Create successful, sustainable landscapes with Sunscape Maps
Now you see it … now you know.
Sunscape Maps display sun exposure during any day time span and any date range.
No more guessing where specific sun exposure exists on your property. With Sunscape Maps you can put plants in the sun exposure they need to thrive and endure sustainably.
Outdoor living and leisure areas need the right sun exposure too, for maximum comfort, and enjoyment.
Location decisions are easier and more successful with Sunscape maps.
Each year landowners invest thousands of dollars improving and maintaining their landscapes.
Every landscape has a variety of sunlight environments from full day sun through part sun, part shade, and full day shade.
Use Sunscape Maps in the planning stage to create similar sun exposure gardens, plan pathways to separate sun exposure areas, and to identify the optimum location for outdoor living and recreation areas.
Use Sunscape Maps in the planting stage to ensure plants are in the sun exposure they need to thrive naturally and sustainability.
Protect your landscape investment and foster landscape sustainability, with Sunscape Maps.
Incredible Plants
Anyone who has studied plants knows how incredible these long evolved life forms are. Plants sense and react to their environment, they make their own food, and have the ability and resources to defend themselves against predators and disease. Plants need to be in the right sun exposure to power these natural processes.
Using a Sunscape Map is fun and easy
Sunscapes Maps are displayed in a Sunscape Viewer where you can orbit around, move, or zoom to view all areas of your property’s Sunscape Maps.
Save a map image to your phone, or print the image, to take with your outdoors, or to the garden store.
Provide the Map to your landscape planner or designer so they get selection and placement decisions right for your comfort, enjoyment, and landscape success.
This garden was created using Sunscape Maps
Sunscape® Maps help you plan and plant with confidence.
3D Property Model
Ecoscape will create a 3D model of your property using GIS data supplemented by property images provided by you, through our user-friendly Ecoscape Portal. Or you can upload a 3D model of your property.
Sunscape Maps
Use Ecoscape Portal to choose surfaces for mapping then choose any daytime span and date range for each of your Sunscape Maps.
Shown here are Sunscape Maps displaying sun exposures, for three different daytime spans during the Growing Season date range. Choose full day maps for Spring, Summer, and Fall and plant successfully for an entire growing season of blooms.
Sunscape Interactive Viewer
Sunscape Interactive Viewer allows you to move, zoom, and orbit around your mapped model to explore your Sunscape mapped property from any perspective. Save images to your desktop for printing or send to your phone, for taking outdoors. See it work.
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Spend less time maintaining and more time enjoying your successful, sustainable landscape with Sunscape® Maps.
Choose the bundle that best suits your needs.
Ecoscape 3D property model
Sunscape Interactive Viewer *
3 Sunscape Maps
Sunscape Interactive Viewer *
3 Sunscape Maps
3 Sunscape Maps ***
* Sunscape Interactive Viewer is a one-time, life-time download with no subscription fees. Available for Windows or MAC.
** A property model can be uploaded to your Sunscape account using our user-friendly Ecoscape Portal.
*** Purchase additional Sunscape Maps for any model in your Sunscape account.
Sunscape products come with access to comprehensive user guides and personal assistance through our Ecoscape portal. We strive to ensure your experience getting and using Sunscape Maps is easy, enjoyable, and successful.
Thriving, sustainable gardens created using Sunscape® Maps
Shade loving plants flourish in a tree shaded area of this sunny southern exposure garden.
A hot, unirrigated area teams with well adapted sun loving plants. Don’t let the shade in this image fool you. This is a full sun garden bed.
Volunteer foxgloves found a full sun home they loved, adding beauty and diversity to this thriving cultivated rose garden.
Butterflies are pollinators. Plant native flowering plants to encourage their work.
When we work with nature, nature works for us.
Ecoscape is driven by the goal of encouraging earth-sustainable behavior in landscapes.
We believe that by helping people plan and plant successfully, we can help reduce the use of earth harmful chemicals and reduce the overuse of earth’s precious natural resources in landscapes.
Sunscape Mapping process was created by sustainable gardening and solar mapping experts with years of experience mapping sun exposure and creating beautiful, successful, sustainable gardens using Sunscape Maps.
As property owners and landscape decision makers we have the opportunity the make a difference in earth sustainability.
- Dayle Cosway, Ecoscape CEO
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Ecoscape is continuing to code nature’s rhythms. Look for additional sustainable landscape empowerment maps, coming soon.