Full Plant Finder

This plant finder will gather crucial information about your garden. Once you have completed it, FindMePlants will search for plants which suit your planting area and preferences.

Or did you just want to search for a plant by name? If so, click here for our Plant Encyclopedia.

Part 1: Surveying the planting area
In this part, all questions are set automatically to the most common answers. So if you're not sure then don't answer!

Soil Moisture
Soil Type
Soil ph
Light Levels
Garden Climate

Part 2: Plant Finder Design factors
If you are not bothered about certain choices in this section, then simply leave the relevant sections blank - FindMePlants will automatically skip that part of the search.

Plant Type
ShrubsContainer-friendly
Herbaceous FlowersConifers
Ground CoverAlpines
TreesHedging
ClimbersAnnuals
Grasses and BamboosBulbs
Ferns Herbs

Size Limitations
Low growing / spreading front of border plants
Medium middle of border plants
Larger back of border shrubs, bamboos and small trees
Medium/large trees
Climbing plants

Form/Shape
Spreading/ground hugging plants
Upright spiky border plants
Round clump forming plants
Taller upright herbaceous flowers & grasses
Loosely rounded bushes or trees
Column & cone-shaped bushes or trees
Weeping or arching bushes or trees

Foliage Colour
Green
Variegated
Purple/Red
Golden
Grey/Silver/Blue

Evergreen/Deciduous
Evergreen
Deciduous

Flower Colour
White, green, creamBlues, purples
Orange, golden, yellow, apricotMixed
Pink, lilac, ceriseNon-flowering plants
Red, violet

Flowering Period
Winter (November-February) flowering
Spring (March-May) flowering
Early Summer (June-July) flowering
Late Summer (August-September) flowering
Autumn (October) flowering

Part 3: Search Filter
Here is your chance to weed out features you might want to avoid! Check the boxes of the features that you don't want.Toxic / poisonous plants
Invasive roots
Invasive growth
Thorny plants
Berry carrying plants
Slug-prone plants

That's it!
Remember, the more information you enter, the more specific the search becomes - so if your search doesn't give any results, try coming back to this page and removing one or two of your more "exotic" requirements!