The whole ecocentrus project relies on garden owners sharing their data with us.

Registering a garden is very quick and some basic details are all that's required at this stage to be useful. Information such as the answers to:

• what type of borders are in the garden;
• are there birdfeeders;
• do cats or dogs use the garden;
• is there a pond

will all help construct meaningful pictures of the local habitat when combined with data from other gardens in the vicinity.

Once a garden is registered then sightings of species (insects, birds, mammals, trees, weeds) can be logged against it. Garden owners are able to post sightings in other registered gardens, submitting a sighting to another garden will require that garden owner to accept or reject the sighting, all garden owners are able to assign rights for unmoderated posting into their garden to any other ecocentrus user.

Each registered garden has it's own set of pages on the ecocentrus website, these include:

• Garden
  Garden properties such as borders, size, aspect displayed with cover photo and location map sit above a panel showing all of the species sighted within that garden
• Photos
  A photo gallery of pictures taken of the garden and the species within
• Reports
  Graphs and tables to describe the relationship of this garden and the species within to those of its local area and nationwide
• Garden Wall
  A message wall for ecocentrus users to pay compliments to the garden, make suggestions, ask questions about aspects of the garden or make local connections
• This Area
  Lists of links to other registered gardens within the same postcode

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