{"id":3969,"date":"2017-12-29T19:18:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2017-12-29T19:18:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:18:37","slug":"some-great-online-garden-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/some-great-online-garden-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Great Online Garden Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered a great gardening community called Epic Gardening<\/a>.\u00a0 Kevin Espiritu is the owner and he\u2019s got a great energy and insatiable curiosity.\u00a0 He explores new topics with each podcast and video and welcomes guests, too, who are often easily relatable new gardeners.\u00a0 The topics range from hydroponics, sustainable gardening and houseplants, pests, diseases and other ideas.\u00a0 It is a fun indulgence on these non-gardening winter days.<\/p>\n

The other thing I recently discovered is an app called PlantSnap<\/a>, which is designed to identify plants just from pictures that you have on your device or take using the app itself.\u00a0 I tested the app on my phone and it did a good job of identifying most things\u2013probably 90%, including passion flower, hardy fuchsia, lewisia, and pineapple sage.\u00a0 For plants that the app can\u2019t identify satisfactorily, you can send the photo in and the team at PlantSnap will identify it and send you the result.\u00a0 The app still needs a lot of work, of course, as it is very new and there are millions of plant species\/cultivars.\u00a0 There is a shrub in a planting here in North Seattle that I haven\u2019t figured out and the app didn\u2019t identify it, either, and the experts identified it, but I\u2019m not satisfied with their answer.\u00a0 I have to admit that I have mixed feelings about an app that can do this work, as one of my favorite things to do is identify plants for people, and now they won\u2019t need me!<\/p>\n

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I discovered a great gardening community called Epic Gardening.\u00a0 Kevin Espiritu is the owner and he\u2019s got a great energy and insatiable curiosity.\u00a0 He explores new topics with each podcast and video and welcomes guests, too, who are often easily relatable new gardeners.\u00a0 The topics range from hydroponics, sustainable gardening and houseplants, pests, diseases and … Continue reading Some Great Online Garden Resources<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3970,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}