Wild-Wuchs

Plant Encyclopedia for Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs & Garden Plants

Natural gardening starts with good plant knowledge. Wild-Wuchs is your platform for fruits, vegetables, herbs, and natural gardening - featuring detailed plant profiles, botanical illustrations, seasonal tips, practical guides, and helpful growing knowledge for gardens, balconies, and raised beds. For everyone who wants to do more than simply grow plants — for those who want to truly understand them.

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Plant Encyclopedia

Explore vegetables, fruits, herbs, and garden plants

Discover detailed plant profiles with botanical illustrations, growing information, and practical tips for gardens, balconies, and raised beds.

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Apple plant card: Fruit, Rose family, full sun

Apple

Malus domestica

The apple (Malus) is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs in the rose family.

FruitRose family
Zucchini plant card: Vegetables, Gourd family, Harvest June - October

Zucchini

Cucurbita pepo var. cylindrica

Zucchini (Cucurbita pepo var. cylindrica) are among the most straightforward and high-yielding fruiting vegetables for home gardens in temperate Central Europe.

VegetablesGourd family

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Diagnosis

Plant health

Identify pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies and other plant health issues. Use the diagnostic guides to narrow down possible causes and find practical solutions.

Plant health
PestsCheck feeding damage

Identify animals, eggs, larvae, webbing, or sticky deposits.

Identify pests
DiseasesRead spots and coatings

Separate fungi, bacteria, wilting, and rot by damage pattern and weather.

Classify diseases
DeficienciesCompare deficiencies

Match yellow leaves, weak growth, and necrosis with site and nutrients.

Check deficiencies
ProblemsRule out site stress

Check heat, frost, waterlogging, drought, and care mistakes as causes.

Narrow problems
Symptom pagesStart from symptoms

When the cause is unclear, choose the visible sign and find likely triggers.

Search symptoms

Animals

Animal safety

A quick entry point for animal safety in the garden: check which plants are more suitable, restricted, or critical for pets and farm animals.

Check animals and plants
Dog icon for animal safety section
Dog107 suitable · 23 critical
Cat icon for animal safety section
Cat91 suitable · 38 critical
Rabbit icon for animal safety section
Rabbit97 suitable · 21 critical
Guinea pig icon for animal safety section
Guinea pig104 suitable · 24 critical
Hamster icon for animal safety section
Hamster107 suitable · 27 critical
Budgie icon for animal safety section
Budgie86 suitable · 25 critical
Horse icon for animal safety section
Horse91 suitable · 27 critical
Chicken icon for animal safety section
Chicken104 suitable · 20 critical
Duck icon for animal safety section
Duck107 suitable · 27 critical
Goose icon for animal safety section
Goose104 suitable · 31 critical
Sheep icon for animal safety section
Sheep99 suitable · 32 critical
Goat icon for animal safety section
Goat104 suitable · 27 critical
Cattle icon for animal safety section
Cattle96 suitable · 36 critical
Pig icon for animal safety section
Pig98 suitable · 23 critical

Guides

Featured guides

Garden guides

Categories

Plants

Categories guide you from broad groups such as vegetables, herbs, and fruit to matching plant profiles with growing data, calendars, and companion notes.

Bulb and tuber vegetablesFruitFruit shrub/treeFruit vegetablesHerbsLeafy vegetablesLegumesNutsOrnamentalsTree fruitVegetablesWild herbsWild plantsWoody plants

Garden calendar

What to do in the garden in June

In June the garden is in vigorous growth. Consistent watering, supports, pruning or pinching, mulching, succession sowing, and the first larger herb and early vegetable harvests matter most.

Open the June garden calendar