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Altons Plant Information
Altons Garden Centre is now making great use of Shoot’s plant finder in their own website. As part of the Tillington Buying Group of Garden Centres Altons has licenced the use of our plant data using the group magazine brand ‘Beautiful Gardens’. Along with Altons, Squires Garden Centres and Frosts Garden Centres also have licenced [...]
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Garden Planner Improvements
Hi all, we are soon going to be adding around 60 new garden planner objects, including a much larger set of symbols for vegetables! Also if you have started a plan you won’t see the welcome menu any longer. Some members have asked us to remove this if they have already started a plan. We [...]
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Converted farm garden
We just added a new garden profile entitled Converted farm courtyard garden for London based garden designer Claudia de Yong. As with all designer garden profiles we give you a full plants list for the garden to review. One plant that Claudia used in this garden which caught our eye is Rhodochiton atrosanguineum (Purple bell [...]
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January Plant of Month
Sarcococca confusa is our plant of the month for January. It is an evergreen shrub which can be planted in the border or in a container. The common names for this plant are Sweet box and Christmas Box. The genus Sarcococca (Winter box) has sweetly scented pure white flowers. It flowers from December to March [...]
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Gift Memberships Available
Still looking for a great gift for a gardener you know? Don’t forget you can buy gift memberships to Shoot for just £19.99 making an ideal gift for any experienced or novice gardener! Simply add the name of the recipient and a message to create your own personalised Shoot membership gift. Terms: One-year membership to [...]
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We want to hear from you
As we are gearing up to start our own Gardening Marketplace this Spring 2012 we’d love to hear from you! What would you like to see for sale in our marketplace? Which are your favourite plants, gardening products and suppliers? Who do you most like doing your shopping with and why? Do you have any [...]
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Improved Plant Lists Coming Soon
We are working on some improvements to the way you can manage your plant lists. The much loved features of being able to sort your ‘Plants I have’ list into an alphabetical order or by most recently added will soon also be available in your ‘Plants I want’ lists too. We will also give you [...]
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Website of the Year Finalist!
For the 3rd year Shoot has been selected as Finalist Website of the Year by the Garden Media Guild. The Garden Media Guild Awards celebrate the very best of horticultural communications in diverse media. The Garden Media Guild (GMG) is an association that brings together professional garden writers, authors, photographers, broadcasters, editors, lecturers and allied [...]
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More plants added to Shoot
Shoot has almost 12,000 plants listed in the plant finder A-Z database. We are always adding new plants for our members and now we are working with plant nurseries to add even more unusual plants to the Shoot database! Carrie Thomas of Touchwood Plants (the holder of two National Collections of Aquilegias in the UK for [...]
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Shades of Green Garden Design
Belinda Macdonald, owner of Shades of Green Garden Design, has been a full professional member of Shoot since September 2010 and in that time has created 12 client gardens and plant lists. Most of Belinda’s client gardens contain between 50-100 different species of plants, and the list for her own garden is fast approaching 200 [...]
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