Iris: Plants & Gardening 4+

Care Reminders, Community & ID

Crocus

    • 4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
    • Free

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Description

The free app for plant lovers and gardeners of all experience levels!

Whether you're just starting your plant journey or you're a seasoned green thumb, Iris helps you care for your plants with ease—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. All completely FREE to use!

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 get inspired.

Whether you’re creating your first balcony garden, perfecting your allotment or are a seasoned garden professional, we can help you GROW with plant tips, design ideas and a community to support you on your journey.

Features

Plant Identification
- Advanced plant recognition technology to 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.
- Includes helpful information on how to care for the plant.
- Once you’ve got your plant ID, you can share it with the community or learn how to care for the plant.

Plant Care and Tips
- 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.

Real Plant Doctors
- Live Plant Doctors, ready to help you get the most out of your garden and plants.
- Advice on plant pests, soil types, diseases and garden design.
- Help with houseplants and outdoor plants.
- They have decades of gardening wisdom to share.

A Welcoming Community
- Ever growing community of plant and nature lovers
- The perfect place to share your questions, triumphs and tribulations.
- 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 successes
- Meet expert gardeners and discover what they have on their patch
- We love nothing more than caring for plants, and helping others do the same.

Weekly Plant Inspiration
- Be inspired by new ideas from the world of gardening and beyond
- Weekly seasonal articles and videos
- Learn about all kinds of plants and gardening techniques
- Read up on the latest gardening trends and tips
- Exclusive insights into gardening events like Chelsea Flower Show

Garden Finder
- Find gardens to explore and seek inspiration from!
- Search for gardens near you, or gardens across the UK
- In partnership National Garden Scheme.

Over 5,000 Plants to Discover
- Explore over 5,000 plants.
- Discover how to care for them.
- Add them to your account for monthly reminders.
- Buy the plants you love from the UK’s most trusted gardening brand.

Join thousands of users discovering the joy of gardening. Whether you're nurturing your houseplants, looking for rose pruning advice, planning a garden or just want to connect with like-minded gardeners, Iris is the app to help you grow!

What’s New

Version 2.0.3

We all like it when things go smoothly!

Thats why we have spent time and effort making sure Iris is as smooth as can be.

- You can now log in and create an account in no time with your Apple or Google account.
- We have improved the feed loading speed by squishing a particularly hard to find bug.
- Carousel scrolling is smooth as silk

Thank you all for your feedback and good luck in the garden!

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
1.4K Ratings

1.4K Ratings

YorkshireJen ,

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!

Developer Response ,

Hi Jen, thank you for your kind review and for sharing your honest thoughts about the app, it is great to know wee are on the right track!! Happy planting this spring! Iris Team

Sau V ,

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

spirfire17 ,

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.

Events

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

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