by Leslie Cox; Wednesday; September 11, 2024

A while back, I noticed the photos in all the plant posts I looked at in my Plants We Grow under In the Garden on the Menu bar were not displaying properly. I tried deleting them and re-installing them, but that did not work. I then tried starting a new post and putting in all the information about the plant and adding their photos. There were problems with sentence formatting and photo positioning. Such frustrating problems that no matter what I did or how much I tried…nothing displayed on the website as it should have.

Very painful. My website designer had formatted such a lovely template for the Plants We Grow and it had been so easy to use. Initially. But then the updates started coming…and kept coming…and kept coming. You know how fast things change on the Internet front, Well, it seems that it only takes ten years, or less, for one’s carefully planned website to start dropping posts.

So, my answer to missing…or misaligned…data and lack of time to spend on just one facet of what I do in the name of the Duchess of Dirt, I made the decision to go through every plant post and copy all of the information and photos into my own format design. It will be a lot of hours worth of work but not as many hours that it would take to redo all the plants in the original format…if it could even be done without losing my mind…and sense of humour.

So, I hope you will bear with me as I work on this reproduction project for the Plants We Grow. I will not be able to work on this project all of the time but I promise to persist with these plant information makeovers.

And on that note…I am through all of the plants that start with “A”. (Well, I mean the ones whose Latin name starts with “A”.) It is a start.