Re: Mail order searches for plants
Good question. It takes a long time to search through the catalogs.
Sheryl in Western Co
McAlpine, Duncan G wrote:
> I now understand how people collect information on plants to broaden
> their knowledge, but what do you do to find a mail order business who is
> selling
> that plant?
>
> Could there be a easier way to find a nursery in your area who selling
> that plant via the WWW?
>
> I was thinking of testing the search engines and using the phrases:
>
> "botanical name" AND nursery
>
> or
>
> "botanical name" +nursery
> +"botanical name" +nursery
>
> This way the search engine will look for the phrase of the botanical
> name because it is in quotes and in addition, I asked for it to look for
> the word
> nursery on the page. By using the word nursery in lower case will
> increase my hits but in upper case (Nursery) it will reduce my hits
> +"botanical name" +Nursery
> "botanical name" AND Nursery
>
> Do not leave a space between "+" and the word
>
> If I was going to search, I would use
> +"botanical name" +Nursery
>
> Duncan
>
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