Name | Type | Details | Online | Aquire |
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Forest Garden Spreadsheet | Spreadsheet | All the plants in Martin Crawford’s book Creating a Forest Garden. Data with kind permission from PFAF. Made by Jake Rayson, Olly Boon & Chris Day. | ||
Garden Wild Spreadsheet | Spreadsheet | UK native plants for gardening. Currently 100 wild flowers. By Jake Rayson. | - | |
Apple Varieties Spreadsheet | Spreadsheet | Different apple varieties for UK. Created by Chris Day, re-formatted by Jake Rayson. | - | |
Observation.org | App | Citizen science wildlife ID | ||
Pl@ntNet App | App | Citizen science app to identify plants | ||
iNaturalist App | App | Citizen science app to identify wildlife | ||
Seek App | App | Child-friendly app to identify wildlife, by iNaturalist | ||
QCAD | Software | Open Source CAD software, free version available. The one I use. | ||
LibreCAD | Software | Open Source CAD software, less polished than QCAD. But totally free. | ||
Plants For A Future | Database | Database of useful plants | - | |
Plant Atlas | Database | Botanical native plant reference for Britain & Ireland | - | |
RHS Plant Finder | Database | Ornamental plant reference. Plant finder with native filter applied. | - | |
DBIF | Database | Database of Insects & their Food Plants, in the UK | - | |
DoPI | Database | Database of Pollinator Interactions by Sussex University, with UK native flowers. | - | |
NBN Atlas | Database | National Biodiversity Network of life in the UK | - | |
GBIF | Database | Global Biodiversity Information Facility, life on Earth | - | |
Wikimedia Commons | Database | Open license images | - | |
Archive.org library | Library | Free digital book library | - | |
Creating a Forest Garden | Book | Seminal forest gardening book, giving an overview of the process and the plants | - | |
Harrap’s Wild Flowers | Book | Thorough, lightweight UK wild flower ID book. Lovely. | - | |
Roots and All | Podcast | Wildlife gardening & more, my favourite podcast, by Sarah Wilson. | ||
Growing Greener | Podcast | USA wildlife & ecological gardening podcast. By Thomas Christopher. | ||
Eat Weeds | Podcast | UK foraging podcast |
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