Kathy Thomas from VADirectory.net, who also blogs about her garden here, sent me an email recently extolling the virtues of this site - BotanicPhotos.com.

The site offers garden and botanical photos for sale where members can either offer their own images or purchase and download others. It's a great repository for bloggers, garden websites, authors and publishers wanting to enhance their work and will be used by magazines, greeting card manufacturers and the list goes on.

While this is not a new idea, by any stretch of the imagination, it is quite novel in that it only caters for horticultural images. It doesn't take a genius to realise that image stock sites such as iStockphoto, Shutterpoint and Fotolia already have many botanical photos within their lists. But, many of their images are predominantly "eye-candy cliches" instead of the novel nuances of unfamiliar flowers and plants.

Botanic Photos are priced to compare well with these other image houses and if you're handy with a camera, and people are willing to buy your photos, you could earn up to 40% of the image's sale price.

So if you're looking to buy, or sell, garden photos then join other horticultural enthusiasts at BotanicPhotos.com.