Introducing Ideas Genie Pro
New and extended data fields

Extra fields to store information in the Plant Profile
You’ll find the following new fields in GA100S36 (formerly GA004S02)
In programs GA004, GA022

New Field

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Ideas Genie Pro

Height and spread

Dimensions only
 

Dimensions OR Text
Examples:
6ft or more in 10 years
Spread 18ins to infinity

Colour

Limited to 30 characters

Memo type field - No maximum number of characters (but be reasonable)

Leaf colour

New memo type field - No maximum number of characters (but be reasonable)

An extended range of check boxes
 

Check boxes to allow recording of all the symbols which appear to the right of the plant name in the RHS Plant Finder. Including:
AGM (Award of Garden Merit)
Double-flowered, Fruit, female, male, variegated, PBR (Plant breeders Rights)
Also check boxes for the American awards:
AAS Gold Medal
AAS All America selection

Extra fields to store the elements of a plant name
You’ll find the following new fields in GA100S02 when you edit a plant profile
In programs GA004, GA022

New field

Description

Intergeneric Hybrid
Graft Hybrid

Two check boxes. Allows selection of one or none of these parameters
Screenshot - GA100S02-1

Hybrid Species

A check box for this parameter

ssp.
Subsp
f.
subvar.
var.
Group
Series
Grex
aff.
agg.
Trade Name

A new pop-up allows the user to select from one of these parameters
The data is stored as a code.
When a list of plants is displayed, this part of the plant name is not used in indexing. This is one of the features which allows the plants to be listed in Ideas Genie Pro in the order as they appear in the best gardening reference books.

Screenshot - GA100S02-1

Collector name(s)
Author name(s)

A new field to allow this data to be saved, and used as part of the plant name.
Screenshot - GA100S02-1

Complex Names
Plant Name
and
Short Name

Some plant names are extremely complex.
Without making the system overly complicated, this is my solution.
Very simply, plant names that “dont fit” go into these new fields
One field for the FULL plant name (in all its glory).
One field for a Short Name
When you list plants, you have the option to display the Full name or the Short Names
For more info, read the section on Extended functionality