A powerful and flexible search facility can be used to find information on the plant or plants you are looking for. Where does this information come from?

For example you may want to find a plant that is drought tolerant or one that flowers red in January. Simply enter your search criteria and click "search"

For members of the My Garden Pal community all information is displayed relevant to your gardening zone. For example you might find information about tomatoes that was entered by someone in the My Garden Pal community from the other side of the world, but My Garden Pal will automatically adjust the seasons for fruiting, flowing, sowing, pruning and fertilizing to where you live. It will even change the measurements to the common system used in your country such as metric or imperial.

Once you have found the plant you want, download the information directly into your personal encyclopedia and start collecting your own data about this plant. How to download a plant.

There will be times when you come across a plant you don't know. By taking a photo of the plant and uploading it to the My Garden Pal on-line community you can tap into the experience and knowledge of other gardeners. Conversely you can identify plants for others too.

My Garden Pal helps to forge a strong gardening community and who knows, you might meet new friends with common interests in your area.

An extensive glossary of gardening terms is available on the My Garden Pal web site. And if the term you are seeking does not happen to be in the glossary simply ask others about specific gardening techniques or terms through the easy to use on-line forums.

You can participate by uploading your own articles and have them published on our site to share your specific gardening knowledge. You may become a famous gardening guru!

Join in or create your own discussion topics. Talk about Roses or bulbs or start your own topic and share with other like minded people

Enter in tips that will be displayed in the My Garden Pal desktop diary. All tips are relevant to where you live for example let's say that you expect rains to begin early this year - let everyone in your region know by entering in a tip. The tip will be delivered to the relevant people in your region through their own personal My Garden Pal software

Finding plant stock is now simple because nurseries can also be My Garden Pal members.

When a nursery enters their plant data into the online database it is ready for any members to source a plant. We will provide you with their contact details for you to find that special plant.

The search works the same as the general search so you can find a nursery that also stocks a plant that flowers red in January.

We all need your years of gardening experience, so why not share it with others. Through the My Garden Pal community you can become a mentor for fellow gardeners with less experience who are seeking guidance.

For example if you are starting a vegetable garden for the first time, search for a mentor who can help you get the garden established and give advise on the continued maintenance that is required.

My Garden Pal has a shared help system that is a forum where every one can read your questions.

Not only do you get help with any issues, it also provides us with valuable feedback so we can continually improve My Garden Pal for all our members. We aim to continually make our site and our software better with free upgrades.

Through the forums you can request features that you would like to see in the future. This software is built for you so you can also help us build it better by telling us what you would like to see improved, changed, or added.