About Floridata

Floridata is a photographic encyclopedia of landscape plants, an online plant & nature reference, and a gardening marketplace.

In 1996 Jack Scheper originally planned to do a virtual tour of his property, Floridune, on the web. The concept was that while touring the gardens one could click on a plant to learn more about it. It became quickly apparent that a reference would be more useful, specifically a photo encyclopedia of plants - and so Floridata was born. It's still growing ten years later - it's bigger and more comprehensive than Jack could ever have anticipated.

Contributors
We make an effort to find people that know, grow and love the plants they write about. Our plan is to find dedicated and devoted professionals (landscapers, foresters, botanists, horticulturists, ecologists, etc.) and talented amateur gardeners who will use Floridata to communicate their knowledge and enthusiasm for plants, gardening and nature. Floridata contributors include:

Here's some friends that have help build Floridata:

John Scheper, Publisher
Steve Christman, Contributor
Chuck McLendon, Contributor
Jeff Bielski, Contributor
Linda Conway Duever, Contributor
Marie Harrison, Contributor
Mark Harris, Contributing Photographer
Ginny Stibolt , Contributor
Gosia Wajchert, Contributor
Sue Sweeney, Contributor
Bruce Bohm, Contributor, Photographer

Floridata Subscriptions
Please help! The rapid growth of Floridata's audience has put a strain on our equipment. (We serve more than 1 million pages each month!) As a result our hosting fees have tripled and we need to upgrade our hardware and software.

We are looking to team up with gardening or environmentally-oriented businesses. We'll highlight our sponsors in a variety of ways, and we'll work with you to design program that delivers our great audience to your business.

Individuals can keep us growing by donating $15.00 (or any amount) for an annual "voluntary subscription" that will help us meet our expenses.

Subscribe by check! Send to:

Floridata
10266 Rebel Circle
Tallahassee, Florida 32305

Or subscribe online through Amazon.com:

Whichever payment method you choose, we sincerely thank you for your support and encouragement!

Viewing Floridata
Floridata is a photographic encyclopedia of landscape plants. As such, it is graphics intensive. We are working to minimize the download times by re-using support graphics so that once you have viewed the Plant List page, or a few of the Plant Profiles, the load times are spent exclusively on loading the plant description content. As the site matures, we will continue to look for ways to increase efficiency and minimize wait time.

We recommend that you set your computer to "thousands" (15 bit) or "millions" (24 or 32 bit) of colors for optimal viewing of the plant photographs. We also recommend that you browse with Netscape 3.0 (or higher) or the Internet Explorer 3.0 (or higher). Enable Javascript and "cookies" in you browser's preferences for optimal navigation.

Copyright
All Floridata photographs, data and text are the property of Floridata.com L.C. and may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission from the owner. Floridata photographs and resources may be used for non-commercial not-for-profit purposes by students and others if credit is given to Floridata.com.

9/7/06

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