centre sits inside the bed is copied along with the outline, so a border you have spent an afternoon on can be repeated in one go.

The same is true when you drag: moving a bed moves what is inside it. What counts as inside is measured when you pick the bed up, so dragging a bed over a plant does not swallow it.

Because it goes by the centre of a plant, a shrub sitting half outside the bed is not counted as being in it — nudge it inside first if you want it copied.

Rescuing work you cannot save

If somebody else takes over editing a shared garden while you are working, and the garden has changed since, your unsaved changes cannot be merged back. Bloomprint offers to copy your work into a new garden instead, so nothing you drew is thrown away.