Updates.

We have now reached 450 species.

The Weedalogue was originally started in the early Two-Thousands as an online notebook in the gardening website where I kept track of my gardening. The site was mostly notes on propagation, but I started cataloging the weeds I was encountering in the now defunct Broad and South Community Garden. The care which went in to the early work fell far below academic standards. Mistakes were made. Other gardeners seeing my online notes encouraged me to give the work its own site and encouraged expansion of the project. I did so as a resource for Philadelphia area gardeners and for the fun of it. Soon after I started Weedalogue.com I began working as a fine gardener and during that time the project took off. I worked on it for a while and then let it stagnate for a few years. When I cam back and looked at working on it again, I found that the site had left a large impression on the Web. The site is recommended by University sites and is cited as evidence by a Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board pdf. Pictures from it show up when I search Google's image search for plants, sometimes on the first few pages.

Seeing this, I decided that the site needed to be cleaned up. Multiple entries have been edited or removed. A few more are still in the process of review or have not been gotten to yet. Beyond this clean-up, I decided to overhaul and expand the website considerably. When I first began the venture, internet connections and computers were much slower and if one used large pictures, they took a long time to load. That, in conjunction with the fact that the project was started with a cheap Olympus point-and-shoot digital camera, I went with 6" pictures. Given the updates in computers, the internet and the better camera quality available, I decided to rework the site slowly as much as possible to 12" pictures. This has been an ongoing process, as has expansion. The site came out of stagnation at about 250 entries and is coming close to doubling that number. I also have another 25 or so entries in the working stages, not yet posted and am discovering new species as time goes on.

There is now a Weedalogue Instagram feed, @weedalogue. The Weedalogue forum was deleted a long time ago, after having some trouble with Yahoo.

There is now a sister website to The Weedalogue, concretebotany.com which will allow me to develop and host projects that fall outside of the scope of The Weedalogue. I can currently be reached at contact at concretebotany dot com. Let me know if you are aware of the location of any species the site is missing or to point out any errors.