Horticultural Database

Research | Popular Topics | Popular Plants | Research Projects | Horticultural Database

About the RHS Horticultural Database

Since 1993, the RHS has been developing the RHS Horticultural Database. The objective is to bring together, into a single cohesive structure, as much horticultural information as possible, based around a comprehensive index of garden plant names. Using the proprietary botanical gardens database management software, BG-BASE^TM, this is already being used for garden plant records for the RHS Gardens, nursery information, RHS National Collections, RHS Trials, Award of Garden Merit plants, literature references and much more besides. In 1998, the Pathology section started recording the incidence of certain plant diseases within Wisley Garden, using the Horticultural database to hold the data. Since 1997, The RHS Plant Finder has been generated directly from the RHS Horticultural Database.

Search for plant names

TIP – try entering the common name if you are unsure of the botanical name; to obtain a list of oaks, search for oak; having found the botanical name Quercus, enter quercus as a new search

About the data

These searches are also available from the RHS Horticultural Database.

1. The RHS Plant Finder provides a list of suppliers for a selected plant variety.
2. The Award of Garden Merit allows you to search for outstanding varieties by type as well as by name.

Links

BG-BASE ^TM.The botanical collections management software, in use worldwide, on which the RHS Horticultural Database is maintained.

How to Cite us

If you find the database useful for your work, please mention it when citing sources of information. It may be cited as 'The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database'. Available at http://www.rhs.org.uk/