How is a new Forum started -ie. Rock Gardening???

Hi there~
I am fairly new to DG and have really wanted to talk to others about Rock gardening &/or alpine plants. Is there a procedure to get a new forum started?? Is there anything I can do to get the ball rolling?? I have several people I have talked to about various aspects of Rock gardening when it comes up in other forums, and feel there would be good interest....

Please let me know any info about this....
Thanks,
Jamie

Great idea. I wonder why that hasn't come up before. Or has it?
Anyway, the procedure is just what you have done. Now we wait till Dave responds (or not, hee hee).

We had an alpine gardening forum in late 2002 and it died an extremely quick death. I'm willing to bring it back but we're going to need a lot of rock gardeners to keep it alive!

dave

Hi there Dave,
I would really appreciate a second chance, I really think there are alot of us out there....Of course they all appear to be not reading this post or responding to it, but they are emailing me regularly, really they are...:)

Thanks Dave for giving it another try...I look forward to hearing from more enthusiasts...
Jamie

Jamie--it is curious that there is not more interest in Rock Gardening and Rockeries on DG...

There is a thread http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/440503/ that discussed some interesting aspects of bulbs in the rock garden and attracted a range of rock garden enthusiasts that you may want to look up...Todd Boland (from Canada), who I believe is a DG Uber gardener and very active in the Rock Garden Society in New Foundland, for one.

I'll be interested to see what develops.

Tabasco,
I am surprised as well. I read and enjoyed the thread on rock garden bulbs, had a great one with Todd about Saxifraga as Foliage plants in the Foliage plants forum, http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/483827/ , and one other right now about rock garden plants in general in Master Gardeners Forum With Zuzu. Many others as well that don't come to mind right now, seem to pop up here and there...just thought a place for these threads would be nice...we'll see...:)
Happy Gardening,
Jamie

Count me in. We need a place to congregate instead of trying to find fellow alpine and rock garden aficionados in every nook of Dave's Garden.

The Alpine Garden just posted 60+ pictures from the Lancashire show. Lots of primula and saxifraga, and some gorgeous pictures of dionysia that are likely to spark a whole new obsession in my mind.

I'd like to see it back. But could the name be changed to "rock garden"? I feel silly for admitting this but I've thought about whether I could make a small rock garden in my yard but I didn't know enough about it to know that Alpine garden was a rock garden. I'd like to learn more about it.

Hi, I am interested also.

i have been searching (in books) for phtoos to show my son so he can have an idea of what I want to do. (he is at that age where he is learning under protest.)

Hopefully everyone would post photos to help me out!

Would love to have this feature here.

i'm fairly new to dg- but i would cetainly be interested in a rock garden forum!!if we're being counted, count me in.

I'd definitely be interested in a rock garden forum. Count me in as well.

I did bring this idea of a rock garden forum up a few months back and Dave's comment was the same then as it was now...it had been there before but quickly died. I think rock gardening is becoming more popular all the time and it MUST be more popular than Plumerias and Hoyas and they have their own forum! (sorry if I'm bashing the Plumeria/Hoya people). With the number of comments made at this point, I think the rock garden forum could now be a go Dave!

I hate to sound stupid, but are saxifrages and succulents the same or in the same family? I love your plants. they are so pretty.

I have reinstated it!

http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/alpine/

dave

Oh, good! Thanks Dave!!

John

Dave,

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!!! Hope it grows and thrives this time around!!!

Thanks again!
Jamie
ps...my rock garden plants thank-you as well, now they have a home...lol :)

It must! I don't understand why it didn't the first time around. I've allways assumed it to be very popular. Go figure.

thanks Dave!