How to give feedback about the new site - Page 4

Thanks Daniel, I'm not very computer literate!!

It is time there was somewhere on the site to remind us to watch TV programs that gardeners would find interesting.  Lots of people missed "How to grow a planet" on BBC2 last night and Sarah Raven is on tonight.

Hi everyone,

New to this, but want to thank you all for making me feel at home, I have a big problem, which so many of you  had good  sound advice to give me.

I have not found anything quiet like this, hope it continues

I love the inspiration and plant based information I get from GW (both program and mag).  Please though can you at GW help those of us with less conventional issues - e.g. Joes garden design series has dealt with square, rectangular and 'off square' shapes.  Please can he advise on odd shapes - my personal example is a long thin L shape, where only the shortest side faces the house? Also dealing with existing 'hard landscaped' features that until we can (afford to) change them we regular, hum drum, not much money, gardeners have to work with and around?  Or planting front garden borders where most of the space has of necissity become parking?  Normal issues that face normal gardeners.  We don't all have the luxury of a regular shaped site the size of Montys's place (I wish) or the team of gardeners to keep it looking so amazingly perfect. Maybe nextg year you could each, with no assistance take on san averagge, irregularly shaped family garden and see how you do with that?

Too often, I think, in the interests of encouraging new gardeners by showing how 'easy' things can be (if you're a professional with no cost or other considerations except the purity of design) you fail to reach out to those of us with less than regular shaped plots who are still trying to fit everything in, on a budget, usually on weekends only and are working around a 'legacy' from previous owners/tenants and if we are not naturally artists/designers the whole concept of design is tricky at best, despite Joes best efforts to make it look, well, effortless!  Please remember that we are not all invited to design for Chelsea and take pity on us mere mortals who still want beautiful gardens?

I'm sorry if this sounds negative - it's not intended to.  As I said - I get so much inspiration from GW - I just need more help and advice on how to make that work in practice, in my garden/space please?

Thank you very much for being there for us all.

Puppykash

Love this site but I live in the US so I wonder if I can gain anything from this site if everything is geared towards the UK?  I hope there are other US folks to talk to who deal with our weather conditions. 

Hi all, im new to this site but have been a lifelong fan of gardeners world. i find the site great for advice and the tutorials are brilliant (if a little short) I love hearing of other gardeners problems and both giving and taking advice.....some great ideas out there..all my friends and family dont like gardening and i see their eyes glaze over if i even mention it!!!so its great to be able to interact with fellow gardening nuts!!!!this site is perfect for rainy afternoons when i cant be outside 

well my wishlist would be able to stream gardeners world episodes as unfortunatly bbc player isnt available in my area, it wont work outside of the uk,well here in ireland, so if i miss it on tv i cant watch it online..its such a shame...its a pity the even much older proogrammes cant be made available as i watched quite a few on youtube, but there arent that many to watch...

Hi, first it's really encouraging to see that comments are replied to so consistently by Daniel Haynes!

I looked at the problem solving forum with a specific issue in mind (spider mites aaargh!) but couldn't find a forum search field.  With so many pages of conversation threads it would be helpful to have a search facility.

Thanks for the invitation to feed back

Thanks Daniel, I should've realised re the search engine for forums.

The mites I have don't seem to be red....  But that's for another forum

Thanks again Daniel!

Hi Daniel,

I have just arrived from the soon-to-be-defunct BBC boards. Tried to cut and paste text from a website and although it looked ok once pasted, I got a mass of html code on the finished posting(see the Hosepipe Ban thread). Someone else has made the same mistake. On the Beeb site you could do this, and there was a 'preview' button so you could see what a message looked like before posting. This raises three thoughts:

1. Can you cut and paste from a web site?

2. Can you preview? 

3. Can you delete postings? 

By the way, well over 100 old Beeb boarders have joined, as you may have noticed, and we all think this site is much better, and we are all relieved to have found a welcoming home where we can maintain friendships and find lots of new friends. 

As another recent immigrant from the BBC I have to agree with Gold1locks that this functionality of forum seems absolutely wonderful.

We had to have a preview option on the BBC simply because there was no way of changing a post once you'd submitted it (which isn't the case here).

This forum seems to be relatively advert-free. You're obviously aware that you have a captive audience of a lot of very keen gardeners. Also you can see exactly what each person is interested in, from the topics they contribute to, even if they have not filled in their membership profile. This must present some interesting advertising opportunties. For example, if someone contributes to a post about mowers, then you could provide some highly targetted on-line adverts, for them to see, from mower manufacturers; or whatever.

Gary,  I didn't know you could change a post. That would solve my problem at a stroke. How do you do it? 

Many thanks

For a short while after posting you can go back and Edit.  The option comes up in theh bottom right hand corner when yu put your cursor on the post.  Doesn't last for ever though.

Many thanks, Obelixx!

Just tried editing, and it works!