RE: this forum is 8.5 years old

Hi Sean,

I like your idea of doing an educational display for the SF garden show.
I'd be interested in being involved in this. I think we could use this
to highlight mediterranean design as well as medit plants. Perhaps we
can include a world map with pins indicating where our posters live (as
well as showing the world's medit climate regions)?

One of the more memorable threads for me has been the "Thug Island" one
where we imagined all the garden thugs slugging it out for five years
without any human interference, to see what would be left (over)growing
at the end.

Cheryl (who actually remembers the newsletters you used to send out
pre-Medit Plants!)
Santa Clara, CA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu 
> [o*@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Sean A. O'Hara
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:04 AM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: this forum is 8.5 years old
> 
> 
> Hi folks -
> 
> I had an interesting discussion with a couple of our 
> subscribers the other 
> day.  I starting working on the creation of this forum back 
> in '94, and it 
> took about a year to find a suitable forum form and an 
> institution willing 
> to host it.  Always remember the date I started working to 
> make this whole 
> business happen, I thought (as did the two previously 
> mentioned) that we 
> were about to celebrate our tenth year in existence!  I dig 
> around in my 
> archives and discovered that the actual first message on 
> medit-plants was 
> in April of 1995.
> 
> Why is he telling us all this you ask - well, the idea being 
> put forward 
> was to have some sort of celebration to commemorate 10 years of this 
> interesting exchange of information.  Albeit regional, one 
> idea was to 
> create an educational display at our local San Francisco 
> Flower & Garden 
> Show in March of 1995.  Perhaps, starting to work together 
> now, information 
> could be brought together that could be shared with others 
> interested in 
> their own regional celebrations.  Such information might be:
> 
> - notable posts to the group over the years - very informational, 
> scientifically important, humorous, quaint, etc.
> - for those willing to share personal details, short bios about 
> participants, where they live, pictures, whatever.
> - garden profiles routinely discussed or felt to be relevant 
> to this forum.
> - a compilation of gardening tips that are particularly relevant to 
> mediterranean climates.
> - recipes shared on the forum over time.
> - other?
> 
> Starting so far in advance would make the gathering of such 
> information 
> possible for anyone who stepped forward to participate (we're 
> all very 
> busy, I know!).  This information might be placed on the web 
> for all us to 
> be able to access, and for future medit-plants subscribers to peruse.
> 
> I'd be interested in knowing what people's reaction is to 
> such ideas.  I 
> can certainly lend technical support as well as layout the 
> information in a 
> graphically pleasing and professional looking manner, but I 
> would require 
> assistance from many of you out there around the world (plus it would 
> reflect the international character of the forum to have such 
> involvement).
> 
> Here in the Bay Area we're receiving several days of gentle 
> but persistent 
> rain.  The temperatures are not as cold as they've already 
> been this season 
> and this type of moisture is certainly better than the 
> downpours we often 
> get when it rains here!  I am so excited to see all of my 
> summer dormant 
> bulbs springing into growth!!
> 
> Regards,
> Seán O.
> 
> h o r t u l u s   a p t u s     -    'a garden suited to its purpose'
> Seán A. O'Hara                     sean@support.net
> 1034A Virginia Street, Berkeley, California 94710-1853, U.S.A.
>
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