Dave's Garden Newsletter for March 21, 2016

Covering the events of March 21, 2016

... in which ...
260 posts were made.
4 plants were added to PlantFiles.
51 comments were added to PlantFiles.
111 checkboxes were added to PlantFiles.
87 snapshots were added to PlantFiles.
0 entries were added to Botanary.
0 companies were added to the Garden Watchdog.
12 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

"God gave us memories that we may have roses in December."

( -- Sir JM Barrie, Scottish novelist)

Forum Activity

A grand total of 260 posts were made yesterday.

Forum	Posts
PlantFiles Pictures	87 posts
Plant Identification	46 posts
Propagation	12 posts
Beginner Gardening	10 posts
Vegetable Gardening	9 posts
Insect and Spider Identification	8 posts
Texas Gardening	7 posts
Weather	7 posts
Hybridizers	7 posts
Tomatoes & Peppers	7 posts
Northeast Gardening	7 posts
Perennials	6 posts
Site Help	6 posts
Happy Birthday	5 posts
Books, Movies, and TV	4 posts
Welcome Mat	4 posts
Ask-a-Dave's-Gardener	4 posts
Florida Gardening	3 posts
Morning Glories	3 posts
Tropical Zone Gardening	3 posts
Recipes	2 posts
Garden Pests and Diseases	2 posts
Trash to Treasure	2 posts
Southwest Gardening	2 posts
Group Buys	1 post
Georgia Gardening	1 post
Mid-Atlantic Gardening	1 post
Bloom of the Day Photos	1 post
Cooking & Preserving Foods	1 post
Garden Design	1 post
Trees, Shrubs and Conifers	1 post

New Botanary Words

PlantFiles Activity:

4 new plants.
51 new descriptions were added.
87 new images were added.
111 new content were checked off.

PlantFiles Additions:

Member	Addition	Description
IcePalm	Comment	Tall Lodgepole Pine 'Chief Joseph' Pinus contorta var. latifolia
coriaceous	Comment	Wandering Jew, Inch Plant Tradescantia fluminensis
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Beacon Silver' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle, Spotted Deadnettle, Creeping Lamium, Spotted Henbit Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Pink Pewter' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'White Nancy' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Anne Greenaway' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Orchid Frost' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Chequers' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Red Nancy' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Aureum' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Shell Pink' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Purple Dragon' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Golden Anniversary' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Beedham's White' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Elisabeth de Haas' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Lemon Frost' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Ghost' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Gold Nuggets' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Cannon's Gold' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Spotted Dead Nettle 'Friday' Lamium maculatum
coriaceous	Comment	Glossy Privet Ligustrum lucidum
sjr52557	Comment	Beaked Yucca, Big Bend Yucca Yucca rostrata
coriaceous	Comment	Chinese Privet Ligustrum sinense
coriaceous	Comment	Cuban Laurel, Indian Laurel Fig, Green Island Fig, Chinese Banyan Ficus microcarpa
coriaceous	Comment	Cuban Laurel, Indian Laurel Fig, Green Island Fig, Chinese Banyan 'Milky Stripe' Ficus microcarpa
coriaceous	Comment	Dwarf Ficus, Chinese Banyan 'Green Island' Ficus microcarpa
coriaceous	Comment	Cuban Laurel, Indian Laurel Fig, Green Island Fig, Chinese Banyan 'Hawaii' Ficus microcarpa
coriaceous	Comment	Tigerbark Ficus, Tiger Bark Ficus, Chinese Banyan 'Tiger Bark' Ficus microcarpa
coriaceous	Comment	Golden Gate Ficus 'Golden Gate' Ficus microcarpa
coriaceous	Comment	Cuban Laurel, Indian Laurel Fig, Green Island Fig, Chinese Banyan 'Variegata' Ficus microcarpa
coriaceous	Comment	Ficus, Chinese Banyan 'Green Mound' Ficus microcarpa
coriaceous	Comment	Cuban Laurel, Indian Laurel Fig, Green Island Fig, Chinese Banyan 'Kaneshiro' Ficus microcarpa
coriaceous	Comment	Tender Climbing Fern Lygodium flexuosum
coriaceous	Comment	Downy Rosemyrtle Rhodomyrtus tomentosa
FlyPoison	Comment	Japanese Privet, Waxleaf Privet Ligustrum japonicum
FlyPoison	Comment	Glossy Privet Ligustrum lucidum
coriaceous	Comment	Southern Sword Fern, Narrow Swordfern, Erect Sword Fern, Ladder Fern, Tuber Fern Nephrolepis cordifolia
topchlf	Comment	Appleblossom Grass, Lindheimer's Beeblossom 'Pink Cloud' Gaura lindheimeri
Cheri13	Comment	Black Coral Pea Kennedia nigricans
coriaceous	Comment	Brazilian Rose Wood, Green Ebony Jacaranda mimosifolia
coriaceous	Comment	Mexican Fan Palm, Skyduster Washingtonia robusta
matutine	Comment	Hedge Bindweed, Wild Morning Glory Calystegia sepium
circumspect	Comment	Species Rose Rosa banksiae var. normalis
Ronedog	Comment	Hairy Canary Clover Lotus hirsutus
BayAreaTropics	Comment	Japanese Privet, Waxleaf Privet Ligustrum japonicum
Kylomom	Comment	Hybrid Tea Rose 'Queen of Hearts' Rosa
coriaceous	Comment	Queen Palm, Cocos Plumosa, Jeriva Syagrus romanzoffiana
coriaceous	Comment	Caribbean Trumpet Tree, Yellow Tabebuia, Paraguayan Trumpet Tree, Silver Trumpet Tree, Tree of Gold Tabebuia aurea
coriaceous	Comment	Norfolk Island Pine, Star Pine Araucaria heterophylla
malsprower	Comment	Walter's Ground-cherry Physalis walteri
cocoajuno	Image	Tall Bearded Iris 'Sunrise at Dawn' (Iris )
Kylomom	Image	Hybrid Tea Rose 'Queen of Hearts' (Rosa )
palmbob	Image	Sierra Marsh Fern (Thelypteris nevadensis)
palmbob	Image	(Thelypteris puberula)
palmbob	Image	Hiba Arborvitae, Japanese Hiba Cypress (Thujopsis dolabrata)
palmbob	Image	Hiba Arborvitae, Japanese Hiba Cypress (Thujopsis dolabrata)
palmbob	Image	Hiba Arborvitae, Japanese Hiba Cypress (Thujopsis dolabrata)
palmbob	Image	Austral King Fern (Todea barbara)
palmbob	Image	Austral King Fern (Todea barbara)
palmbob	Image	Khasia Hills Fan Palm (Trachycarpus martianus)
palmbob	Image	Khasia Hills Fan Palm (Trachycarpus martianus)
palmbob	Image	Khasia Hills Fan Palm (Trachycarpus martianus)
palmbob	Image	Wheel Tree (Trochodendron aralioides)
palmbob	Image	Wheel Tree (Trochodendron aralioides)
palmbob	Image	Wheel Tree (Trochodendron aralioides)
palmbob	Image	Wheel Tree (Trochodendron aralioides)
palmbob	Image	Wheel Tree (Trochodendron aralioides)
palmbob	Image	Wheel Tree (Trochodendron aralioides)
palmbob	Image	Mountain Hemlock, Black Hemlock, Hemlock Spruce (Tsuga mertensiana)
palmbob	Image	Mountain Hemlock, Black Hemlock, Hemlock Spruce (Tsuga mertensiana)
palmbob	Image	Vernonia (Vernonia capensis)
palmbob	Image	Crimson Flowered Broad Bean, Broad Bean, Windsor Bean, English Bean (Vicia faba)
palmbob	Image	Crimson Flowered Broad Bean, Broad Bean, Windsor Bean, English Bean (Vicia faba)
palmbob	Image	Shoestring Fern, Grass Fern, Beard Fern (Vittaria lineata)
palmbob	Image	Shoestring Fern, Grass Fern, Beard Fern (Vittaria lineata)
palmbob	Image	Distichous Fishtail Palm, Wallich Palm (Wallichia disticha)
palmbob	Image	Cape Bugle Lily (Watsonia borbonica)
palmbob	Image	Chain Fern (Woodwardia semicordata)
palmbob	Image	Chain Fern (Woodwardia semicordata)
palmbob	Image	Chain Fern (Woodwardia semicordata)
palmbob	Image	Chain Fern (Woodwardia semicordata)
palmbob	Image	Chain Fern (Woodwardia semicordata)
palmbob	Image	Swamp Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea fulva)
palmbob	Image	Swamp Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea fulva)
palmbob	Image	Grasstree (Xanthorrhoea glauca)
palmbob	Image	Grasstree (Xanthorrhoea glauca)
palmbob	Image	Australian Grass Tree, Square Leaved Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata)
palmbob	Image	Australian Grass Tree, Square Leaved Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata)
palmbob	Image	Australian Grass Tree, Square Leaved Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata)
palmbob	Image	Poor Knight's Lily (Xeronema callistemon)
palmbob	Image	Poor Knight's Lily (Xeronema callistemon)
palmbob	Image	Poor Knight's Lily (Xeronema callistemon)
palmbob	Image	Eve's Needle, Faxon Dagger, Giant Spanish Dagger, Spanish Bayonet, Carneros Yucca, Palma Samandoca (Yucca faxoniana)
palmbob	Image	Eve's Needle, Faxon Dagger, Giant Spanish Dagger, Spanish Bayonet, Carneros Yucca, Palma Samandoca (Yucca faxoniana)
palmbob	Image	Eve's Needle, Faxon Dagger, Giant Spanish Dagger, Spanish Bayonet, Carneros Yucca, Palma Samandoca (Yucca faxoniana)
palmbob	Image	Eve's Needle, Faxon Dagger, Giant Spanish Dagger, Spanish Bayonet, Carneros Yucca, Palma Samandoca (Yucca faxoniana)
palmbob	Image	Tree Yucca, St. Peter's Palm, Palma China, Izote (Yucca filifera)
palmbob	Image	Tree Yucca, St. Peter's Palm, Palma China, Izote (Yucca filifera)
palmbob	Image	Beaked Yucca, Big Bend Yucca (Yucca rostrata)
palmbob	Image	Beaked Yucca, Big Bend Yucca (Yucca rostrata)
palmbob	Image	Twistleaf Yucca, Twist-leaf Yucca, Twisted-leaf Yucca, Rock Yucca, Texas Yucca (Yucca rupicola)
palmbob	Image	Mountain Yucca, Schott's Yucca, Hoary Yucca (Yucca schottii)
palmbob	Image	Mountain Yucca, Schott's Yucca, Hoary Yucca (Yucca schottii)
palmbob	Image	Thompson's Yucca, Beaked Yucca, Trans Pecos Yucca (Yucca thompsoniana)
palmbob	Image	Santa Lucia Fir, Bristlecone Fir (Abies bracteata)
palmbob	Image	Santa Lucia Fir, Bristlecone Fir (Abies bracteata)
palmbob	Image	Delavay's Fir, Delavay Fir (Abies delavayi)
palmbob	Image	Formosan Fir, Taiwan Fir, Kawakami Fir (Abies kawakamii)
palmbob	Image	Formosan Fir, Taiwan Fir, Kawakami Fir (Abies kawakamii)
palmbob	Image	Formosan Fir, Taiwan Fir, Kawakami Fir (Abies kawakamii)
palmbob	Image	European Silver Fir, Swiss Pine (Abies alba)
palmbob	Image	European Silver Fir, Swiss Pine (Abies alba)
palmbob	Image	European Silver Fir, Swiss Pine (Abies alba)
palmbob	Image	Oven's Wattle, Alpine Wattle, Winged Acacia (Acacia pravissima)
palmbob	Image	Oven's Wattle, Alpine Wattle, Winged Acacia (Acacia pravissima)
palmbob	Image	Cloud Forest Sugar Maple, Mexican Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum subsp. skutchii)
palmbob	Image	Cloud Forest Sugar Maple, Mexican Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum subsp. skutchii)
palmbob	Image	Whitey Wood, Wirewood (Acradenia frankliniae)
palmbob	Image	Whitey Wood, Wirewood (Acradenia frankliniae)
palmbob	Image	Woollybush (Adenanthos sericeus)
palmbob	Image	Woollybush (Adenanthos sericeus)
palmbob	Image	Aeonium, Giant Velvet Rose (Aeonium canariense)
palmbob	Image	Horse Chestnut, Conker Tree (Aesculus hippocastanum)
palmbob	Image	Horse Chestnut, Conker Tree (Aesculus hippocastanum)
palmbob	Image	Horse Chestnut, Conker Tree (Aesculus hippocastanum)
palmbob	Image	(Allocasuarina striata)
palmbob	Image	(Allocasuarina striata)
palmbob	Image	Spiral Aloe (Aloe polyphylla)
palmbob	Image	Joseph's Coat, Parrot Leaf, Calico Plant (Alternanthera ficoidea)
palmbob	Image	Anchomanes (Anchomanes difformis)
palmbob	Image	Anchomanes (Anchomanes difformis)
palmbob	Image	Anchomanes (Anchomanes difformis)
palmbob	Image	Red Kangaroo Paw 'Red Cross' (Anigozanthos )
palmbob	Image	Red Kangaroo Paw 'Red Cross' (Anigozanthos )
palmbob	Image	Muku Tree (Aphananthe aspera)
palmbob	Image	Muku Tree (Aphananthe aspera)
palmbob	Image	Muku Tree (Aphananthe aspera)

Garden Watchdog Activity:

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

Member	Addition	Description
nymegen	Positive	Metzer Farms Duck and Goose Hatchery
rdtjr05	Positive	Gardens at Post Hill LLC
Georgia57	Positive	The Growers Exchange (aka The Grower's Exchange)
citygardener4	Positive	Semillas La Palma
citygardener4	Positive	Native Seeds/SEARCH
OldBrianSS	Negative	Top Tropicals LLC
rosepetal2	Negative	Burgess Seed
rrenner001	Positive	A Nearly Native Nursery
wittyusername	Positive	GreenhouseMegaStore.com (IGC)
Rolf_Jacobs	Negative	Kigi Nursery
Fishman1	Negative	Van Well Nursery
RebeccaLynn	Positive	Holland Bulb Farms

Garden Bookworm Activity:

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

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Dave

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