This web site started life as a personal project to combine my two hobbies, computers & gardening, however as the days got shorter and gardening by torchlight became less attractive I decided to dedicate more time to this virtual garden.

    While surfing  between gardening sites I came to the conclusion that in some instances the global market is not the most user friendly place to shop, and gardening although widely represented on the www is a very local in its requirements.
    Firstly a plant recommended by a fellow enthusiast in Florida or even Devon, and described as 'borderline' hardy is not going to last long in the average Norfolk garden.
    Secondly like most gardeners I enjoy hunting down unusual and not so unusual plants, the bible for this activity being the 'Plant Finder', but nurseries in Shropshire are not so easy to visit on a Sunday afternoon when it involves a 400 mile round trip. From my experience I have found that many of these objects of desire are available much nearer to home at any one of a number of small outlets that for a variety of reasons have no web presence whatsoever. Visiting the nurseries seems immensely more pleasurable to me than punching my credit card number into a faceless form and waiting for a parcel that I have no control over and will invariably arrive just as I have taken the dogs for a walk.

    The exceptions to the above are seeds and sundries, both non perishable and easy to transport, the www is a window onto the world and browsing gardening sites has certainly opened my mind to new ideas and possibilities. I have found it particularly useful for searching out seeds and bulbs of the more unusual plants.

THE MASTER PLAN

    I hope to develop  this web site as information centre for others, initially in East Anglia, by trying to persuade local gardeners to input information and pass on their experience, in what will hopefully be similar climatic conditions.
    By contacting smaller nurseries, asking them to contribute plant lists and hopefully some growing advice on the plants they specialise in, thus building up a localised database of plants which are more likely to be available within easy travelling distance.