@Dave someone suggested this might be a good place to put this request/question. I would like to export the entire sempervivum list to excel to compare with our IrisBG inventory for the Alaska Botanical Garden; to see what we have that you have and to look for new plants that might make it up here. I am part of the rock garden team(volunteer) and sort of a floating volunteer at the garden in general. I spent the last year working on our new inventory software 1) taking lists to the garden to verify live plants, 2) marking ones that were dead, 3) printing and attaching labels to tags to set out in the garden that have our name and accession number on them, 4) taking pictures and GPS coordinates, etc. A great project. Still much to be done but I have now joined the rock garden and wild flower societies here as well as formally on the twice a month rock garden team. I am retired but you would think I could just spend every day out there and I would if my DH wouldn't rebel as our home and yard goes to rack and ruin.
I was walking through the gardens the other day and saw all the tags and signs I put out and felt pretty good. Oh, we also have made Microsoft Publisher pages with two pictures of a plant, its botanical information, then info on color, ht, nativity, bloom time etc. Mike, the curator, adds the QR code and then prints a larger sign (3x4) for plants so people with smart phones can get info on what a plant looks like in bloom or whatever. Once the sign is out there we can change the information on the publisher page at will and not have to change the sign. Super neat. I have done about 180 of the 200 signs we wanted for spring. We are trying to find software that we can afford to do a mapping of the garden using the gps coordinates and put it on our web site so people can easily find plants of interest to them. We are a very little garden with big dreams.
