Re: garden.com/ search engines

Hi Claire,
    Hang in there and keep your eyes open (electronically). My guess you will be
getting your wishes. So many changes happening so quickly in the nursery trade.
Most of the small ones are not on line as yet. For some reason the nursery trade
is slow to react to this new medium of communication. There is an additional
expense, of course, involved here, but mostly it is the time involved and the
learning curve. Web sites are not just advertising signs on the electronic
highway. They are actually branch offices opened to the world and in many ways
take as much time as the physical location of the "real" nursery.
    What we take for granted many are still resisting for all its newness. But...
I feel that if you are a small business located physically in the back forty of
the farm, or a specialty nursery, there is not much option.. learn and get on line
or fade away.
    At the same time all the information gathers are hard at work. I know
personally of 4 projects that are either up or going up that are databases-
searchengines not only for the plants, but the nurseries carrying the plants and
the prices.
They are coming, Claire, just keep watching.
    Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Claire Peplowski <ECPep@AOL.COM>
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] garden.com/ search engines


> In a message dated 12/18/99 8:41:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> genebush@OTHERSIDE.COM writes:
>
> This is quite interesting, Gene.  It is a window on an aspect of searching
> most of us are ignorant of.  Quite of a lot of searching by genus is futile.
> The advertising most commonly seen is usually that of large companies seeking
> volume.
>
> There ought to be a small nursery directory, it would be immensely helpful to
> both buyer and seller.  An example is the hippeastrum (amaryllis). The only
> bulbs that you can buy are the same dozen sold everywhere. Many species exist
> somewhere, good winter blooming plants.  Another example is the northern
> grown plant.  Being located in a cold place, I would like zone 4 nurseries.
>
> I am extending good wishes to all of our small business owners and
> encouraging all to sign with their specialty and website in the signature
> block.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> East Nassau, NY z4
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