DG Site Updates: Support for a Garden Tour forum?, 1 by drdon

drdon wrote:
I don't think that any of the other forums would lose their unique nature if we added a Garden Tour forum, and it would possibly enhance some of the other forums in that we would be able to see certain plants that may be featured in another forum because of flowers, size, or another spectacular behavior in the context of the garden where it is planted, thus showing the featured plant in a greater setting so that the tourist can see how a gardener treated that plant because of it's size, vining nature or how the color of a particular flower fits in with the other plants in that part of a greater space.

This proposed forum may, in fact, give way for more commentary about that particular plant or plants. I think seeing how plants are treated in this way may indeed give us a greater appreciation of a particular specimen due to its position in the garden we might be touring.

Case in point, why did drdon plant Salvia gesneriiflora so close to a pathway? It's a huge plant. If I was just showing this plant in bloom showing it's fabulous blooms one might ask why this placement made sense to me. If I were to show a wider "Tour" pic of this section of the garden it would make more sense in that in our particular climate this plant requires some shade during the heat of the day and was therefore planted in the partial shade of a Live Oak tree and needed to be placed nearer to the path that would otherwise be considered good practice. I can see the tour forum helping people understand such things intuitively upon seeing them and thus gaining some insights on how they might do a similar thing in their gardens with a similar or dissimilar plant. This would be where the tour forum could come in very handy from a cultural and educational perspective.