Gay Gardeners Forum

[growin]

Hi,

I've been a plantsman for quite some time and enjoy learning, sharing and growing. I like being a bit more of a generalist than a specialist so I can learn as much about as many plants as possible. In the past few years I've gotten into plant photography and enjoy taking the photos and processing them. Here's a link to my Flickr set of over 4300 images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/growin/set ... 393374393/ in alphabetical order.

I currently work at a nursery that supplies large quantities of product to a large box store for the western provinces. I do a number of things there form supplying garden centres to doing the webpage. Keeps me quite busy even in the winter months.

Hope your all enjoying your summer.

growin

[Jayden]

Hey there, growin, and welcome! I used to write a lot on Dave's Garden, and found myself suddenly unwelcome also... I'm also interested in a wide range of plants, although recently I've renewed interest in daylily hybridizing. I also have a collection of nearly 200 hostas for those shady areas. I'm still learning to take decent digital flower photos, which is important when recording and registering daylilies.

Have a 1967 Clark Cortez, so also interested in vintage vehicles...

[brandon]

Welcome aboard Growin!!

Fantastic picture album. I also love talking pics of plants. I was at the National Arboretum in Washington DC years ago with a film camera. I took as many rolls of film as would fit into my camera bag. One day, I'm gonna have to go back and redo it digitally. I've got a very good digital camera now. I have pictures from many arboretums and gardens I've visited over the years but would sure like to have more time to travel and take more pictures.

Davesgarden drives me nuts. It seems to have sooo much potential, but it definitely has its share of problems. I find mistakes all the time. It really gets me when the pictures aren't of the correct plants. I briefly thought I'd let the admin people know when I found mistakes, but got mixed responses (mostly negative) about corrections. It seems many of those in charge didn't want to touch what members had contributed even with irrefutable evidence of mistakes. Oh well, now I just take everything from that site with a large grain of salt.

Hope you enjoy this board. I only found it a little while back. I'm looking forward to the day when it really gets rockin.

Brandon

[growin]

Thanks Jayden & Brandon for the welcome. I was thinkin' - seems enough interest here to start a davesgarden-like site. Just need a domain - maybe www.gaygardeners.org which is available and a bit more of a multi-functional site like Silverstripe offers. Just a thought.

Going out and doing photo sets is something I really enjoy. Kinda like therapy or somethin'. Makes me also take pics of plants I otherwise wouldn't notice or be interested in and I end up learning more. Brandon - digitizing that many photos is gonna be a big job!

DG certainly has a large number of errors in the Plantfiles and I was working hard to fix them. Unfortunately I became very unwelcome there. Oh well - doesn't mean we can't do simular ourselves.

I love the Cortez! Sleek lines and decent size. Is yours diesel or gas?

[Jayden]

growin, isn't it odd how the people who contribute the most to a site (even in terms of time and effort) are the ones so easily dispensed with? Same happened to me at dave's, as I mentioned, and also at a brugmansia site--- you may even recall dave mentioning the 'wars' between the two main brugmansia groups, a war he decried while throwing logs on that fire. Oh well, I'm glad we have this new site here, and I'm trying to get more friends to participate.

The Cortez is gas, and has a slant-six engine. I'll try to post a photo or two later on.

[brandon]

I've had a few run ins with Gardenweb. Twice I've been "warned". I replied to both emails and asked for an explanation, but none was ever given. I worried much less about the second one than I did the first, and I think I will just ignore any I get in the future. I got the feeling that someone was trying to use their "administrative power" after their position was shown to be incorrect. Sore losers I guess. I thought about writing iVillage and reporting the emails I got as moderator abuse, but never did. iVillage seems not to care what goes on on Gardenweb as long as their immediate advertising money is maxed. Seems like a short-sighted position, but what do I know.

[Jayden]

If you remember when Spike ("Spite") used to run GW... he banned me.

A woman complained bitterly that she did NOT want any bonus plants with her trades, as she allowed her two-year old to open the boxes, and there might be some plant to which the child was allergic. I suggested that it was irresponsible to allow the child to open the boxes in any event, coming from strangers as it were. And that we all love to get unexpected bonus plants, perhaps things we'd enjoy growing, that might not have ever occured to us.

People do love their tin badges. I prefer other fetish-wear

[brandon]

I remember Spike. That was back before Ad Block was required to get onto Gardenweb. Now, they won't even get rid of the SPAMers and flamers (no, not our type).

From what I've heard, Spike used to ban masses of people for some reason or other. I never got banned, thankfully. I do know a few people that have been though.

[kipouros]

Welcome from me as well! I've been a bit preoccupied lately and haven't been on in a while... Surprised at all these people getting warned/banned from GardenWeb! For what exactly?

Jayden - you should have sent the lady a "for addressed recipient only" box and added some Australian stinging tree or perhaps a nice shoot of poison sumac. Amazing how many people want to do stupid things and have others watch out for them...

[MurderHeWrote]

Here is my official, "Welcome to the forum!" Sorry for not getting to you sooner.

I have been very busy lately. Plus between problems with my computer and the forum for some reason not letting me know about new activity, I haven't been around.

The problem with a Gay Gardeners website is finding a domain that the abandoned site hasn't already snatched up. As you mentioned, www.gaygardeners.org hasn't been taken yet. Thank goodness for that. Someone else on here mentioned to me once about having domains with them available. Wish I could recall who they were now.

Someone managed to find a way to advertise our forum in the shout box on the other site, which I failed at. I could only make a post at that place with a link.

[Jayden]

I check in pretty often, and find that the number of new posts remains at "0", but sometimes there are posts which I miss, like kipouros just above.

I'll plan to make some posts after the weekend, maybe some new garden photos as well.

Wouldn't it be great to have a member round-up next summer?!

[kipouros]

Brugmansia wars? I've obviously been missing out! I guess following heirloom vegetables and squash/pumpkins is just a little too tame... I agree with the Davesgarden problems; maybe it's something that comes with ginormity.

Welcome growin, from a former neighbor (I lived in Seattle for about 13 years and it's still the closest thing to "home" I have in the US). I still sometimes miss gardening there...until I see my nice tomatoes and gourds and morning glories...