Garden plant
Climate assessment tool

Latest update: 22 July 2026

  • Fixed some formatting issues
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Update: 26 June 2026

  • Added years to Historic/Baseline/Current scenarios
  • Added some rounding to score calculations
  • Fixed colours for scores

Update: 18 June 2026

  • Added Current (2025) and SSP2_2070 scenarios
  • Added climate scenario selection in options
  • Fixed an error in calculating scores (-4 or +4) for taxa that are outside natural range but within cultivated range

Update: 27 May 2026

  • Include urban heat in climate data rather than adding in assessment
  • Changed scoring for taxa outside expected natural range but within cultivated range (now 4)
  • Fix error in lat/lon calculations

Update: 15 May 2026

  • Updated climate data to support full RHS taxonomy
  • Improvements to the scoring system
  • Simplified batch assessment process

Update: 14 April 2026

  • Updated taxonomy to full RHS cultivated plant name taxonomy

Update: 16 March 2026

  • Improved error handling
  • Improved database reconnections
  • Updating scoring (in progress)
  • Adding lifeforms to typical niche breadth (in progress)
  • Revised batch assessment (in progress)

Update: 9 Feb 2026

  • Added NFGG gardens to the place search box
  • Fixed errors with some UK towns and gardens not showing climate data

Update: 20 Jan 2026

  • Add a 'which climate risk' selection box that prepopulates parameter and data source options. The custom option allows any combination of parameters and data sources to be selected

Update: 20 Jan 2026

  • Combined place and suburb selection
  • Wider text boxes
  • Added captions to figures
  • Simplify layout and improve interpretation and management responses
  • Fix duplicate curves in taxon climate graphs
  • Separate climate/dataset options and advanced parameters

Update: 16 Jan 2026

  • Fixed capitalisation of plant names and search with authors
  • Automatically change ' x ' to hybrid symbol for species and generic hybrids



Options

Climate parameters to use:

Temperature:
Moisture:
Aridity:
Physical:

Datasets to use:

Natural/naturalised records:
Mixed records:
Cultivated records:

Climate scenarios to use:

Baseline scenarios:
Future scenarios: