# Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research (remote · plantguide.ae)

What to plant in Dubai, indoor plants, plant care in the heat, garden styles and Garden Care prices.

- Trust score: 87/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `plantguide.ae`: 87/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening/plantguide.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening/plantguide)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://plantguide.ae/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Nothing on it is marked destructive, but we can't show that an anonymous caller can only read: full credit needs the server to list at least one tool and every tool to be verifiably read-only. We use a best-effort check of tool names and descriptions to tell read-only tools from tools that change things, so some genuinely read-only tools may not get full credit. Names that start with a read verb (get, list, read, search and similar) and accurate readOnlyHint annotations help. Meet that to earn full credit, or require authorisation.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3249 tokens (~216/item across 15 items; 15 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 93/100
  - Stability observed for 28 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 15 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 16 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research MCP server?

Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research is a hosted endpoint at https://plantguide.ae/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening 'https://plantguide.ae/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening": {
      "url": "https://plantguide.ae/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://plantguide.ae/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening]
url = "https://plantguide.ae/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://plantguide.ae/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening --url 'https://plantguide.ae/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening:
    url: "https://plantguide.ae/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://plantguide.ae/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening -t streamable-http -u 'https://plantguide.ae/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://plantguide.ae/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 87, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 86, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 85, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 73 to 77. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 22 days of observed history at the previous scan, 23 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 84, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 83, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 63. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 days of observed history at the previous scan, 19 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-25 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-23 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 47 to 50. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 14 days of observed history at the previous scan, 15 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-21 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (15)

### `what_to_plant` (~286 tokens)

What to plant in Dubai this month

What to sow and plant in Dubai in a given month or season, plus what is flowering, fruiting or ready to harvest, the month's verdict, tips, watch-outs and the climate. Defaults to the current month in Dubai. Also returns that month's indoor-plants block (what to buy, pot up and care for indoors) unless you filter to another group. Start here for any 'what should I plant now / in October / in summer' question.

Input parameters:

- `group` (string): Only this kind of plant: vegetables-herbs, flowers, trees-palms, shrubs-climbers, lawn-grasses, indoor (houseplants: the good months to buy and pot up) or water. Omit it to get everything plus the mo…
- `limit` (integer): Most plants to list per section, 1–50 (default 20). Long lists are sampled across groups; filter by group to see more.
- `month`: Month to plan for: 1–12 or a name like "october". Omit for the current month in Dubai. Not with season.
- `season` (string): A whole season instead of one month: winter (Dec–Feb), spring (Mar–May), summer (Jun–Sep) or autumn (Oct–Nov). Not with month.

### `search_plants` (~856 tokens)

Search the Dubai plant library

Search and filter the library of plants rated for Dubai's heat, salt, drought and shade: by name (English, botanical, Arabic or a local name such as Hindi or Tagalog), category, sun, water need, minimum tolerance ratings, use, garden style or planting month. For houseplants and questions like "low light, pet friendly plants for a Dubai apartment", filter by light (low, medium, bright-indirect, direct-sun), petSafe, room and size: those four filters return only plants with an indoor profile (light, tolerance of dry air and air conditioning, pet safety, size, rooms). Returns short profiles with links; call get_plant for the full one.

Input parameters:

- `category` (array): Only these plant categories (any of them): tree, palm, shrub, climber, groundcover, flower, grass, succulent, herb, edible, indoor, fruit-tree, vegetable, ornamental-grass, aquatic.
- `group` (string): Only this group: vegetables-herbs, flowers, trees-palms, shrubs-climbers, lawn-grasses, indoor or water.
- `light` (string): Houseplants that grow well in this indoor light: low (a dim room or corner), medium (a bright room, no direct sun), bright-indirect (by a window, out of direct sun) or direct-sun (a sunny window). Us…
- `limit` (integer): Results per page, 1–50 (default 20).
- `minDrought` (integer): Minimum drought tolerance, 1–5 (5 = best).
- `minEase` (integer): Minimum ease of care, 1–5 (5 = easiest).
- `minHeat` (integer): Minimum heat tolerance in Dubai, 1–5 (5 = best).
- `minSalt` (integer): Minimum salt tolerance, 1–5 (5 = best).
- `minShade` (integer): Minimum shade tolerance, 1–5 (5 = best); use for shady spots.
- `offset` (integer): How many results to skip, for paging; use the nextOffset from the previous page.
- `origin` (string): native (UAE), adapted or exotic.
- `petSafe` (boolean): true keeps only houseplants that are non-toxic to cats and dogs (ASPCA list); false means pets do not matter. Using light, petSafe, room or size limits results to plants with an indoor profile.
- `plantingMonth`: Only plants with a sowing or planting window in this month (1–12 or a name). For houseplants this is the good months to buy and pot up.
- `query` (string): Words to look for in names (English, botanical, Arabic, and local names such as Hindi or Tagalog, in their own script or Latin letters) and descriptions, e.g. "date palm", "غاف", "gulmohar", "salt to…
- `room` (string): Houseplants that suit this room: living-room, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, home-office, majlis, hallway or balcony. Using light, petSafe, room or size limits results to plants with an indoor profile.
- `size` (string): The houseplant's usual indoor size: tabletop (on a table or shelf), medium (a medium pot on a sideboard or the floor) or floor (floor-standing). Using light, petSafe, room or size limits results to p…
- `style` (string): Garden style it suits: tropical, manicured, luxury or desert-modern.
- `sun` (string): The plant's light need, exact match: full-sun, sun-part-shade, part-shade or shade.
- `use` (string): What the plant is for: shade-tree, specimen, hedge, screen, windbreak, groundcover, lawn, container, climber, pool-side, fragrance, edible, bedding, indoor or native-habitat.
- `water` (string): Highest water need you accept: "low" keeps very-low and low.

### `get_plant` (~216 tokens)

Full plant profile

Everything about one plant in Dubai: ratings, size, sun and water, seasonal calendar, watering in summer and winter, soil, feeding, pruning, pests, common mistakes, varieties, design use, FAQ, photos with credits and sources. Houseplants also get an "Indoors in Dubai" profile: light, tolerance of dry air and air conditioning, pet safety, size, suitable rooms and how easy the plant is to find. Accepts a slug or any name the plant goes by (common, trade, botanical including older names, Arabic, or a local name in its own script or Latin letters); the result lists them all under "Also known as".

Input parameters:

- `plant` (string, required): The plant: its slug ("ghaf") or any name it goes by: common, trade, botanical (including older names such as "Sansevieria trifasciata"), Arabic, or a local name in its own script or Latin letters ("G…

### `get_planting_calendar` (~123 tokens)

Month-by-month planting calendar

Sow, plant, flower, harvest, prune and feed months for a set of plants (by slug, category or group), as a 12-month grid. Use it to compare timings across several plants.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): All plants of one category (shows the first 60).
- `group` (string): All plants of one group (shows the first 60).
- `slugs` (array): Up to 30 plants, by slug or name. Omit slugs, category and group for the kitchen-garden vegetables and herbs.

### `get_dubai_climate` (~52 tokens)

Dubai climate and monthly garden tasks

Dubai's monthly average high and low temperatures and rainfall (WMO 1991–2020 normals), the planting season and summer work-ban months, and the garden and pool tasks for each month.

### `list_garden_styles` (~47 tokens)

Garden styles for Dubai

The garden styles we design in Dubai (tropical, manicured, luxury, desert modern) with mood, upkeep effort, water use, build cost per m² and key plants.

### `get_garden_style` (~80 tokens)

Garden style guide

The full guide to one garden style: why choose it, the mood, its anatomy, upkeep (weekly, monthly, seasonal), water, who it suits and doesn't, common beliefs vs reality, Dubai notes, variations and its plant palette.

Input parameters:

- `style` (string, required): A style slug or name: tropical, manicured, luxury or desert-modern.

### `search_guides` (~137 tokens)

Search Dubai gardening guides

Find our practical guides (planting calendar, summer watering, lawn grasses, indoor plants, costs, approvals and more) by keyword, topic or month. Topics (pillar): planting, indoor, costs-water, approvals, outdoor-living, maintenance.

Input parameters:

- `month`: Only guides for this time of year (1–12 or a name).
- `pillar` (string): Topic: planting, indoor (houseplants), costs-water, approvals, outdoor-living or maintenance.
- `query` (string): Words to look for in guide titles, summaries and tags, e.g. "summer watering", "lawn", "approvals".

### `get_guide` (~56 tokens)

Read a guide

One guide in full, as Markdown, with its FAQ and sources.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): The guide's slug, e.g. "watering-garden-dubai-summer" (find slugs with search_guides).

### `get_kitchen_garden_guide` (~61 tokens)

Kitchen garden in Dubai

How to grow vegetables, herbs and fruit at home in Dubai: the sowing and harvest calendar, raised beds vs pots vs a fruit-tree corner, a step-by-step bed build, what to do in summer, common mistakes and FAQ.

### `get_indoor_plant_guide` (~258 tokens)

Indoor plants in Dubai: the guide

The starting point for anything about houseplants and indoor plants in Dubai: choosing by light (low, medium, bright indirect, direct sun), by room and for pets; what air conditioning, tinted glass and dry air change; where to buy and what it costs; how care changes through the year; common problems; and our indoor styles, with every plant linked. Ask for one section (light, rooms, pets, dubai, year, buying, problems, styles, faq) or all of it, and add a month for what to buy and do that month. Then shortlist with search_plants (light, petSafe, room, size) and read one plant with get_plant.

Input parameters:

- `month`: Also return what to buy and do indoors in this month: 1–12 or a name such as "october". Leave it out for the guide alone.
- `section` (string): Which part of the guide: light (by light level), rooms, pets (pet-safe plants), dubai (air conditioning, glass, dry air), year (care through the year), buying (where to buy), problems, styles (the in…

### `get_indoor_style` (~125 tokens)

Indoor plant style guide

The full guide to one indoor plant style for Dubai homes: mood and palette, key plants with their light and pet safety, pots and materials, a starter set with an AED budget, how to get the look step by step, Dubai notes, pros and cons and FAQ. Take a slug from get_indoor_plant_guide (section styles); a wrong slug returns the valid ones and the closest.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): An indoor style slug or name from get_indoor_plant_guide (section styles), e.g. "japandi-calm".

### `estimate_garden_care_price` (~182 tokens)

Estimate monthly garden and pool care

Monthly Garden Care price (AED, excluding 5% VAT) for a Dubai villa from garden area, lawn type, pool size, complexity and number of trees, with visit frequency and the breakdown.

Input parameters:

- `areaM2` (number, required): Garden area in m², excluding the pool: 0–2000.
- `complexity` (string, required): How demanding the garden is: simple, moderate or complex (mature, dense or intricate planting).
- `lawn` (string, required): Lawn type: none, natural or artificial.
- `pool` (string, required): Pool size: none, small (to 25 m² of water), medium (to 50 m²) or large (over 50 m²).
- `trees` (string, required): Number of trees and palms: "0-5", "6-15" or "16+".

### `build_designer_link` (~76 tokens)

Open the 3D garden planner with plants

A link that opens our free 3D garden planner with the given plants already in the plant list, so the person can plan a layout or send the list to our designer.

Input parameters:

- `plants` (array, required): 1–20 plants, by slug or name, to put in the 3D garden planner's plant list.

### `get_contact_link` (~189 tokens)

WhatsApp link to talk to us

A WhatsApp click-to-chat link with a pre-filled message (topic, plants, community and notes) for when the person wants a quote, a visit or help from our team. Nothing is sent until they press send in WhatsApp.

Input parameters:

- `community` (string): The person's Dubai community, e.g. "Arabian Ranches".
- `note` (string): Anything the person wants to say, in their words (up to 500 characters).
- `plants` (array): Up to 20 plants (slugs or names) the person is interested in; they are listed in the message.
- `topic` (string): What the message is about: garden-care, build (a garden makeover), design (a plan from the 3D garden planner), plants, kitchen-garden, what-to-plant, styles or general. Defaults to plants when plants…

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening/plantguide#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 87
- 2026-11-04: 86
- 2026-11-03: 86
- 2026-11-02: 85
- 2026-11-01: 85
- 2026-10-31: 85
- 2026-10-30: 84
- 2026-10-29: 84
- 2026-10-28: 83
- 2026-10-27: 83
- 2026-10-26: 82
- 2026-10-25: 82
- 2026-10-24: 81
- 2026-10-23: 81
- 2026-10-22: 80
- 2026-10-21: 80
- 2026-10-20: 79
- 2026-10-19: 79
- 2026-10-18: 78
- 2026-10-17: 78
- 2026-10-16: 78
- 2026-10-15: 77
- 2026-10-14: 77
- 2026-10-13: 76
- 2026-10-12: 76
- 2026-10-10: 74
- 2026-10-08: 73

## Common questions

### What is the Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research MCP server?

Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ae.plantguide/dubai-gardening. What to plant in Dubai, indoor plants, plant care in the heat, garden styles and Garden Care prices. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://plantguide.ae/mcp).

### Is the Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research MCP server safe to use?

Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research scores 87 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research MCP server expose?

Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research exposes 15 tools: what_to_plant, search_plants, get_plant, get_planting_calendar, get_dubai_climate, and 10 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,744 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research MCP server still maintained?

Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 13 checks on Plant Guide: Dubai gardening research, covering TLS certificate, Authorization, HTTPS, HSTS header and 9 more. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://plantguide.ae/mcp
- Website: https://plantguide.ae/agents
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening/plantguide.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening/plantguide/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening/plantguide.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-plantguide-dubai-gardening/plantguide