Hidden Garden

Turns the botanical garden into a captivating game. This mobile app offers a playful, educational experience for children and adults by combining real-world exploration with a beautifully illustrated virtual botanical book.

Currently supported at:

🇬🇷 Kefalonia Botanical Garden

Supported languages: 🇬🇧 🇬🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇸🇪

How the game works:

📖 Receive a botanical book filled with quests: each features an illustrated plant and a series of clues.

🗺️ Use your virtual garden map to navigate and narrow down where to look.

📷 When you think you’ve found the plant in real life, snap a photo of it right in the app.

🌱 The game will confirm whether it’s the correct species - or suggest what it might actually be.

Features:

🍂 Seasonal quests: Game content and featured plants change throughout the year.

📍 Location-based gameplay: Uses GPS to guide you through real garden environments.

🧠 Educational & fun: Learn real-world plant names and traits.

🔓 No account required: Fully anonymous - no sign-in, tracking, or user profile.

📶 Simple setup: Just bring your phone with internet and GPS enabled.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 For all ages: Designed to be engaging and accessible for both children and adults.

The image-based plant species identification service used, is based on the Pl@ntNet recognition API, regularly updated and accessible through the site https://my.plantnet.org/