ARTICLES TO READ

The September Not-A-Raffle-Raffle! The penultimate raffle of the year, with another great lineup of prizes! Get your acorn stash out! Plant Care: Mints Check out our plant care and collection of varities of Mints. Plant Care: Peonies Check out our plant care and collection of varities of Peonies. Plant Care: Agaves Check out our plant care and collection of varities of Agaves. Plant Care: Jujubes Check out our plant care and collection of varities of Jujubes. Plant Care: Apples Check out our plant care and collection of varities of Apples. Harvesting Sweet Potatoes Sweet potato plants will keep growing as long as the weather stays warm. The vines don't die and signal harvesttime the way white potato vines do. All About Beautyberry Beautyberry is a deciduous shrub noted for its brightly colored, tightly clustered berries that remain on the bush into winter. Other common names are American beautyberry and American mulberry.

AWESOME NEW PHOTOS FROM THIS WEEK

Rose (Rosa 'Olivia Rose Austin'), by csandt: Rose (Rosa 'Penny Lane'), by Steve812: Shirley Poppy (Papaver rhoeas 'Shirley Poppy'), by joannakat: Echeveria 'Lady Aquarius', by HamiltonSquare: New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), by joannakat: Bugbane (Actaea racemosa 'Atropurpurea'), by Char: Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Cranfil's Gap'), by dirtdorphins: Landscape view by HemNorth: Landscape view by Fleur569: Landscape view by HamiltonSquare: Landscape view by SonoveShakespeare:

NOTABLE DISCUSSIONS FROM OUR FORUMS

Subject	Area	Replies
Hurricane Irma	Orchids forum	169
Hello from germany,nice to be here.	Sempervivum and Jovibarba forum	29
Karol Emmerich’s Springwood Gardens	Daylilies forum	27
More acorns anyone?	The September Not-A-Raffle-Raffle!	24
Another plant ID	Cactus and Tender Succulents forum	15
Maximum recommended zone	Plant Database forum	12
Banner for September 14, 2017 by Fleur569	Site Banners forum	12
Is this a flower or a weed?	Plant ID forum	11

THE NUMBERS FROM LAST WEEK:

669 members joined. 4,111 posts written in our forums. 633 photos posted to the plant database. 880 plants added to personal inventory lists.