Green corner: Now one can gift a plant or order a variety of exotic plants and garden accessories by logging onto ‘indiaplants.com’

Technology now comes to help you learn more about your favourite plants and seek expert guidance in selecting flora that is ideal to grow in your garden.

Log onto the website ‘indiaplants.com’ and learn about 2,500 plus plants, view over 50,000 photographs and above all have plants and garden accessories of your choice delivered at the doorstep. If looking for a green gift to your near and dear, the portal offers an option of gifting a plant to them across 1,200 cities.

The site offers rich information to plant lovers, nurserymen, students, interior designers. Says Sangram R. Jagtap, CEO of Indiaplants.com, “the objective is to help users learn more about different plants and also steps to be followed in growing them. It is a task to get such information in books and nurseries”. It offers six basic functions – search, compare, view, compile, present and gift plants. The search option helps in searching for plants based on categories like indoor plants, fruit plants, aquatic plants etc. Plants can also be searched on different combinations like botanical names, common names, vernacular or even regional names. Compare option helps the users in deciding on the plants. For example, if one requires lantana and searches for them, then he will be provided with different types of the species. In view option, a user can check the photographs.

After finalising the plants, a list of selected plants can be compiled and saved. The same list can be emailed to friends or relatives for a view.