Overview
GardensOnLine first went live in March 2000 - which places us amongst the pioneers of Garden e-commerce.
Over the years the content has grown so that today the Garden Shop offers thousands of products for sale and the Plantfinder database contains over 3,000 detailed profiles of popular garden plants and other plants of interest. Other resources include magazine style articles, garden glossary, activity calendars, garden doctor, product reviews and "How-To’‘s" in text and video along with the ever burgeoning Gardens of the World for inspiration to all gardeners.
It’’s all about making the activities of researching, shopping and gardening easier by putting everything you need in one place.
Millions of people from around the world visit GardensOnLine every year. Garden information is timeless and relevant wherever you live and although we are based in Australia we welcome our visitors from Argentina to Zaire, Iran to Japan, the UK, Canada, US, France, New Zealand and even the lost kingdom of Bhutan! (and everywhere in between).
Philosophy
GardensOnLine was created with the express purpose of encouraging people to interact more with nature.
The very act of engaging with plants and everything necessary to nurture and raise healthy gardens is the most restorative and satisfying of activities for people of all ages.
Understanding how each plant has it’‘s own specific requirements, how the eco-system surrounding each plant is made up of thousands of interdependent micro-organisms puts life into a perspective that drowns out the minutiae of modern life that plague us.
It also provides us with the perfect demonstration of how we could be better at organising ourselves, our families, our communities and our countries.
If every person on the planet spent one hour every day interacting with and nurturing plants, the world would be a very different place. It would be kinder, gentler, more understanding and compassionate."
For those who are not lucky enough to have a cultivatable space available to them, then surround yourself with plants indoors or on your apartment balcony.
All living things send out energy in the form of vibrations which, although largely unnoticed by us, affect us dramatically in the longer term. It is easier to maintain a sense of peace and stability when surrounded by greenery and flowers than any other environment.
For millennia humans have shared a common dream image of perfection or utopia. It invokes an overwhelming sense of safety, wellbeing and peace.
It is a lush garden.
It is our ultimate place to be.