Trade A Plant

July 2008 Media Release - America

July 2008

Trade A Plant makes it’s USA tree re-cycling website available to help California’s wild fire victims.

Donate a plant to California wild fire victims.

Simply list your plants on the USA website's www.tradeaplant.com SELL A PLANT page, and make a difference today. And best of all it's FREE to list anything for the next 3 months.

“The aim of Trade A Plant is to improve the environment and help our neighbors through the preservation and planting of trees,” said Mr. Mark Fitzgerald, Company Director and Founder of Trade A Plant.

Trade A Plant’s online service allows local gardeners wherever they are in America to logon to www.tradeaplant.com and re-cycle or donate their ‘unwanted’ backyard trees and potted plants - instead of just cutting them down and their green value to the Environment lost forever.

Don’t Dump It – Trade It.

Following the devastating wild fires which have recently destroyed about 2000 homes and displaced an estimated 500,000 people stretching from Los Angeles to San Diego, now is a good time to make available any ‘unwanted’ or extra trees, plants and garden supplies fellow Americans have to spare from their backyards.

To encourage good neighbors and gardeners across the USA to make available any spare plants and garden supplies which will be required as houses and gardens start to be rebuilt, Trade A Plant has waived the usual Plant advertising fee for the USA and made the website Free for the next 3 months.

“In a small way we can all make the return to normal a little easier by thinking of something we have in our backyard which can assist the re-establishment of houses and gardens effected by the fires to ensure a greener and happier community” Mr Fitzgerald said.

So jump on the website and make your backyard trees, plants and garden supplies available either for FREE to be picked up by fire victims, or For Sale and pledge to donate all or part of the money received for selling your backyard plants towards any organization aiding in the rebuilding of local communities impacted by the fires.

List your plants on the www.tradeaplant.com website SELL A PLANT page and make a difference today. And best of all it's FREE to list for the next 3 months.

Contact: Mr Mark Fitzgerald, Director & Founder.

Mobile Phone +61 418 256 770

Post: Trade A Plant, PO Box 988, Neutral Bay, NSW, 2089 Australia.

Email: mail@tradeaplant.com Website www.tradeaplant.com

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Question 1. What is Trade A Plant?

A. Trade A Plant allows you to Buy & Sell plants online. Trade A Plant gives you the unique choice of sourcing or selling plants online from either Hobby or Home Gardens or Professional Nursery Outlets. more.....

IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION #1. Before you can remove any advanced plant or mature tree growing on your property, you will need to check your Local Council's - Tree Preservation Order. Your local council's Tree Preservation / Parks & Gardens Officer will let you know whether it is Ok to remove or prune any plants growing on your property and what environmental considerations you may need to adhere to.

IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION #2. Trade A Plant encourages plant owners to enlist the services of a Professional Horticultural Service / Tree Transplanting Company to relocate your plants. They can inform the owner about the plant's viability for relocation & any environmental considerations to be aware of to minimize the risk of spreading plant weeds, pests and diseases, in addition to pointing out any plant laws and regulations which may apply in your state. See United States National Plant Board for more detailed information. See Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS)

Question 2. What does it Cost to use the Service?

A. It is Free to Browse or search the plant stock availability. It costs $25 AUD or $12.50 USD to advertise a home growing plant or backyard tree for sale. more.....

Question 3. If I have a Home growing backyard Tree or Palm to go, what are my options?

A. Advertise with Trade A Plant in Sell A Plant to turn your valuable backyard trees into cash. Register with Trade A Plant for a small fee of $25 AUD or $12.50 USD and we will run it until you sell it. more.....

Question 4. Does Trade A Plant come out to inspect and identify the tree or plant I want to advertise for sale?

A. As Trade A Plant is an information and plant advertising service only, we do not come out to your place and inspect your tree or plant you wish to sell. We have a comprehensive plant picture library to help you identify your plant. more.....

Question 5. How much can I get for selling my mature Home growing trees or advanced plants?

A. It's entirely up to you what price you want to sell your Home growing plant for. You can get rid of your plant for Free or Sell it for 100s to 1,000s of dollars, depending on your type of plant and what the demand for it is. For an indication of what you can get for your plant, check out the Buy A Plant page to see what others are asking. more.....

Question 6. What happens after I've placed my Advertisement with Trade A Plant?

A. Once you have advertised your home growing Tree, Palm, Shrub or any Plant with Trade A Plant, it goes online immediately and remains available for Buyers 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. more.....

Question 7. What if I have Retail Nursery or Wholesale Nursery grown Trees, what are my options?

A. If you have numerous nursery plant lines to sell, you can advertise their availability in either Trade A Plant Retail Nursery Mall or Wholesale Nursery Mall. In either Mall you have your own hosted website as part of the Trade A Plant gardening portal. more.....

Question 8. How do I Buy a Plant online?

A. You can buy plants online by selecting the Buy A Plant menu or Shopping Mall menu, then contacting the plant owners direct via their email address or phone number. Trade A Plant does not get involved in the sale of the plant or make money from the sale. more.....

1. What is Trade A Plant?

Trade A Plant allows you to Buy & Sell plants online.

We service the UNITED STATES and AUSTRALIAN gardening markets. With other World Regions coming Online.
Trees & Plants are available for you to Buy & Sell. They come from either Backyard Gardens, professional Retail or Wholesale Nursery locations. Trade A Plant gives you the unique choice of sourcing or selling plants online from either Hobby or Home Gardens or Professional Nursery Outlets.

Turn your Nursery stock or valuable backyard plants into cash.

Track down mature trees and advanced pot plants.

You can even Give Away your home growing backyard trees & plants to save on removal and dumping fees while helping to preserve our planet's precious Green Assets. Give the Environment the Green Light. Recycle and Save a Tree today.

Don't Dump it - Trade It!

As Leo Schofield (Sydney Festival Director) said "it's the best horticultural idea in ages"

Why list your Home grown plant with Trade A Plant?

Home Growing plants which are advertised can be pot plants, inground trees, palms or shrubs that are "unwanted" by the home owner because they are either in the way of building works or have grown too big for their environment. "Unwanted" mature & advanced plants which are growing in people's backyards all over the world are needed by landscapers & developers all the time, to create instant greenery & impact for new building works. Rather than just cutting the problem tree down and losing it's value to the environment forever, Trade A Plant allows you to advertise it's availability via an online catalogue of mature trees & plants. Home owners can get rid of "unwanted" problem trees, palms & shrubs growing on their property and make money by Selling them.

Why list your Nursery plants with Trade A Plant?

Nursery grown plants which are advertised are mainly traditional potted plant stock of every variety of tree, palm & shrub available. Some nursery plants can also be mature transplanted stock held in huge pots or even inground root controlled plants which are available for general sale.

Nursery grown plants are either supplied by Retail Nurseries or Wholesale Nurseries.

Retail Nursery grown plants are found in the general Browse & Buy A Plant & Retail Nursery Mall searches and are available for everyone to buy.

Wholesale Nursery grown plants are not available to general customers and can only be found by shopping in the Wholesale Nursery Mall. ONLY Industry Trade customers can buy plants in the Wholesale Nursery Mall ie. Professional Landscapers & Retail Nurseries sourcing wholesale plant stock

NB: Proof of Trade Identification may be required prior to purchasing any Wholesale supplied plants.

Click Here If you are interested in having you Nursery stock available on-line to your Retail or Wholesale customers 24 hours a day!

2. What does it Cost to use the Service?

It is Free to Browse or search the plant stock availability of all Buy A Plant, Retail Nursery or Wholesale Nursery plants advertised for sale.

It costs $25 AUD or $12.50 USD to advertise a Home growing plant or backyard tree for sale, and Trade A Plant guarantees to ….Run it until you Sell it!

If you have a multiple of the same plant species to sell, (eg. 10 Camellia shrubs) you just fill out your advertisement and indicate the quantity you have to sell, and it only costs the one advertisement fee.

You need to fill out a separate advertisement for each different species of plant you want to profile for sale, (eg. 1 Date palm & 1 Camellia shrub) requires you to fill out 2 separate advertisements).

Privacy: Advertising with Trade A Plant is safe. You are a valued customer. Credit Card payments are encrypted directly to the Bank. We don't store Credit Card details. We don't ask for personal name or home address details, only email & contact phone number. We don't give out customer details. Your privacy means a lot to us and we promise to maintain it.

Guarantee: Trade A Plant guarantees to list your plant(s) until you sell them, provided you inform Trade A Plant every 3 months to let us know your plants are still available. Otherwise your advertisement will expire automatically 3 months after your last update. While your advertisement is still current, a reminder email is automatically generated and sent to your email address every 3 months to allow you to choose if you want to maintain, edit or delete your plant's advertisement. Run it until you Sell it! Sell A Plant

3. If I have a Home growing backyard Tree or Palm to go, what are my options?

Advertise with Trade A Plant in Sell A Plant to turn your valuable backyard trees into cash.

Ring your Local Council to see if they can use it. (see Tree Preservation & Local Council lists) Also note, your Local Council approval for the removal of some mature trees & advanced plants may be required. Please check your Local Council's Tree Preservation Order before you remove a mature tree, palm or any advanced plant from your private property.

Ring Landscapers from your local newspaper to see if they can use it. (see Landscape Contractors contact details)

Contact a local Tree Transplanter to see if they want it (see local Tree Transplanters.)

Give your "unwanted" home grown trees or plants away by advertising their free availability in Sell A Plant . This can save you the costs of having the tree cut down and associated dumping fees. But more importantly, you are helping to preserve our planet's precious "Green Assets" rather than cutting them down and losing their value to the environment forever. Give the Environment the Green Light. Recycle and Save a Tree today.

4. Does Trade A Plant come out to inspect and identify the tree or plant I want to advertise for sale?

As Trade A Plant is an information and plant advertising service only, we do not come out to your place and inspect your tree or plant you wish to sell. We have a comprehensive plant picture library to help you identify your plant.

Trade A Plant does not take your tree or plant away.

We rely on customers to supply correct information when placing their advertisements and to report all bought and solds promptly. Buyers and sellers are responsible for completing their own inspection, assessment and relocation of all trees, plants and garden items.

Trade A Plant encourages plant owners to enlist the services of a professional horticultural service to relocate their plants. They can inform the owner about the plant's viability for relocation & any environmental considerations.

If you need help with identifying the tree or plant you want to advertise:

Try Trade A Plant What Plant is That page. As well as Trade A Plant Identify By Picture page.

You can E-mail: mail@tradeaplant.com.au a picture of your tree or plant for identification.

You can Mail or Fax. us a picture: Trade A Plant P/L, Post Office Box 988, Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia 2089. Facsimile (02) 9904 4003 International Facsimile 612 9904 4003

Ask your Local Council to come out and identify your tree or plant as part of their Tree Preservation application for removal process.

Take a picture or a piece of the plant's foliage, flower or fruit to your Local Nursery for their professional nursery staff to identify.

5. How much can I get for selling my mature Home growing trees or advanced plants?

It is entirely up to you what price you want to sell your Home growing plant for. You can get rid of your plant for Free or Sell it for 100s to 1,000s of dollars, depending on your type of plant, how easy it is to move and what the demand for it is.

NB: before you can remove any advanced plant or mature tree growing on your property, you will need to check your Local Council's - Tree Preservation Order.

As a guide to what you can get for selling your Home growing trees & plants, go to Buy A Plant and search on the type of plant you are selling to see what others are asking.

Then, when you are profiling your plant's advertisement in Sell A Plant, you can decide to set a $ Asking price, or select Negotiable and see what the market offers. If you decide to advertise your plant as Free to get rid it from your property, you are still coming out ahead because the new owner is covering the cost of your plant's removal from site. Plus you are doing your bit for preserving our planet's precious "green assets".

6. What happens after I've placed my Advertisement with Trade A Plant?

Once you have advertised your home growing Tree, Palm, Shrub or any Plant with Trade A Plant, it goes online immediately and remains available for Buyers 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week.

As every plant advertised is unique in it's location & size, the time it takes to sell or find a new home for a plant is never really a set period. Therefore, Trade A Plant guarantees to list your plant(s) until you sell them, provided you inform Trade A Plant every 3 months to let us know your plants are still available. Otherwise your advertisement will expire automatically 3 months after your last update.

While your advertisement is still current, a reminder email is automatically generated and sent to your email address every 3 months to allow you to choose if you want to maintain, edit or delete your plant's advertisement. Run it until you Sell it! Sell A Plant

Once a Buyer finds your plant advertisement they will contact you directly via the phone number or email address you listed when you placed your advertisement. It is entirely up to the Buyer & the Seller how they exchange the plant. Trade A Plant does not get involved in the sale of the plant or make money from the sale. Trade A Plant is an information and plant advertising service only.

Buyers and sellers are responsible for completing their own inspection, assessment and relocation of all trees, plants and garden items.

7. What if I have Retail Nursery or Wholesale Nursery grown Trees, what are my options?

If you are a Retail Nursery, Wholesale Nursery, Landscaper or Industry Professional and you only have a few plants to sell, you can advertise their availability with Trade A Plant in Sell A Plant as a general plant advertisement for sale.

Typically when you have numerous nursery plant lines to sell, you can advertise their availability in either Trade A Plant Retail Nursery Mall or Wholesale Nursery Mall.

Your Own Website: In either Mall you have your own hosted website as part of the Trade A Plant gardening portal where you can direct your customers to search on your total nursery plant stock using Trade A Plant state of the art powerful plant search engine. In effect your business will have it's own website to promote and sell your professionally grown nursery stock. Your customers can source and order online any plants they desire from your complete up to date nursery stock lists 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Retail Nursery Mall

Promotes Retail nurseries with plants for sale to the general public and allows them to have their own Trade A Plant hosted Website. The advantage of a Retail nursery having it's own Website as part of the Trade A Plant network, is that they can have their own Company branded internet garden shop as well as all the latest online plant Buy & Browse technology. Buying and Selling plants online is simple & supported by a picture of the plant for the customer's convenience. Up to the minute plant availability, seasonal specials, product releases and online ordering & delivery terms are all available to the Retail customer 24 hrs a day.

Retail Nursery Mall advertised plants also appear in the general mainstream Browse & Buy A Plant search returns. Whereas, Wholesale Nursery Mall advertised plants are ONLY ever seen in the Wholesale Nursery Mall and ONLY available to Industry & Horticultural Trade Customers. Therefore, there is No direct price comparisons.

Click Here to see how easy it is to have your own Retail Nursery Online in just 10 minutes .....and make it convenient for your customers to buy from you 24hrs/day.....every day.

www.tradeaplant.com.au /yourbusinessname

Wholesale Nursery Mall

Promotes Wholesale nurseries with plants for sale business to business, allowing them to have their own Trade A Plant hosted Website. The advantage of a Wholesale nursery having it's own Website as part of the Trade A Plant network, is that they can have their own Company branded internet Nursery site to take advantage of all the latest online plant Buy & Browse technology. Buying and Selling plants online is simple & supported by a picture of the plant for the customer's convenience. Up to the minute plant availability, pot & plant sizes, seasonal specials, online ordering & delivery terms are all available to the Wholesale customer 24 hrs a day.

NB: Professional Landscapers & Retail Nurseries mainly buy from Wholesale Nurseries. Proof of Trade Identification for Buying plants from Wholesale Nurseries may be required prior to purchase! Check their terms of trading.

Wholesale Nursery Mall advertised plants are ONLY ever seen in the Wholesale Nursery Mall and ONLY available to Industry & Horticultural Trade Customers.

Click Here to see how easy it is to have your own Wholesale Nursery online in just 10 minutes .....and make it convenient for your customers to buy from you 24hrs/day.....every day.

www.tradeaplant.com.au /yourbusinessname

8. How do I Buy a Plant online?

You can buy plants online by selecting the Buy A Plant menu or Shopping Mall menu, then contacting the plant owner direct via their email address or phone number.

It is entirely up to the Buyer & the Seller how they exchange the plant. Trade A Plant does not get involved in the sale of the plant or make money from the sale. Trade A Plant is an information and plant advertising service only.

Buyers and sellers are responsible for completing their own inspection, assessment and relocation of all trees, plants and garden items.

Everyone can Buy plants from the general Buy A Plant menu or Retail Nursery Mall.

However, only Professional Landscapers & Retail Nurseries mainly buy from the Wholesale Nursery Mall. Proof of Trade Identification for Buying plants from Wholesale Nurseries may be required prior to purchase! Check their terms of trading.

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