I see dozens, if not scores, of people asking for identification of their mystery plants on Tumblr (especially in the Botany, Plants, and Gardening tags which we monitor frequently. We do not monitor the “flowers” tag because there is too much superfluous content), but very few of you actually pose your questions as questions, which makes answering your questions next to impossible.
If you have it enabled, Tumblr allows you to further enable a feature on many styles of post ending in a question mark with “allow people to answer this.” If you enable this, there is a good chance that someone will help you (including us and our staff of horticulturists and botanists). But since Tumblr makes it kind of hard for people to communicate with each other unless they are following each other, you’re probably not going to end up with an answer. So, remember kids, pose your questions as questions and leave the hashtags to the tags field. And if all else fails, include a way for people to get in touch with you outside of Tumblr, say like through Twitter or Instagram. ~AR
![We track the botanic garden tag on Tumblr, and to me, it is one of the most wanderlust inducing tags out there. The beautiful pictures that pour in from all over the world have me constantly searching Google and daydreaming about road trips, train trips, and plane trips. Take for instance this beautiful panorama from Albuquerque’s BioPark Botanic Garden. It has made me realize that I have never spent any time in the southwest. Is 2013 the year? Where is your favorite botanic garden? Post a picture and tag it, we’ll see it, and maybe post it! ~AR
cactguy:
This is the largest panorama I have ever assembled - and with exception of the railing at the bottom of the photo, it turned out pretty well. It is approximately 30 photos of the Albuquerque BioPark Botanic Garden Desert Conservatory, and I could live there …
[Photo 8.8.11]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/90ad5aa2bbedb3587113545237d7a45d/tumblr_mfrq8nZgUF1qj9asyo1_1280.jpg)
