plantera 0.1.5

A plant maintenance helper

Plantera

Too busy writing code to remember to water your plants? Try Plantera, a simple CLI tool that lets you track and schedule watering of your little work buddies.

Installation

Requires Python 3.11+.

# with pipx (recommended)
pipx install plantera

# with pip
pip install plantera

# with uv
uv tool install plantera

Quick Start

# Add a plant species to the library
plantera add-species Crassula "Jade Plant" "Soak when soil is completely dry"

# Add a plant
plantera add Bob Crassula 2026-04-01 7

# See what needs watering today
plantera show --due

# Mark a plant as watered
plantera watered Bob

---

Commands

add

Add a plant to your collection.

plantera add <nickname> <genus> [last-watered] [interval]

• nickname — your name for the plant (e.g. Bob)
• genus — must exist in the species library
• last-watered — date in YYYY-MM-DD format (default: today)
• interval — watering interval in days (default: 7)

---

add-species

Add a plant species to the library.

plantera add-species <genus> <common-name> [care-info]

---

show

Show your plants or the species library.

plantera show [--species] [--due]

• --species — show the species library instead of your plants
• --due — show only plants due for watering today
• Options are mutually exclusive.

---

watered

Mark a plant as watered. Recalculates the next watering date automatically.

plantera watered <nickname>

---

update

Update a plant's details.

plantera update <nickname> [--nickname] [--genus] [--last-watered] [--next-watering] [--interval]

---

update-species

Update a species in the library.

plantera update-species <genus> [--genus] [--common-name] [--care-info]

---

delete

Delete a plant from your collection.

plantera delete <nickname>

---

delete-species

Delete a species from the library.

plantera delete-species <genus>

---

remind

Send a desktop notification for any plants due or overdue for watering. Designed to be run on a schedule.

plantera remind

Schedule plantera remind to run daily using cron (Linux), launchd (macOS), or Task Scheduler (Windows).

---

Data

Plantera stores all data locally in a SQLite database at ~/.local/share/plantera/plantera.db. No accounts, no cloud, no setup required.

---

Dev Setup

Requires uv.

git clone https://github.com/tmannell/plantera
cd plantera
uv sync --all-groups
uv run pytest

Tests are written with pytest and cover all CLI commands and service functions.