This is where we have news of what's going on. Have you found some-thing interesting? Do you want to share it with others? Do you want to find out what others have found? We hope folks share information. If you want to add something to our news page or just announce "Hey, Gang, the Hepatica is in bloom at Limerock!"

You can contact us at news@among-ri-wildflowers.org

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Posted January 1, 2012

Well, we’ve completed the third year of sponsoring this site. The response continues to be positive and the number of people interacting with it has continued to grow.

Since we’ve started, we had over 39,000 visitors and, in the past year, over 18,500. We averaged over forty visitors a day this year. We’ve had hits from 71 countries not including the U.S. Last year we mentioned all the hits we had from Russia. This trend continued this year, with over 7100 hits from the Russian Federation. And we still have no clue why.

We're planning some new articles, but at this time nothing is cast in stone. Fran is planing a new Amateur Botanist article and I'm working on a project about common plant names. So, rather than be specific about publication names and dates, we'll just suggest you check in once in a while to see what's happening.

Thank you again to Anne Wagner, Garry Plunkett and Doug McGrady for their contributions to the News page. And thanks to Don Lubin for his contributions to and support of the RI Ferns article we published last spring. Our thanks to everyone who has participated in the monthly Mystery plant game. We’ve added a monthly word search game. We’re not sure if we’ll keep it.  It will depend on the response.

As always, we welcome feed back and contributions.

Fran and Kathy