On 10 Mar, 10:08, Sally Thompson
wrote:
What wise words, Anne! Whilst I understand that someone may wish to offer
advice from their own experience although it is advice contrary to the
received wisdom of experts,

So who are those experts on rhubarb here exactly? Anne? Fran? Your
good self? How can you tell an experts from an amateur? If you look at
Mike's posts, he is an amateur but with years of experience. Why then
is he being labelled as 'not a gardener'. What makes a gardener but
someone who gardens. And enjoy gardening with a passion.

I have never understood why someone should be so
eager to give a response to just about everything that they rush to Google,
phone and email their friends, etc, just to be able to answer practically
every query. It seems to imply a pathetic eagerness. I have seen exactly
the same pattern on other groups in the past.

There's no rush to Google but visibly you know what you are talking
about. As for ringing friends and emailing them, I don't even need to
do this - they're there, around me at home and at work. And what is it
of your business if one does this? Sacha is forever ringing around,
emailing, asking her husband .... You are quite bias when it comes to
your 'opinions' or perhaps you just don't think.

When it's about to identifying a plant, then it is indeed a rush to
find out. This is called interest, this is called enjoyment of finding
out. It's fascinating. You learn so much as you go along - sometimes
you get totally diverted. It's part of the learning process Sally.
Perhaps not everybody like you just runs a b&b and enjoy a bit of
gardening and leave it at that. Others are eager to know, to share, to
read others and if there's something to find out, you bet we're going
to find out!! We all have our passion - plants happen to be one of
mine. I also love food, but I don't post in the food forum. I love the
countryside, but I don't post in a specific forum to this. I just post
here and in one other gardening forum (a french one), a literature
forum (another french one) and in a forum of a town I used to live in.
I lurk in others but don't post.

Now if you have something to say to me Sally, just say it and let it
then be. I have no agro with you whatesoever. But do stop pocking at
me. It's like having a draft at the back of my neck. It's getting very
annoying now. Ta.