NetPS Plant Finder Tool offers IGCs plant database for their websites

The NetPS Plant Finder Tool offers an online commercial plant database of 33,000 plants, plus plant photos and accurate care information, for independent nurseries and garden centers looking to get their plants onto their websites to support the pre-shopping research, garden planning and after-sales care needs of their customers.

“Put yourself in the shoes of a garden center who needs to get 2,000+ plants on their website. How do they quickly and legally source all the photos, compile the plant information, write the descriptions, and make it searchable? We've built all of that into a single plug-and-play system that slides right into their existing website,” explains James Kohut, president of Northscaping and founder of NetPS. “While there are lots of added features and benefits that come with the package, such as a signage maker utility, QR codes and plant promotions, all they need to do is set their plant selections at the start and then make revisions based on inventory at least once a year.”

Currently, more than 250 independent garden centers across North America — including 27 of Garden Center magazine's 2023 Top 100 Independent Garden Centers List, and seven of the top 10 — are using the tool, as is the new multi-vendor plant marketplace Ship My Plants.

“The Plant Finder Tool makes the onboarding process for sellers very quick and simple,” says Rich Christakes, founder and CEO of Ship My Plants. “Sellers can add plants with just the click of a button, and the product records will stay up-to-date. With almost 40,000 plants on our marketplace, this tool is a no-brainer for us and the sellers.”

Plant photos are solely taken by the NetPS team, which has curated its catalog of around 100,000 photos during coast-to-coast travels. Because of this, sellers are provided with legal copyright-protected photographs, eliminating the need for stock photos.

New information and photos are added daily, so the database automatically updates for all users without the need for system updates and shutdowns, taking the burden of website updates off the shoulders of IGCs and other plant sellers.

About 2,000 plants are also added to the database annually to ensure the tool is up-to-date with rare plants, new introductions, local plants, natives and more. The next expansion is scheduled to go live in February 2024.

To start using the NetPS Plant Finder Tool, contact James Kohut at jkohut@northscaping.com.