Rupert wrote:

It's not that amazing something similar but less exhaustive was done several
years ago by a now well known on line plant supplier .
How the plants perform does not come into it. It's implicit that the success
of the plant is down to the recipient (assuming the plant is in good
condition when it is received). As I told Sacha most of the stuff is binned
because there is no requirement to plant and there is a limit to what you
can do with dozens of plants all of the same variety

I know several community gardens, ran by volunteers, I know several
'therapy' gardens for people with great needs. Pretty please let us
know when these are available. I'll come and get them in our big
routmaster. And I'll bake you a cake. We will in fact make you all a
cake each )

Packaging/cost ratios/delivery/health/root volume/billing procedure/pot
shape/dimensions/care instructions/complaint procedure ---it goes on and on
but you get the idea. The actual data required varies from plant to plant
and that is the most difficult bit to predefine.
The suppliers are not limited to the UK so there is some pretty weird stuff
coming in.
Anything dead or "iffy" goes to a company specialising in microbiology who
input into the database.
I have had a sneak preview of the data and there is nothing that surprises
me (yet) other than the complexity of the beast.
It's very early days as the project runs for a year and only started Nov
2005.

Do beleive me - I think this is amazing. One more question. Is this for
a large commercial nursery or someone like Mori?