A quick request for you guys- I didn't notice this before, but in going through and doing some more entry tagging I discovered that many posts tagged with "plant id", once the photo in question was identified, the image was removed from the post ( Read more... )

Are we ready for the spotlight? I hope so! Your friendly gardening staff are busy making some last-minute tweaks, so if anything seems amiss please let us know. There is now one quick and easy way to reach all of us at once, and that is our new GMail account! You are still welcome to use our individual contact information as listed on the community profile ( Read more... )

I would like everyone to welcome edensgrief and nutmegdealer as our two new staff members for the community. They will be on-hand from now, through the spotlight period (set to begin on the 23rd), and for some time after as I am increasingly unable to devote the time and energy to this community that I would like due to my current health issues ( Read more... )

Well guess what everyone, with us being the growing community that we are (in more than one sense), LiveJournal would like to feature us as a Spotlight on the main site later this month. How exciting eh ( Read more... )

I understand that some people have wondered if I have been reading the community/maintaining it. I do read (I have the community both on my lj friends list and a separate feed reader), however I do not always get to everything within 12 hours ( Read more... )

For some reason, a number of tags have not been showing up as existing to some of you lovely users, so I went ahead and tagged the tag info entry with all currently available tags the community has to-date. I will add tags to that entry as they are created. This should help you guys out when it comes to tagging entries. It seems that LJ assigns ( Read more... )

Hello lovely members of the LJ Gardening community ( Read more... )

Now that many of us are heading into the growing season, we're going to start seeing a strong increase in traffic and posting. I'd like to remind everyone that rather than using memories here, we're using the tag system. It makes it much easier to maintain the community, and puts a good bit of that control into your hands. Tagging is easy and quick ( Read more... )

I just wanted to remind everyone that we have a lovely set of tags here in gardening, and to encourage everyone to take advantage of them. From my post when we first implemented tags:

Tags are one of the easiest ways for users to find what questions have already been answered. Only mods can create tags for this community, but all users can apply them. ( Read more... )

Hello members of the gardening community ( Read more... )