To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [nafex] Does anyone have experience with plantcares.com?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:10:13 -0400
Patsy, it looks like they scraped (i.e. stole) those descriptions and
pictures from some UK nursery websites. Its too bad as some of those
varieties sound interesting. Here is a UK site with many of the exact same
descriptions/pictures for example:
> Hi all, and especially Bob Purvis and apricot folks, I encountered the
> site plantcares.com, which has a link on its left side of the page for
> "plant database". When I clicked that and then to apricots, I encountered
> all sorts of wonderful sounding varieties, not to mention a rootstock mont
> clare or mount claire ? that I had not heard of. When I googled the
> apricot varieties, all I found were UK sites selling them. However, I have
> emailed the customer service at plantcares.com, and he said they were grown
> by 2 different US nurseries that they get the trees from. I can't find any
> info on this company...do any of you know about them? They show an address
> in Louisville KY. Here is the link to the scrumptious sounding apricot
> page:
>http://www.plantcares.com/apricot-tree
> Thanks for any info anybody has about them!
> Patsy