[lisa finerty]

We are looking for someone who has ever started a garden in Florida to use our site and be featured in two newspaper articles. We hope you might be -- or would be able to suggest someone to be -- that person!

We are www.YourGardenShow.com, a website for gardeners. We launched last month and got a mention on CBS news in Philadelphia, Milwaukee and San Francisco earlier this month: http://cbs3.com/video/?id=104868.

A Florida paper has now asked for a local gardener who uses the site which we want to respond to. We don't yet have a Florida gardeners in your area, which is why we are writing to ask if you could recommend anyone we could talk to.

YourGardenShow.com is free to use. We have designed it to be easy and useful, and we have built it to be an opportunity to show a garden legacy, a process in motion, or for a local landscape architect or designer to get publicity with website or contact information. We have viewers from 89 countries already!

Please help us! We would appreciate if you could please forwarding this request to gardeners in your membership.


Best regards and thank you,

Lisa Finerty
Strategic Outreach Director
YourGardenShow.com
San Francisco
Lisa@YourGardenShow.com

415-817-1413 (Fixed)
912-433- 0005 (Cell)


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A new website for the rapidly expanding community of gardeners in Florida has launched!

The site, www.YourGardenShow.com, is created by a Master Gardener and an Emmy-award-winning producer and is designed to be easy-to-use, fun, and inspire new and seasoned gardeners to share their experiences. The site invites gardeners to showcase their gardens, virtually visit the gardens of others, and swap tips and tricks for nurturing great gardens that can fill the senses and supply vegetables and herbs.


-- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --




New Social Media Platform Brings Gardening Experts and Novices Together

to Expand the World’s Gardening Community

June 9, 2010 - YourGardenShow.com, the world’s first social media platform dedicated to gardens and their cultivators, launches from its San Francisco headquarters after two years in the making. This interactive website features an expansive 6,000 vegetable database developed by Cornell University (778 varieties of tomatoes!) and a 5,900 ornamental plant database powered by Missouri Botanical Garden, one of the oldest botanical gardens in the U.S.A. The site is free to use.

YourGardenShow.com aims to unite the 25,000 square miles of America’s gardens and beyond, encouraging passionate gardeners to "show and tell."

"Gardeners visit over the virtual garden gate -- with one click of a finger you can be transported from an Italian Grand Garden to a vertical window garden in downtown New York -- everyone's got something to share," say husband and wife co-founders Tom Finerty (Emmy-Award winning producer) and Lisa Marini (Master Gardener).

Members share their gardening activities and legacy through photos and videos while tracking their garden’s progress and growth on their Garden log -- or 'GLOG,' a fun timeline journal developed exclusively for the site. YourGardenShow.com offers hyper-localized features, making it easy for gardeners to identify their unique local climate and plant hardiness zones, and showcases what other gardeners in the region are planting and when. Interactive possibilities on the site are endless -- the most exciting of which is the Phase II addition of the Citizen Science initiatives, co-developed with the nation's top environmental leaders.

YourGardenShow.com is supported by a growing team that includes 'Groundskeeper' Mark Kane, former Executive Garden Editor of Better Homes and Gardens. "Creating a resource and network of global 'neighbors' trading tips and spreading green thumb wisdom is a fantastic tool for the growing worldwide gardening community," says Mark.

YourGardenShow.com was developed by Pivotal Labs (Twitter) and designed by Hot Studio (Ancestry) in San Francisco. Visit http://www.yourgardenshow.com/



For more information and local interview opportunities:

Contact Ann Trueheart at +1 415-738-2476, or email press@yourgardenshow.com

* For the press release, go to http://bit.ly/djWvUL

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