RHS Grow - Plant & Garden Care 4+
Identify, learn, plan & grow
The Royal Horticultural Society
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Welcome to RHS Grow, the official app of the Royal Horticultural Society. Featured on ITV's This Morning as one of the top 5 must-have apps, RHS Grow helps gardeners identify plants, receive tips and advice on how to care for them and most importantly, help them to grow in the healthiest way possible.
The app offers easy-to-use access to 200 years of knowledge from RHS specialist advisors, botanists and scientists through to fruit and veg experts - all tasked with helping gardeners grow plants with confidence all year round. So why not join thousands of happy gardeners and experience the joy of gardening with RHS Grow today!
CHATBOTANIST
Need to ask a question about gardening? Why not ask our AI ChatBotanist? We’ve taught it everything we know about gardening, plants and problems, making it the perfect tool to give expert advice anywhere, anytime.
And now, ChatBotanist comes with Voice mode – simply tap the microphone icon to speak with ChatBotanist on the go or while you’re gardening. It’s perfect for muddy hands and comes with a transcript of every conversation saved to your chat history.
WHY RHS GROW?
- Search the RHS database of over 35,000 plants
- Use Plant ID to identify plants by taking a picture or searching for them by name
- Receive expert care tips for over 100,000 plants or get customised care tips specific to each of your plants to help your garden thrive. Let RHS Grow remove any guesswork and remind you what to do and when so your plants can flourish all year round.
- Journal the progress of your plants and garden with our gardening journal feature. Add notes to record observations, keep track of your plants’ growth and attach photos to see how your plant has developed over time.
- Keep track of your garden by creating curated collections and aspirational Wishlists
- Learn about new plants to grow and discover where to find them
- Access knowledge from 200 years of RHS expertise, including a team of botanists, horticulturists and scientists in RHS Wisley Garden
PODCASTS
While away the hours in the garden or relaxing anywhere by listening to the ‘Gardening with the RHS’ Podcast within the app. The Podcast offers seasonal advice, inspiration and practical solutions to all gardening problems. Topics covered include: growing your own vegetables, flowers, garden design, lawn care and gardening with children, plus expert masterclasses on topics ranging from cottage garden plants, growing orchids, to pest control and eco-friendly gardening. There’s something in these podcasts to interest every gardener, whatever your level of expertise.
RHS Grow has both free and paid for features. You can download RHS Grow and enjoy the free version, or sign up to our monthly or yearly subscription to access all features. All subscriptions start with a free trial period. Once the free trial has ended, RHS Grow is £3.99 a month or £39.99 a year (16% saving). You can cancel your subscription any time.
FREE FEATURES
The Discover tab - view articles, listen to Podcasts and see our ‘Plant of the Day’
My garden - create curated lists of your own garden plus Wishlists of plants you’d like to grow in the future.
Plant profiles - our A-Z plant guide with expert growing advice
PREMIUM FEATURES
ChatBotanist, Plant ID, Care tips and Journal
The RHS Grow app is separate to RHS Membership and available to everyone as part of our commitment to supporting gardening throughout the UK. 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
What’s New
Version 2.6.0
PODCASTS: Now access trusted advice from gardening professionals through our new podcast feature! Tune in to hear experts share tried and tested techniques, helping you cultivate a thriving garden with ease.
Ratings and Reviews
Wouldn’t have minded the subscription cost if it was actually good
You cannot use this app unless you pay the monthly subscription fee.
This wouldn’t have been a problem if what was offered was worth the money, but sadly it isn’t.
The plant identifier works OK, and I liked the idea of building your own garden profile/library so you could get tailored advice. But you can only add a plant to your garden profile if there are details (seasons, required care etc.) for it on the data base. And while the plant identifier could find close matches for everything I tried, around half of them didn’t have any details on the database, so I couldn’t add them to my garden profile. If we had a complicated/exotic garden, I might be able to understand more why they wouldn’t be on the database. But all our plants a very ‘standard’ for an English garden. So it all just feels a bit pointless and not worth the money
Developer Response ,
Hello
We are improving our plant database all the time, please let us know at rhsgrow@rhs.org.uk if there are particular plants you are unable to find and like to see and we will include that in our prioritisation.
We have new features and product improvements coming all the time.
Many thanks
RHS Grow team
Hopeless
It doesn’t work. You are trying to make me pay for something that crashes every time I try to use it.
I have had the website version of this, loading some 600 of my garden plants onto it ever since it was offered for free by the RHS which they also asked us to run our membership from - and maybe even accept digital versions of The Garden and our Membership book rather than a physical copy. In light of the changes and trying to switch us to an app since then, thankfully I specified physical copies - ‘cos it crashes.
Every time I open the app on either my phone or my IPad, I can guarantee it will crash. I try to access the part of it that has my plants on it, or the Wishlist part of it - it crashes. Admittedly my wishlist is more than one or two plants BUT…….isn’t that the whole point?
I like many others, will not be paying for this app. The idea behind it (ie via the website) may’ve been a good one, the execution of it is hopeless and having had (and still using) the website version as a member for free then trying to get me to pay for something further than my membership feels exploitative of your members. Trying to justify that stance as you have in another review/response by saying the Membership covers the gardens etc ignores the fact that you are trying to remove something we had for free with something you want us to pay for.
AND - IT CRASHES.
Extra cost despite being a member!!
Like the previous reviewer I downloaded this app only to find an added cost to use the app despite being a member, so it will be deleted. I find it irritating that on downloading an app there is then a monthly/yearly cost to use it to its full potential (which affects many types of apps, when are app developers going to realise that a nominal one off charge would greatly increase its use, whereas people like me just end up deleting it as we can’t afford the subscription costs) - this app should be free for members, we are pensioners and while we budget for our yearly RHS membership, extra app costs are not an option for us.
App Privacy
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.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- The Royal Horticultural Society
- Size
- 130.9 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © The Royal Horticultural Society
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- RHS Grow Supporter £3.99
- RHS Grow Supporter £39.99