Dave's Garden Newsletter for February 17, 2014

Covering the events of February 17, 2014

... in which ...
525 posts were made.
191 plants were added to PlantFiles.
106 comments were added to PlantFiles.
2,049 checkboxes were added to PlantFiles.
31 snapshots were added to PlantFiles.
0 entries were added to Botanary.
0 companies were added to the Garden Watchdog.
13 ratings were added to the Garden Watchdog.
0 books were added to the Garden Bookworm.
0 ratings were added to the Garden Bookworm.

"For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God..."

Gardening Quote of the Day

"There's only one way to fail, and that's to quit."

( -- Brian Hays)

Forum Activity

A grand total of 525 posts were made yesterday.

Forum Posts Plant Identification 56 posts Mid-Atlantic Gardening 46 posts Games 38 posts PlantFiles Pictures 37 posts Vegetable Gardening 24 posts Texas Gardening 22 posts Pets 20 posts Group Trades, Swaps and Round Robins 20 posts Beginner Vegetables 16 posts Weather 12 posts Daylilies 11 posts Tomatoes 11 posts Dahlias 10 posts Mid-South Gardening 10 posts Brugmansias 9 posts Northeast Gardening 8 posts Beginner Gardening Questions 8 posts Shady Gardens 8 posts Central Midwest Gardening 8 posts Australian and New Zealand Gardening 8 posts Antiques and Collectibles 7 posts Sewing and Quilting 7 posts Voting Booth 7 posts Trash to Treasure 7 posts Seed Trading 7 posts Cacti and Succulents 7 posts Florida Gardening 6 posts Southwest Gardening 6 posts Poultry and Livestock 6 posts Canadian Gardening 6 posts Beginner Houseplants 6 posts Wildlife 6 posts Insect and Spider Identification 5 posts Photos 5 posts African Violets and Gesneriads 4 posts Irises 4 posts Propagation 4 posts Seed Germination 4 posts Ohio River Valley Gardening 4 posts Native Plants and Wild Plants 3 posts Carolina Gardening 3 posts PlantFiles How-to's 2 posts California Gardening 2 posts Bulbs 2 posts Indoor Gardening and Houseplants 2 posts BugFiles Pictures 2 posts Beauty and Fashion Tips 2 posts Happy Birthday 2 posts Bloom of the Day Photos 2 posts Cooking 2 posts Herbs 2 posts Lilies 1 post Bird Watching 1 post Equine Forum 1 post Roses 1 post Orchids 1 post Morning Glories 1 post Garden Pests and Diseases 1 post Amaryllis and Hippeastrums 1 post Soil and Composting 1 post

New Botanary Words

PlantFiles Activity:

191 new plants.
106 new descriptions were added.
31 new images were added.
2049 new content were checked off.

PlantFiles Additions:

Member Addition Description coriaceous Comment Floribunda Rose 'Hot Cocoa' Rosa jazzy1okc Comment Rose Verbena, Purple Verbena, Homestead Verbena 'Homestead Purple' Glandularia canadensis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Bernice Watt' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Big Bear Hugs' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Fire in the Sky' Hemerocallis coriaceous Comment Shrub Rose 'Rainbow Knockout' Rosa DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Italian Sunglasses' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Misha’s Purple Elephant' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Unconditional Hugs' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Cancer Survivor' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Can't Live Without You' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Computer Virus' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Forgive Me Darling' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Nice Hair Day' Hemerocallis Campocalle Comment Short Leaved Aloe Aloe brevifolia Campocalle Comment Torch Aloe, Tree Aloe, Mountain Bush Aloe, Krantz Aloe, Candelabra Aloe Aloe arborescens hipgranny63 Comment Rose Verbena, Purple Verbena, Homestead Verbena 'Homestead Purple' Glandularia canadensis coriaceous Comment Shrub Rose 'Blushing Knockout' Rosa hipgranny63 Comment Lithodora 'Grace Ward' Lithodora diffusa DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Ballkleid' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Blaues Wunder' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Bricklebrit' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Fru Ilsebil' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Schneewittchen' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Schoene Maid' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Spreewaldmadel' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Timpetee' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Trapier' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Treuer Husar' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Walter Majaura' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Granny's Smokehouse' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Leprechaun's Curls' Hemerocallis Rickwebb Comment Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Unconditional Acceptance' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Angels with Dirty Faces' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Avalonia Twisted Sister' Hemerocallis JeffSers Comment Aloe 'Variegata' Aloe nobilis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Avalonia Quasar' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Farrah Fawcett' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Masked Mouse' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Retrosexual' Hemerocallis JeffSers Comment Aeonium 'Starburst' Aeonium DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Apricot Potpourri' Hemerocallis Rickwebb Comment Northern Catalpa, Western Catalpa, Western Catawba, Indian Cigar Tree, Fish-Bait Tree Catalpa speciosa DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Ask of Me' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Golden Galaxy' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Like a Child' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Picking Berries' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Reaching for the Butter' Hemerocallis Rickwebb Comment Japanese Knotweed, False Bamboo, Mexican Bamboo Fallopia japonica JeffSers Comment Ric Rac Orchid Cactus, Fishbone Cactus, St. Anthony's Rick-Rack Selenicereus anthonyanus DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Canadian Serenade' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Hayfield Lemon Lime' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Hayfield Rendezvous' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Hayfield Ribbons and Bows' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Hayfield Ruffles' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Hayfield Sensation' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Northumberland Hills' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Orange You Happy' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Pisces' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Silent Moment' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Summer Rhapsody' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Aquarian Blues' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Cosmic Drifter' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Double Red Nova' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Dragon Spawn' Hemerocallis Sherry_Norman Comment Angel Trumpet, Angel's Trumpet Brugmansia versicolor DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Edge of Infinity' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Idealized Version of a Speed Skater' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Lavender Shift' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Neptune in Pisces' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Neurotic Erotica' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Psychotic Erotica' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Star Shimmer' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Ballerina's Palace' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'California Thrill Seeker' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Diamond's Edge' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Kenneth Allen Brizzi' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Pretty Betty Mauk' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Que Syrah, Syrah' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Sierra Sunburst' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Spectral Tarsier' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Sweet Mimosa' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Thin Whispers' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Thunder Valley' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Black Sea Argonaut' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Black Sea Pearl' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Black Sea Pirate' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Black Sea Star' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Caramel Fantasy' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Kniaz Volodimir' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Neptune’s Black Sea' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Solar Wind' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Stormy Black Sea' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Be Still and Know' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Believer' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Love of Daddy Oh' Hemerocallis Domehomedee Comment Dwarf Gaillardia, Blanket Flower, Indian Blanket 'Golden Goblin' Gaillardia x grandiflora DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Zebe' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Bee Whisperer' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Jedi Mind Trick' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Columbus My Love' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Discover the Ohio Buckeye' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Helen Hopkins Hofe' Hemerocallis DaylilySLP Comment Daylily 'Mardell C. Page' Hemerocallis jv123 Comment Orange Bugle Lily Watsonia gladioloides RosinaBloom Image Long-Cupped Narcissus, Large-cupped Daffodil 'Border Beauty' (Narcissus ) RosinaBloom Image Long-Cupped Narcissus, Large-cupped Daffodil 'Border Beauty' (Narcissus ) RosinaBloom Image Long-Cupped Narcissus, Large-cupped Daffodil 'Border Beauty' (Narcissus ) RosinaBloom Image Double Narcissus, Double Daffodil 'Replete' (Narcissus ) RosinaBloom Image Double Narcissus, Double Daffodil 'Replete' (Narcissus ) RosinaBloom Image Double Narcissus, Double Daffodil 'Replete' (Narcissus ) RosinaBloom Image Double Narcissus, Double Daffodil 'Double Beauty' (Narcissus ) RosinaBloom Image Double Narcissus, Double Daffodil 'Double Beauty' (Narcissus ) RosinaBloom Image Double Narcissus, Double Daffodil 'Double Beauty' (Narcissus ) Terri1948 Image Orchid Iris, Reticulate Iris 'George' (Iris ) Terri1948 Image Orchid Iris, Reticulate Iris 'George' (Iris ) Terri1948 Image Reticulated Iris 'Harmony' (Iris reticulata) Terri1948 Image Reticulated Iris 'Pixie' (Iris reticulata) Terri1948 Image Orchid Iris, Reticulate Iris 'Sheila Ann Germaney' (Iris histrioides) chrissy100 Image Devil's Trumpet, Horn of Plenty, Downy Thorn Apple 'Double Purple' (Datura metel) chrissy100 Image Devil's Trumpet, Horn of Plenty, Downy Thorn Apple 'Double Purple' (Datura metel) hipgranny63 Image Meyer Lemon Tree, Meyer's Lemon Tree, Valley Lemon 'Meyer' (Citrus x meyeri) Rickwebb Image Siberian Elm (Ulmus pumila) Rickwebb Image Northern Catalpa, Western Catalpa, Western Catawba, Indian Cigar Tree, Fish-Bait Tree (Catalpa speciosa) Rickwebb Image Northern Catalpa, Western Catalpa, Western Catawba, Indian Cigar Tree, Fish-Bait Tree (Catalpa speciosa) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) palmbob Image Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia)

Garden Watchdog Activity:

No new companies were added to the database.
13 new ratings/comments were added to the database.

Member Addition Description hardyinokc Positive Mesa Garden nativeplantnut Negative Chen Yi Nursery (Kaichen Nursery) novauser Positive Empress Tree Nurseries (aka Fast Growing Trees, Paulownia Supply & fastgrowingtree.com) RichardV Positive Bass Pecan Company wetdogfarm Positive Odyssey Bulbs evincent Positive Sand Mountain Herbs Lovenatives Positive Sand Hill Preservation Center caltgarden Negative White Flower Farm DonnaMack Positive Swallowtail Garden Seeds Nannersone Negative Gurney's Seed & Nursery MsSassyplants Positive Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. sunnysunflowers Negative HostasDirect Inc. PenelopePutters Positive Summer Hill Seeds

Garden Bookworm Activity:

No new books were added to the database.
No new ratings/comments were added to the database.

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Have a good day, and happy gardening!

Dave

 

And that's the way it was... February 17, 2014