I've always largely been a lurker around these forums for several years. The fact that you need Adblock to enjoy this site has, to varying degrees, driven a lot of people away from most of the forums. As the Australian forums were essentially part of the space down the side of the house on a large American property, the group never really had sufficient interest to cope with the exodus. There were also quite a lot of subgroups created within this forum under Spike's dictatorship (maybe too many for the population size) so discussion is currently spread quite thin and the site looks a lot more desolate than it probably is.

len

The reason most have left the boards here is the ridiculous amount of pop-up advertising.

i upgraded my firefox to v2.xx and seem to have picked up some speed around here of late, but it isn't only the aussie section protesting at how it is run the USA forums are a whole lot quieter than they used to be in the past.

i try to look in a couple of times a week to see what's what.

len

Only time will tell...

i've responded to the odd post here and there but it has all been very very quiet, this is the most active thread going at the moment.

still the job doesn't get any easier when the original poster never comes back with some sort of reply, even to say the suggested remedy is poo or whatever lol.

len

My Bamboo are as high as a elephants eye now, well actually they are even higher than that..

Brissie is still Beautiful one day and Perfect the next...

you don't show an e/mail addy in your details page. don't trust their e/mail contact as i've used it before and i'm sure mails have not gone through.

i have one lsited could you send me a list of names please?

len

I was here years ago and had good advice from the aussies though :)

We have tried to keep the Roses Forum going but thats gone quite again so we only post now on the Oz Garden Gallery

I just moved here from Texas in the States where we had a very active GardenWeb community.

I'm no stranger to heat and humidity, but the sandy soils here in Perth are a new thing for me. Living in a rented property, so I'll be confined mostly to containers, but where there's a will, there's a way.

Hope to find everyone's favorite gardening books, magazines, gardens to visit, etc.

I just moved here from Texas in the States where we had a very active GardenWeb community.

I'm no stranger to heat and humidity, but the sandy soils here in Perth are a new thing for me. Living in a rented property, so I'll be confined mostly to containers, but where there's a will, there's a way.

Hope to find everyone's favorite gardening books, magazines, gardens to visit, etc.

dry times in the west their 20+ year drought continues by and large.

anyhow you are welcome to visit our site there maybe some ideas there for you.

also your post may get missed by some better done as a new post from a new gardener.

the original heading here has a couple of issues related to it, one being that a new local goup formed and worked hard to build itself and took a lot away from this section, then that new group failed and by then this forum was pretty quiet caused mainly due to the fact that new members who try to subscribe find they can't do so as an aussie they need to use a USA locality name and zip code, this came about at the time GW was sold.

len

Hope to share with you my gardening highlights and dilemmas soon!

keep us updated.

len