Creating Custom Plant Lists from VW Plant Database

[Cheryl Corson]

I would like to do more with the VW Plants Database, including creating smaller, more manageable plant lists in a copy of the database, in which I would delete plants not in my zone, and create lists meaningful to my practice - native shrubs/deciduous, native shrubs/evergreen, rain garden plants, etc.

1. How can plants be added to/deleted from custom plant lists?

2. When it's time to upgrade to VW 2015, how do you preserve and incorporate your plant lists, assuming there are new plants in the upgrade version's database that you may want?

3. How are people using custom Plant Lists? Successes? Failures? Lessons learned?

Thank you.

[Cheryl Corson]

It is seeming that when I edit a plant in the Database after the VW Plant List is created, the changes do not migrate to the plant list. If this is correct, does one have to create/over write the VW plant list from the database over and over again?