It's in the list of forums. Click on Forums in the top-left nav.

And trust me - that is where I looked. Clearly I was temporarily blind. I have it now.

dave said:Right, they get archived just like you described. Once the thread is 7 days old it automatically gets moved to the other forum, mainly so that the original forum doesn't get completely clogged with 365 of these threads after a year has gone by.

The threads continue to be available as always, and can continue to receive replies. Members who participated in the threads can also continue to view them via their thread watcher, "My Posts" feature, and of course just going to that archive forum.

I was wondering about that thinking that the Daylily Forum might get pretty crowded with those daylilies of the day. Should have known you already had a solution for it!!!

As far as reviews after this becomes established on more forums it might be just easier to watch the Past Plants Forum. That is what I am doing, now watching the Past Plant Of The Day Forum and figure I would notice any plant that I grow that way and can write up my review.

I just did my first review on Daylily Orange Velvet. I do watch the Daylily Forum but find I missed seeing ones that I grow and just found them on the Past Threads Forum.

Dutchlady1 said:As usual Rita is way ahead of me... where is this 'past plants of the day' forum? I looked...

I sure wasn't ahead on that my posts feature!! I didn't even know such a thing existed until right now!!! What a handy thing to have.

On the Daylily Forum the past plants can also be found in the info-box on the right side of the page under:
"Daylilies of the Day Archive".

@Dutchlady1 Hetty, I don't see a "Plumeria of the Day Archive" on the front page of Plumeria Forum, is that something that will be coming in the near future?

All plants are archived to the same place.

plantladylin said:On the Daylily Forum the past plants can also be found in the info-box on the right side of the page under:
"Daylilies of the Day Archive".

I don't see that.

Never Mind, I found it by making my browser screen wider. All sorts of stuff over there I usually don't see.

Rita, there's a link on the DL front page on the right side of the page:

Welcome to the Daylilies Forum!
Links on All Things Plants
ATP Help & Welcome
ATP Series on Daylily Hybridizers
Daylily Database Tutorial
Daylilies of the Day Archive

I posted this reply to Rita on the Daylily Forum, but I want to post it here, too:

Rita - The threads go into the Daylilies of the Day Archive Forum after 7 days on the Daylily Forum. Members can continue to post to any of those threads at any time. You can still earn an acorn "once a year" for a performance evaluation post. Plants can perform differently each year depending on how many years it's been growing in your garden, the current growing conditions, and the climate of any given year. So those performance reviews can change from year to year. That is valuable information for others to know.

Also, if you go to the Plant Database to look up any of those cultivars that have been featured on the Daylily of the Day, you will see a small photo in the upper right with the link underneath it to it's Daylily of the Day thread. Anyone looking up a cultivar will be able to read further information written by members who own and grow the plant.

So when you want to know about a cultivar here on ATP, looking it up in the database can lead you to more information than what you would probably get anywhere else on the internet!

Thank You!

beckygardener said:If you go to the Plant Database to look up any of those cultivars that have been featured on the Daylily of the Day, you will see a small photo in the upper right with the link underneath it to it's Daylily of the Day thread. Anyone looking up a cultivar will be able to read further information written by members who own and grow the plant. So when you want to know about a cultivar here on ATP, looking it up in the database can lead you to more information than what you would probably get anywhere else on the internet!

A wonderful feature!

@dave - Are you going to be putting ALL the archived threads (from different plant species forums) into this one forum?: http://garden.org/forums/view/...

If so, how easy will it be to find a particular cultivar of a particular plant species among a long list of archived cultivar threads? I ask because I want the daylily threads to continue to be updated with member's performance comments/posts. Any option to sort the threads alphabetically? Or only have the option to do a search of that forum?

I was thinking some members who missed the initial threads posted in the Daylily Forum might want to scan the list of Daylily Cultivars to see which ones they might have and can add performance reviews to. With a huge list of threads over a period of a few months, that forum is going to be a task to skim down through all the threads listed.

Yes, I'm not going to have a separate archive for each kind of plant of the day. They all go into the same place. We can think of other creative ways of helping people navigate the list of past plants of the day.

Could you use a similar coding as the "unfinished thread/finished thread" or "not identified/identified" function to sort them?

Then, in a similar manner, you could have a list on the forum's right-side column listing:

» View only Daylily threads
» View only Plumeria threads
» View only Salvia threads

et cetera

I don't currently see the need. If it becomes a problem we will innovate a good solution, as we always do.

beckygardener said:

I was thinking some members who missed the initial threads posted in the Daylily Forum might want to scan the list of Daylily Cultivars to see which ones they might have and can add performance reviews to. With a huge list of threads over a period of a few months, that forum is going to be a task to skim down through all the threads listed.

Yup, that is how I am working it. Just looking at the ones at that new forum.

@Dave what happened to the Daylily / Plant of the Day feature? I didn't change anything on my home page and have seen nothing for a while? Just curious. Thanks!

There are no eligible plants selected for today, so the feature did not show up (wouldn't make sense to show an empty box).

The various moderators of those areas can choose to add some, and I hope they do!