I remember spending a good part of the holidays last year installing software, configuring settings, adding graphics, and building the community. I officially launched this place a year ago today, and am quite ecstatic looking back, at what it has become in this short amount of time. I can't believe all the great people who have showed up to share their knowledge and ideas here.

We now have 225 members, so that is about four new members a week on average... but it is starting to snowball now and we are getting a new member every day. The Web Stats I have running are showing 10,000 unique visitors a month to the site, so be sure that your words are being read by an army of Lurkers who are following the conversations here.

This place is definitely no "Dave's Garden", and I don't want it to ever be. I don't measure the success of this place by the number of posts, but by the quality of posts, and knowledge of it's members....and in my eyes, that already makes this the best place on the web for the discussion of Xeric Plants.

Right now, we are Agave and Aloe heavy, but hopefully in the new year, other parts of the community will grow as people find us. Thanks to a special search engine optimization program. We are showing up at the top of google searches for a LOT of related topics.

Thanks to everyone who has joined the community.... Now go tell all your friends!

Allen