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"In creating
this website, Janie has made a huge amount of important information
easily accessible and useful to thousands of people."
South Carolina Wildlife Federation
"Janie
Marlow's presentation on NameThatPlant.net... brought the audience
at the 2008 SC Master Gardener State Conference in Greenville to
a standing ovation, not a common sight at an educational conference."
SC Midlands Master Gardeners Association
"Since
your wonderful presentation at the SE EPPC Symposium, I have had
the good chance to relish and use your masterful website and be
comforted in knowing that it is there for all of us A true
bridge between inquiring humans and our plant companions...."
James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
"What
a great web site!" Dixie Damrel, Curator of the Herbarium,
Clemson University
"You
have done something wonderful! Im sure you realize by now
how impressed the Cullowhee participants are with your website;
it was a common source of discussion for the remainder of the conference.
Congratulations!" John Manion, Historic Gardens Curator,
Atlanta History Center
"I really
like your web site and am recommending to friends and constituents
who want to learn about the flora of the Carolinas. A lot of information
specific to our lovely state is available and readily accessible
at one site." Bert Pittman, SC Department of Natural
Resources
"Amazing
and well done. I think it is very useful and when completed will
be a resource that native plant enthusiasts, botanists, students
(and my students!) could use extensively." Patrick D.
McMillan, Clemson University
"I was
looking at your WEB site very informative!" Judy
Gordon, Augusta State University
"Superlative!
Superlative! Superlative! Look it up in Roget's and take your choice!
That's my reaction to your website introduction at Cullowhee."
Glenn Palmer, Botanical Gardens at Asheville
"I was
very impressed with the site it is a wonderful resource."
Mike Strickland, Georgia Native Plant Society member
"Your
presentation at Cullowhee was great and I heard several comments
on the website's present and potential value." Ron Lance,
author of Woody Plants of the Southeastern United States, a Winter
Guide
"I like
it." John M. Schmidt, Winthrop University
"You
have put together an excellent resource for plants that is organized
very well.... I want you to know that I feel honored that you have
asked me to be a part of your site." Kevin Adams, Kevin
Adams Photography
"As
I mentioned at the conference, I was blown away by your website.
I know everyone else was too. I tried it out when I got home and
am amazed and impressed." Jane Thomas, Corneille Bryan
Native Garden
"I have
had a chance to look at the website and have found it to be useful
and have recommended it to others as a reference." Tim
Lee, SC State Park Service
"Great
work you have done here. It has great potential to be a useful tool
to so many." Rick Huffman, SC Native Plant Society
"A monumental
contribution!" Tom Goforth, Cullowhee Native Plants
Conference 2008
"I think
it's a tremendous service to put out all of this information on
your site!" Lisa Wagner, South Carolina Botanical Garden
"It
has huge possibilities with careful work and adhering to
a high degree of accuracy, it could be come a photographic addendum
to the Flora of the Carolinas.... Even at first glance, it brings
so much to the 'table' having multiple descriptive sources for each
plant, multiple photos for each subject (missing and not really
possible in so many of the good field guides), and the possibility
of so much more." Jim Fowler, author of Wild Orchids
of South Carolina
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What one
tool is common to the effort to
* preserve wild spaces?
* maintain the health of natural ecosystems?
* protect rare species?
* battle invasives? or
* encourage the landscape use of regionally native plants? Education!
“People
only protect what they love, but they can only love what they know.” —
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The website
www.NameThatPlant.net is a public education endeavor: It is a clearinghouse
of information about native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and
Georgia, including plants found throughout the Southeast. It “packages”
knowledge that plant people have patiently shared and provides a venue
for that sharing.
For those
of us who are not botanists, NameThatPlant.net is like a window, a bridge,
to the body of knowledge that’s there but we don't know how to access.
And it invites us to enter. It's useful to students, of course, but it's
also useful to ordinary people who are curious about the natural world.
Discovering the identity of just one wild plant means that the green blur
is now made up of individuals, each with a name. One can allow oneself
to become interested....
There’s more
in the site than is immediately obvious, and I can do a short powerpoint
presentation for your group, demonstrating how it can be used.
People sometimes
ask, how did this website come to be? The idea had been in my mind for
years. A collection of native plant photographs (my original 40-hour volunteer
commitment for Master Gardeners) spurred me on. As I worked on that, I
gradually came to the conclusion that a website such as I envisioned
the website that I wished existed probably wouldn't happen unless
I built it. After that, it seemed that I was compelled to
do it.
I had no
idea how many thousands of hours I would invest, but I knew that I didn't
possess the knowledge needed. NameThatPlant.net would not be possible
without the help of many patient and knowledgeable
people. Perhaps you have something to add? Your contributions are
welcome!
Or if you'd
like to make a monetary contribution towards the project, you may send
a check to the SC Native
Plant Society at PO Box 491, Norris, SC 29667. They are a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization. Please make a note that it is to be used to
support further development of www.NameThatPlant.net.
Thank you!
Janie Marlow
Travelers Rest, SC
webmaster@namethatplant.net
Read what
others have said about NameThatPlant.net: at left, or click the links
below.
        
Calendar:
Thursday,
29 July 2010
Balsam Mountain Preserve, Sylva, NC
Monday, 27
September 2010
Dorothy Haynsworth Garden Club, Greenville, SC
Wednesday, 10
November 2010
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Clemson University, Seneca,
SC
Thursday, 18
November 2010
Lexington County Master Gardeners, Lexington, SC
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