What’s new
The site changes most weeks. Here is what changed, newest first.
- Worth knowing notes for 1,041 more species, now drawing on Wikipedia as well, from maize, figs and yew to kiwifruit, meadowsweet and the sausage tree.
- Worth knowing notes for 20 more, from arborvitae and black cherry to cranberry, hops and Virginia creeper.
- Worth knowing notes for 20 more species, among them sugar maple, black walnut, skunk cabbage, ocotillo and giant sequoia.
- Worth knowing: cited notes on where a plant’s name comes from, who pollinates it and what it was used for, starting with 19 species.
- The sowing planner is open to everyone for now, with no account needed.
- A Contact page, and a few words on About about who makes the site.
- Signed-in readers now keep a history of their plant identifications, with an optional place or map position for each.
- Quiz Mode allows 15 seconds a question. A zip code missing from the frost table now uses the closest one instead.
- About explains why one plant can have several protocols, and what words like stratification, perennial and last frost date mean.
- Quiz Mode: picture, clue, family, region, true-or-false, typing and matching questions, with a weekly leaderboard.
- Common names for about 300 more species, from iNaturalist, Wikipedia, nurseries and regional floras.
- Every renamed species checked against Kew’s Plants of the World Online: 17 names brought up to date.
- Pictures for dozens more species, including herbarium sheets for plants that are rarely photographed.
- The planner remembers your home zip code; About rewritten for readers new to growing from seed.
- My Garden: keep a list of what you are growing, with a log for each plant, on your home page.
- Growing facts from NC State Extension and USDA PLANTS. Metric units, and a page on how each step is done, in Deno’s words.
- A lifetime plan: pay once instead of subscribing.
- Every fact on a species page now names its source.
- Pictures for 1,581 of 1,651 species, each one credited and described by hand.
- Deno’s Garden starts: species pages, search and the sowing planner.