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The list of plants on the website seems significantly shorter than here on HMF, seems misleading. Hoped to get Looking for Love and a few other plants, because they're listed here, but none of them are on the actual website. What is going on?
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Helpmefind is run by a pitifully small handful of volunteers (I'm not one of them, partly because I type with two fingers), and they don't have time to keep each nursery's listing updated - that should be for the nursery to do. Perhaps you could suggest to the nursery that they update their hmf list.
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#2 of 8 posted
1 SEP by
 jedmar
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You need to contact them to check availability. The HMF listing was based on their full catalogue. Some might have been discarded. The website only has a selection of their roses.
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Thanks for your message.
We will work on that. Actually they are still, more or less, in our garden, but lot's of things changed during the last few years. We will work on updating HMF and we will work on updating our webiste.
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At least De Bierkreek list their roses on helpmefind. Many big nurseries don't.
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#5 of 8 posted
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Eirose
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Thank you (and everyone) for your reply. The difference between 3000 and ~400 plants just seemed odd, but now I understand that the reason is the manner the HMF catalogue accumulates over the years. I apologise if I sounded as if it was intentional for marketing purposes, now I see that it is not.
I will contact the nursery directly and inquire about the plants I need. At least they have several Kenny roses, which is rare outside NZ!
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#6 of 8 posted
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jedmar
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HelpMeFind has always been about providing a "tool" for the gardening community, it was never about providing a "service". The first several years (quite a few actually), before there were any of the absolutely incredible volunteers involved, the founders built the site and maintained its content themselves.
HelpMeFind is all custom software which provides for the greatest flexibility in implementing features optimized for easy of use and convenience. HMF is old enough to have originally concentrated on developing a website for non-computer savvy users. The internet and computer use have come a long way since then and HMF has adjusted.
It is understandable some of HMF's features have been more difficult and time consuming to design and implement. One such area is the automated maintenance of any listing's plant list by uploading a simple list of plant names. The software goes to great lengths to simplify the process. Issues like multiple plants sharing the same name, common misspellings, non-standard abbreviations, etc. are are highlighted and very easily resolved. The process is divided into several steps with well documented pop up help available on each. Information from prior uploads is saved so one does not have to repeat the matching process each season.
Unfortunately, the very limited use of this feature has never justified its development time and cost, we've always been disappointed by that. We have planned for some time to write an in depth article demonstrating its use - maybe the blame lies with us.
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I was including Admin amongst the volunteers, since all that work has no financial reward.
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Secret Garden Musk Climber is sold under the name « Secret Garden ® »
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When I follow the link on HMF to this nursery, I get a pop-up from Firefox, that this site is blocked. See print-screen.
Other nurseries I can visit via their direct links on HMF.
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#1 of 2 posted
5 MAY 19 by
jedmar
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Yes, same here. I have copied in their address again. Now it works.
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#2 of 2 posted
5 MAY 19 by
Jay-Jay
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Works here too now. Thanks Jedmar.
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Hi, since august 2010 there are some site guest request which I can't remove. They keep on popping up, every now and than when a new guest sends a list. I answer this one, this one dissapear and the other four stay.
could you please do something about this?
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