A herbary is a herb garden, and the word also carries an older sense close to herbarium: a collection of preserved plants for study. Both readings are useful and both are pleasantly antique. Herbs sit at the intersection of several healthy markets: cooking, gardening, traditional medicine, and botanical research. The growing and using of them has a large, engaged hobbyist … [Read more...] about herbary.org
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orchidsociety.net
The exact category name for one of the best organised hobbyist communities in the world, on the .net. Orchid societies run chapters, shows, judging programmes, and plant registries, and there are hundreds of them worldwide. Where the .net earns its place is in the network reading. A federation connecting local societies, a shared registry, an inter-society trading platform, or … [Read more...] about orchidsociety.net
orchidsociety.org
Orchid societies are among the best organised hobbyist networks anywhere: local chapters, judged shows, plant registries, and a global community that trades divisions, flasks, and expertise constantly. This is the category name on the extension those societies actually use. Almost every orchid society in existence is a .org, because they're membership nonprofits, and this is … [Read more...] about orchidsociety.org
orchidsociety.com
Orchid societies are one of the most organised hobbyist networks in the world. Local chapters, judged shows, plant registries, seed and flask exchanges, annual conventions. It's a subculture with real money moving through it, and rare plant sales that would surprise anyone outside it. This name is the category label for that entire world, on the .com. It works for a national … [Read more...] about orchidsociety.com