RHS Grow - Plant & Garden Care

I am desperately sad to be rating this app so low. I loved the app when I first had it and busily set about adding my plants, using the advice etc. The subscription price seemed good value. I recommended it to many others. However, that happiness is now misery because the app froze on the log in screen one day. It took several attempts to get through to the RHS Grow team because they’re only contactable by e mail and the RHS membership line gave me the wrong address twice. Over several weeks the RHS Grow team contact has been lovely and engaged their tech team, but they have not been able to resolve the issue and I am left with an app I can’t access and an expensive subscription that’s wasted. UPDATE: The RHS Grow Tech Team have been unable to resolve the issue and my subscription has been partially refunded. Very unsatisfactory outcome.

I have taken out a subscription to this app, but hope that it has significantly improved within the next year. There are a number of drawbacks to the app compared to some others. The first is that there is a limit of 49 to the number of collections you can create; so it is not possible for us to use the app to record plants in all the different spaces in our gardening areas. Picture This has no limit on the number of collections and I am therefore using 65 at the moment. A second issue is that, unlike Picture This which has a Snap History, the app does not record every identification you make unless you choose to add it into a collection. A third is that RHS Grow tells you a plant is non-native but not where it is native to; so, to find out where it is native you have to use Picture This or Wikipedia. Finally, there are just too many “taps“ compared to other apps. It keeps asking if you want to do what you have just asked it to do. Having said that, the app does use the RHS database to offer varieties of plants which other apps do not which would make it ideal for cataloguing if there wasn’t a limit on the number of Collections. Let’s see how it goes over the next year.

This app has been great for researching plants for my garden and saved me from costly mistakes. The app helps you know what’s good for your garden and save tings you like while keeping note of what you have. I decided to subscribe to the care tips and highly recommend to and new gardeners like myself.