Re: Curious why this site seems so quiet?

There has always been either the "reply to sender" or "reply to all" option for 
sending replies, so I don't think that fully explains the drop off in messages.  
I kind of thought it had more to do with blogging taking hold as well as the 
Facebook phenomenon, as I notice that several other plant related general forums 
are also seeing greatly reduced traffic.  Strangely enough, some plant forums 
that are single genus or family related seem to still be quite popular, and 
growing in traffic.  


Re: the MGS forum web site, it seems to me that it is almost exclusively geared 
to those in Europe and/or the Mediterranean Basin, and hasn't developed the 
breadth this forum has had over the years. I also sense that there may have been 
some resentment on the preponderance of California topics and maybe the people 
posting on the MGS forum prefer the focus to remain more centered on the 
Mediterranean Basin.  The other pet peeve I have with the MGS forum is that 
everything is segmented into various topics, which seems much more limiting in 
my opinion.  While I've seen some excellent posts on plants native to the 
Mediterranean basin on that forum, the more general posts about many plants from 
around the world that are commonly grown here in California seem almost ignorant 
of information that is taken for granted here in California about these plants. 
Perhaps we are just spoiled by having such a great generalist resource of the 
Sunset Western Garden Book Encyclopedia as a basic resource. 


I also found it curious that there seemed very little overlap between the two 
forums in terms of who posts where. Just my opinions, and I don't mean to offend 
anyone with my observations. I never felt like I quite fit within the mold of 
either group in any case, as while I garden in a Mediterranean Climate, it isn't 
necessarily the style of gardening I do exclusively.  Hopefully my posts over 
the years were received in the spirit with which I wrote them, to share my 
enjoyment of growing the plants and designing gardens here in the San Francisco 
Bay Area, as well as the posts on the job I was doing in Saudi Arabia when I 
first started posting on this forum back in 1999.  


As our version of a Mediterranean Climate here in the Bay Area is rather 
distinctive compared to most; much cooler in summer and almost daily marine 
fogs, what does well here isn't necessarily the same plants that do well in most 
other Mediterranean Climate zones around the world. I've got an equal attraction 
to subtropical plants as well as cloud forest and desert species, all of which 
do well here with slight adaptations, supplemental summer irrigation in 
moderation being one of them.
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