How to download plant information into your personal My Garden Pal plant encyclopedia.

We all have plants and flowers we take care of. Now let me show you how to enter them in the My Garden Pal personal encyclopedia.

You have two choices actually. You can custom build your own plant encyclopedia by entering all your own plants into My Garden Pal, or, you can easily just use the information on the online encyclopedia and then change it to your experiences later.

You can do this during your searches on our web site or you can do it direct in My Garden Pal personal encyclopedia as follows..

  1. open My Garden Pal personal encyclopedia from your program files
  2. Click the "search" button on the front screen

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    Search for a plant

  3. Now enter any information you know about the particular plant you want to include into your personal encyclopedia. In this example I know I have a Day Lilly but I'm not sure on it's exact terminology so I'm going to search for just "lilly" in the common name field

    .Search lilly

  4. Click the button "Search garden club" and My Garden Pal will search our online encyclopedia for any entries that contain the word "lilly" in its common name field.
  5. You will see the search result screen with all the entries listed ready to be imported into your library. You can scroll across to see more about the entry and the type of environment that it lived in to give more of an exact match for the type of data you are looking for.
  6. Click on the entry

    7. Search lily

  7. then click the "Import" button
  8. My Garden Pal will confirm that the plant has been imported successfully.
  9. Click the "Close" button or you can continue to import more plants. Tip if you hold down the "ctrl" button while clicking plants you can import more than one plant at a time
  10. Check that your plant has been imported by clicking the "Browse my plants" from the front screen of My Garden Pal and you will see your plant added to the list.
  11. Click the edit plant button to edit the information to suit your experiences with this plant in your particular environment.

 

More How-Tos

How to Import Plants from My Garden Pal Personal Encyclopedia

How to upload plant information

How to upload more than one plant at a time? (coming soon)

How do I delete plants that I have uploaded to our web site? (coming soon)

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