Thanks for all the welcoming words. I will likely bounce from the Pacific Coast forum to the Northern Garden forum to see which might better suit me. I don't have any particular specialty plant I grow, and typically just use those forums for specific questions from the experts. My other interests are native plants and/or naturalistic gardening ('editing' wild areas in the terms of Ann Lovejoy) and I think the Wildflower forum would be best for that. I'll continue to poke around.