Horticulture

The Ground Trades Xchange is a site designed for people in the green industry.  Horticulture plays a very large role in the industry, and also plays an important role in our site.  If you have an interest in horticulture or are in fact a horticulturalist, we'd love to have you as a member.  Membership to our site is free, and gives you great access to the discussions on our site, pictures and other features that are not visible to non-registered visitors.  So whether your interest is identifying plant diseases, improving your cultural practices, or testing your plant id skills, we have something for you. I invite you to visit our little corner of the worldwide web:  The Ground Trades Xchange.

Horticulture - Plant Identification Quizzes

Part of what's great about our little community of people in the landscape industry is that we have a wide variety of members.  Some have spent their lives working with large plant nurseries.  Our members often post plant identification quizzes on the site, called the "Plant of the Week". A picture of the plant is posted along with a brief description, and other members try to identify the plant.  Because the author of this page is more a hardscaper than a horticulture guy, you may find more success with the quizzes than I do.    

For example, here are a few of the plant quizzes I mentioned above: Here's a quiz for the Paperbark Maple
This is a quiz for Purple Coneflower
Glossy Abelia was the topic for this quiz

Horticulture Magazine

Well, we certainly are not a horticulture magazine.  However, the information that members post on our site is always available, and always relevant.  And the information you'll find here is authored by people knowledgeable in the field, and not edited for size or content, so you'll get the straight dirt you need for you various plant queries.

Horticulture Supplies

If there's one thing our industry never runs short of, it's horticulture supplies.  Whether it's horticultural oils, grafting knives, burlap, or wire baskets, you'll find someone with experience in the topic.  I should clarify something - we don't sell any horticultural supplies.  We might advertise for this supply or that, but we don't sell any.  We just provide a place for people in the landscape industry to talk to each other, comparing notes and information that might be of interest or importance in our industry.

Thanks for visiting.  I do hope you'll look over some of the discussions we've had on our site, and that you'll feel comfortable enough after looking around that you decide to register as a member.  Registration is free, and we will never share any of your personal information with anyone.  Not even with other members of the site, if that's what you'd prefer.