About

Making collection management easy since 1996

This is IrisBG: a botanical collection management system built in Norway, shaped over three decades by the gardens and arboreta that use it every day.

Background

Our journey

Our journey began back in 1996, when the first version of IrisBG was developed by Øyvind Rustan (Compositae AS) in close collaboration with the Botanical Garden, University of Oslo in Norway.

Since December 2019 Compositae has taken over the full international distribution and IrisBG is managed by father and daughter.

What we build

Software shaped by its community

A tool that gets out of the way of the work it supports.

We believe that IrisBG should serve as a helpful tool that facilitates everyday work with your collection. Whether it is accessioning, sharing plant material with other institutions, creating a new tour on your premises or tracking the location of seedlings being planted in your garden.

One of our major success factors is our engaged community which is sharing their experience and guidance with other members, as well as continuously feeding back suggestions for improvement to us. Each new version of IrisBG is the result of a combination of feature requests from our community, research and development improvements.

Today, IrisBG is one of the most comprehensive integrated software solutions available for botanical gardens, arboreta and private estates.

Contact us to be referred to one of our Reference Gardens, or check our list of users to see collections near you. You can also meet other users through our community, and read about the organisations we work with on partnerships.

People