I've made live an interactive plant finder, identification and pruning guide website which is still growing.
The website is designed to help you find the right plants to suite every aspect of a garden and seasonal need.
You simply select any combination of:- Name, colour, month(s), aspect, height.
Images of the best plants to suit your requirements are displayed.
Each plant is accompanied with its own description plus plant care and pruning advice.
The site is free to search for plants.
3,800+ plants and we're adding more daily
Over 10,500 photographs
Time-lapse sequences accompany some plants
The site is 'Work in Progress' so there will be some glitches which we're ironing out and I'm adding more functions like identifying plants from the RHS plant identification syllabus.
We will be adding the ability to make plant lists and add printable notes.
I hope you find the site useful yet please let me know your feedback and any obvious errors that I can correct immediately.
I hope users will send requests for plants to be added so the database becomes more comprehensive and images to be added to the database.
The plants covered range from grasses to trees.
I hope you find the site useful.
Best wishes
Neil
Comments
Looks very promising Neil, I'll check it out. Looks like a lot of work has gone into this and it could be a very useful tool. One comment - I would find it useful to have hardiness as one of the search criteria so I could eliminate anything not fully hardy from my initial search. Is that possible?
thanks -
Rose
www.chameleongardens.co.uk
Dear Rose,
Thank you for your feedback. I will indeed be adding hardiness ASAP plus many other ways to help the user find for example, trees, ferns , herbaceous plants, rose & clematis types.
I already have these functions on the CD-ROM so it's just a case of getting them to work online.
In the plant description it does already mention if it's hardy, half hardy or frost tender
best wishes
Neil
Hi Craig,
I'm glad that the Complete Gardens database worked on your Blackberry. I've not tried it out yet on a Blackberry and I'm interested to hear how it looked.
We're still adding stuff so I hope you'll check it out again.
Thank you very much for the feedback. That's very encouraging.
best wishes
Neil
Hi Neil
Positive bit, like this, a very good idea, well done.
Negative bit, sorry, plant information. Just checked out Phyllostachys nigra on your site, hardy to -5? We had them outside to -15 last Winter in pots. Also height, have seen and sold these at 10 metres tall, pot grown.
Carpenteria, one of my favs, hardy to -15? Possibly not last Winter? Probably -5 to -8 perhaps?
I appreciate that it is work in progress, but please do keep up the good work.
Hi T& S.
Thank you for your feedback. I will make the correction you suggest. Thank you for that. I'm not an Author (I do the photography and time-lapses) so I rely on feedback from the experts. My Authors write books and work in the Oxford Botanical Gardens or people with mud under their fingernails so I hope that most of the information is correct but I'm sure there will be some information that needs changing. One of the nice things of a web site compared to producing a CD-ROM is that we can make corrections instantly. If you have more suggestions maybe you could send me an email at neil@complete-gardens.co.uk. I can also add plants so if you want to have some of your plants added then let me know. I'm hoping to have links to suppliers but this could take a while to set up.
Best wishes
Neil