Product · Optional module

Garden Explorer: your collection, open to visitors

Publish searchable plant lists, interactive maps, garden features and self-guided tours, built straight from the records your curators and team already keep, and updated with a click.

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For your garden visitors

A public window onto the collection

In addition to sharing information about the plants in your collection, you can create self-guided Tours for education, citizen science projects or general garden tours.

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's Garden Explorer home page, with full-bleed forest photography and a custom illustrated map of its four garden sites — Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh rbge.gardenexplorer.org

Searchable plant lists

Visitors can search your collection and open a page for any taxon or individual plant.
Maps and features

Show where plants grow, and feature your art, memorial trees and benches and other garden features alongside them.
Self-guided tours

Create self-guided Tours for education, citizen science projects or general garden tours.
Your data, one click away

Upload from IrisBG on demand or on a schedule. The public site is built from the records your curators already maintain.

Visit our Garden Explorer directory (opens in a new tab) to see how gardens use the Garden Explorer.

Module specification

Works in web browsers on desktops, tablets and smartphones
Pages for search, map, taxon and plant details
Customizable styling
GPS and QR code support
Multiple language support
On-demand or scheduled data upload
Detailed restriction control of your data

Benefits

Device independence across desktops, tablets and smartphones
Customizable appearance and content to match your branded profile
Built-in GPS, QR code and multilingual support
On-demand or scheduled data uploads
A Garden Explorer directory showcasing global botanical collections

Hosting

We host it for you

Installation, upgrades, troubleshooting and server management are all taken care of. Your team never has to touch a server.

What's included

Your core IrisBG database stays private. The Garden Explorer never connects back into it. Hosting costs are listed in our price calculator. If your IT team wants the technical details, they're on our system requirements page.

Custom maps in the Garden Explorer

We include free web map hosting for one custom map, so you can use it in IrisBG or in the Garden Explorer. Additional maps can be hosted for an extra cost.

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Garden Explorer, live

Some of our users

View some of our users' beautiful gardens below, live on the public Garden Explorer. Click a screenshot for the full page, or the address to visit the site.