Re: Trial Garden Information and consideration

In a message dated 9/1/05 12:05:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, cholte@wi.rr.com 
writes:

<< How do all of you who have had comments about a trial garden feel? >>

Are you proposing to just design a form, Char, or devise some sort of 
integrated system and implement it? I am not real clear where you are going.

In any case I feel that a good deal more thought needs to be given to the 
matter, and a good deal more group discussion needs to take place concerning 
goals, definitions, and unintended consequences. 

If people are indeed interested in some sort of web-based system then I'd 
frankly prefer the sort of loose but straightforward cultivar-based gardener 
oriented experience and opinion reporting system that is found at the site Dave's 
Garden. There people simply add names and pictures of cultivars to a database, 
rate them in a simple manner, and offer a few comments in their own words. 
I'm not a registered member there so I can't give you a hearty endorsement or 
discuss the finer points or the limitations of the system, but I have been 
conveyed to the site by Google several times when looking for information on some 
plant or other and I've found it useful. 

Here is the URL, with the understanding that I am endorsing nothing about 
this site etc. and your mileage may vary.  <<http://plantsdatabase.com/ >>

Put the Symposium list on a webpage and let people rank the things one to 
five stars, and add some comments, along with some information about their 
growing conditions. Let them write in some too, so long as they added some comments 
adn sign the comments, and see what develops. It is the attempt to remove 
candor and immediacy and geographical specificity from the process or reporting 
favorites that results in over-processed data of questionable interest to anyone.

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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