Sacha wrote:

Quite a few, sadly. We've almost lost one ex-professional who is now
a very knowledgeable non-professional; we have lost one who was a
professional garden writer; we have lost some very knowledgeable
amateur gardeners that I can think of and two other very expert
amateurs rarely post now. And to the best of my knowledge all of
those (bar one other professional who has other reasons as well) give
the reasons I have raised before.


You can count me in that list too. I used to read most and reply where i had
anything to add, but now find there is so much off topic dross & crossposted
drivel that i simply cherry pick a very few headings and do not even open
most posts.

pk