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
Thriving through change: How Hortis has helped our plant records at Hertfordshire Zoo
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.
Making Plant Records Useful Again: A Wave Hill Success 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.
Plant records and more: Sculpture by the Lakes achieves prestigious botanic garden accreditation
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.
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.
Transforming Record-keeping: Tohono Chul’s Hortis Success Story
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.
The Hortis team joins Species360
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.
Floria Handheld update and Upcoming Webinar on Collection Value Scoring
With the latest version of IrisBG, the Data Import required by the Floria App Manager is again made available to IrisBG users. Join our next webinar on the 12th August will explore collection value scoring.
Plant Records Webinar – Image Management And The Bigger Picture
In many regions of the world, more than 75% of the population has a smartphone. Consequently, with the technological advancements in smartphone photography, most people have a very good camera within easy reach. For botanic gardens, it is without doubt that historic images and contemporary photographs both hold vital information and purpose.
With more seamless image capture and management workflows, there is certainly a lot of potential to increase the usefulness of photographs in plant collections. Luckily there are new technology and software development techniques that can help us make this process easier.
Wishing you the very best during the festive season
Wishing you the very best during the festive season, with much happiness and a safe and prosperous New Year. We really appreciate your continued support. Warmest wishes from the Botanical Software