In article , Mike Lyle mike_lyle_uk@REM
OVETHISyahoo.co.uk writes
Martin Brown wrote:
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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Can anyone suggest a trouble free tree?

To grow in California? Why do you think we would know in the UK?
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Be fair: Rita's also asked in the US group rec.gardens (and received
a typically insulting reply from the vile menace who haunts such
places: maybe she hoped we'd be more courteous). I'm sure you'll get
some help there, Rita. Aunt should also talk to a trustworthy local
nursery.

It's fair enough to tap worldwide experience for a lot of gardening
problems -- how many British garden plants are natives, after all? I
agree, though, that this was one of those questions we wouldn't be
able to help with purely on Brit Is experience -- but there are
people here with experience in other places, too.

Yes, but if we encourage people to use urg to tap into the assorted non-
UK-gardening experience of urglers, people will start giving advice
based on non-UK conditions without making that clear, and that will be
confusing for people who don't have the gardening knowledge to realise
the advice they're being given is not valid for the UK.

Eventually, there is the danger that the non-UK content will completely
swamp the UK content, and we will have lost the benefits of a UK based
gardening group.


--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"