Welcome to RHS Grow, the official app of the Royal Horticultural Society. RHS Grow is backed by over 200 years of RHS expertise with advice from over 130 gardening experts, from specialist advisors, botanists and scientists through to fruit and veg experts - all tasked with helping users grow plants with confidence all year round. Our aim is to help you identify plants, receive tips and advice on how to care for them and most importantly, help them to grow in the healthiest way possible. Previously featured on ITV's This Morning as one of the top 5 must-have apps!
As your smart gardening assistant, RHS Grow features cutting-edge horticultural innovation that offers a comprehensive plant finder, advanced plant identification tools, and tailored advice for every gardener, whether you're a beginner gardener or seasoned expert. With unique features like the Plant ID tool, Biodiversity tool, and ChatBotanist, you'll receive personalised plant care guidance to help grow your garden with confidence year-round.
Features:
Plant ID Tool: Identify plants instantly using our smart image recognition feature, helping you learn about new plant varieties for your vegetable, flower, or home garden.
Plant Finder: Search the RHS database by plant name and filter by attributes to find plant details on 35,000+ plants. Discover plants through filters like type, their habits, foliage and hardiness or search for plants according to whether they’re pollinators, native to the UK, fragrant or Garden Merit Awarded.
ChatBotanist: Get personalised gardening advice anytime with our innovative chatbot, answering your plant-related questions instantly. Now with Voice mode - simply tap the microphone icon to speak with ChatBotanist on the go or while you’re gardening, along with a transcript of every conversation saved to your chat history.
Garden Planner: Simply complete a short questionnaire then receive tailored plant recommendations curated by RHS experts to suit you and your garden.
Plant Collections: Create your own personalised plant collections to keep track of what's in your garden and activate care tips for each plant. You can also add plants to a wishlist for future inspiration.
Plant Combination Builder: Create stunning plant combinations that thrive together, ensuring your garden is both beautiful and harmonious.
Garden Journal: Keep track of your gardening progress, log plant care routines, and document your gardening journey in one convenient place.
Podcasts: Enjoy the ‘Gardening with the RHS’ podcast within the app, offering seasonal advice, inspiration and practical solutions to all gardening problems. Including a range of topics and expert masterclasses - there’s something to interest every gardener, whatever your level of expertise.
Editorial Content: Access a wealth of articles and guides on gardening topics, from seasonal garden care to pest management, all based on RHS expertise.
Social Sharing: Easily share your favourite articles and interesting reads with friends to spread gardening inspiration.
My Garden Progress: Turn positive actions for nature into achievements. Collect badges that champion your commitment to boosting biodiversity.
RHS Grow has quickly become a favourite among gardening fans! With a community of satisfied users and a 4.7-star rating, our app is packed with features that deliver real results. Join the thriving community of gardeners who rely on RHS Grow for expert advice and inspiration!
The RHS Grow app is separate to RHS Membership and available to everyone as part of our commitment to supporting gardening throughout the UK.
RHS Grow has both free and paid for features. You can download RHS Grow and enjoy the free version, or sign up to one of our subscriptions to access all features. If you downloaded RHS Grow when it was free you will not be automatically charged later - you will need to choose to sign up to the paid version.
Terms of Use: https://www.rhs.org.uk/rhs-grow/terms-of-use
This is excellent but you won’t know by the free demo!
Leadblade
Yes this app is great. Lots of pop up advise and articles. Lots of prompts on how to manage things if you are taking on new areas (I’m expanding into Greenhouse with ornamentals and a vegetable garden) I’m an experienced gardener and I find this app very useful. You can curate your own garden or wish list and break these down into different lists. But you really won’t get a taste of what the app can do on the limited free access I had. RHS - perhaps offer full access for a few weeks to give people a proper taste?
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and thoughts, they are much appreciated. If you would like to elaborate any of them then please do get in touch at rhsgrow@rhs.org.uk
OK but needs more work
JonBromwich
I have taken out a subscription to this app, but hope that it has significantly improved within the next year. There are a number of drawbacks to the app compared to some others. The first is that there is a limit of 49 to the number of collections you can create; so it is not possible for us to use the app to record plants in all the different spaces in our gardening areas. Picture This has no limit on the number of collections and I am therefore using 65 at the moment. A second issue is that, unlike Picture This which has a Snap History, the app does not record every identification you make unless you choose to add it into a collection. A third is that RHS Grow tells you a plant is non-native but not where it is native to; so, to find out where it is native you have to use Picture This or Wikipedia. Finally, there are just too many “taps“ compared to other apps. It keeps asking if you want to do what you have just asked it to do. Having said that, the app does use the RHS database to offer varieties of plants which other apps do not which would make it ideal for cataloguing if there wasn’t a limit on the number of Collections. Let’s see how it goes over the next year.
Developer Response
Hi, thank you for your feedback and your comprehensive initial thoughts on the app.We would love to know more of your thoughts as you progress. We can be contacted on rhsgrow@rhs.org.uk
Reflections after a year of use
Improvergardener
I’ve been using the app for a year, coinciding with moving house. I like the ease of recording info about the plants, and capturing photos in an organised way. The identifier is handy. However, I have noticed that “garden notes” (ie general journal notes not linked to a plant) are disappearing after 12 months. So as I do some tasks this January, I cannot look back at the dates and photos for equivalent jobs a year ago. This is not good - makes it hard to compare actions year on year and undermines the app’s utility as a reference database. Is it possible to create some kind of archive feature, so last year’s journal can be stored for comparison purposes? Or even an ability to export it to a spreadsheet or PDF.
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and insights a year into your subscription. To enable us to address the issues you have outlined above, please could you email the technical team at rhsgrow@rhs.org.uk. We would love to hear from you!
Frozen App
HensHouse
I am desperately sad to be rating this app so low. I loved the app when I first had it and busily set about adding my plants, using the advice etc. The subscription price seemed good value. I recommended it to many others. However, that happiness is now misery because the app froze on the log in screen one day. It took several attempts to get through to the RHS Grow team because they’re only contactable by e mail and the RHS membership line gave me the wrong address twice. Over several weeks the RHS Grow team contact has been lovely and engaged their tech team, but they have not been able to resolve the issue and I am left with an app I can’t access and an expensive subscription that’s wasted. UPDATE: The RHS Grow Tech Team have been unable to resolve the issue and my subscription has been partially refunded. Very unsatisfactory outcome.
Developer Response
Hello, we are very sorry about this and hope the ongoing dialogue with the RHS Grow Team will resolve this issue.
Introducing the Garden Knowledge Hub
We’ve added a brand-new content section to the home page to help you grow with confidence.
This new space is packed with inspiration and expert advice to help you garden smarter, save money, and support nature.
Version 4.2
The developer, The Royal Horticultural Society, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Location
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Information
Provider
The Royal Horticultural Society
Size
165.1 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
