Membership details

2500+ plants and 50,000+ photographs is a lot of information. It comprehensively documents plants that you can get and grow in India.

indiaplants.com website is a valuable tool for:

Architects
Nurserymen
City planners
Landscape designers
Interior designers
Builders and contractors
Hotel and resort managers
Plant lovers and garden enthusiasts
Students of Agriculture, Horticulture and Botany
Agriculture and Horticulture colleges and libraries
Government Agriculture and Horticulture Departments
Corporate horticulturists and garden maintenance staff

A considerable amount of time and effort has gone into gathering this information. Moreover the website has been professionally designed in a user friendly way to be of value to home growers as well as professionals.

Use based levels of membership have been designed. There is a lot of free basic information like category and name searches, names, basic photos, growing tips and viewing of slide shows.

Amateur membership (as low as Rs. 1.40 per day) - offers large size photos and complete plant information.
Professional membership (as low as Rs. 2.75 per day) - offers Advance Search, making and editing of lists and commercial growing tips.

The table below explains the facilities in detail

Sr. #	Particulars of pages / information / facilities offered	Membership levels
		Guest	Registered Guest	Amateur member	Professional member
		Free	Free	Paid - basic	Paid - more
1	Indiaplants home page
2	Plant categories page
3	Item of the week page - including all details
4	About us details incl. info. pages for - Tukai Exotics & The Enchanted Gardens
5	Plants & Accessories for sale / purchase options & indiaplants offline
6	Name searches - any name search, botanical & common name searches
7	Plant list with thumbnails (category wise or from searches)
8	Main display page plant photograph & all thumbnails
9	Basic plant data - botanical, common, regional names & category
10	Plant growing tips
11	Enlarged photographs of all plants
12	Detailed plant information
13	Making & saving lists
14	Opening, editing & printing of lists
15	Choose photos for slide show
16	View slide show of lists
17	Emailing of lists
18	Advanced search
19	Printing of advanced search results
20	Commercial growing information
	Become member			Become Amateur member	Become Professional member

indiaplants.com vis-a-vis books
- Site covers a very wide range of plants and garden accessories. No single book covers so many of our plants in such details
- Constantly updated with new varieties and information
- More photos (per plant and in total) than any other book
- Wide ranging Interactive searches possible on indiaplants.com
- Making and editing of lists possible
- Giving of presentations possible
- Multi location sharing of information possible
- Purchase of plants and accessories possible
- Website is very cheap for the quantum of information it offers

indiaplants.com vis-a-vis botanical gardens
We absolutely agree that seeing a plant on computer does not come anywhere close to seeing it in real. However considering the entire totality of what is being offered in indiaplants.com
- There are very few good public gardens in India
- Not possible to cover full range of plants in any one garden
- All plants in the garden are never flowering or fruiting at one time
- Gardens are not accessible at all times (24/7)
- Plants at all stages of growth not seen in any garden
- Remote viewing of gardens not possible. You can view the plants on website from anywhere - your home, your office or even while you are traveling.

indiaplants.com vis-a-vis other websites
- indiaplants.com website has been designed purely from the growing and utility or use point of view
- indiaplants.com covers a wide range of information which makes the site useful for all people who are interested in growing plants
- Commercial indicators on quantities available are very useful for designers and students. This is not available on other sites.
- indiaplants.com has been professionally designed for ease of use