Hi all, > Dave's Garden seems quite dead to me, payed forum-wise, even though the free plant data is often quite good. The search function is abysmal, I've made a habit of adding "dave" to a plant name in google if i want to find something there... Another group I enjoy is Inaturalist.org - of course it's not plants only, but you can learn a lot about places where certain plants thrive, and it helps honing your identification skills. You can subscribe to taxa or whole families if you want to see what people are observing. "research grade" IDs have to be taken with a grain of salt, though, because two enthusiastic beginners believing in the (again usually rather good) automatic image analysis mis-interpreting a hemerocallys-hybrid or a red and yellow tulip as sparaxis tricolor do not make anything "research grade" - another reason for some of our local experts to join there;- -- Martin ---------------------------------------------- Southern Germany Likely zone 7a _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…