Just a footnote to my comment 'hoping a plant will grow', I assumed people would credit me with at least reading the plant's label before selecting a position for it.
Quite
I have never met Mrs-B3, I'm sure she reads, remembers and follows plant labels. But many of the questions raised by posters come from people who have done none of these things. And also, Mike's point, have done nothing to help themselves.
If you find responding to queries from beginners, who may not even understand the information on the labels, frustrating, then don’t reply to them; there are plenty of forum members with more patience and who understand what it’s like to feel totally bemused by what seems to be a foreign language, and who are happy to try to help them without being rude, patronising and supercilious … I’m sure you have something you find more rewarding to do.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've never met @Mrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants either - or @Slow-worm, or @Loxley, or @GardenerSuze or pretty much anyone else currently on the forum. It doesn't mean I shouldn't try and help them if I can. There's a few I'd certainly not want to meet though....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Except that the OP [@Slow-worm] had certainly done plenty, and had then opted to ask people on the forum - a very sensible move - because she trusts that others can help.
To put ones trust in a bunch of strangers is bad judgement. If you do not have the knowledge to make an informed decision, it is folly indeed.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
You're very skilled at cherry picking @bede, I'll give you that I think plenty of very different folk on this forum, from different parts of the country, have given @Slow-worm lots of advice, and the bulk of it is pretty similar. She can make choices based on that, or not, as the case may be. We can't all be useless or wrong, so I can't see how it's 'folly' or 'bad judgement', but maybe we just aren't all as brilliant as you at everything.
If you don't rate the info and advice given here - you're also free to look elsewhere. Plenty of other gardening forums around. Gaining knowledge can be done in many ways so you can stick to books, YouTube etc or whatever else takes your fancy if that's how you feel. I know how helpful this forum, and it's members have been to me.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@bédé amongst other of your threads, you’ve asked questions regarding pickling onions, problems with fertilizing courgettes, nostoc and fuel for petrol mowers …
Except that the OP [@Slow-worm] had certainly done plenty, and had then opted to ask people on the forum - a very sensible move - because she trusts that others can help.
To put ones trust in a bunch of strangers is bad judgement. If you do not have the knowledge to make an informed decision, it is folly indeed.
So why are you here? Were we wasting our time when we, in good faith, responded to your questions and tried to help you?
Presumably we were … we’ll know not to bother even trying to help next time you ask a question. Your arrogance and rudeness is downright insulting.
Peed off of Norfolk. 😖
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There's a few I'd certainly not want to meet though....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Isn't it to help other people?
Or, maybe to cause trouble?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
If certain posters get no replies, they'll soon give up being irritating.
I think plenty of very different folk on this forum, from different parts of the country, have given @Slow-worm lots of advice, and the bulk of it is pretty similar. She can make choices based on that, or not, as the case may be. We can't all be useless or wrong, so I can't see how it's 'folly' or 'bad judgement', but maybe we just aren't all as brilliant as you at everything.
If you don't rate the info and advice given here - you're also free to look elsewhere. Plenty of other gardening forums around. Gaining knowledge can be done in many ways so you can stick to books, YouTube etc or whatever else takes your fancy if that's how you feel. I know how helpful this forum, and it's members have been to me.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
bédé said:So why are you here? Were we wasting our time when we, in good faith, responded to your questions and tried to help you?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."