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BBG's Online Searchable Living Collections Database
June 2004
Since this spring, a searchable database of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's collection of living plants has been available via our website. This database provides online visitors with a means of discovering which plants are being grown at the Garden and where, on subsequent visits, they may see them. While several other public gardens offer similar online inventories, a unique feature of BBG's database is that it now also provides color photos of many of our plants.
This summer has seen the incorporation of over 700 plant photographs, making the database a useful tool for plant identification, as well as an important resource for visitors.
Paeonia suffruticosa 'Shima Nishiki'
The database may be accessed from the Home Page by following the link to Research, and then BBG's Plant Collection. For more-detailed information about the Garden's plant collections, follow the link from the Research page to Horticultural Taxonomy. Here, in addition to the database, may be found general information on the living collections, including an illustrated guide to the information presented on our public display labels.
The Garden's Horticultural Taxonomy program, which is coordinating this project, plans to update the database twice yearly and to incorporate 300 additional plant photographs by the summer of 2005.