In this second instalment of our blogpost series, we continue our journey into the remarkable successes of Hortis gardens worldwide.
Paving the way to a world-class botanic garden: James Cook University’s Hortis Success Story

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.
This week we are proud to be exhibiting at BGCI’s 7th Global Botanic Garden Congress in Melbourne. If you are thinking about joining the “Hortisphere”, have recently onboarded, or simply would like to learn more and discuss your plant records requirements, visit us to find out how we can help you.
In August, we introduced plant material condition and follow-up cycles, our new billing page, and more depth to existing features. This includes the ability to download your plant material data.
Read more about our Hortis highlights from August and our “Tip of the Month” on bed code searching while accessioning.
For more feature-related news, head to the Release Notes page at support.hortis.com.
In July, we released the activity log for accession records, added the ability to update your collection sites, and enabled greater control over the photos you upload.
Read our post below to find out more about July’s Hortis highlights. Don’t forget our “Tip of the Month” on setting featured photos.
For more feature-related news, head to the Release Notes page at support.hortis.com.
For more than a decade, Botanical Software has helped botanic gardens around the world with plant collection management tools, meeting garden staff at conferences, and listening to what you are struggling