Parts 1 - The Compleat Botanica

Compleat Botanica - Seasonal interest calendar
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Using the software Getting started Features
Assembling enough data to prepare a good calendar of seasonal interest
presents a problem: do you describe a season using using words like
"early-spring", or do you attempt to force-fit a season onto a calendar.
The Compleat Botanica uses a special date-range tool which gives you an at-a-glance look at each specimen's
blooming season, planting and harvesting season, hay-fever season, and season of special interest. This daterange
tool uses a simple click-and-drag operation for specifying starting and ending dates for the season.
The same tool is used when you want to filter your collection to only include records for a particular date
range. Preparing lists of "What's in bloom" or "Early October autumn-color" or "Berries in December" are
simple examples of what's possible.
See these Pathfinder documents for more about this:
Entering date ranges for bloom, harvest, hay fever and other interest
Filtering by date range