It is one thing wanting to grow beautiful plants in your backyard but completely another to rigorously maintain those plants over months and years. Koubachi aims to help you do that by reminding you when its time to water your plants, give fertilizer and even mist the leaves. It gives you an individual care plan [...]
Gardening may look like a simply activity but if you don’t know the in’s and out’s, you are bound to make mistakes and lose both time and money. SmartGardener helps you by letting you manage your garden online. You start with setting up your garden which includes providing layout information such as size and shape. [...]
If you are a nature enthusiast and want to know which types of trees you encounter every day, you will have a tough time doing so. Thankfully however there is a new tool available that will help you easily identify plants and trees. This tool is called LeafSnap. LeafSnap is a free to use service [...]
The Internet has a wide variety of social networks on offer that focus on various interests. If your interest is gardening, then the best social network to join is MyGarden. MyGarden is a free to use website that offers numerous valuable tools to gardeners and gardening enthusiasts. The site combines gardening tasks along with interaction [...]
Here is a nice reference for plant lovers. ThePlantList is a growing, comprehensive scientific plant name dictionary of all plant species. Here, you can browse through more than a million plants categorized by their taxonomy. You can also view the entire plant list by family or genus, as well as find statistics based on the [...]
Inexperienced gardeners can run into a bunch of garden pests and plant diseases which they are unfamiliar with. Learning what signs to watch out for each pest / disease can be quite hectic. That is why Garden Pest Detective is a very helpful tool for gardeners. Garden Pest Detective is a free and simple to [...]
Love gardening but not sure when and what to plant? SproutRobot is a tool that can really help. All you need to do is enter your zip code; SproutRobot will use your zip code to calculate the weather conditions in your area and come up with a free calendar that tells you what to grow [...]
Gardening is good for the soul, not to mention property values. But those without horticultural expertise might be at a loss as to which plants to buy and how to arrange them. Consider Garden Puzzle, a online garden planner which helps you try out variety of layouts before you get started. This service allows you to upload [...]
The big social networks have most of us covered for our main social needs ““ but many of us have specialized hobbies and interests that are largely marginalized on the big sites because in the broad scheme of things they’re insignificant. These gaps are filled by smaller networks where like-minded people can connect. One such [...]
Next time you stumble upon some interesting plant that you want to identify go to MyPlantId.com. It is a user-powered plant identification database site and an online community for gardeners, botanists and plant enthusiasts. Registered users can search on the website for specific plants by entering plant location and its leaf properties (arrangement, shape, margin, [...]