Leave a Review GARDENIZE Plant Care Gardening
Great way to keep organized
I have been using this app for a few years now. Here are my pros and cons.
Pros:
1. I like how I can take notes about each plant, take photos with dates attached to see how things progress, when I planted extra.
2. I can archive plants what have died and look them up later without having them in my current garden.
3. It’s nice being able to search for a plant or plants quickly.
4.The planner is nice to set schedules like sowing or fertilizing.
Cons:
1. I live in a rural area, all the social stuff (Gardenizers & Inspiration tabs) really bog the app down and it takes forever to load when I’m not by WiFi which is most of the time. I don’t use that stuff anyway so it’s annoying.
2. I wish there was a garden journal section. A place I can just take random notes about anything to reference to when needed. I have to have that on a different app on my phone. I wish I could keep it all in one place.Show lessShannon111111
Pictures not showing up
I like this app which keeps all my gardening info in one place, but recently when I add photos they are not showing up either in the app or online. The picture count shows that I have added a picture but nothing appears. I can go into edit mode for the picture but it is just a white screen. Not sure what happened because it was working well before.Show lessAuntiebeatle
Developer Response
Hi, thank you so much for letting us know! We need to have a closer look at your account to find this bug, could you please contact us via the app or at customerservice@gardenize.com? Looking forward to hearing from you so we can get to the bottom of this issue! Best, CeciliaVery useful gardening app
I have been using this application for over a year now, and have found it to be very useful. I have also introduced this app to a friend who has over a 1000 unique plants on his estate, and he is very happy with it too. The app allows us to easily input plant details, add pictures, organize them by garden bed (area) and add numerous journal notes. The export feature is very useful if we want to export our plant list to Excel for printing. I am very happy to see that this app is actively being enhanced and repaired (bug fixes). The app still has some outstanding bugs that I would like to see fixed, but I am very pleased overall with this app.Show lessET-61
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your lovely feedback! If you want to give us more details as to what you want to be fixed, please let us know at customerservice@gardenize.com - we are looking into those areas right now, so it would be very valuable for us to know your experience! Wishing you a great gardening season! Best, CeciliaNot quite there
Some great features but key things are missing. I love how there are outdoor plants plants that can be grouped and there is a calendar and great tips. However, many plants are missing though and I wish there was more personalised care schedules for the plants around when to fertilise etc. Without these, it fails to serve my needsShow lessDaisydaisychain
Developer Response
Daisydaisychain, Thank you for your feedback! We are working on the personalization and would love to get to know more about your needs. in order to serve them. Please shoot us an email at customerservice@gardenize.comToo expensive for what it provides
I’m a few days into the free trial and there are things I like about the app and a number of glitchy things that I’ve encountered. Overall it is too expensive for what it provides. Compared with a monthly TV streaming subscription this is way overpriced for what is essentially a note storing tool.
Glitches and grumbles first:
The app overall seems to be memory intensive and ran my battery down quite fast. Given that I would want to update it frequently in the garden this is a big minus.
The image capture pop up window seems to randomly place itself partly off screen, so that only the library option is clickable. This may be related to trying to add an image at a specific point e.g. adding a plant to the database when connecting a plant to an area. IDK for sure. It’s very annoying and frequent.
The lack of auto save is really frustrating. The user has to click save at every screen. It’s not difficult to edit an error so why not have the app save after entering data on linked screens.
The records aspect of it could be achieved at much lower cost in Good Notes using a journal template and some hyperlinks and typically template providers charge a one off fee of between £5 and £20 for an unlimited page navigable journal. That’s what I would find an acceptable price for this app rather than an annual £30 plus subscription.Show lessWashington Red
Developer Response
Hi and thank you for your feedback on the app and pricing! I have let our developers know so we can look into the glitches and hopefully fix them asap. If you want to help us further it would be great if you could send us print screens of the issue to: customerservice@gardenize.com Best, CeciliaLots of work
This app requires you to set up _everything_ yourself. I was hoping that the database would help you to set up reminders and schedules for the plants in your collection. However it doesn't seem to do that. The database just gives me a photo and some basic info about the plant – the schedule and what to do I must set up myself.
The database also lacks almost all my plants (Phoenix Canariensis, Ipomoeba alba, Clematis flammula, Streilitizia and even Olive).Show lesskkajler
Developer Response
Hi and thank you so much for your feedback, it will help us a lot when developing our product! Wishing you a lovely gardening season :) Best, CeciliaCan search the web
Be nice if you could search the web for plants rather than have to type everything in manuallyJodiodiay
Developer Response
Hi and thank you for your feedback! We are glad to say that we're working on that as we speak. Best, CeciliaWhere Have You Been All my Life???
I just wish I had this app sooner. Worth every penny!!!Now I’ll never dig up a plant by mistake again. I hope bSGG16
Simple and handy
Of the apps I have tried I find this one actually useful and applicable to keeping track of everything I have planted. Appreciate the relevant advice for NZ. Enjoy adding my own pictures of everything.Calwyne
Developer Response
Hi Calwyne! Thank you so much for your review. Hope you will keep on enjoying it and may even more after our major update in March ... 🌻Confused and disappointed.
This is a very good app. It help me with a lot of cataloging and other tools where I’m using it for my personal almanac. Here’s the problem; When I first got the app I could set reminders for events, to the date and the time I wanted to be reminded. It was great. Maybe a couple of updates ago the system i changed where you can set the date but it doesn’t allow you to set the time. How that’s problematic is if you’ve had a long day and you couldn’t set your reminder until say 11:45 pm, it chooses 11:45 pm on the date you set. Therefore if you needed to pollinate your tomato plant at 9:00 am, the app will wait until 11:45 pm and say pollinate tomatoes. It’s too late by then. It nullifies the reminder completely your better off using your device’s calendar.Show lessU R retarded
