PlantScout: online matchmaking for plant lovers
24 February 2009, by Isabella
With 30,000 plants available for purchase online, PlantScout, at Dave’s Garden is a great tool to find the plant you’re looking for. Launched in 2004, this innovative plant finder is the only tool of its kind in North America and has helped over 750,000 gardeners find sources for their must-have new plants.
Each year, millions of visitors and members turn to Dave’s Garden for real-world experience and advice from their fellow gardening enthusiasts. A large percentage of visits to this informational website are by gardeners on the hunt to find a particular plant.
Now entering its sixth gardening season, PlantScout lets members and visitors find sources for 30,000 plants available from 160 reputable mail order sources. In 2008, gardeners used PlantScout over a million times to successfully locate sources for plants they were seeking to buy.
“PlantScout is so popular with gardeners because it’s exactly what they need to find a source for every plant, seed, and bulb they want to buy,” says Dave Whitinger, founder and developer of Dave’s Garden. “It’s also a hit with the mail order community because it is extremely cost-effective and easy to participate in PlantScout.”
The top 10 purchased plants to date from PlantScout are:
- Miracle Fruit
- Queen of the Night
- Sweet Olive
- Corkscrew Hazel
- Purple Passion Flower
- Night Blooming Jasmine
- Silk Tree
- Corkscrew Vine
- Sweet Shrub
- Fringe Tree
ABOUT DAVES GARDEN – Dave’s Garden is the largest community site on the web for friendly and knowledgeable gardeners to research the latest gardening techniques and products, share their expertise, and interact with others who share an enthusiasm for gardening.
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