Those kinds of notifications will eventually be there, but for now it silently happens.

Ok, I didn't know if we were supposed to notify the person or not. I saw the same tree in the Penstemon listing that RickCorey mentioned earlier but didn't want to overstep any bounds by notifying the photo owner. I had someone t-mail me about a plant I uploaded to the wrong entry and I really appreciate it but I wasn't sure if it was something we should be doing.

Ahh! I almost had to ask you to amend that to a "Database FAQ For Dummies", but I found it.

To request changes to photos, first go to the "Photo Gallery" for that plant, and then scroll to the bottom where "Actions" are.

» Move this image to another plant
» Propose this image be deleted

As with so many things, after you know the answer, it was totally obvious all along.

Thanks.

The database feels clean and airy, as if it has big windows and high ceilings.

I think you did a great job with the "difficult or impossible" pull-downs and radio buttons. The real world (especialy Biology) tends not to fit exactly and consistently into tidy categories, but a database needs tidy categories.

Looking forward eagerly to search features. Like little children, we always want more More MORE!

And you're catering to us by rolling all this out super-fast. How many coolie coders do you have slaving away for you 24/7, chained up in small cubicles? Dozens, or hundreds? ;-)

Hi Lin

Me, too. I wanted to find the low-key approach, and looked for a few minutes. But then I just did the Guy Thing and fired off comments and Tmails semi-randomly.

Karen didn't seem to take offense.

For me, the thing that needs to be in bold font before I will contribute "data" or "random opinions and suspect observations" is that any proposals will be moderated by someone with a clue. That makes me feel OK typing in things that I think I know.

"I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."

RickCorey said:For me, the thing that needs to be in bold font before I will contribute "data" or "random opinions and suspect observations" is that any proposals will be moderated by someone with a clue. That makes me feel OK typing in things that I think I know

LOL, Rick ... because I'm one of those who doesn't have a clue a lot of the time.

Heavens no, I wouldn't take offense; I appreciate being told so that I can request removal.

Some of the photos on this computer have been overwritten with different photos. I don't know how or when that happened, and it's not many, but there are definitely some. I'll try to find those pics of penstemon smallii again when I'm not so tired and see what I find there.

Karen

Karen, I don't take offense either ... I'm forever catching my own upload mistakes and I appreciate it when I miss them and someone else catches them for correction. LOL, it took me a minute to understand what you meant about photo's being overwritten with different photo's, I thought you meant it was happening here on ATP.
I'm older and blonde and it sometimes takes a while for my brain to process.

I'm old and gray, that's my excuse. And tired.

Karen

My gray has to be hidden on a regular basis.

Ladies, I once worked for an Air Force major who was balding. His boss was an Air Force colonel with gorgeous thick grey hair. He explained it to me one day. It seems that our hair follicles grow INSIDE our head as well as outside. But as you know, the roots can only go so far, because we have brains, and they'll get in the way. Well, according to my colonel, as those roots are growing deeper, if they dont' find anything to grab hold of, they fall out. But if they find something they can root in, they'll hang tight and change color to grey.

So those of you with grey hair should be rejoicing, according to my grey-haired colonel



(who had the utmost respect for my highly intelligent major, but couldn't resist teasing him)

dave said:

I know that eventually (sooner rather than later) we're going to need an organized and easy to follow FAQ for the database.

Dave, in my spare time at work I dabble as a tech writer/curriculum developer. If you want some assistance with that, just holler. I can be very logical/methodical when I need to be. That way, all you'd have to do is convert it to whatever is running this place (xml/php/whatever?)

Fred said:

Well the question is asked about uses of a particular plant. You don't use an orchid as a landscape plant but in tropical or subtropical areas you would have choices for various other plants that others in cooler climate don't have. Their bromeliads have to be kept in pots and in greenhouses. Here in SW FL i use them in my landscape design. So the choice for plants of a tropical nature can be one or the other or both.

This shows plants in use in a landscape scenario:

• Flaming Torch (Billbergia pyramidalis)
• Uploaded by Fred

up north these plants could also be in somebody's living room or a greenhouse. The dilemma then is use depends on location. There is no place I can check a small bromeliad except as a houseplant among the following list:Windbreak or Hedge
Provides winter interest
Erosion control
Guardian plant
Groundcover
Shade Tree
Street Tree
Flowering Tree
Water gardens
Culinary Herb
Medicinal Herb
Vegetable
Cut Flower
Dried Flower
Attracts Bees
Attracts Birds
Attracts Butterflies
Attracts Hummingbirds
Will Naturalize
Suitable for xeriscaping
Suitable as Annual
Suitable as a houseplant
Suitable for terrariums

Wish # 1... Tropicals that over winter indoors as house plants vs Tropicals that can be over wintered in the basement and go dormant for northern gardeners.

Wish # 2.... a way to run a report against the data base on the above categories that can be used as printable lists.

I have some pics to add to the data base but I am not sure exactly how to do that. I am sure the instructions are here somewhere but I thought you could point me in the right direction.

Simply go to the database, then type in the name of the plant you want to add it to. Then when the correct name appears it gives you the option to 'upload a picture'
There, you're done!

Thanks

Holly I can't wait to see your new photos.

I thought I would post a pic of my rather impressive trumpet vine and maybe a few others.

Wahoo, can't wait to see them Holly.

Lynn, I'm sure you must have seen it in one of my posts sometime.
http://garden.org/plants/mod/i...