A year of growth, collaboration, and shared learning. Join us as we reflect on the Hortis Community 2025 webinar, featuring stories from gardens across three continents and the lessons shaping the year ahead.
Hortis Community 2025: A Year in Bloom


A year of growth, collaboration, and shared learning. Join us as we reflect on the Hortis Community 2025 webinar, featuring stories from gardens across three continents and the lessons shaping the year ahead.

n the latest entry of our blog series, we hear about the journey at Hertfordshire Zoo, a family-run institution nestled in the scenic Broxbourne Woods of Hertfordshire, UK. Matt Berridge, Deputy Head Gardener, shares his story.

In the latest installment of our blog post series, we delve into the Hortis success story at Wave Hill, a renowned public garden nestled in Riverdale, Bronx, NY. Authored by Wave Hill staff (Jess Brey, Ruth Rea Howell Senior Horticultural Interpreter, and Steven Conaway, PhD, Associate Director of Horticulture), the article details the transformative journey undertaken by Wave Hill in resurrecting their plant records.

In our third blogpost in a series commemorating the achievements of Hortis gardens, we travel to the UK, where Sculpture by the Lakes in Dorset attains official Botanic Garden status.

In this second instalment of our blogpost series, we continue our journey into the remarkable successes of Hortis gardens worldwide.

Our new blogpost series focuses on the successes of gardens around the world. We invite Hortis gardens to share their experiences with the community, and to help inspire more gardens to improve their record-keeping.

Species360 is pleased to announce the addition of the plant collection platform Hortis to our product portfolio. Based in the UK and the Netherlands, the team developing Hortis will continue their exciting work together with the software engineers and conservation scientists at Species360.

We concluded the last two months of 2022 with some hotly-requested features from the community. Now you can create tags for your records, manage your members’ permissions, and start creating more powerful maps with filters.

With a busy conference season and new gardens joining every week, we have saved up two months’ worth of highlights to share with you.

Under the tagline “Influence & Action : Botanic Gardens as Agents of Change”, 500 delegates from 38 countries came together in Melbourne to explore how botanic gardens an play a greater role in shaping our future.
Read about impressions, emerging themes and what we learned at the congress.