I ordered some new conifers this year. I have been collecting for ~6 years now. At any rate, I wanted to learn more about my conifers, so I decided to do a "mindmap" of my conifers. Mindmaps give you a graphical means to look at data. For example, I have a spreadsheet of my conifers... it's just a list. So here is a mindmap of some of the data:
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I use an open source (free) program called freemind. This is a work in progress. I have fun doing this and I thought I would share. I started this project this morning and it represents about 3 hours of work. I got tired and decided it was time for a glass of wine.