Rain Gardenplay a storm into being

The garden is empty. Tap a place, or play Q–T, A–G, or Z–B across the keyboard. Keep going: the storm grows with you. Space calls thunder.

A lush garden with banana leaves, ferns, a small pond, a wet stone, and a tin roof beneath a grey-green rainy sky The same lush garden after rain, glowing in golden light with a faint rainbow

Make it rain.

Five places are waiting for their first drop.

Storm meter0% · still air
Let the garden rain softly by itself.
Sound begins with your first gesture. Waiting for a drop.

Field note

The smell after rain has a name: petrichor. It can come partly from oils released by plants and from geosmin, a compound made by soil bacteria.

The garden keeps its little weather diary in this browser. It sends only musical notes and key counts to PointCast’s shared signal.