Right Plants app for iPhone and iPad

Right Plants - Plant encyclopaedia

- Browse over 5,000 plants - we are adding new plants every day!
- Identify your plants with the help of over 15,000 pictures & over 240 beautiful time-lapse videos
- Keep your plants healthy with planting, pruning, feeding advice
- Prune your plants right with detailed and illustrated pruning advice
- Get to know your plants thanks to detailed plant description, height, spread, aspect, Botanical name, Botanical name explanation, genus and much more
- Quickly identify your plants and search by name, flower colour, period of interest, height, aspect, soil type, plant type, RHS plants, and much more
- Personalise each plant by adding your own pictures

Premium features (requires one-off in-app purchase) :
- Create your virtual garden: add plants to your list
- Create your plant wish list: bookmark any plant
- Remember every detail about your plants: add notes to any plant


Story behind the app

I was filming for the BBC Private Life of Plants when a friend visited my garden. She said. "You have a beautiful garden. How do you know which plants will grow in your garden so you get a beautiful and colourful garden throughout the year? She said "I have a tree but don’t know what will grow under it. I have a garage and I’d like to climb plants up it, but I don’t know what to plants. I have lots of books but it takes too long to look through them and they often don’t have the information I want".

That gave me the seed of an idea to make and quick and easy to use, interactive plant database. I wanted to to allow people of all levels of experience to find the right plants to suit every condition of a garden to produce colour and interest throughout the year. I could take all the photographs but I needed Authors to write about the plants. I wanted authors with mud under their fingernails who would write about the plants with descriptions rather than just basic information which you get on labels.

I then needed to find programmers to make the plant database come to life. Plant database has been growing ever since.