| I used to use the Monrovia website for plant photos - they carry an extremely wide variety of the plants I most often use in designs and generally have excellent illustrations/photos as well as decent care and growing info. Since I managed to get hold of one of their catalogs - a virtual plant encyclopedia for my climate - I don't use the website nearly as much. Depending on your location, this may or may not be a good source of photos and info. And I have a collection of books that fill in whatever gaps the Monrovia catalog may have......two of my favorites are the Dirr Illustrated Guides - one directed at colder climates and the second for warmer - but these focus on woody plants only. The other suggestion is to take your clients on a nursery tour. FWIW, seeing the plant in person carries the point far better than any photograph. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Monrovia Nursery
| Other good ones are U of Connecticut, Virginia Tech, and the US Dept. of Ag is pretty good as well (maybe less copyright concerns). |
Here is a link that might be useful: USDA
| non pro here... When I'm looking for a picture of a plant - or information on it - good old Google works well. If you add site:.edu after the search words, you get university sites which gives you more assurance about the reliability of the information. For instance, searching on heptacodium miconioides site:.edu brings the results linked below and the 4th one down is image results. |
Here is a link that might be useful: heptacodium miconioides site:.edu
