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Aug 17, 2012 2:36 PM CST
Name: tabby
denver, colorado zone 5
Charter ATP Member Clematis I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Cat Lover Plant and/or Seed Trader Sempervivums
Roses Ponds Irises Daylilies Region: Colorado Enjoys or suffers cold winters
I'm with Paul.
I post a lot cultivar pictures in the appropriate places but I have one acre of gardens that are a mix of plants.
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Aug 19, 2012 6:20 AM CST
Name: Karen
Valencia, Pa (Zone 6a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Cut Flowers Winter Sowing Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Echinacea
Plant and/or Seed Trader Region: Ohio Region: United States of America Butterflies Hummingbirder Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Trish said:Just to play devil's advocate here for a minute:

In Joanna's case- she's done a garden tour and now has new photos to share. I'm not sure a whole new article is a good idea.

Also, while we were never able to get folks to post to the forum, there are a *lot* of "tour" posts throughout the site in various forums. Moderators could move them.


We can't really move them, Trish. We can only split them off to new threads within our own forum. We'd have to email you or Dave to suggest you move it. And, if someone didn't post those pics in the appropriate forum to begin with, they apparently don't want them in the appropriate forum.

What we need to do is think of ATP as our garden community, where we visit different areas. We need to be willing to walk around the neighborhood.
e.g. I grow mostly flowers. They only vegetable I generally grow is tomatoes. I spend most of my time here in the areas that interest me most, like seeds, coleus, perennials, annuals. I rarely post to or even follow the vegetable forum. But when I decided to plant asparagus this year, I asked questions in the vegetable forum and found the answers I needed. I walked to another area of this garden community. I can't understand why people are so reluctant to leave a certain forum or two. Nor can I understand the reluctance to start a new thread for a new subject.

Consider this example. I went to the main "forums" page and searched "tomatoes". This is the result: 24 pages of hits on every conceivable forum:
http://garden.org/forums/searc...
Granted, tomato reference can be appropriate to lots of different fourms: seeds, edibles and preserving, farming, etc. But daylilies? irises? roses? And if I click on those posts, I might have to read through 20 pages of posts on dalilies, which don't interest me, or irises which don't interest me, etc. to find a reference to tomato.

We just need to post pictures and comments to appropriate forums. I know I'm on my soapbox again but I think these things are just so counterproductive to the usefulness of this site.

Karen
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Aug 19, 2012 6:57 AM CST
Garden.org Admin
Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)
Region: Texas Seed Starter Vegetable Grower Tomato Heads Vermiculture Garden Research Contributor
Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Region: Ukraine Garden Sages
I have created the forum!

http://garden.org/forums/view/...
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Aug 19, 2012 7:10 AM CST
Name: Karen
Valencia, Pa (Zone 6a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Cut Flowers Winter Sowing Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Echinacea
Plant and/or Seed Trader Region: Ohio Region: United States of America Butterflies Hummingbirder Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Dave, I think you need to remove this post, which seems like an email between Sharon and Trish. Since I'm mentioned a couple of times, I figured out the subject, but.... a prime example of how moving threads can go weird


Karen
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Aug 19, 2012 7:13 AM CST
Garden.org Admin
Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)
Region: Texas Seed Starter Vegetable Grower Tomato Heads Vermiculture Garden Research Contributor
Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Region: Ukraine Garden Sages
Thanks Karen, I guess I need to check out all those threads.
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Aug 19, 2012 7:53 AM CST
Plants Admin
Name: Zuzu
Northern California (Zone 9a)
Region: Ukraine Charter ATP Member Region: California Cat Lover Roses Clematis
Irises Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Plant Identifier Garden Sages Plant Database Moderator Garden Ideas: Master Level
I'm so happy you revived that forum, Dave. I always liked it and I missed it when it was gone. Thanks for bringing it back. Smiling
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Aug 19, 2012 8:03 AM CST
Name: Paul
Utah (Zone 5b)
Grandchildren are my greatest joy.
Annuals Enjoys or suffers cold winters Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Garden Procrastinator Hosted a Not-A-Raffle-Raffle Plays in the sandbox
Tender Perennials Tomato Heads The WITWIT Badge Region: Utah Vegetable Grower Hybridizer
My first attempt here wasn't the best/ I posted some pictures under Duchladies post and don't k now how to move them *Blush*
Paul Smith Pleasant Grove, Utah
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Aug 19, 2012 8:21 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Joanne
Calgary, AB Canada (Zone 3a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Region: Canadian Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Roses
Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Annuals Container Gardener Vegetable Grower Winter Sowing Enjoys or suffers cold winters
Awesome! Thanks Dave
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Aug 19, 2012 11:23 AM CST
Name: Marilyn
Greenwood Village, CO (Zone 5b)
Garden today. Clean next week.
Heucheras Bookworm Region: Colorado Garden Procrastinator Region: Southwest Gardening Container Gardener
Enjoys or suffers cold winters Sempervivums Annuals Foliage Fan Herbs Garden Ideas: Level 2
Hurray! Hurray!
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Aug 19, 2012 11:33 AM CST

Plumerias Photo Contest Winner: 2015 Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Forum moderator
Region: Florida Cat Lover Garden Sages Cactus and Succulents Tropicals Hosted a Not-A-Raffle-Raffle
Paul - it's no big deal!
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Aug 19, 2012 11:53 AM CST
Name: Lynn
Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages I helped plan and beta test the plant database. I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Plant Database Moderator
Forum moderator I helped beta test the first seed swap Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Plant and/or Seed Trader Garden Ideas: Master Level
Hurray! I love this Forum. Such a great way to show our gardens and not be off topic in the plant specific forums. Thumbs up

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