Looking for website

**"* C* <d*@gmail.com>**

A friend divides gardeners into three categories:  growers, collectors, and historians. After viewing my garden for the first time, he asked, âSo, which are you â a collector or a historian?â

He had a point, and I am a bit of both.. When I get a new plant, I want to have everything else in the genus. But more important, when I get a new plant, I want to learn everything about it â who bred it, when, what its heritage is, who grows it and where and how. Daveâs Garden is pretty good for amateur personal experience on growing specific plants, but I have found no website that gives good history, even for patented plants. If I Google a plant, eventually (but not always) I can dig out the information, but commonly only after several pages of hits. Is there a good single site for plant history?

Duane Campbell
Syndicated garden columnist
Author: Best of Green Space; 30 Years of Composted Columns
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