RE: garden diary software?

Hi Nan,

I use an Excel spreadsheet for my plant list that includes these columns:

Scientific Name	
Variety	
Common Name	
Location	
bloom color	
bloom month	
Country of Origin	
Source	
Date 	
Water Needs	
Sun/Shade 

Within the file, I have multiple worksheets:

Full List - currently in the garden
Wish List
CA Natives
Dead plants - we've killed 70 in the past ten years in this garden!
Succulents - a new addiction
Sources - over 60 and growing!
Our Nursery - plants in pots awaiting ground planting

Excel allows adding notes to individual cells and I've also added photo
links to the scientific name column in some cases.

I also have used my Outlook calendar to note some things but it's not really
working for me.  I'm thinking of adding another spreadsheet worksheet for
calendar/logbook.  I'm finding that pruning and planting tasks aren't really
driven so much by the calendar but rather by the weather.  We walk the
garden several times a year to update the Full List worksheet and try to log
in newly purchased plants as soon as they arrive.  

Cheers,
Bracey
San Jose

-----Original Message-----
From: Nan Sterman [T*@PlantSoup.Com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 12:37 PM
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu; perennials@hort.net; California Native Plants
Subject: garden diary software?

Anyone able to recommend any garden diary or record keeping software?

Thanks!
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