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ideasguy:
One of my current projects is a demo "Flower Genie Catalog on CD" for Chiltern Seeds.

Chiltern Seeds

If they go for it, you'll have a CD with their extensive range of seeds on a CD.

You'll be able to put this into your CD drive, select the Chiltern Seeds database on the CD using the "Other Source" pop-up  in Flower Genie,and browse the plant list.

Each plant will have a hyperlink to the BUY page on Chilterns on Line shop, so you can check out latest price and availablity.

It will be categorised by criteria which they use, like:
Perennial, Annual, Bees, Butterfly, First year flowering, Bonsai, etc

If you want to add a plant to your wish list, order a plant, or just plain like a plant, you can click a button and copy the plant from CD to your own database on your computer.

Do you think this would be useful to you?
Please PLEASE reply. Its one of my dreams to have this, but what do YOU think?

I'm making an appeal. Do you have photos of any plants you've grown from Chiltern Seeds? I'm looking for such examples to put photos to their plant names for my demo.
If you shop at Chilterns, you'll probably have noticed that they dont have a lot of photos in their catalog!
Photos will be very much appreciated.

greenfinger:
The catalog of Chiltern Seeds is good reading (bed stuff). It's dimensions are practical to keep it with you, but the disadvantage is there is no space for illustrations. When I speak for myself I need photos before I buy seeds. I have done business before with Chiltern Seeds and when I wanted to make my choice I had to look things up in my reference works (by the way a very good one to do this is the catalog of Jelitto: www.jelitto.com. So I think there is a need for a joined CD with if possible more than one photo of the same plant. One photo only sometimes gives a wrong impression of a plant.

ideasguy:
I totally agree with you that a good photo is required when you are buying plants, in more that one book!

I received my Jelitto 2006 catalog on Saturday!
Now, it IS a nice catalog!

However, Chiltern have such a HUGE number of plants. If they had photos for each plant it would be like a UK Phone book!

When I spoke to the lady at Chiltern, she remarked that people weren't buying as many seed nowadays.
She put to down to the TV gardens promoting "Instant" gardens in those makeover programs.

Back to the CD. Heres the structure
I'm making a "Gardener" called Chiltern Seeds (but it will show up as a Supplier)
Then the "Garden Areas" will be the different classifications they define for their seeds.
Perennials
Annuals
Bees
etc.
A plant can appear in one or more "Garden Areas"
Each time you select a plant, the Chiltern notes appear.And, if it gets going, at least one photo per plant.
The flower close up, the whole Plant, the plant in combination with other plants?
May take more than one CD, or a DVD

More comments from other members please!

mikesanders:
Yes - in my limited time in this hobby of gardening, I had come to the same conclusion - a great range of seeds, but it is good to see the end product as a photograph.  That would make the Chiltern Seeds catalogue one of the best in the market place - and if it can all be tied in with germination, seedling care advice, then this would be great - obviously, from a commercial viewpoint, there has to be a comprehensive on-line ordering service to Chilterns - I have not yet used the Chiltern On-line facility yet (although it is high on my list of priorities to have a good look at their site), so can't comment on what it's like at present.

Great idea and i hope it copmes to fruition.

Mike Sanders

greenfinger:

It's my experience when I make a planting plan it is most important to have good planting schemes, not to follow them blindly but to try out plants that have already got their marks from specialists. I can advice the books written (mostly in cooperation) by Piet Oudolf, Henk Gerritsen (two Duchmen) and not to forget Noel Kingsbury.
I think this can be a topic on the DVD:  lassooed garden areas with the plants this time not as a single item, but photographed in form and colour combinations. For me this kind of pictural info of plants in groups is at least as important as the photos of single specimens.

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