You gotta hand it to the guys at Garden Escape: They've managed to create a truly beautiful site while avoiding the bugaboo of fat images and resulting looooong download times. It's not that hard to create a dazzling aesthetic when you've got so many flowers to work with, but to do that, and make it load reasonably fast? Takes our breath away. They don't just "sell flowers," though daisies and roses and azaleas are all over the site, including the chat room, where every participant has a nifty little flower image. Garden.com sells plants, seeds, books, supplies, ambient decor - a bit of everything for or about the garden. And instead of a shopping cart, they give you a wheelbarrow to push around the virtual store. Naturally!
