Nicola Gammon, founder of Shoot, was thrilled to win 'Website of the Year' at the Garden Media Guild Awards for her unique online resource for gardeners.
Shoot offers its 50 000 members a database of 14,000 plants, garden design tools, the facility to enter the details of your own planting scheme and so generate a gardening care programme plus the facility to talk to experts and fellow enthusiasts on the Shoot members forum.
Shoot has 18 000 followers on pinterest, over 10,000 followers on twitter and the website gets up to 1 million unique hits per month.
Shoot is now launching Shoot Marketplace, offering a single, independent shop front for 55 specialist growers and producers, offering over 4000 gardening-related products.
Shoot Marketplace is set to trigger a revolution in garden retailing and has been dubbed 'gardening's answer to notonthehighstreet.com'.
