Blossom - Plant Care Guide Reviews

by Trish PB

I got this because it came up when I searched for a free app. I needed help identifying only 1 plant. When I went through the steps to download it, there was nothing that came up that said there was a fee associated with Blossom . I seem to remember it mentioning that there was an option to sign up for a yearly subscription, which I didn’t need or want. When searching on Blossom after downloading, there wasn’t a tab that showed my account info, my payment history/info, or that I signed up for a subscription, so I assumed it was ok to use. I only stumbled upon the email today when logging into my college email that I use for my Apple account. They sent an email about a free 3-day trial before being charged for a subscription. Any app I’ve had that cost something has a way to see what I signed up for within Blossom . This is ridiculously deceptive and costly. The developers knew exactly what they were doing when they set this up. Let’s see if I get the refund I requested...

by Madelyn The EPIC

Very disappointed with how many times Blossom confuses the most distinctive plants for other things. I took a picture of a Sangrillo (Pterocarpus officinalis) to see it’s English name, and it told me this Costa Rican tree with MASSIVE buttress roots was an oak tree? Absolutely unacceptable. I gave it a pass mostly because it’s, you know, a massive tree that I can’t possibly fit in one picture. Strike one, though. Recently moved and bought a little fern to keep me company. Unfortunately, I’m not too keen on fern species, so I whipped out Blossom and gave it another go. This fern is a small, stout plant with many, very detailed individual leaves. this app had the great idea of telling me it was a BOSTON FERN?? Come on! Was it even trying? I wasn’t sure what it was, but it absolutely wasn’t a Boston fern! Such a different fern, no way you could ever confuse that! Second strike. Third strike blew around when I went to the grocery store and browsed their potted plants, and just for the laughs of how wonderfully accurate Blossom has been, pulled out my phone and scanned each one. Let me just say, the results were in line with my previous interactions with Blossom. Buy Blossom if you want some AI to throw random plant names at you, regardless of what you show it. If you’re looking to actually ID some plants, avoid this app at all costs. Also, it shoves a subscription ad down your throat with every button you push. I couldn’t imagine paying for a plant name generator.

by Plantslover2022

Developers,
Was there a bug/release updates? I have been using Blossom since a year ago, loved it but no longer loving it. Support team hasn’t got back to me on why is this happening and I provided them screenshots showing all my plants growth picture taken in the past year is now ALL gone! Few months ago they were still there. Did your app remove all pictures taken within the notes on your last version updates?? I am no longer on paid subscription but this has been since 6m + ago while Blossom kept all photos there, now all of the sudden everything is gone. I’m relying Blossom to track my plants growth, if you DO NOT allow people using it as a “free notes taker” after canceling subscription, do let users know via the disclaimer everything stored is likely to be removed! Am I missing anything? How can you help restore my saved pictures in notes??
Thanks!

by LC Moore

This is a good app for identifying and keeping track of some plants, but if you have a lot of different varieties, you’ll be disappointed - look for something else. For example, there are many specific varieties in categories such as clematis and ferns, but they all aren’t cared for in the same way. The worst part is that you cannot ADD anything they don’t have! I didn’t find this out until I had quite a few plants already added or I would have abandoned Blossom . You can send a photo of your plant not in the system, but they don’t add it right away.

I also find it cumbersome that you can’t sort the list of your plants by name which means if you have a long list, you might have to scroll down and down and down. I bought he year’s subscription, but I regret it. And I regret that the instructions for setting it up are so confusing that I added my plants on my iPhone, but the way I did it, the way other apps work, I can’t access them on my iPad! It may have been my fault so this is jut a warning that if you want to share the info, be careful how you set it up.

Finally, there’s no way to export the data so I can’t to a standard format such as Excel to be able to sort it or input it into other software.

by GGC Community Garden Manager

I wanted a quality ID app for foraging and Blossom continually misidentified plants. Of course I take everything home and do a full study before eating, and Blossom wasn’t even close. It even struggles in my very large and varied urban herb garden. House plants? Meh. I forgot I was paying for the service after a while and that was frustrating.

It will indeed alert you when actually identified plants need water and provides good simple info for zones, watering, propagation, sun requirements. But it rarely finds the plants in the database when you search by both Latin and common names.

If you need an alert to water specific plants, just set reminders on your phone for free? It’s nice you can “check it off” that is satisfying on Blossom, but unfortunately it fell short on most features a forager, or any gardener that isn’t completely green.

by Destinio

I thought I could use Blossom to catalog and diagnose any issues with my plant. Other than the “My Garden” portion, Blossom is mostly defunct. Not to mention, bothersome, as it often hassles you about notifications.

Sometimes, it takes 4 or 5 pictures of the plant to get it correctly identified. Sometimes, the answer is never found, and I have to search for the plant online. Blossom does make it easier to identify some plants, but this is hit-or-miss.

The plant care instructions have little to nothing to do with the plants needs. It will have you overwatering your plants, and sending constant notifications about how you are delinquent in overwatering and overfertilzing.

To get all of the features, you must subscribe. So in order to diagnose any plant problems, you have to pay. Okay. Fine. I paid. For nothing. Blossom never pares down what your plant’s problem is. It simply gives you an option of what could be. So if you are unsure if you are overwatering your plant, and snap a pic. Blossom will tell you that it could be overwatering, it could be underwatering, it could be a pest, it could be a disease. Yes, I knew it could be any of those, but which one is it? Blossom will not tell you.

I was excited to get Blossom. Then I was very disappointed that I did.

I don’t recommend this app.

by Skytay32

I downloaded Blossom probably 6 months ago to get plant care tips as I expanded my collection. It has been really useful for identifying plants and care instructions. I upgraded to the full version to get unlimited access to things like reminders. It worked really well for awhile, but over the past couple of weeks, the reminders haven’t been working correctly. I’m no longer receiving notifications at the scheduled time of 5:30 PM. Instead, I’m receiving them at random times throughout the day, like early in the morning or really late at night. Some days, I don’t receive the push notification at all even though Blossom shows them as being due. I’ve checked the individual reminder settings and made sure Blossom was up to date, but it is still happening. I’m a little disappointed since this was not a free app and I may have to seek an alternative if it doesn’t get fixed.

by Tee-biscuits

I like that Blossom lets you track watering fertilizing and repoting the plant. You can enter a plant by name or with your camera. Many of plants it identifies has information about the care of the plant.

Some things I don’t love and would like to see changed. Some plants are not in Blossom database and there does not appear to be a away to add them so you can put their care in your schedule. I had to add them under another plant name and rename them, but then the other plant is pictured instead of mine. It stores the pictures taken to identify the plant, I wish it would let you update the pictures of your plants as time goes by/you get a better picture. The only way I can see is to enter the whole plant again. If you own more then one type of the same plant it is difficult to differentiate them other then renaming (I own 3 types of snake plants but they are all entered under the same plant). Lastly some of the plant info and care instructions is pretty sparse a paragraph or less that gives no care info just a description of the plant.

by Jul The Crazy Plant Lady

I rarely purchase apps. This was an exception as I have a ton of plants and needed to get them organized. I’ve used this for a month or so now and my biggest frustration is that the suggested watering schedules don’t match my plants. Fine. I create custom schedules. But this can take some time to figure out. It would be SO helpful to have a snooze option and remind you in a couple of days to check again! Or some way to mark if you choose to skip a watering.
One question - reminders have times attached. Does anyone really care what time they water? This might be why people mentioned multiple reminders each day. I know I was getting them until I went into each plant and synced it for the same time.
Keep up the good work. It must take a crazy lot of time to put an app like this together. I use it every day!

by Dev020

I really like Blossom and have been using it for a few months now. I like that I can keep all my plants in one place and take photos to track the growth (or lack thereof)…but there are a few little bugs or quirks that I don’t love. First, if you get behind on your watering, and you open Blossom to hit “complete” when you’ve watered, it doesn’t count the watering date as that day. Instead, you have to hit compete on the day they set the reminder for. I would like to be able to update the watering schedule to the current day, so then my schedule is correct from then on.

Also, when I go to the “My Garden” tab and view the list of my plants, it stops my scroll after 10 or so plants. I cannot view the rest of my garden because Blossom will not let me scroll father. Very annoying, because I like to see if I’m keeping up with what plants are currently in my home.

If these two issues were fixed, this would easily be a 5 star app.

by Leannsis

Good app for providing helpful information about a wide variety of plants. But I purchased it not only to give me information about my planting, but also to help me remember actions like watering and fertilizing. I’m fairly new to gardening and loving it, but I need all the help I can get. Again, the info provided is good, helpful. But not all the plants for which I need reminders are in their database. And I’m unable to add my own plants to the “My Plants” in order to set up reminders. I do research everything I have or want to plant, and while I recognize that it’s not unusual for all plants to be in a single app, as for reminders, I’ve found that just using the Reminders app on my cell phone works best for me - everything in one place. If Blossom would have a feature where we could add a plant that it doesn’t recognize, that would solve my problem. As it is now, I have zero plans to renew when the year’s subscription ends.

by Musicmaker4321

I just downloaded and subscribed to Blossom for 50% off. I really like that I can add the plants that I have to the “My Garden” section. I wish there were more plants to choose from to add to the “My Garden” section (I couldn’t find some simple basic plants in the list) or a place we could add our own plants for those not listed. For example, I have Roma tomatoes and it is not available in the “My Garden” section when I want to add it to my collection and I can’t manually add it either. I do like the feature of Blossom in which each plant I do add gives a lot of description on how to water, info on pests, soil, sun, and much more. I really like that you can set your own reminders of when to water each plant (it gives suggestions) and it breaks the schedule down by day for which plant needs to be watered when. In the informational article section, there is no search tab, which I was very surprised with. I hope there will be some updates in the future to Blossom and I look forward to using the helpful info I do find in the articles by just scrolling. I’m excited to learn from the information provided about each plant in the “My Garden” section in Blossom and the watering schedule and reminders.

by TeragramK

I saw an Instagram ad for Blossom and I love the interface and design, and I definitely need something to remind me to water my plants. However, the ID by photo feature doesn’t work at all. I take a picture and Blossom just sits there on the search screen. I know what most of my plants are so it isn’t a huge deal but I have a few that I got unlabeled and the search functionality beyond the photo ID leaves a lot to be desired (it would be great to be able to filter by, say, leaf shape). (EDIT: The developer suggested I update Blossom , and the photo ID feature is working now, although I would still like an expanded search functionality).
I also cannot figure out a way to edit existing notifications. I accidentally set one for 5:30 AM instead of PM and can see no way to change that. There’s no edit button that I can find, and the help page is useless unless you’re looking for info about the plant ID feature or info about the subscription. (EDIT: The developer replied to me with an explanation of how to edit the notifications, so this complaint is moot!)
I do, however, really like that I can check off that I watered it, and that I can add photos and notes in Blossom , and I love how nicely organized and easy to read the info for each plant is.

by SOЛЯРИS

The idea of Blossom is great, and I was so excited to get it. Then, of course, they tell you that you have to pay. I paid $30 per year, which is not too much, but still. Now, the last several plants that I added to “My garden” have no description whatsoever, but the link that directs you to the Wikipedia. There is no place to add you notes for each plant (like when you bought it, when it’s time to repot, etc). There is a reminder to water. That is all. If I have to go to Wikipedia to read about my plants and have a separate file on my phone with all the notes, the question is: WHAT AM I PAYING FOR?

UPDATE:
I have to update my review and give Blossom 4 stars. There is a room for an improvement still. However, Right after I submitted my review the update came out which mostly addressed the issues I was not happy with. Keep up the good work. Look forward to more fun features!

by Hovercraft22

I am obsessed with Blossom and rave about it to everyone. It is so useful and has helped me really get to know my plants better. I feel like I can take much better care of them because of all the information that this app provides!

The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because there have been several times where Blossom either does not have the plant I am looking for. I have submitted one of them to Blossom for review so their plant library can expand but haven’t heard back yet. It has only been a few days, so I am excited to see it appear on Blossom . In addition to this, I have found that Blossom combines species together. For example, under “calathea spp” it has zebra plant, peacock plant, and rattlesnake plant, whose botanical names are calathea zebrina, calathea makoyana, and calathea lancifolia, respectively.

Overall, I think Blossom is 100% worth the subscription, but I hope that the plant library increases and becomes more organized.

by Wporter92

If you log all your plants - and you have a lot of them - this app is pretty good about sending you a notification reminding you to water that Golden pothos you have on your bookshelf you almost forgot about. I’ve learned the hard way that if you’re really serious about your plants, it’s no substitute for educated care. Throughout winter I relied heavily on this app for water scheduling and that was about it. My moisture meter collected dust and I got lazy about really honing in on deliberate, attentive care. And I’ll admit everyone was thriving and doing great, and then the pests and overwatering caught up to me. I’d say it’s hard to blame Blossom for its shortcomings (really not great at plant ID), but if there’s a disclaimer that you shouldn’t solely rely on it to keep your plants alive (especially if you have 40+). I’d like to see more environment options and hesitations when it comes to watering schedules, instead of a red alert that cons you into overwatering a Alocasia that could use some more time to dry out.

by Jlsanford88

I love Blossom so far. The reminders that can be set for watering, repotting, etc are so useful to a new plant dad like myself. The information on the pants is great for care and understanding more and I it’s great that it even tells you how much light is required.

4 stars because I believe there are 2 or 3 features that should be worked in to make Blossom even more robust. 1) Plant disease identification and treatment tips. As a new owner I still don’t know a lot by memory or what to search for so this feature would be great. 2) I’m realizing that adding multiples of the same plant, even if it’s just different subspecies, isn’t really feasible. Unless I haven’t figured it out, functionality for easy set up of multiple reminders for different plants would be amazing. 3) Is it possible to build in a function that uses our phones to measure light in FCs/foot candles? I have a meter myself but that function within Blossom would be amazing and I didn’t see any apps in the store that did that reliably when I searched.

Great job, keep it up! Looking forward to continued use and future updates.

by Alliekat56

I read some reviews that said it couldn’t identify a variety of plants, I was able to identify all of my sisters sun room and house plants. I’m a new plant mom since 2020, I knew nothing and couldn’t figure out watering for some of my poor plants, many sacrifices have been made. Determined I bought 8 new plants to try give indoor gardening another try. I love Blossom!!! Videos on for everything I’ve needed including very basic care, like watering. Details about plant lighting, repotting frequency (didn’t know that was a thing) and how to propagate more plants - I’m stoked!

The “my garden” section helps me feel organized, water routine and adding my notes and pics keep this round of plants alive thus far.

Ideas to add to Blossom , sharing your garden with other people to exchange plants and find ideas and sharing the water routine with a plant sitter, bonus if it can update my routines. Option of using stock pic or own pic for the my garden list and it would be fun to add nicknames to your plants… I can’t be the only one who’s named their plants, right??

EDIT: I figured out how to name my plant friends in Blossom and update their pics!

by Lookie-Loo

I’ve recently embarked upon interior gardening with house plants and Blossom has been instrumental in keeping my thumb green. It allows me to keep track of watering and fertilizer schedule for each plant by sending me reminders -this on top of diagnosing potential problems before they get out of hand.

I have at my fingertips a virtual encyclopedia of plant care. And I can now identify those plants and garden flowers that I I use to call “pink-Fuzzies”, “Yello-Thingies”, “ That wild-growing stuff.”

The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars - in the recent update I cannot scroll through the custom list “MY GARDEN”. It goes down approximately 10 to 12 plants and pops back up to the top. Needs fixing.

by Ivy_snapdragon

I really like how Blossom is looking so far! I love the reminders and the ability to take cute notes and even photos of my plants. Obviously there is a lot of plants out there so there is still much work to be done in updating the database but there are many common plants available.
It would be cool if we could send in plant photos with their common and botanical names to be reviewed for the possibility to be added to the database or to update photos of an already existing one as some of the photos don’t seem to match too well. Especially for the plants that have multiple cultivars. I think it would also be nice if we could move the plant tabs in our “garden” to organize them or put them in outside and inside sections.
Dear developers, thank you for your hard work. As I continue to use Blossom is there a place for me to submit feedback?

by Mkb13

Only can use if you have a subscription which costs more then prime. All reviews are faked to show they have a good rating. So many ads so I had hope with it but it’s just junk.

by Bnq2020

First screen that pops up makes it seem like you only have two choices “try & subscribe” or yearly purchase.

DO NOT click “try & subscribe” unless you’re prepared to be charged after 7 days.

You can try Blossom for free by tapping the X at the top left but this is not obvious. Blossom wants you to think there is only two options.

This is not an honest design.

by Redrockrachel

I collect succulents, and Blossom misidentified every succulent I showed it. Misidentified the common zebra plant as a completely different plant

by Gfrsrrdgibgjyc

It will make u pay so it is not helpful at all

by Ingriddn

Not enough library submissions and lots of missing common flowers still. Not worth paying yearly yet. Great concept and once it is more updated with information I will start subscribing.

by Dimok5500

Blossom is nice to use, but not great. It should be great when in different languages .

by Haybaylfeyvc

I really love it!!! identified

by PYajsh

It works!!