The Connecticut College Arboretum has over 6,000 plants on its campus. As part of the effort to catalog and organize these plants in a publicly-accessible manner, I created a web-based plant database.
The Find A Plant page utilized a MySQL database of plant information and JavaScript with XML to display all query-matching plants located on the campus. The database was maintained by the college’s Arboretum staff approximately once every year. Administrative tasks are performed via a custom admin panel with features to add, modify, and delete plant entries, as well as upload CSV database files.