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Once your mystery plant is firmly identified, we encourage you to share what you know in PlantFiles - it's as easy as 1-2-3!
1) Photos are almost always a welcome addition to an entry, unless there's already a gazillion images just like yours, already posted.
2) Add a note/description - Do you like the plant? Hate it? Trying to eradicate it by whatever means are necessary? Add a rave or a rant to let others know what you think. There are no wrong answers when it comes to your opinions. ;o)
3) ZIP code/regional report. If it grows in your garden (whether you want it to or not), add your ZIP code to let others in your area know. (We are working on lat/long data for those hampered by the lack of other countries' postal codes, so if you fall into that category, please bear with us, and be sure to add a note or decription, which will indicate your location if it's in your member profile.)
That's all there is to helping make PlantFiles a little more complete and it's a great way to "pay it forward" for the plant ID help you received!
P.S. If you spot any errors in the plant's details or if you think the existing photos should be re-shuffled a bit, look for the red "report an error" button and let our PlantFiles editors know what they should check up on.
Is some information missing from the entry? If you see an "unknown-tell us" link and can help fill in the missing info, feel free - what you know will help others!
This is a great idea and but it leads to duplication of files. First you upload the image to the question board then you upload the exact same image to the Plant Files. If you want to post your plant on your blog or email you have to upload it yet again. Would it be possible to implement a feature where a user has to upload an image file to some "home directory" only once, and from there the file can be linked to any post the user later makes?
Solved: Thank you to the folks who answered so quickly. I am new to the internet and am amazed by it all. It is good to know what I have so that I can know how to take better care of it.
I wish they would put a thing at the top of the page for us to close our questions.
I have a difficult time closing them. I have several I would delete if I could.
Hi, I have several kinds of ornamental peppers (colorful and cute) to offer seeds and I have pictures, but I don't know how to put them in the plant file in the correct place (I don't know what varieties they are.) Any help is appreciated. Ladypearl
If you don't know what varieties they are, your best bet would be to offer them for trade on the seed trading forum, and note that you don't know what varieties they are. You can post photos to that forum also. Here's a link http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/trading/all/
You can also manually add them to your trade tracker by going to the my tools tab under the banner on the home page, and then your trade list.
Thank you for that quick reply. Since I know a little about gardening and much less about computers
and posting pictures, I may still need help. But I'm going to give it a try.
