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Botanical gardens

A living collection your visitors can actually navigate

Your accession database already knows every plant you hold. Your visitors have a folded paper map with twelve numbered beds on it. This closes that gap: staff place each accession on a real map, visitors open it by scanning a code at the gate, and nobody installs anything.

Create your map See what's coming

Searchable by scientific name

A visitor who knows they want Magnolia grandiflora finds it and gets walked to the bed. Search is typo-tolerant and covers every field you define, not just the common name.

Beds and borders as real shapes

A bed is an area, not a pin. Draw its actual outline so visitors see where the planting starts and stops, and label paths as lines through the grounds.

Seasonal without a reprint

A bloom season field means what is flowering now can change weekly. Paper maps are accurate on the day they are printed and wrong for the rest of the year.

What you'd set up

You define your own categories and the fields each one carries. These are the ones venues like yours usually start with — nothing here is fixed, and you can change it later.

Plant

Shown as a pin on the map

  • Scientific name text
  • Family text
  • Accession number text
  • Bloom season select
  • Date planted date
  • Photos photo

Bed

Shown as a drawn area

  • Theme text
  • Description textarea

Facility

Shown as a pin on the map

  • Type select
  • Step-free access boolean

Bringing what you already have

Export from BG-BASE, IrisBG, or whatever spreadsheet the collection actually lives in, and import it as CSV. Rows arrive as drafts flagged for missing descriptions and near-duplicate coordinates, so you review before anything goes public.

Questions we get

We have thousands of accessions. Do we have to place every one by hand?
No. If your records already carry coordinates, a CSV import places them in one pass. If they do not, most gardens start with the few hundred specimens visitors actually ask about and grow from there — a partial map is immediately more useful than a paper one.
What happens in winter when half the collection is not worth visiting?
Categories and individual points can be unpublished without deleting them, so a seasonal display can come off the visitor map and return next year with its history and photos intact.
Can volunteers help maintain it without access to everything?
Yes. Staff are invited with roles — an editor can add and update plants, a viewer can only look. Only owners can change venue settings or delete anything.

Try it on your own site

Draw your boundary, add a category, place a few points. You'll know within an afternoon whether it fits how you work.

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