h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

FFF is co-ordinated by Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, and run by the Natural History Museum. This is a website built to help UK gardeners find trees, shrubs, and flowers which are local to their post code district, which they can grow in the garden to support fauna native to the area.

It is important to do this because such native plants are dissapearing as hedgerows etc. are being destroyed - gardens are some of these plants and animal's few remaining hopes, but tend to house exotic plants from elsewhere in the world.

On entering your postcode, FFF searches their database and gives you a list of annuals, biennials, climbers, and lots of other types of plants, right up to trees, giving the common names, latin names, and whether they're garden worthy. It also gives you links to pictures of the plants, and you can find out if they're threatened or not.
It then tells you local birds, butterflies and mammals, giving links to habitat information & discriptions...

Using the database you can be sure that the things you plant are right for your area.

Flaura for Fauna's homepage is here: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/fff/index.htm

Thanks for this, I had never heard of it before.
I am going straight there to sort out some stuff for my garden.

Cool I had a look at some of the plants... some a real pretty...

I didn't recognise any that are supposed to live around here.
I'm going to look again later when I have time to look through all of them carefully.