Lee's suggestion would be seconded by me...I take photos constantly in my garden and I LOVE to see everyone elses' gardens!!! That what our gardens are about, after all...sharing and observing and LOVING!! Thank you!! Leigh On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM Lee Poulsen via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Jane, you can add my vote to the ones that are fine with it being > online/PDF only. I would like to second the suggestion that an email > notification (with link) be sent out whenever a new issue gets published > online (or if as you suggest whenever a new article is added online). One > other idea: Since it costs far less to publish full color photos online > than in print, perhaps a supplemental section of the BG newsletter would be > lots of additional photos to accompany the articles. I was always wishing > there were more photos for all the feature articles in the print version, > but knew that due to space and cost constraints, you couldn’t do that, even > though I knew the authors almost certainly had far more photos than could > be used. > > Thanks for all the work you and the board do! > —Lee > > > On Dec 21, 2025, at 11:04, Jane McGary via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > Thanks to the 38 people who have posted comments so far on my post about > the possibility of making the Bulb Garden newsletter online only. We have > 36 in favor, one against, and one ambivalent. I don't have enough data yet > to prepare a review of the comments and answers to concerns and > suggestions, but I wanted to mention a few. We are currently envisioning > the online BG as a downloadable pdf, which could be printed out for readers > who don't like reading on screens. One responder pointed out that the > format should be readable on a phone, which hadn't occurred to me since I > almost never read anything but text messages that way, so I don't know how > the photo quality would be. We have not discussed whether the online BG > would be immediately available to non-members; opinion on this varies among > board members. > > > > Reducing the cost of publishing the newsletter would allow the PBS to > redirect funds to exchange-related projects, such as the popular group bulb > orders. I'd hope to see group seed orders too. We would like to broaden the > benefit of group orders to members who don't limit their interest to > Southern Hemisphere plants. > > > > More to follow! > > > > Jane McGary, Membership Coordinator, Portland, Oregon, USA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…