Iris: Plants & Gardening 4+
Care Reminders, Community & ID
Crocus
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- Free
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Description
The completely free app to help you GROW. Identify & care for your plants with monthly reminders, connect with plant lovers, discover & buy over 5,000 plants from Crocus
Iris is designed to help gardeners and plant lovers of all experiences. Packed with over 20 years of plant expertise, Iris can help you with flower and plant identification, monthly plant care advice, tips and reminders, and give you direct access to our genius Plant Doctors who can answer any plant problem or gardening question.
The ever-growing Iris gardening community is the ideal place to share your plant and garden photos, questions and ideas, connect with like-minded plant lovers and be inspired.
Whether you’re a novice or a natural, creating your first balcony garden, perfecting your allotment or are a seasoned gardener, we can help you GROW with plant tips and design ideas.
Plant Identification
Iris uses advanced plant recognition technology and can identify any plant! Simply take a photo of the unidentified plant, flower, or tree, and Iris will let you know what you are looking at, as well as providing helpful information on how to care for the plant.
- Take a photo and our plant identification tool will give you an answer in seconds
- Once you’ve got your plant ID, you can share it with the community or learn how to care for the plant
Plant Doctors
Our Plant Doctors are here and ready to help you get the most out of your garden and plants. Whether you are wondering "what's wrong with my plant?" or find out why your house plant isn’t thriving or looking to bring something back to life in the garden, they have decades of gardening wisdom to share.
Plant Care and Tips
Iris has everything you need when it comes to plant care and advice including:
- Videos to help you learn new gardening skills
- Monthly planners with reminders and tips from our plant experts
- Free monthly plant care and watering reminders
- Tips on plants that go well together
- Garden design and plant combination ideas from top gardeners
A Welcoming Community
The Iris community just keeps growing, and it’s the perfect place to share your questions, triumphs and tribulations. We’re a warm bunch, who love nothing more than caring for plants, and helping others do the same.
- Ask or answer questions. Learn how to care for your plants or impart your wisdom
- Make new friends, follow your favourite gardeners and share your gardening joys
Weekly Plant Inspiration
- Be inspired by new ideas from the world of gardening and beyond
- Learn about all kinds of plants and techniques
- Read up on the latest gardening trends and tips, videos and techniques from the UK's most renowned gardening brand.
Garden Finder
New to Iris this Spring, The Garden Finder will let you do just that - find gardens to explore and seek inspiration from! You can search for gardens near you, or gardens across the UK - all as part of the National Garden Scheme.
Over 5,000 Plants to Discover
Explore over 5,000 plants; see how to care for them and buy online.
Whatever stage of your gardening journey Iris helps you to become a better gardener. Download for free and start to cultivate your creativity.
What’s New
Version 1.7.9
Minor UX improvements and bug squishing to improve loading speed.
Ratings and Reviews
The most calming and informative app on my phone!
I found Iris through the Crocus Gardening website, I expected it to be like some of the other gardening apps I’d previously downloaded and subsequently deleted, it’s not. Iris is a platform for anyone with an interest in plants or gardening. It’s inclusive, simple to use and holds a wealth of information in addition to the most friendly community. The user can be as active as they wish within the community but trust me, you’re missing out if you don’t get involved! You’ll receive a warm welcome alongside praise, tricks and tips from others passionate about their plants. Iris has built in plant identification software, perfect for helping you work out what’s what and you can build a library of all the plants you own and receive care tips to ensure your collection continues to thrive. The app is packed full of articles about every kind of plant or flower you could imagine and this cleverly links through to the Crocus Gardening website if you decide you want to boost your collection, but this does not feel forced or like a ‘sales pitch’ in any way. It’s like a gardening magazine subscription, except it’s free! It’s abundantly clear that a huge of amount of thought and effort has been put into developing and maintaining this app and it is a much welcomed alternative to social media. Finally a positive and productive use of my phone. Keep up the great work guys!
Room for improvement but a good idea
Great app but we need lot more…
Connect search with multiple databases not just Crocus, use better search engine which can predict/ suggest alternatives in case of a spelling error, interface could be significantly more intuitive and clearer with better hierarchy, allow future expansion capabilities to add Lidar scans, garden orientations and almost be able to geolocate plants.
People will fill your data base with loads of information from buying capacities to preferences…data is value!
Fantastic start, brilliant idea but lot to be desired!
Developer Response ,
Hi Sau, thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback! We'll take it on board for future development. All the best, the Iris team
A great app with some teething problems
I’ve been looking for an app for a while that can provide personalised gardening care guides and it’s great to see Crocus providing this for free. The advice seems sound and the pictures of each plant you’ve saved are really useful. I do find the search function a little clunky though, a search for ‘bluebells’ brings up nothing; you have to go off and find the Latin name to search. If there’s the slightest typo in any of these Latin names (easily done when trying to type on a phone) the search draws a blank, rather than making a best guess. I’m sure these things will improve in time, and it’s not to take away from the huge endeavour of converting all this knowledge into a really useful app, but with some tweaks this app could be amazing.
App Privacy
The developer, Crocus, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- crocus.co.uk limited
- Size
- 42.4 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Copyright Crocus 2021
- Price
- Free