Identifying plants in the garden for the newbie gardener

If you are new to gardening and are interested in learning about all things horticultural there are several ways to go about increasing your knowledge in this area. There are plenty of good gardening books on sale or in libraries that can be used to identify plants and learn how to cultivate them, or you may want to download one of the many gardening apps that are available online. Watching online videos that avid gardeners have posted about different aspects of gardening is another way to further your gardening knowledge.

One of the common struggles for a newbie gardener is identifying plants in the garden and knowing which are weeds and which are flowering plants that you want to cultivate. Looking in a gardening book can be time consuming as you try to compare leaf shape and flowers with the pictures printed in the book. A much better way of identifying plants is to use one of the plant identification apps that are available online. Often these apps can be downloaded for free and give the user a few free plant searches per month but subscribing to the company producing the app will usually give you unlimited searches. Simply take a photo of the mystery plant and upload it to the app. Possible results will then be shown which can be viewed and selected from then hey presto mystery solved.