Our Mission

We are a team of gardeners and web developers who became frustrated with the plant selection and lack of expertise provided by our local big box garden centers. After going to community gardens, farmers’ markets and plant swaps, we realized the number of great growers in our area who lacked the time and technical expertise to connect with people online. Also, we found a number of small websites for independent garden centers, but no place that brought these sites together. We started DoLeaf to connect gardeners with specialty nurseries and independent garden centers in order to share experiences, expertise, practices, and a love of gardening.

We made DoLeaf so that expert sellers could easily set up stores and begin listing plants quickly, while buyers could find a wide selection of plants based on their growing conditions and needs. And, like our gardens, DoLeaf is always growing so if you have suggestions, we’d love to hear from you. Please feel free to contact us.

Our Team

Ryan Felton

Ryan grew up on a small family owned farm in rural Iowa, and from Day One he was playing in the dirt. Growing up, Ryan knew the tastiness of home-grown produce like tomatoes, peas, and cherries. Ryan has lived in various parts of the US with different climate zones, and he now manages an overgrowth of vegetation within his house that he’s collected along the way. Unfortunately he’s missing one key plant; the Lotus Maculatus (Golden Parrot Beak), which he hopes will appear on DoLeaf’s listings in the near future.