I haven't forgotten about you @JonEricson, I've been unexpectedly busy all weekend.

I mostly agree with waxeagle; this can be a very hit-or-miss site for both question and answer quality and I think we get a lot of bikeshedding which I believe can discourage good questions and answers

@NiallC. No worries. It will be a few days before I can get back to this anyway. Next couple of days will be busy for me.

@NiallC. Do you know if we have honest-to-goodness experts? Like professional botanists and so on?

@JonEricson bamboo's profile says that she's a professional gardener

I think most other people on the front page are stack overflowers who also garden

@NiallC. Or, like me, wishes they gardened. :-/ Hmmm...

@JonEricson I like to think that bringing plants home from the nursery to die is a form of gardening, thank you very much!

Another professional, but hasn't been seen in 1.5 years

Which is another thing that worries me: lots of the top users by rep are no longer active on the site.

@NiallC. That happens. Sometimes they come back. But often not.

@NiallC. Wow. Their top answer is at +12? Seems low.

@JonEricson True, but it seems that there are more on this site than on others I've looked at

@NiallC. I'll ask and see if we have a metric for that.

As I said, it's a low-voting site.

Or at least we are now. In the early days of the site, votes flowed more freely

Dahlia "Hulin's Carnival". The coloring of the flowers can vary a lot, but this is the most unusual one I've ever had.

@NiallC. Indeed. Whatever Napoleon said about soldier dying for a coloured ribbon.