The PlantFiles Newsletter

Covering the events of June 16, 2016, on which 41 members joined.

Gardening Quote of the Day

"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."

(Doug Larson)

Activity Report:

11 new plants were added to the database.
13 new descriptions were added.
20 new images were added.
107 new options were checked off.

Comments

Member	Addition	Description
coriaceous	Neutral Comment	Virginian Meadowsweet (Spiraea virginiana)
coriaceous	Neutral Comment	Snow Wreath (Neviusia alabamensis)
wendymadre	Positive Comment	Old Garden Rose, Species 'Apothecary's Rose' (Rosa gallica officinalis)
vossner	Negative Comment	American Persimmon, Common Persimmon, Eastern Persimmon, Date Plum (Diospyros virginiana)
debles	Positive Comment	Tomato 'Basrawya' (Lycopersicon lycopersicum)
Rickwebb	Neutral Comment	Tabletop Scotch Elm ''Horizontalis'' (Ulmus glabra)
Rickwebb	Positive Comment	Withe-rod Viburnum, Appalachian Tea, Blue Haw, Shawneehaw, Possum Haw, Wild Raisin Viburnum 'Earth Shade' (Viburnum nudum)
Rickwebb	Neutral Comment	Japanese Hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)
Rickwebb	Neutral Comment	Japanese Hop Hornbeam (Ostrya japonica)
Chillybean	Positive Comment	Troublesome Sedge (Carex molesta)
Rickwebb	Neutral Comment	Western Hop-hornbeam, Knowlton's Hophornbeam, Wooly Hornbeam, Ironwood (Ostrya knowltonii)
jaylizz1	Positive Comment	Franklinia Tree (Franklinia alatamaha)
shule	Positive Comment	Tomato 'North Dakota Earliana' (Lycopersicon lycopersicum)

Images

Member	Addition	Description
33libra		Intersectional Peony, Itoh Peony 'Morning Lilac' (Paeonia )
33libra		Intersectional Peony, Itoh Peony 'Morning Lilac' (Paeonia )
33libra		Intersectional Peony, Itoh Peony 'Bartzella' (Paeonia )
Rickwebb		Tabletop Scotch Elm ''Horizontalis'' (Ulmus glabra)
Rickwebb		Tabletop Scotch Elm ''Horizontalis'' (Ulmus glabra)
Rickwebb		Tabletop Scotch Elm ''Horizontalis'' (Ulmus glabra)
Rickwebb		Withe-rod Viburnum, Appalachian Tea, Blue Haw, Shawneehaw, Possum Haw, Wild Raisin Viburnum 'Earth Shade' (Viburnum nudum)
Rickwebb		Withe-rod Viburnum, Appalachian Tea, Blue Haw, Shawneehaw, Possum Haw, Wild Raisin Viburnum 'Earth Shade' (Viburnum nudum)
Rickwebb		Black Maple (Acer saccharum subsp. nigrum)
Rickwebb		Black Maple (Acer saccharum subsp. nigrum)
Rickwebb		Japanese Hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)
Rickwebb		Japanese Hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)
Rickwebb		Japanese Hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)
Chillybean		Troublesome Sedge (Carex molesta)
BayAreaTropics		Orchid, Dendrobium Comet King (Dendrobium )
Chillybean		Southern Sedge (Carex austrina)
Chillybean		Eastern Woodland Sedge (Carex blanda)
Rickwebb		American Bittersweet (Celastrus scandens)
Rickwebb		American Bittersweet (Celastrus scandens)
Rickwebb		American Bittersweet (Celastrus scandens)

Plants Added Yesterday:

Plant

Ice Plant 'Lavender Ice'
Delosperma

Plains Verbena, Great Plains Verbena 'Valley Lavender'
Verbena bipinnatifida

Veronica 'Crystal River'
Veronica liwanensis x pectinata

Prairie Zinnia 'Gold on Blue'
Zinnia grandiflora

Pansy 'Blue Velvet'
Viola x wittrockiana

Desert Moss, Sandwort 'Wallowa Mountain'
Arenaria

Golden-aster 'Goldhill'
Heterotheca jonesii x villosa

Single-leaf Piñon Pine, Single-leaf Pinyon Pine 'Blue Jazz'
Pinus monophylla

Tabletop Scotch Elm ''Horizontalis''
Ulmus glabra

Curlicue Sage 'Sea Foam'
Artemisia versicolor

Tomato 'North Dakota Earliana'
Lycopersicon lycopersicum

Final Notes

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Have a good day, and happy gardening!

Dave

And that's the way it was... June 16, 2016