The care plans are also adaptive meaning they improve based on other users’ feedback. You can also take pictures of your plants and choose when to receive notifications. Sharing pictures and information about your plants on Facebook is another great feature Koubachi offers.

Features:

• Get reminders to help you care for plants.
• Care plans specific to species.
• Browse library and share photos.
• Similar tools: SmartGardener, MyGarden, Garden Pest Detective, GardenPuzzle, GardenPlanner, SproutRobot, iBotanika and MyPlantId.
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Download Koubachi from iTunes [Via TheNextWeb]

Once your plants are chosen, the tool creates a plan for you based on your specifications and growing conditions so you can easily manage growing those plants. Handy features include a to-do list, an automated tracking journal with the ability to add notes, and sample gardens for inspiration.

Features:

• Free online garden manager.
• Create a growing plant online specific to your garden.
• Remember, track, and share tasks online.
• To-do lists and journals to help you manage.
• Similar tools: MyGarden, Garden Pest Detective, GardenPuzzle, GardenPlanner, SproutRobot, iBotanika and MyPlantId.
• Also read related article:
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Visit SmartGardener @ www.smartgardener.com [Via MichaelPollan]

LeafSnap is a free to use service that catalogues high definition pictures of tree leaves, flowers, and even fruits. Visitors to the site can browse the pictures, learn their common and scientific names, and read about their habitat and bloom time.

The site also offers an iOS application that helps recognize plants through their leaves. All you have to do is install the iOS app, shoot a picture of a plant’s leaf, and let LeafSnap do the detecting.

Demo video:

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Contains interesting information on plants and leaves.
• Provides quality images for tree leaves, flowers, and fruits.
• Offers an iOS application to detect tree leaves.
• Similar tools: ThePlantList, Garden Pest Detective, SproutRobot, and MyPlantId.

Check out LeafSnap @ www.leafsnap.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

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 with other site members to offer a wonderful package that is useful to gardeners.

You start by creating an account on the site and adding plants that are in your garden. The site then displays garden tasks that you should accomplish; these tasks are relevant to the plants you added such as sowing, pruning, dividing, etc.

You can interact with other MyGarden users by following their gardening activities and posting messages for the community on the garden wall. This interaction helps receive and deliver gardening advice and seeing if there are any gardening enthusiasts living nearby.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• A social network for gardeners and gardening enthusiasts.
• Lets you gather task lists for plants in your garden.
• Lets you interact with other site members to receive and give gardening advice.
• Similar tools: Garden Pest Detective, GardenPuzzle, GardenPlanner, SproutRobot, iBotanika and MyPlantId.
• Also read related article: How To Start A Garden With The Help Of The Internet.

Check out MyGarden @ www.mygarden.org (By Umar from TechCityInc)

You can go through ThePlantList by selecting the major plant groups which includes angiosperms, gymnosperms, pteridophytes, and bryophtyes. Then you can view plant families within each major group, and drill down to each genera. Each plant page has the naming details with their accepted specie name, as well as the status of names related to the plant. This is important in cross-referencing the taxonomy of these numerous plant names.

ThePlantList is great for quick checks of plant names. This is especially useful for students of botany, hobbyists, and anyone interested in how plants are named.

Features:

• Comprehensive plant scientific name database.
• Scientific names categorized by taxonomy.
• View statistics of plant names from website data.
• Know more about each plant naming and nomenclature.
• Download sets of name results.
• Similar Tools: Garden Pest Detective, SproutRobot, and MyPlantId.

Check out ThePlantList @ http://theplantlist.org

Garden Pest Detective is a free and simple to use web service that contains detailed information on pests and diseases that can infect plants in your garden.

No account creation is required on the site; all you do is select your plant type and the kind of damage you are seeing. The site will then show the possible suspects for the damage. You can hover your mouse pointer on the suspects and an image will be shown which showcases the type of damage they cause. This can help you reach the culprit by a process of elimination.

The site also contains tools to check out gardening related sales and gardening tips.

Features:

• Easily identify plant pests & diseases.
• User friendly interface.
• Helps users determine the problem with their plants.
• Contains links to gardening related sales.
• Contains gardening tips and guides.
• Similar tools: GardenPuzzle, GardenPlanner, SproutRobot, iBotanika and MyPlantId.
• Also read related article: How To Start A Garden With The Help Of The Internet.

Check out Garden Pest Detectives @ Garden Pest Detectives (by MOin from ThumbPress)

If you are interested, click on the suggested item to know more about how to grow it and how to take care of it. You can also sign up to receive free alerts when it is time to grow something else in your garden. A neat checklist helps you keep organized and SproutRobotPlus even sends you free seeds and information in the mail for a small yearly fee.

Features:

• Find out what and when to grow in your garden.
• Get customized tips based on your location.
• Read more about growing each item.
• Use the checklist to keep your gardening organized.
• Sign up to receive free alerts about more items you can grow.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: GardenPuzzle, GardenPlanner and iBotanika.

Visit SproutRobot @ www.sproutrobot.com (Via TechCrunch)

This service allows you to upload a photo of your current garden and to drag and drop different kinds of plants over top of it. Alternatively, you can play with pre-made backdrops to experiment to your hearts content. There are also tools to help determine what plants will grow in your geographic location.

Unfortunately Garden Puzzle employs a freemium structure, meaning to get all the features of this particular web app you’re going to need to pay up. Not paying means being denied access to a number of plants. Still, the site sets out to do exactly what it says it will, and it could be useful if you want to try a few ideas out.

Features

• Upload a photo of your garden and see how certain plants would look in certain places.
• Choose from hundreds of plants and garden accessories.
• Free version doesn’t grant access to all plants.
• Similar tools: GardenPlanner and iBotanika.

Check out Garden Puzzle @ www.gardenpuzzle.com

Having signed up, each member is given a “˜Greenhouse’ which is the equivalent of a profile. Here you upload photos (of both yourself and your plants), add your plants and connect with other users. The feature to add your own plants is particularly interesting as it serves multiple purposes. The first and most obvious one is to showcase your hard work to the community and to ignite conversation. However, as you can see from the screenshot below, you can also use it as a catalogue for your plants to record their health, maintenance, environment and location. For those with more than one house or gardening location (such as professional gardeners and landscapers) you can add different locations to a map for all to see such as in the screenshot below.

“˜Following’ a plant will give you regular updates if it is edited and it will also put you into contact with other followers who have that plant or are similarly interested in it. Each plant profile has detailed instructions for looking after it as well as other uses such as culinary and medicinal.

Features:

• Social networking for gardeners.
• Serch for information and advice on plants.
• Dedicated community.
• Organize and manage your plants and garden online.
• Similar sites: MyPlantId and GardenPlanner.

Check out iBotanika @ www.ibotanika.com (by Dean Sherwin)

Registered users can search on the website for specific plants by entering plant location and its leaf properties (arrangement, shape, margin, vein etc). Alternatively, they may submit plant images and let the community of users identify them.

Features:

• Identify plants online.
• Search for plants by leaf features and plant location.
• Submit plant image and let enthusiasts identify it.
• Organize and keep track of your garden plants online.
• Contribute to the commeunity by helping identifying plants for others.
• Free, but requires registration.

Check out MyPlantid @ www.myplantid.com