On 10 Mar, 13:30, K wrote:
The strength of this group is that people give advice from their own
experience - that enables us, as a group, to push forward our knowledge
beyond the limits of book advice. So if person A quotes the book advice
'this plant needs a damp spot in the shade' and person B says 'I'm
growing it on sand in full sun', a discussion follows to find out what
it is about B's situation that allows the plant to grow somewhere where
the conventional advice says it shouldn't. If it wasn't for this sort
of discussion, we might as well all simply pull out our gardening books
and never talk to another gardener!

Thank you Kay for being just and fair, always, and giving advice in a
way everybody understand. I found it more and more difficult to post
to people when someone is right behind me asking me to apologise when
there's really nothing to apologise about but maybe there more to talk
about indeed. It must be in the way I post. They seem to be reading
something different. And there's so much hatred around here at
present that it is not really condusive to what gardening is foremost
about.

And with this I'll go to my lotty now where many are waiting to shift
3 tons of OM. Hoping for the sun to keep shining for us, and
especially where you are Kay.