Just got an e-mail from GardenWeb… “The Internet’s Largest Home and Garden Community”… announcing its partnership with Houzz. I’m glad I received this e-mail because for the last several years, I thought GardenWeb was defunct! Not only is it not defunct, the forums are all still there, including one of my faves, California Gardening.
I’m also partial to their Plant Exchange, where years ago I scored my first tree dahlia (Dahlia imperialis) cuttings from a nice man in the Napa area. He got a nice chunk of my Tropicanna Canna. I’d say we both scored…
GardenWeb is also alive and well on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. It’ll be interesting to see where they fit in on Houzz.
The Gardenweb “redo” is the worst remodel of a site that I have seen seen since I first went “online” back 1990 when on;ine wa a BBS and Usenet was just getting started.
It seems to have been purchased to turn it into a slick commercial trust me I’m an expert buy this from these site.
It is, IMNSHO, an absolutely terrible and ill advised, everything ,…
I’m cancelling my long time account, in less than 2 miinutes I will be a former and never to return Gardenweb “member”
Thanks for your candid opinion, Art. GardenWeb on Houzz does look a different and may take some getting used to for folks unfamiliar with Houzz, but the fantastic garden forums are untouched! I’m thrilled with that, and even found a plant exchange thread of mine from 2005! That’s a lot of chit chat to archive and continue hosting, and I appreciate the service.