Add notes

To add notes about your plant or accession, click the Notes tab:

Notes fields comprise ‘core fields’ and ‘additional information’.  In general, the notes fields available to you will have been set up for you by the Persephone Team through Customisation after discussion with you. 

The full list of core fields are: 

Out of Scope: use this checkbox to indicate that a plant is outside the scope of your collection. For example, you may have a National Plant Collection of Hybrid Musk roses bred by Pemberton & Bentall, and a few extra hybrid musks that are outside the scope of your collection but which you would like to record in the same place.  Plants marked ‘Out of Scope’ appear in purple on your Plant List and are excluded from various reports. 

Not in Collection: this checkbox is used to indicate a plant that is within the scope of your collection but which you don’t yet have.  Some of these plants may be on a list of plants that you are planning to buy;  others may be genuinely hard-to-find plants, and these should also be added to the separate Desiderata collection.   

Hybrid: Hybrid fields are used to record the names of the parents of plants in your collection.    

For example, you may wish to record that the parents of Magnolia x soulangeana, are M. denudata and M. liliiflora. 

First, make sure that the hybrid notes fields are switched on, via Customisation and Plant notes. 

Then select Parent 1 and Parent 2. If these plants aren't in your collection you will need to enter the name in the pop-up plant name form. 

You may also use this information to create a hybrid plant name. 

Catalogue: The Catalogue field is used to record a fixed amount of text to accompany an image in a Catalogue Report 

Year of Introduction: this field can be used to record the year that a cultivar was introduced to the UK or the Republic of Ireland. This information is useful for our Threatened Plants Programme.

Introducer: this field can be used to record the name of the person who introduced or bred a cultivar. 

In addition you can add your own notes to a range of notes fields set up through Customisation