Dave's Garden Newsletter for October 22, 2011

Gardening Quote of the Day

( -- Mark Twain ('Black Thursday' was 72 years ago today))

Forum Activity

Forum Posts Games 63 posts Plant Identification 56 posts Northeast Gardening 54 posts Cacti and Succulents 52 posts Group Trades, Swaps and Round Robins 44 posts Recipes 40 posts Tropical Plants 38 posts Pets 37 posts PlantFiles Pictures 33 posts Texas Gardening 31 posts Mid-Atlantic Gardening 23 posts Southwest Gardening 22 posts Daylilies 21 posts Bird Watching 18 posts Grass and Bamboo 16 posts Seed Trading 15 posts Peonies 14 posts Bird Identification 13 posts Canadian Gardening 12 posts Sewing and Quilting 10 posts Market Growers 10 posts Irises 9 posts Trash to Treasure 8 posts Clean and Clutter-free 8 posts Equine Forum 7 posts Tomatoes 7 posts Ohio River Valley Gardening 7 posts Accessible Gardening 7 posts Pottery, Clay and Ceramics 7 posts Homesteading 7 posts Vegetable Gardening 7 posts Central Midwest Gardening 7 posts Plant Trading 6 posts Farm Life 6 posts Florida Gardening 5 posts Container Gardening 5 posts Photos 5 posts Garden Pests and Diseases 5 posts Water Gardens 5 posts Australian Gardening 5 posts Insect and Spider Identification 5 posts Weather 5 posts Propagation 4 posts Aroids 4 posts Beginner Gardening Questions 4 posts Computer Talk 4 posts Begonias 4 posts Hibiscus 4 posts Coleus 4 posts Bloom of the Day Photos 4 posts Voting Booth 3 posts Pacific Northwest Gardening 3 posts Poultry and Livestock 3 posts Perennials 2 posts Trees, Shrubs and Conifers 2 posts Morning Glories 2 posts Happy Birthday 2 posts Beginner Vegetables 2 posts Wildlife 2 posts African Violets and Gesneriads 2 posts Caudiciforms 1 post Cool Climate Gardening 1 post Soil and Composting 1 post Agastaches and Salvias 1 post Shady Gardens 1 post Plumerias 1 post Genealogy 1 post Appliances 1 post Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening 1 post Beginner Houseplants 1 post Cooking 1 post Master Gardeners 1 post Passifloras 1 post Books, Movies, and TV 1 post Dahlias 1 post Sustainable Alternatives 1 post Japanese Maples 1 post Upper Midwest Gardening 1 post

New Botanary Words

PlantFiles Activity:

PlantFiles Additions:

Member Addition Description SueDuffy Comment Butterfly Milkweed, Butterfly Weed, Pleurisy Root Asclepias tuberosa JeffAW Comment Primocane-Fruiting Blackberry 'Prime-Jim' Rubus JeffAW Comment Blackberry 'Triple Crown' Rubus JeffAW Comment Tayberry Rubus x puregrace Comment Violet Wood Sorrel Oxalis violacea crittal Comment Purple Beautyberry, Japanese Beautyberry 'Issai' Callicarpa dichotoma Pegwesttx Comment Tall Bearded Iris 'Orange Popsicle' Iris weedsfree Comment Hardy Amaryllis, St. Joseph's Lily Hippeastrum x johnsonii BayAreaTropics Comment Tillandsia Tillandsia cyanea mlfreitas Comment Yerba Buena Clinopodium douglasii robos Image (Sorbus pekarovae) robos Image (Sorbus pekarovae) robos Image (Sorbus pekarovae) Kell Image Cow's Horn Agave, Lechuguilla Verde 'Reggae Time' (Agave bovicornuta) Joy Image Hosta 'Twist of Lime' (Hosta ) Kell Image Bottlebrush 'Cane's Hybrid' (Callistemon ) Kell Image Bottlebrush 'Cane's Hybrid' (Callistemon ) Kell Image Bottlebrush 'Cane's Hybrid' (Callistemon ) palmbob Image Aloe (Aloe veseyi) Kell Image Bottlebrush 'Cane's Hybrid' (Callistemon ) Kell Image Bottlebrush 'Cane's Hybrid' (Callistemon ) Kell Image Bottlebrush 'Cane's Hybrid' (Callistemon ) Kell Image Bottlebrush 'Cane's Hybrid' (Callistemon ) Kell Image Bottlebrush 'Cane's Hybrid' (Callistemon )

Garden Watchdog Activity:

Member Addition Description Daysdream Positive Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. plexippus Positive CoronaCactus Nursery, LLC Bad_Service Negative Spring Hill Nursery (aka SpringHillNursery.com) tikipod Positive Mesa Garden Holyhatty Neutral Meyer Hatchery Holyhatty Positive Purely Poultry

Garden Bookworm Activity:

Final Notes

Have a good day, and happy gardening!

Dave

And that's the way it was... October 22, 2011