Hortis at BGANZ
In 2019, a working group from the Botanic Gardens of Australia and New Zealand, BCARM (BGANZ Collections And Records Management group) and the BGANZ Council embarked on a tender process to find a suitable plant records management system to provide to member gardens.
The objective of the project was to be able to give members access to a plant records management solution that is robust, reliable, secure and accessible, with optimised performance to meet the current and future needs and demands of regional botanic gardens.
Hortis was selected as the preferred plant records system and, since 2020, we have been welcoming new members to the Hortis community. Our first users were part of the BGANZ Victoria / “Growing Victoria’s Botanic Gardens” Grants program, and we are now working with more BGANZ gardens across Australia and New Zealand.
Moving to Hortis: Cairns Botanic Gardens’ story
“Accurate record-keeping is something that all Botanic Gardens are supposed to do, but recently we haven’t been doing it effectively because of this lack of a suitable package—so it’s a big step forward for us.”
Special deal for all BGANZ members
We are delighted to provide a special offer for all BGANZ members. For the first year of registration, we will double your editing capacity. This includes full-time licences as well as flexible day bundles.
Subscribe to Hortis at BGANZ webinars
We regularly host information sessions and plant records webinars for BGANZ members. Invitation to BGANZ Hortis events will be sent out via the BGANZ newsletter to all members. To stay in the loop, subscribe below.
Looking for past recordings and BGANZ resources?
Our Support Portal contains links to previous webinars and resources specific to the BGANZ community. To access these, visit support.hortis.com and click Sign Up in the top right corner.
Note that this section is only available to BGANZ members, and is likely to be a separate login from your Hortis database. If you have trouble accessing these resources, feel free to get in touch.