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 small, local favourites?
Please feel free to add comments at the bottom of this post. We hope to hear from you!
There are no doubt several Shoot members who have websites and/or blogs of their own, and it would be interesting if Shoot could list these periodically.
Thanks Edward, yes of course. You can already list websites, blogs, twitter feeds, facebook pages and youtube links if you are a paid member of Shoot – either as a paid business member or as a paid full regular member. Hope that helps!
Seeking sponsor for Hampton Court 2012 – urgent
Sorry not very good at knowing how to post this in the right place yet…
I have just had my conceptual show garden design for Amnesty International (which features live tropical butterflies) accepted by the RHS judging panel to be shown at this year’s Hampton Court Flower Show.
However, I desperately need to find a sponsor. The RHS have imposed a deadline for confirmation of sponsorship of 27 January.
If anyone knows of any individuals or companies that might be interested in the 150,000 visitors or huge levels of media attention Hampton Court receives please ask them to contact me for more information on 01747 871614. I live on the border between Dorset and Wiltshire near Shaftesbury but I am happy to travel anywhere to meet with possible sponsors. The headline sponsorship I am looking for, which entitles the sponsor to have its name in the garden’s title, is £30k
How about seed swaps? How about plant swaps? Or is this new idea geared only to giving the commercial members a captive audience?
Barry
Hi Barry – we have that function already here:) http://www.shootgardening.co.uk/forum/topic/listing/forumid/495
Thanks, Nicola. That looks like an exciting project. I hope to get involved in 2012.
Barry
Thanks Barry!
Has anyone figured out an easy way to print out the info stored in your garden plants I have list? I want to be able to refer to specific instructions in the garden and I haven’t been able to figure this out yet. Any suggestions?
Hi Eliza – there is a new print button for both plants lists and for the information in your care calendar which should make printing easy.
If you click print in either of these places you’ll get your plants list printed and/or your care calendar printed. You need to print each individually however.
If you want to see your care instructions organised by plant name in your list, click the option to ‘view by plant’ (found just above the Month) in the My Care Calendar page. Hope that helps!
I would be most interested in purchaseing climbing plants, Fuschias and climbing broses
Brian
Thanks for the feedback Brian:)
My favourite small local nursery is Mill Nursery, London Road, Hassocks, W. Sussex. Postcode is BN6 9NB for satnav. Marvellous plants, knowledgeable owner who is very helpful. All the plants I’ve bought from them have done fantastically well. Lots of perennials, grasses and shrubs. Suggest a visit if anyone’s in the area.
Thanks SO much Geraldine. That is exactly the type of recommendation we are looking for!!!
I have just had a look and they don’t seem to have a website. Will you be visiting them again soon? I’d love to include them in our new marketplace if they wanted to get involved. We want really excellent providers to participate.
Ask them to make contact with us using the ‘Contact’ form above if interested. Thanks again Nicola
I have divided our plants into areas of the garden which are my ‘groups’. Unfortunately the groups come up in random order and it would be helpful if they could be alphabetical.
Hi – I think they appear in the order of last added first. We have some improvements we are working on but can think about this one too. Do other members have the same issue?
Glad you added the blog! Although I do have one complaint…. my bank is not very happy with me for the dramatic increase in plant purchasing since I started using the site!
LOL!
Jusst read Mairi’s comment about plant groups and I agree wholeheartedly about the arrangement. I’m sure they’d be easier to use if alphabetical. Also it would be nice to be able to amend the titles of the groups then we could arraange them (alphabetically) as we prefer. Love the site, though.
Thanks for the feedback and kind words Tony!
You can amend the titles of groups right now. Go to ‘My Plants Lists’ then click Groups. You’ll see there is an ‘Edit’ option under each Group.
We’ll see about the alphabetical ordering of Groups. We just added alphabetical ordering of ‘Plants I want’ lists and added a ‘Search My List’ options. Did you notice those improvements?
Yes, I did and thanks for that. I now feel a bit daft for not noticing the ‘edit’ feature which, pretty much, solves all the issues I had with searching. Great work, programmers!
Taylor’s garden centre, normanton, southwell, notts.A family run garden centre and cafe.All produce very well presented and tended, good advice, wonderful food,and lots of lovely things to buy in their upmarket gift and plant shops
Hi everyone, I have never posted a comment before on a blog! I love this website and am pleased with all the helpful advice. I have two questions
1. Is it possible to change the name of a garden after it has been set up?
2. I use an iPad for most day to day Internet use, but as Apple don’t support flash I am unable to design my garden using the iPad so then have to eject my husband off our main computer. Will Shoot be supporting Apple software in the near future?
Hi Patricia – thanks for your kind words about the site:) Delighted you like it!
1. Yes, you can change the name of a garden. Just find the garden in your list and click Edit. Save all changes.
2. We have no immediate plans to build an iPad app however this does make sense over time. It is not inexpensive to build these apps so we would need to ensure there is enough demand to make sense for us.
All the best,
Nicola
Hi,
I also use an iPad for everything and it would be fantastic if Shoot could support apple software (not just an app but non Flash technology)
Also I have a number of plants which are not on your plant list – how can I either just add my own plant to my plant list or alternatively get you to add to the main list?
And by the way Shoot helps me track what I’m planting where and when and is really really useful. Thank you.
Cheers, Phyl
I would like to see more wild flower plants/plugs/seeds available for sale and also more advice on wildlife gardening.
Hi Nicola,
I am working on a new design and I left the planner page to come have a read through forum comments. When I returned to it the ‘create or watch video’ screen reappeared in front! I thought your developers had got rid of that..?!
Judi..
Hi Judi – the planned updates are now live. Thanks Nicola
Hi Judi we announced it’s ‘upcoming’ not live yet. When it’s live we’ll make another announcement. Thanks Nicola