In the garden

Most plant labels stop at the name this one keeps going

A card in the ground tells you what the plant needs, what it feeds, and whether it would work where you garden. Scan the code and the rest of it comes home with you.

A printed care sign for Cardinal Flower, showing a photograph, growing conditions and a QR code

In your hand

The code opens the other half

The card holds what you need standing in front of the plant. The page holds what you want later — at home, deciding whether to plant it, and where.

The printed care sign for Cardinal Flower, with its QR code at the lower right — Printed — 6 × 4 in, weatherproof

The plant page on a phone, showing the card front — Scroll the back — it is the real page

What you get

Two halves of one answer

On the card

A photograph of the plant in the ground, not in a pot
Common and scientific name
Light, water, soil, mature size, bloom colour and months
Why it is worth growing, in two to four points
Where it is native, and which pollinators it draws

On the phone

Everything printed on the card
What it feeds — birds, butterflies, specialist bees
Plants that grow well beside it
How to plant it, step by step
Detail photographs: leaf, seed head, bark, habit
A list you can save as you walk the garden

Browse

Start with a plant, or with a problem

Search the full collection by common or scientific name — or begin from the corner of the garden that is giving you trouble.

Browse all plants

Get in touch

The same system, a different plant list

Cards and pages are generated from one plant dataset, so a group with its own species list can produce its own set. If yours is thinking about something like this — or you have spotted something wrong on a plant page — send a message.

It helps to say roughly how many species you have in mind and when you would need them.

Message on Facebook

Developers: the project is on GitHub.