Over 30,000 Hard to Find Plants For Sale at Dave's Garden PlantScout

Dave's Garden helps gardeners find and order over 30,000 types of plants, seeds, bulbs and roots.

Waltham, MA, (PRWEB) February 24, 2009 - Each year, millions of visitors and members turn to Dave's Garden (http://davesgarden.com) for real-world experience and advice from their fellow gardening enthusiasts. A large percentage of visits to this informational website are by gardeners on the hunt for a particular plant.

To help answer their where-to-buy questions, PlantScout (http://davesgarden.com/products/ps/) was launched in 2004. This innovative plant finder is the only tool of its kind in North America and has helped over 750,000 gardeners find sources for their must-have new plants.

Now entering its sixth gardening season, PlantScout lets members and visitors find sources for 30,000 plants available from 160 reputable mail order sources. In 2008, gardeners used PlantScout over a million times to successfully locate sources for plants they were seeking to buy.

"PlantScout is so popular with gardeners because it's exactly what they need to find a source for every plant, seed, and bulb they want to buy," says Dave Whitinger, founder and developer of Dave's Garden. "It's also a hit with the mail order community because it is extremely cost-effective and easy to participate in PlantScout."

The top 10 purchased plants to date from PlantScout are:

1. Miracle Fruit (http://davesgarden.com/pf_56408)

2. Queen of the Night

3. Sweet Olive

4. Corkscrew Hazel

5. Purple Passion Flower

6. Night Blooming Jasmine

7. Silk Tree

8. Corkscrew Vine

9. Sweet Shrub

10. Fringe Tree

Mail order companies can sign up for PlantScout, and start drawing customers to their website immediately. A recent poll of Dave's Garden members shows that gardening remains a constant bright spot in shaky economic times. Over 2,500 gardeners responded to the survey, and more than half of them anticipate spending as much or more on gardening than they did the previous year, and over 35% of them plan to buy plants (http://davesgarden.com/products/ps/) and seeds by mail this year.

According to Jeff Bennett, NameMedia President, "The key for social media web sites like Dave's Garden is integrating advertisers and brands in a way that bring value to the members, audience and advertiser. PlantScout is a perfect match for the most targeted consumers with a long list of plant advertisers and commerce companies. This targeted and value added approach is a cornerstone of our social media strategy at NameMedia (http://namemedia.com/)."

ABOUT DAVES GARDEN - Dave's Garden (http://davesgarden.com) is the largest community site on the web for friendly and knowledgeable gardeners to research the latest gardening techniques and products, share their expertise, and interact with others who share an enthusiasm for gardening.

Davesgarden.com is a subsidiary of NameMedia, the owner and publisher of many of the largest and most active enthusiast community sites on the web, including sites focused on photography, gardening, crafting, stamping, astrology, automotive, rock climbing and sky-diving.

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