Useful Links
Plant Information and supply
- British Trees - really good informative site about British native trees.
- Carsten Burkhardt's Web Project Paeonia - perhaps not the easiest site to navigate, but a great resource for serious peony lovers.
- Coblands Nursery/best4plants - online shopping for plants, plus a retail centre near Reading, Berkshire in addition to their well established trade outlets for landscapers and other horticultural businesses. Highly reputable and always a good range available.
- Combley Plants - small but high quality wholesale nursery in Devon. They also provide a retail online/postal service via their website and Ebay shop. Plant Base user and reseller.
- Crocus.co.uk - online plant supply. They have a good reputation, reasonable delivery charges and an excellent informative web-site.
- DingleyDell Nurseries - good wholesale only nursery in Surrey, huge range of shrubs and climbers. Many of their plants are pictured in Plant Base.
- Fernwood Nursery - National Collection holders of Sempervivums and Phormiums. A wealth of information about these plants. Valued contributors to Plant Base.
- Floral Images - superb photographs by John Crellin, mostly of Northern European wild plants.
- Future Forests - very interesting garden centre in Co. Cork, Ireland. Will ship mail order to Eire, UK and elsewhere. A Plant Base customer.
- Garden Blooms Nursery - great small nursery in Yorkshire, well worth a visit when you are in the area and they even have a C&C site for overnight stays. Run by a long-term Plant Base user.
- Hebe Society - lots of fascinating information about Hebes and other plants native to New Zealand.
- The Heather Society - very informative site for anyone interested in growing Heathers
- Judy’s Snowdrops - great site for the Galanthus enthusiast, excellent information on a very wide range of cultivars and sale of snowdrops 'in the green'. Contributer to Plant Base.
- Lavendelfoto - a plant photography agency with an extensive on-line database of pictures, searchable and very well indexed by both common and botanical name. Valuable source of commercial plant photography and also a useful reference. Common plant names are given in English, French and German, as is the whole site.
- Longacres Nursery - large garden centre in Surrey, always a wide selection at very competative prices, plus online ordering.
- Mail Order Trees - online supplier of well grown trees, hedging plants and shrubs. Backed by an established family run nursery in Cambridgeshire. Easy to use and informative web-site. A Plant Base user.
- Mark's Crocosmias - the web site of Crocosmia expert and collector Mark Fox. Great pictures and lots of information. Contributer to Plant Base.
- Muscaripages - web site by Martin Philippo all about the Muscari genus, obviously the product of tremendous knowledge.
- NCCPG - the website of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens.
- Plants For A Future - online plant database with an emphasis on plant uses, a great project.
- PlantBase - the namesake of our product, but no connection - a unique nursery in East Sussex, growing a really wide range of great plants. Check out their 'About us' page - we like their style!
- Plants Wholesale - quality internet plant supplier with a great website. Offers an excellent range at keen prices, particularly good for bulk purchases. They are the supplier of RHS licensed hedging plants, which can't be a bad thing.
- Prior Park Garden Centre - Bath's favourite garden centre. Valued contributer to Plant Base.
- RHS - the Royal Horticultural Society - need we say more?
- Royal Botanic Gardens - world famous gardens of Kew and Wakehurst Place, representing the most significant international organisation for plant science.
- W Godfrey & Sons - great nursery in Surrey, wholesale only, growers of perennials, ferns, grasses, and alpines.
- Wild Plants of the British Isles - an inspirational and entertaining site for those interested in wild flowers, masses of plant information and beautiful photographs, indexed by Latin, English and Welsh names. Also has links to many other important web sites.
General garden related
- Allotment Vegetable Growing - Allotment diaries, photographs, forum, advice about growing vegetables, fruits and herbs. Valuable site that has been of great help with the Deeproot allotment.
- Anna Gresham School of Landscape Design - highly regarded distance-learning diploma course. Based in New Zealand with students worldwide.
- evergreen4ever.com - directory web site for garden related topics and services. Includes UK regional listings.
- Friends of the Harris Garden - organisation that helps manage the gardens within the grounds of Reading University, very close to our office.
- The Garden Network - garden forum for all gardeners, professionals, amateurs, beginners, allotment growers, advice, help, tips and free downloads.
- Gardening by Design - very informative web-site of a recommended garden design practice based in Kent. A user of Plant Base.
- Guerrilla Gardening - support this movement and make your area a better place to live!
- Jane Follis Garden Design - established and highly regarded garden designer based in Buckinghamshire. A user of Plant Base.
- Oxford College of Garden Design - renowned provider of professional level training in garden design. Based in Oxfordshire, UK.
- The Personal Plant Shopper - high quality advice and planting service located in Buckinghamshire. Part of Greenstone Landscapes Ltd, a Plant Base user.
- WebGardenGuide.com - garden adviser and directory site. Information on gardening, growing plants, herbs, flowers and vegetables.
Other stuff
- Basic4PPC - by Anywhere Software is the language we used develop Plant Base Mobile for Windows PDAs and Smartphone. Brilliant - without question the most efficient way to write software for the Windows Mobile operating system.
- Deeproot Software - our original site
- Earley Residents - new community site for people in Earley near Reading, Berkshire. We live there and the site is provided by us.
- Farbyte UK Hosting - affordable and reliable web hosting with unlimited bandwidth and disc usage. At last - quality hosting for small business and personal sites, with no hidden costs! This site is hosted by them.
- Jessops - photography shops that actually have staff who know what they are talking about! Also a good web-site offering competitive and reliable online shopping. We buy our camera equipment using their collect-in-store service.
- Mighty Snowbear Creative Design - small and friendly graphic design company offering a range of services from simple print jobs to corporate identity promotion. Another of our service customers.
- One Green Earth - online eco directory with environmentally responsible businesses and other information.
- PayPal UK - well known service that we use to accept online payments, owned by eBay. They offer facilities for both personal and business use.
- Pure Basic - cross-platform programming language by Fantaisie Software in France. This amazingly powerful and efficient development tool has been chosen to produce future PC editions of Plant Base.
- Robert Hughes Photography - talented and technically skilled photographer, design engineer and qualified college teacher, working from Wokingham, Berkshire.
- SpamPal - excellent email spam filter that works with a very wide range of email programs. Simple and free, a credit to it author James Farmer.
- Spamihilator - another very effective freeware spam filter with a slightly different approach, a great product from Michel Krämer in Germany.
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