****101 reasons****

After the riveting last couple of days we've had here, how would y'all like
to give Dave and Trish 101 reasons
why we love it here in DG, and the
last time I looked there was most
difinitely more than 101 of us. Ok?
Who wants to be first?

Jerrie

Because of the atmosphere that's in the air here. Friendly people draw in friendly people. And the knowledge here is unsurpassed!!!!!!!!!

The knowledge base is incredible, and as a newbie, I love reading the engaging exchanges that go on between members. Now that I've watched the threads for a while, I too am excited to hear about new grandchildren and flowers blooming that one never thought would! This is a great place to grow!

Because of DG, I have met some wonderful new gardening friends - people I would never have discovered if it were not for DG bringing us together. (((((Hugs to Dave and Trish)))))

Its like a family atmosphere; people willing to help and share with other gardeners. A great bunch of people.

Paul

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A wonderful sense of community and caring....sharing ideas and knowlege,
the greatest site in cyberspace. Just
think, if we really were a virtual community how it would just buzz
with excitement and beauty.

Jerrie=:):)

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Thank you for this web site, for all you wonderful people that know so much about gardening and love it as much as I do, and share all that you know. I am so grateful. God Bless!!!!

Well ditto all the above - thanks!!!!!!! My favorite - I always seem to find something to chuckle at. DD or DH will walk past my office and wonder what I'm laughing at.

I have only recently been introduced to DG and I find myself irresistably drawn here. At Dave's garden I have discovered a community where I feel like I fit in. Everyone here wants to talk garden, but still have lives that are interwoven within their love of being home. People I work with all day long make me feel like I lead an excessively boring life because I want to be at home rather than out and about. I have spent many years making my home into a wonderful place, why would I want to leave it the few hours a week that I am not trapped inside a hot, dark factory? I cannot thank Dave and Trish enough for providing me with a forum filled with people who don't make me feel like I am dull and boring!

The dittos continue, and to have a place to laugh ,cry, be silly,learn, and to meet new and old friends. A (BLH) BIG LADYBUG HUG to Dave and Trish.I know I am nuts and glad I have found others that are as nutty as me. My padded room, chair,And DAVE'S GARDEN, how did I live without them. LOL

House work what's that? All I know is I garden all day and play at DG, you mean I have housework! HA! HA!
Mike
Mike

Oh I agree with all above...... This is not just a place its a home...... Where there are people you love, laugh and cry and pray with......Its an escape a place to run when things are upside down in your world or when things are going just great and know you will find something to interest you from reading the post, chatting with friends and seeing everyones garden's to trading . And I have found it makes me get my house work etc done when I get in from work so I can have some time to run thur the post. So this has become my haven a place of escape from everything and a little time just for me each night. Selfish maybe but my whole day is focused on other people and doing the best I can for them so I figure a little time everynight for me is ok. lol

I grow here, this is a Garden of many Flowers, Without I will wilt and die;]

DG is more than just a place to exchange seeds and plants. It is a home with a very large family. It is where when you come in to visit you don't want to leave.It is where you feel comfortable and welcome. It is not just people, but friends, even if you've never met. It is where Dave and Trish unselfishly give their time and knowledge to make their family happy.And DG has the most generous,caring, knowledgable,and friendly group of people which is the reason why once you have visited you are no longer a stranger but a friend.

Well said,#16

DITTO -DITTO-DITTO. JUST A REAL FUN PLACE TO GO WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN!!!

Good people. Good discussions. Good information. AND the only gardening I can do in the middle of the night and not even get my nails dirty!

Zany, but how I dearly love to get my hands in that warm, silky soil, feeling
it lovingly caressing my fingers....ah !

Hugs
Jerrie

There are a lot of knowledgable people here thank goodness. Right now I have lost all my potted tuberous begonias, have idea why, I have the lamium that ate North Carolina in my rock garden, my cleomes are still only one foot high, the rose campion got so much bigger than I expected that they are covering everything up on the level above them, the annual lobelia died off during a rainy spell, the cannas hate the rock garden, my rose is grumpy and sulking, as is the ice plant, my winecup must be 10 feet long but all lost and twining around the rose campion, I am FINALLY getting some reaction out of the campanula, wax begonias ae o.k., purple bee balm are blooming but really lanky and apparently need staking, but I do have tons and tons of beautifully blooming impatiens. Whew! What a jungle!

I love DG because I don't have to be afraid of what I say here. I can speak my mind and although evreyone might not always agree with what I say, I am free to give my opinion without the threat of *D* land, or that someone will be cruel if I have a question and ask for help. The members here are SO NICE! I also love all the wonderful people I have met here. Some of the most caring, sharing, friendly, knowledgeable people I know!
Thanks Dave and Trish for a terrific site!

Made some really good friends - feels like I have known them all my life. We even get to chat on the phone now and I will actually be meeting some of them very soon. The wealth of info available is tremendous and am extremely grateful for the advice I have received. The sharing is the best though, we share everything - smiles, laughter and tears, our successes, our failures. Our racked-with-pain days and the days when we feel on top of the world, our plants and our seeds. I'm so thankful to be here :-)

Thank you Dave and Trish,can only think of 1 comment that hasn't been made thus far,"the more I think I know, the less,I know'"

In other words,you can never learn it all, always something new on the horizon' I have surffed(sp) the net quite awhile and nearly threw in the trowel,when wallah,"HEREEEEE'S DAVE'S GARDEN" That was it for me,no more lookin'

At this point, DH is now considering getting another pooter and lettin' me have this one,LOL Think now I need to get another eye exam as my poor eyes are a gettin' pretty red from soooo much reading'LOL Thanks again Dave and Trish for your love of gardening and letting the rest of us join in and keep thinking up MORE work for you to do on this,The Greatest of all Gardening Sites'''Keep up the good work''Sis''

I love that I can "watch" a thread and keep up with people's generous responses to queries and posts of all kinds.

I love that it is obvious that this is a community-- and people really care about each other.

I love that it is a place where I learn and learn and can ask stupid questions and nobody laughs at me (at least I can't see them laughing, hehehe) and I can grow.

I love that it inspires me to do the best I can in my little garden portion of the world...

Thank you, Dave & Trish, for creating this safe space in which to learn.

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Janie

78 MORE REASONS WHY WE LOVE DG'S.......

I love DG because it is the best excuse not to do housework! Also for all the great folks I've come to know so well. Thank you Dave and Trish for all the hard work ya'll do.I am so grateful. Lisa

I love DG because it's BY gardeners - FOR gardeners!

Let's see,,,where to begin. First there would be GENEROSITY..by the folks here who
1.help a newbie aquire seed
2.help me replace stolen plants
3.help me fill my mom's geranium planters
4.to share time and money saving tips
5.to offer plants and seeds for SASE(I know of no where else where something is actually free
6.of spirit..to pray for someone ill
of course we could run through the alphabet with reasons, starting with a(A)
A=advise
B=befriending people/beautiful photos
C=charitable/sharing with newbies and others who are in need
D=dependability/when someone says they will send something, they do so
E=enthusiasm/for gardening and ideasor endearing people
F=friendships made
G-generosity
H=helpfulness
I=Ingenuity=for finding ways to help solve others problems and/or needs and wants
J=you can see and hear it in all us gerdeners
K=kindness
H=helpfulness
*****************ANYONE Else want to pick up theball her??

L= loving spirit
M=momentum
N= niceness
O=optimism
P= politeness & punctuality
Q= quips
R= richness of friendship
S= sensational ideas

Next?

Jerrie
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T = Trade Tracker
U = Understanding
V = Victory...of many kinds
W= water and aquatic ideas
X= Xerscaping Forum
Y= y because we luv u
Z= Zaneymuse and other Z members

Now we said our ABC's , tell us what you think of these.

Jerrie
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Jerrie, Pretty good I was wondering what you was going to come up with for the xyz....... good job. lol

Thanks, Mystic....ya think we should add the 26 letters to the total count, and make it 60? Okay, then we need 40 more appreciations.

Jerrie
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Oops! That would be 41, silly "eyes"!

I really like the z for zany!!! Luv ya gal!

This place is fun, friendly, supportive, informative, inspiring, helpful, addictive, and feels like family. Thanks a whole big bunch (of flowers) Dave and Trish. You have given us all a great gift.

Zany is blushing! Thanks all but this was a terrific site already when I stumbled in! As of this post time there are 2,938 reasons to love this site! And without that wonderful diversity of people even the best programmer in the world, (That is Dave of course) , could not create such a wonderful trap for us to be caught up in!

In the short time I have been a member, I have learned quite a few things by just reading the forums and threads. You may not hear much from me but I am in here 2-3 times a day. This site is the 1st place I go after I check my email. Everyone is sooooo nice and helpful it is really unbelievable. My thanks to everyone and you can bet I am hooked. Getting excited about receiving my first "packages " in the mail. I have 3 coming! Hugs to everyone.
Jean

Hey, Zany, you're right, 2,938 {WOW!}
reasons to love it here! There ya go folks, we did it twentyfold and then some.....WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!

Jerrie
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Because I've already gotten 101 ideas, and advice!!
DG is ALMOST like the gardening heaven- but inside and you don;t have to pick any weeds!!!
JEanne (JSS) =:0)

What could a person add to the above list. I ditto each and everyone of them. If I spoke what is in my heart for all of you this post would be miles and miles long. So instead I will just say thanks Dave and Trish for a great place to meet and greet and learn from and share with so many wonderful people.