Author Archive for: Bill Blevins
Entries by Bill Blevins
Update your profile and create a link for your website
For those of you who have websites, you know how important backlinks are for your SEO. Did you know that you can link to your website from your individual or organization profile? Likewise, many of you have asked for step by step instructions for how to link to your Plants Map profile from your blog […]
Installing Plant Stakes and Markers in Hard Ground
It is about the time of year when we start hearing questions from our customers about the best way to install plant tags on plant stakes in the ground. The hot summer has dried up the soil and the moisture that most of us expect to come with the Fall season hasn’t yet arrived. The […]
Rappahannock Goodwill and Plants Map Collaborate
We’re thrilled to share that we’ve teamed up with Rappahannock Goodwill Industries in Fredericksburg, VA and are now sharing space with other local companies in their Collaboration Zone. Over the next couple of months, the Plants Map team will be training workers at Goodwill to use our computers and laser engraving equipment to produce our […]
How To Fix iOS Cameras Not Working With PlantsMap.com
If you use an iPhone or an iPad or another iOS device to access PlantsMap.com and choose to not share your location with Plants Map, the camera will not allow you to take photos and upload for your plants and collections. The camera app will open, but the screen will be black and none of […]
How Do I Find My Organization’s Plants?
When you Sign-In to Plants Map you are starting as the Individual profile that you created first. In the screenshot example on this page, I am using Plants Map as the Individual profile Bill Blevins (My Profile). To act as the “Look Up Virginia” Organization profile I created I would click this drop-down menu and see a list. […]
Best Way To Attach An Identification Sign To A Mature Tree
I wanted to write a post showing how we attach our Plants Map Signs to a mature tree. When we were trying to figure out how to do this properly, we called our friends in the forestry department at Virginia Tech. We were introduced to the awesome folks at Bartlett Tree Experts and got an […]
Attaching Plant ID Tags To Trees
If you are managing a large inventory of trees, you may have an identification system in place that you use to keep your notes organized. We have seen hand-drawn maps, descriptions of how many feet a tree is away from a fixed object and many other systems to locate a specific tree. One way we […]
Troubleshooting a QR Code reader that is not working
Updated January 8, 2018 The QR code engraved on Plants Map signs and tags is simply an image or picture that your smartphone can turn into website address. Just like you might type google.com into your browser to go to do a search at Googe, with a QR code, you would scan the code and […]