Using NFC Stickers To Create Smart Plant Signs For Public Spaces
Saturday, 29th March 2025
Public gardens, arboretums, and historic landscapes are filled with living stories. Every tree, shrub, or flower bed often has a history - where it came from, who planted it, or why it was chosen. Yet for visitors, these details can be easy to miss, hidden away on weathered plaques or absent entirely.
Using Petals smart NFC stickers, gardens and public spaces can easily create interactive plant signs that bring these living stories to life. With a simple tap of a smartphone, visitors can access detailed information about the plants they see - without the need for bulky signage or printed guides.
Petals offers pre-programmed NFC stickers designed specifically for use with plants and gardens. Each sticker links to a digital plant profile that can store a wealth of information, including the plant's genus, common name, origin, planting date, care notes, and a photographic record of its growth over time. Whether you're managing a historic orchard, a formal rose garden, or a native species collection, Petals makes it easy to share accurate, evolving information directly with visitors.
The stickers are lightweight, weather-resistant, and discreet, meaning they can be added to existing signs, benches near planting areas, or attached directly to plant labels without disrupting the appearance of the garden. When tapped with a smartphone, the sticker opens the plant's individual Petals page - offering visitors a chance to learn more about the plants they are experiencing in real time.
This approach is ideal for spaces where planting evolves seasonally or where historic plantings are part of the attraction. In an arboretum, for example, visitors could discover the age and origin of rare trees. In a restored heritage garden, they might learn about the traditional varieties used in Victorian kitchen gardens. Even in memorial gardens, Petals can help preserve and share the personal significance behind commemorative plantings.
Because the Petals system is flexible, garden managers can easily update plant profiles as seasons change, collections expand, or new plants are added. Visitors with no special app installed simply tap the sticker to read the information, see photos of the plant in different stages of its life, and connect more deeply with the garden they are exploring.
By combining durable NFC technology with detailed plant management, Petals offers a practical, affordable way for public gardens and historic sites to enhance the visitor experience while keeping plant records organised and up-to-date.
Using Petals smart NFC stickers, gardens and public spaces can easily create interactive plant signs that bring these living stories to life. With a simple tap of a smartphone, visitors can access detailed information about the plants they see - without the need for bulky signage or printed guides.
Petals offers pre-programmed NFC stickers designed specifically for use with plants and gardens. Each sticker links to a digital plant profile that can store a wealth of information, including the plant's genus, common name, origin, planting date, care notes, and a photographic record of its growth over time. Whether you're managing a historic orchard, a formal rose garden, or a native species collection, Petals makes it easy to share accurate, evolving information directly with visitors.
The stickers are lightweight, weather-resistant, and discreet, meaning they can be added to existing signs, benches near planting areas, or attached directly to plant labels without disrupting the appearance of the garden. When tapped with a smartphone, the sticker opens the plant's individual Petals page - offering visitors a chance to learn more about the plants they are experiencing in real time.
This approach is ideal for spaces where planting evolves seasonally or where historic plantings are part of the attraction. In an arboretum, for example, visitors could discover the age and origin of rare trees. In a restored heritage garden, they might learn about the traditional varieties used in Victorian kitchen gardens. Even in memorial gardens, Petals can help preserve and share the personal significance behind commemorative plantings.
Because the Petals system is flexible, garden managers can easily update plant profiles as seasons change, collections expand, or new plants are added. Visitors with no special app installed simply tap the sticker to read the information, see photos of the plant in different stages of its life, and connect more deeply with the garden they are exploring.
By combining durable NFC technology with detailed plant management, Petals offers a practical, affordable way for public gardens and historic sites to enhance the visitor experience while keeping plant records organised and up-to-date.