Tales From the Box

While browsing on the twitter for odd gardening bits and pieces, I stumbled (in the true web sense) on a new site launched by Sebastian Tesoriero and Jamie Durie (of Patio fame) called Plant This.

The site looks like it is setup to a be a bit of an allround australian-focused garden resource guide – in particular a solid database of plants, searchable by soil, position, climate and then refined by size, shape colour, context etc. At the moment the database is quote good – but obviously will be built up with further and varied images. Additionally it offers a bunch of little background items on how-to projects, design aspects and general suggested plant uses. It also offers a somewhat adequare contact list of local garden bursery suppliers – but has sort of missed the boat in my opinion lacking the essential useful nursery infomation from community input (i.e rating, comments etc) and photos. Perhaps that will come later.

Anyway it will be interesting to see how the site grows – I would love to see some more design based videos added – some of the great design segment features on Durie’s “Australia’s Best Backyards” and Brendan Moar’s “Dryspell Gardening” seemed forever lost to TV archives or sporadic Foxtel replays as thearen’t available online or on DVD. Worth a look and I will check checking back for new stuff.

www.plantthis.com.au