Grow My Garden is an online gardening marketplace and forum. Its aim is to help people connect with other gardeners and exchange plants and gardening information.

Your membership lets you list plants to sell, swap or give away and enables you to see all the details of plants that other Grow My Garden members have listed. You’ll be able to contact them to find out more or acquire their plant. If you want to learn about gardening and exchange information with other members, you can use the Knowledge Pot to read/comment on members’ posts and post your own.

Don’t panic – there is a button for that! Just hit the Forgot? button on the login page and we’ll send you a link to reset your password.

We believe in connecting people with people. To help our members connect with plants and people close to where they are, we need to know the area you live in!

Only your username and location will be shown on your plant listings. You have control over who you share your details with as you complete any exchange or sale.

When you find a plant listed on Grow My Garden that you want – or you’d like to know more about – click the enquire button on the listing. This will let you send an email to the member who has listed it. You’ll then communicate with them directly to arrange any payment and delivery/pick-up.

No, there are no fees for listing or acquiring plants on the Grow My Garden website. If you buy a plant, you’ll pay the person listing the plant directly (outside of the Grow My garden website). Grow My Garden provides a marketplace for people to connect and takes no fee for this service.

You can only sell plants. Other gardening related items e.g. plant pots, can’t be listed at the moment. If you’d like to be able to list other gardening related items please let us know, and we’ll consider adding this to our future developments list. Remember that you can’t sell any plants that are illegal, a noxious pest/weed/biosecurity hazard, are on the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) Biosecurity New Zealand National Pest Plant Accord list or breach the Plant Variety Rights Act 1987.

Yes, you can. We welcome anyone who is interested and involved in gardening to use the Grow My Garden website.

Easy – click on List a Plant and follow the screen’s prompts. You’ll get a chance to preview the listing before it is published and you can go also back and make edits. Remember to include as much information as you can so that people can find your plant easily.

You sure can! There is no limit on the number of plants that you can list at any time.

No, links to external websites or the inclusion of other promotional/marketing material are not permitted in listings.

We’ve tried to provide a good selection of plant categories but if you can’t find the right one, choose the category that best fits your plant. Do let us know if you think there is another category we should be adding to the list and we’ll consider it.

We work with a number of photo file formats so you can upload photo files that are in JPEG or PNG formats. It is best to use close-ups of flowers but we recommend also trying to get photos of the whole plant to show how it grows and what its foliage looks like.

Yes, you can. Go to your Dashboard and My Listings and click on the edit button for the plant listing you want to edit. If you need to remove a plant listing (hopefully because you’ve sold it) you’ll see that one of the editing options is to remove the listing.

Grow My Garden members who are interested in your plant will contact you via your plant listing on the website. You will then communicate with them directly to agree on a price and delivery/pick-up.

That’s why we created a Grow List – so you can do just that! Look for the symbol in the top right corner of any plant listing – clicking this symbol adds the plant to your Grow List. You can find your Grow List as part of your Dashboard.

Once you inquire about a plant that is listed by a Grow My Garden member, you’ll communicate with them directly to arrange any payment and pick-up/delivery. Remember to be careful about payment – only use authorised payment channels and be safe and take precautions when arranging to meet people for picking up or dropping off plants.

Contact the Grow My Garden member who sold you the plant and enquire with them. We can’t act on your behalf in any sale or purchase disputes but if you have problems with a member who you think isn’t behaving in the best interest of the Grow My Garden community, please let us know.

Sorry – at the moment this isn’t possible. But let us know if you think this would be valuable and we’ll consider adding it to our list of future developments for Grow My Garden.

You sure can! We welcome gardeners, would-be gardeners and anyone who has an interest in plants to use the Knowledge Pot forum. However, please remember that the Knowledge Pot is not to be used for marketing, selling or commercial purposes.

All plant listings and Knowledge Pot posts are moderated by Grow My Garden. We have the right to remove any listing or post if we think it is not in the best interests of Grow My Garden and its community.

If you have any concerns or issues about any aspect of Grow My Garden, you can send an email to [email protected].