The Waste of Space Awards for 2016

[David Nicholson]

..... and our first award for 2016 The RHS Plant Finder.

...... and our second award The RHS Web Site.

[Chris Johnson]

..... and our first award for 2016 The RHS Plant Finder.

...... and our second award The RHS Web Site.

  I'm amused but can't comment as I don't use either.

[Graeme]

yes and yes

still prefer the Darwin Awards..........

[ian mcdonald]

The Plant Finder is useful to search for those uncommon plants that many nurseries do not stock. Usually they are sold out by the time I find the seller. That is not the fault of the plant finder though. What is the problem David?

[Maggi Young]

I find much of the RHS site frustrating  and difficult to track down what one is looking for. For a while the Plant Finder online was quite useless - I thought perhaps the RHS  only wanted to sell the books - but it seems to have  undergone a change recently and seems more user friendly. Whether or not it actually delivers useful info, I have yet to discover since I have only just  tried to use it again after  a long period of disappointment.

[David Nicholson]

yes and yes

still prefer the Darwin Awards..........

Never seen those before Graeme, I had a chucklesome afternoon

[David Nicholson]

The Plant Finder is useful to search for those uncommon plants that many nurseries do not stock. Usually they are sold out by the time I find the seller. That is not the fault of the plant finder though. What is the problem David?

Have you ever actually used it in recent times Ian? To quote the RHS Web Site ""RHS Plant Finder and the RHS Plant Selector (which I'd never heard of anyway!) We have combined these two powerful search tools (their words not mine!) into a single Find a Plant service.....""

A search last night on Primula modesta produced 11 references (including sub-species) of these only two had any details other than their names attached to them. Primula modesta throw up one supplier, I clicked on that to take me to a map which should have shown me the location of that supplier. No supplier details indicated. Similar for P. modesta var. faurieae. Waste of time. I got far information from Google.

[jomowi]

The Plant Finder is useful to search for those uncommon plants that many nurseries do not stock. Usually they are sold out by the time I find the seller. That is not the fault of the plant finder though. What is the problem David?

When I worked in a Garden Centre, people would ask for plants that the Plant Finder said we were stockists of which we had NEVER stocked.

[Will Itsell]

David, once you on are the map, at the top right click 'list view' and it gives all the nursery details.

It seems a good resource to me, even if it isn't completely accurate, but the fault I suspect is often as much to do with the nurseries as the RHS and the compiler.