Iris: Garden Advice & Ideas

Crocus.co.uk Ltd

About this app

Iris is your free gardening app. You can use it for flower and plant identification, to get plant care advice, tips and reminders, and to speak to our Plant Doctors who can answer your gardening questions.

The ever-growing Iris gardening community is also the perfect place to share your plant and garden photos, questions and ideas, and be inspired.

Whether you’re a novice or a natural, we can help you grow with plant tips and design ideas.

🍁 Plant Identification
Iris uses advanced image recognition technology so you can simply take a photo of the unidentified plant, flower, or tree, and the app will let you know what you are looking at, as well as providing helpful information on how to care for the plant.

🏥Plant Doctor
Our Plant Doctors are here and ready to help you get the most out of your garden and plants. Whether you have questions on why your house plant isn’t thriving or how to bring something back to life in the garden, they have years’ worth of gardening wisdom to share.

🌱Plant Care and Tips
Iris has everything you need when it comes to plant care and advice including:
Videos to help you learn new gardening skills
Monthly planners with tips from our plant experts
Plant care and watering reminders
Tips on plants that go well together
Garden design and plant combination ideas from top gardeners

💚 Welcoming Community
The Iris community just keeps growing, and it’s the perfect place to share your questions, triumphs and even tribulations. We’re a warm bunch, who love nothing more than caring for plants, and helping others do the same.

🔍Garden Finder
New to Iris this Spring, The Garden Finder will let you do just that - find gardens to explore and seek inspiration from! You can search for gardens near you, or gardens across the UK - all as part of the National Garden Scheme.

💐Over 5,000 Plants to Discover
Explore over 5,000 plants; see how to care for them and buy online.

Whatever stage of your gardening journey Iris helps you to become a better gardener. Download for free and start to cultivate your creativity.

Ratings and reviews

I joined the Iris app a few months ago, after the Candide app closed down. I have found the Iris community to be extremely welcoming, friendly and knowledgeable. The one feature I miss is the ability to zoom in to photos, sometimes detail is difficult to see. Also it would be helpful to be able to 'tag' individuals, so that they can easily see any information you have to give, or even add a picture to a reply. All in all I'm quite happy to be a part of such a happy group of like-minded people.

This is a great wee gardening app, I have been using it a few months now since the garden app I used closed down. My only issues would be we can't post videos and I would like to have the ability to to set a picture up properly before posting as sometimes the picture is cut off at the top because I don't have the option to set it up. But other than that it is a lovely, friendly community with helpful tips and advice when needed.

I found this app by accident and I'm so glad I did. It's a lovely community of gardeners from absolute beginners to very experienced. There are options to post all kinds of gardening pics under different headings, such as Beginner, Grow Your Own, Houseplants etc. You can ask people questions relating to their pics, or post pics yourself and ask for advice, should you need it. I am still a beginner and I've been blown away by how lovely and helpful people are and I've learnt such a lot already.

What's new

Minor UX improvements and bug squishing to improve loading speed.