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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) May 15, 2007

In the daily newsletter, why do some of the newly added plants have links and some don't? I've been trying to figure it out, but I'm not having any luck.

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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) May 15, 2007

Hmmmm, I don't know - they should all have links.

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) May 15, 2007

I think I figured it out finally. It looks like the link it the common name field, and if there's nothing in the common name field, there's no link.

Can this be fixed? Or should we be trying to put something in the common name field of the ones that are empty?

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mystic Ewing, KY(Zone 6a) May 16, 2007

Joan we encourage everybody to add a common name. Some folks just refuse to do so. We have a report that shows ones with no common name and have been working on it for a while. We are getting it chipped down.

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) May 16, 2007

Great! Thanks.

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) May 16, 2007

I always do some research to see if I can find some common names when I enter something new in PF, but there have been a couple plants where I couldn't find any common names, so for those I just put the genus name into the common name field--is doing that OK or should I be leaving it blank instead?

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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) May 16, 2007

ecrane, that's the standard practice if there's no known common name - you're doing it exactly right ;o)

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) May 16, 2007

That's what I thought, just figured I'd doublecheck though before I did any more that way!

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zeoplum Mobile, AL(Zone 8b) May 16, 2007

Where is this newsletter? I've seen other mention it before. Is there just one? I've looked around and can't seem to find it.

Thanks,
Stephanie

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) May 16, 2007

There's two, a Dave's Garden Newsletter and a PlantFiles newsletter. Click on home, then click on the extras tab, then click on DG News. They are listed in there.

Hmmm....I just noticed there's a third newsletter. BugFiles Newsletter. I wonder when that started?

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