Some kudos

In the past two days, I've come across two complimentary items I wanted to share with all of my fellow members.

Yesterday, this email came across my desk, referring to the daily newsletter:

Dave, I compliment you and whomever else works with you on publishing this quality site. I like the educational and philosophical tone. It comes across as classy, a refuge of sanity. Kind of like a garden, come to think of it. I don't always have time to go through it as much as I'd like, and almost wish it was a hard-copy periodical. But it's nice to get it each morning, see that some dozens of others of similar interests have discovered you folks, and watch the community grow. Keep up the good work!

And today, I spotted this, in the Denver Botanical Gardens Dec 2002 newsletter:

Looking for an online gardener community resource page? Try Dave's Garden!

Dave's Garden
http://davesgarden.com/welcome.php

Normally, I do not review dot com sites and I promise to stick to that rule in the future. However, on two separate occasions I ran across web tools that I felt were greater than others from an informational standpoint. The first, Plants Database, I reviewed previously. Recently, I found another database called Garden Watchdog. The two looked so similar that I decided to find their source. What I found was a wonderful and diverse set of tools.

Dave's Garden has done a wonderful job of giving both members and visitors a forum in which to talk gardening. Members of the site have sent most or all of the information that you find here. With this information, Dave's garden has created some very useful tools. Plants Database covers the culture of nearly 54,000 plants, as experienced by the members of the site. The Garden Watchdog lets users look up mail order gardening companies and see what other people think of their services and products. Botanary and Garden Terms are dictionaries of botany and gardening terms respectively. Trade Tools allow you to buy trade and sell your garden products such as seeds and plants to other members of the community. Lastly, the Gardener's Journal allows you to set up an online journal to mark your progress as a gardener. All of these tools are available for viewing by anyone. You must be a member to contribute.

Of course, with any community tool, some information is good and some is bad. Remember this whenever you are searching on the Internet. However, with the number of enthusiastic members of Dave's Garden, you are sure to find something of value to you as a gardener. This site is one of the best online community tools I have seen on the Web. It is easy to use, simple to sign up for and a great place to communicate with like like-minded people.
From http://www.botanicgardens.org/pageinpage/librarynews.cfm

These were definitely day-brighteners for me; I hope they are to you, too!

WOWSA!!!!! HOW EXCITING!!!

Very pleasant praise to hear, but not surprising considering all the great info available on this site. I am sure that you, Dave and Trish are ecstatic that others are as enamoured with DG as all of us are!
Congrats,
Candee

How absolutely wonderful. This site just keeps getting better.

I am proud and grateful to be a part of Dave's Garden.

BRAVO!! It's nice that others are learning what we already know...this is the best garden on the web!

I'm glad to see that the wonderful work Dave and you are doing on this fabulous site is getting a little deserved coverage. The foundation you build and tone you set creates the warmth between DG members and enables the easy exchange of gardening ideas.

I'm rather fickle in my internet habits. A business colleague called my surfing exploits, "Like a sixteen year old girl with two dates to the prom." Sorry if that sounds sexist, but it's actually what he said about me (a 50 year old guy).

As you can see from the time I spend here and posts, DG has saved me from my wanton past.

Thank you, both.

Adam.

YAY for DG :)

Adam, you are way much for an old guy! (My oldest son is right behind you.) Wanton, indeed! But I always heard it doesn't hurt to look, so shop on. Or surf on. Just don't forget your username, whatever it means.

It means Land~of~the~long~white~cloud, in Maori, the first language of New Zealand.

Adam.

Oh! I thought it was a manufactured name, but could never decode it. Well, nice to meet you, Cloudy!