Is this a bug? Or intended?

I noticed that when I changed the status on a daylily from "Have" to "Used to Have" (which is marked as "Prev" in my plant listing), the plant count listed under daylilies did not change.

I tried the reverse; when I changed the status on a daylily from "Used to Have" to "Have", the plant count stayed the same.

I decided to try to see what would happen if I added a plant as a "Want". I tried adding the daylily "Lord of Rings", into the Category of daylilies, as a "Want" (with choice 4, "thinking about it"). The plant got added to my list of daylilies as a "Want", but the list count for the daylilies increased!

So it seems to me that your plant lists are constructed to display a count of every plant listed there, including the "Used to Have"s and the "Want"s, even though I may not actually have the plant. The only way to get the count to display realistically (meaning, only plants that I actually currently have are included in the count), is to trashcan (delete) those plants that I don't actually have.

Maybe you think it should work this way, but it seems like a bug to me.

The personal list of plants that I can keep here is very useful to me, but I would like to be able to easily determine how many plants I actually have, without manually counting them up, or deleting the former or coveted plants not actually in my garden. But I want to be able to keep those plants on the site list too. For the plants no longer in my garden, it is nice to keep a handy ATP site note as to why (so if someone asks about the plant, I can respond); for the plants that I want, it is nice to be able to note why I may want them, and to be able to review my "Want"s before purchasing plants or engaging in trades.

The count isn't showing you how many you own in real life. It's showing you how many are present in your lists.

When you first open your plant list, the system tells you how many in your have, want, and used to have lists. I additionally categorize mine by type of plant and the system also lets me know totals for each category. Works well for me.

I created a separate Want list so I don't have those plants in their respective categories until I acquire it.

Thanks everyone for your answers.

Sue, you had a great idea! I have now made separate want lists for the Daylilies and Irises, and separate "used to have" lists for them, also. I also added a Misc. used to have, for all of the other plants that have died, gone MIA, or were removed. Breaking out the used-to-have plants now lets me still keep notes on them, but allows me to easily know the current total number of still-existing plants (of those kinds).

Now if there were some way we could add NOIDs and seedlings that we want to keep track of! (Going by the Iris 'White Extra', I see that we can add unregistered plants. That's good, because I have an unregistered Benz daylily that I want to add to my list. But those plants are both in commerce, whereas NOIDs and seedlings are not.)

Dave had mentioned in a past thread that he will eventually add that option.

That would be great!