I wouldn't worry about lack of experience in the garden / anything else @NormandyLiz everyone been at that stage in there life. I am learning to drive at the moment I am all over the place at the moment , I am starting to hate it but I'll plod on for now .
More you seem to know about plants / garden the more you realise how much you don't know
Big mistake. Regularly dropping into the forum keeps one in touch with Gardener's World (note the deliberately placed apostrophe implying the 'world of the gardener' not the fatuous plural version) and this is more likely to lead to the purchasing of an online subscription. Thousands of keen gardeners have used this site for years to glean advice from other amateur gardeners but the BBC would rather focus on 'the development of new features tools and services' than keep this very successful forum going. Well, goodbye, BBC GW, you won't be seeing me again, and thank you to all of you loyal forum supporters who have provided me with some great advice over the years.
The GW magazine and website (and this forum) aren't run by the BBC.
At the bottom of the page:
"This website is published by Immediate Media Company Limited under licence from BBC Studios Distribution"
so I guess the BBC gets a payment to use the BBC name and affiliation with the TV programme.
Immediate media also publishes BBC Good Food magazine and Radio Times. I cancelled my Radio Times subscription a year or so ago when they announced a big cost increase.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Like others have said, I'll miss this forum even though I've been more of a lurker than a poster. Anyone on instagram or YouTube can follow me there if you're interested in tropical plants and cacti (and growing them outdoors).
I'm also on reddit and use the subreddit r/GardeningUK which is a very good catchall discussion group on there.
Although of course, no social media really replicated the user experience of a forum. If there's a consensus as to a similar forum to this, I'll definitely join.
Growing tropical and desert plants outdoors in West Yorkshire INSTAGRAM/ YOUTUBE
I just received an email that the forum is closing. This is so sad. I go through long phases of not posting anything but I'm often lurking and learn so much by reading all of your comments & looking at all of your garden pictures Thank you all so much for sharing your wisdom & experience
It's not a forum so having long threads with lots of pictures is tricky, but hopefully I'll come across some of you on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/GardeningUK/
I don’t often post, but when I do it’s usually to identify something. But I read regularly and recognise and enjoy reading from regular posters. @punkdoc I shall miss your good sense, do join the other site.
I was very pleased to get the email this morning announcing the forum closure, as I was worried that any less regular visitors might have tried to check in a fortnights time, only to find no trace of it. They must have posted the closure notice at midday yesterday, as I had just sat down with a late morning coffee, and was looking forward to catching up with the latest news. It was such a shock. I’d have struggled in the past to understand how I could have developed such a bond with a bunch of people I’d never met, but I’m so reassured that I’m not alone. Having spent yesterday feeling weirdly disconnected, almost like a bereavement, I’m now looking to register with the GC forum, where I may well lurk until I can work it out! I don’t do any Facebook or the like, so I don’t see a lot of alternatives. I’d also be devastated to think I’d lost touch with some of you. My contributions have been relatively few, and given my lack of gardening skills, not very useful, but my gardening has improved as a result of the help I’ve received on here. And I’ve been reassured that I’m not the only amateur muddling along as best as I can. Thanks again, and hopefully see you on the other side ( that really sounds morbid!)
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More you seem to know about plants / garden the more you realise how much you don't know
I'm also on reddit and use the subreddit r/GardeningUK which is a very good catchall discussion group on there.
Although of course, no social media really replicated the user experience of a forum. If there's a consensus as to a similar forum to this, I'll definitely join.
INSTAGRAM/ YOUTUBE
It's not a forum so having long threads with lots of pictures is tricky, but hopefully I'll come across some of you on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/GardeningUK/
I suppose we'll get used to it. Maybe having a single forum with a much bigger pool of active posters will turn out to be not such a bad thing.
They must have posted the closure notice at midday yesterday, as I had just sat down with a late morning coffee, and was looking forward to catching up with the latest news.
It was such a shock. I’d have struggled in the past to understand how I could have developed such a bond with a bunch of people I’d never met, but I’m so reassured that I’m not alone.
Having spent yesterday feeling weirdly disconnected, almost like a bereavement, I’m now looking to register with the GC forum, where I may well lurk until I can work it out!
I don’t do any Facebook or the like, so I don’t see a lot of alternatives. I’d also be devastated to think I’d lost touch with some of you.
My contributions have been relatively few, and given my lack of gardening skills, not very useful, but my gardening has improved as a result of the help I’ve received on here. And I’ve been reassured that I’m not the only amateur muddling along as best as I can.
Thanks again, and hopefully see you on the other side ( that really sounds morbid!)
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border