It may be there and I just don't see it but one of the things I really miss from that other site is the personal info about plants from other users. I would love to see that in south Florida they put xxxx plant in part sun because the sun in that latitude is just too strong. Whatever, something like that, personal descriptions of actually growing the plant.
In addition, while I appreciate that our members know the latin names for plants and are so precise, I would also like that a search defaulted to the generic page on that plant. What started me down this path today was looking for info on Fish tail palms. There are half a dozen listed, frankly I don't care which one I have as they probably all grow about the same, what I did want to find out was if anyone else had had their fish tail palm finish its life cycle, bloom all the way to the ground, and then die. I would have liked to read their experience with that and perhaps leave my own info. I went to the generic fish tail palm page and there is very little there. If it were the default page, perhaps there would be more info? Also, if there were some encouragement to leave info about your experiences growing whatever then maybe we'd develop a base of personal knowledge?
I'm sorry to say that I don't find this database very useful for what I need, I'm sure it is useful for other things. The general, how does this grow type question... not so much.
