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I'm starting this project because the horticultural categories are rather disorganised. I'm fairly new to wiki, but not to horticulture. (Please help set up the project page!) As well as looking for experienced wikipedians, I'm also recruiting from web forums, where there are some people with great expertise and knowledge on gardening subjects. SB Johnny 14:10, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it proper form to simply delete a bunch of the boilerplate that's not being used? It's rather ungraceful at the moment... I suppose things could just be added back in later. SB Johnny 14:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
In the Organic Garden category, many pages are linked from the main article page, but do not have the category tag. Should they be added? SB Johnny 13:59, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
(Moved from the main project page) Clean up Category:Organic_gardening. There is also a page linked on the Organic_gardening page of related pages, which should probably go on the category page. That page is here: List_of_organic_gardening_and_farming_topics.
Might be good to have one... I've started putting some tags for garden pests to the Horticulture category. SB Johnny 16:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I've seen several discussion pages regarding the "how-to" quality of some horticulture and gardening articles. Perhaps cleaning some of these up to me more encyclopedic would be a good idea, with links to wikibooks that can go into greater detail about how-to information? SB Johnny 10:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Cheers, Shanel 20:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I though members of this project could pitch in at Talk:Pruning about the proposal to merge Pruning fruit trees into that article. Circeus 22:18, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I've created a new wikibook called b:A Wikimanual of Gardening on our sister site, in the hopes of clearing up the "how-to" problems involved with many of the plant and garden pages. I will watch this book and try to keep on top of it, but help would be greatly appreciated. For information on transwiking to this book, please see the chapter b:A_Wikimanual_of_Gardening/How_to_Transwiki_Information_to_this_Book
I'm cross-posting this on the Plants project as well. SB Johnny 17:22, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, shall we list native gardening soiceties on the native gardening page or is there a list elsewhere (tried a wikisearch..) cheers Cas Liber 05:05, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I've been thinking for a while now that some sort of box (like the taxobox) might be good to have for garden plants. Maybe the following fields:
Sound good? Am I leaving something out? Anyone know how to make templates? SB Johnny 17:02, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I have made a User Box feel tree to use it Template:User WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening
Any objections to me putting it on the project page? (Unsigned comment by user:Lynnathon)
Hi there, I just had a quick scan through the lawn article and it requires quite abit of work. It needs to be globalised as at the moment it mainly focuses on United States lawns. Have a look and see what you think, I have put this on my to do list but would welcome any help...... many thanks Lynnathon 21:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi folks! I wandered over while sorting out non-fiction books. I don't know what gardening-book articles may be lurking out there, but do you think there are enough books about botany/horticulture/gardening etc. to merit a sub-cat? Currently we have Category:Agriculture books, but it's very underpopulated. ♥ Her Pegship♥ 15:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Do the project members here have any constructive advice with regard to the following category that is up for deletion: Freshwater aquarium plants? David D. (Talk) 23:04, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Hye guys, much of these two articles are the same and I think a bigger article encompassing the ideals of both is a great idea, there is a vote on on the discussion page of Native gardening. cheers. Cas Liber 23:22, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi all,
Just in case anyone's been wondering, my horticultural writing has been mostly on wikibooks these days, as it's just a lot easier to write on gardening topics in a "how-to-friendly environment". If anyone wants to work on this, there's plenty to do in A Wikimanual of Gardening.
I'm mostly working on pages about weeds, sometimes transwikiing wp articles and modifying them (e.g.: A Wikimanual of Gardening/Trifolium repens), other times starting from scratch (e.g.: A Wikimanual of Gardening/Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides).
The "hortibox" template -- which ran into resistance here from the tree of life people -- is now in use by some chapters over there, e.g. A Wikimanual of Gardening/Iris sibirica. There are also templates for weeds, trees, and weedcontrol, more are in the works. -- SB_Johnny| talk| books 11:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
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Hey guys, much of these two articles are the same and I think a bigger article encompassing the ideals of both is a great idea, there is a vote on on the discussion page of Native gardening. Natural landscaping is probably the broader term though I have not heard it used as such in Australia. Cas Liber 10:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:09, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I would like to put foward the following stub, indoor plant culture, which at the moment is (not even) a stub and is not written in a formal style so if anyone would like to have a go at it. I have been thinking in nominating it for deletion because it does not give any relevant information. It has also been tagged for it to be transwikified to wictionary. I would like to know if anyone can improve this article or shall we just nominate it for deletion? Francisco Valverde 15:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I've just set up a wiki just for plants and gardens. The articles on Wikipedia are by rule encyclopedic, and I want to create a plant encyclopedia and garden wiki with much more gardener friendly information, presentation. I am currently working on adding base material from Wikipedia itself, and then adding things like USDA plant zones, Sunset zones, propogation, common pests and diseases, and all the other types of things a gardener would want to know about a plant... so hopefully the sites will compliment each other with time. -- RaffiKojian 15:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Anybody here know if there is a infobox for botanical gardens/arboretuims etc.? I've look a bit but could not find one. Thanks. Aboutmovies 20:00, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I have recently created a banner for Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology which has assessment parameters. I notice that your existing banner does not. Given the amount of overlap in the biology sector, and the concerns expressed elsewhere about the proliferation of project banners, I was wondering whether the members of this project would be interested in perhaps utilizing the Biology banner, with a "drop down tab" for this project, perhaps similar to the {{ WPMILHIST}} banner. Doing so would permit for individual assessment for each project, as that is something the Military History banner does, while at the same time reducing the amount of banner "clutter" on talk pages. If you would be interested in such an arrangement, please let me know and I will work to revise the Biology banner to include the "drop-down" tab and make the other arrangements required for your project, as well as theirs, to have assessment data available. Thank you. John Carter 21:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
As gardeners are often interested in the period when flowers are in bloom, I suggest categories be created with which to mark the estimated flowering period of plants. Proposal is at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Plants#Proposal for flowering date categories. I haven't found a Wikipedia article about flower garden design which considers blossoming time. I also think the Growing season article could use some expansion to help gardeners. ( SEWilco 18:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC))
Meteorology | Months ( North/ South) |
Category |
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Winter | Jan/Jul | Category:Mid winter flowers |
Feb/Aug | Category:Late winter flowers | |
Spring | Mar/Sep | Category:Early spring flowers |
Apr/Oct | Category:Mid spring flowers | |
May/Nov | Category:Late spring flowers | |
Summer | Jun/Dec | Category:Early summer flowers |
Jul/Jan | Category:Mid summer flowers | |
Aug/Feb | Category:Late summer flowers | |
Autumn | Sep/Mar | Category:Early autumn flowers |
Oct/Apr | Category:Mid autumn flowers | |
Nov/May | Category:Late autumn flowers | |
Winter | Dec/Jun | Category:Early winter flowers |
I ran into this page, and it's listed in the peer review, and so I thought I'd list it here, in case some more edjudificated people could look at it. Thanks for any help. Rhetth 01:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Rearrangement of Category:Flowers is being discussed in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants#Category:Flowers. As some gardeners are interested in the flowering part of the plant, perhaps some here would have something to contribute. ( SEWilco 03:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
I point out the existence of Wikipedia:WikiProject Beekeeping for consideration whether it is of sufficient interest to horticulture to mention it. ( SEWilco 17:16, 28 May 2007 (UTC))
I'm working on a proposal to subsume all the WP:TOL project banners into a single one. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Template union proposal and its talk page. Circeus 19:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Saving a Hibiscus
Hi my name is Rene and I live in northern KY. I recently rescued a very dried out Hibiscus from a lccal store for $5.00 dollars. I brought it home and nurtured it and it was flowering and growing very well. Then a squirel dug it up and exposed the roots and it the plant layed on top of the soil for a day before I found it. I tried everything I could think of to revive it to no avile. Is there anybody that could make any suggestions to help me out? I would be very thankful as i hate to lose such a beautiful plant.
Please email me Mr_abstract@insightbb.com
Can you reformat the project banner? It's fully over 4X the height of the plants banner on the Weed article and is not very tidy looking. KP Botany 19:03, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I recently added 17 images, constituting Commons:Category:Butterflies & Blooms (about an exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo). There are some good pictures, but I am no good at all on names of plants. Many of these feature particular flowering plants and could use species-specific descriptions and categories, and I'm not the one to do it competently. - Jmabel | Talk 03:25, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
The Aeroponics article is a reasonably informative one which covers many aspects of the subject. On the minus side, it reads like a promotional brochure (especially in places). There has been some sparring over this (over neutrality tags, or little edits here or there), but nothing too big yet. I'm not really posting here as a battle cry (at least, not a battle I plan on leading), but sooner or later I expect this to boil over one way or another. I added the article to this wikiproject, and am mentioning it here, but don't plan on doing anything else. Kingdon 19:04, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
If someone has time, could I get help identifying the tree and plant in Image:Cattail.jpg, Image:TreeFruit1.jpg, Image:TreeFruit2.jpg? I put what I think they are, but I'd like a proper plain and scientific name for them if I can get help. I made them PD at WikiCommons and they are high resolution. Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:18, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
"Phragmites Australis" is what someone told me the grass is and that it's of European origin, not native to the area I found it in Virginia. "Callery Pear"-I went back there today and look closer at the fruit. The skin is just like what we called "Asian Pears" when I lived in Japan, so I'm going with these IDs unless someone has a better ID. I'll upload another photo and change the old photos names in a bit. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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Hi all! Couple questions for you. I was wondering if anyone on this project intends to use the /Comments function of the project banner or the /To-do list. As far as I can tell, neither are currently used and clutter up the template. I can remove them if everyone agrees, to be added back later when the project expands. Also, I monitor the User:AlexNewArtBot/PlantsSearchResult and see quite a few botanical gardens fly past my eyes. I haven't added them to WP:PLANTS in the past and User:Kingdon suggested this project might want me to tag those botanical gardens with your project assessment banner. Is that something that's within your scope? Thanks! -- Rkitko ( talk) 15:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Would this article be a part of this wikiproject? SriMesh | talk 03:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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I am currently putting together an article on Charles Curtis (botanist), who was the first superintendent of the Penang Botanic Gardens. My sources say that Curtis was honoured by the genus Curtisina, so I was planning to create an article on this genus. On researching this, I find on zipcodezoo [1] that there is only one species of this genus – Curtisina penangensis. Googling further, I came across this article [2], which implies that Curtisina penangensis is a synonym for both Dacryodes longifolia and Santiria longifolia. Back to zipcodezoo, I see that there are separate entries for both these species at [3] and [4] respectively.
According to zipcodezoo, Curtisina penangensis is a member of the Sapindaceae family, while both Dacryodes and Santiria are separate genera but are both members of the Burseraceae family. I am mightily confused. Can anyone shed any light? Cheers. -- Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 07:24, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
The Cottage garden article is being considered and reviewed for GA here. Anyone who would like to help improve it, please dig in! First Light ( talk) 05:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Are all the botanical gardens in Hawaii covered by the scope of this project? If so, I'll tag them. Viriditas ( talk) 13:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
About tagging in general. Editors interested in horticulture and gardening are definitely the ones to ask for clean-ups, look-over, monitoring of botanical garden articles. I am adding this project's tags to a large assortment of European botanical garden articles being created by an editor. These gardens pop up in the AlexNewArticleBot lists, and I would like to show general Wikipedia support to the editor who is creating them by helping with any issues that arise. -- KP Botany ( talk) 09:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
SilkTork recently did a great job of merging and organizing some very stubby garden articles (Planting Design, Front Garden, Formal Garden, Residential Garden, Rock Garden) into Garden design, and some more stubby articles (Herb Garden, Vegetable Garden, Potager Garden) into Kitchen garden. Those two articles, Garden design and Kitchen garden now offer a lot of room for development to anyone interested, and seem a much better way of organizing the garden related articles. He also created a new category, Category:Types of garden, which helps to organize these and many other garden types. Horticulture and Gardening editors are invited to use this new category, and to help develop these two expanded gardening articles. And of course, feedback is invited. First Light ( talk) 04:24, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
There is no encyclopedic difference between Horticulture and Gardening. See [5]. In the library system, Horticulture and Gardening are listed under the same Dewey number of 635. Our current category system either has articles listed under both or arbitrarily assigned to one or the other with no clear logic. I propose that we merge the categories together as one parent article termed Horticulture and Gardening from which we can have appropriate sub-articles. SilkTork * YES! 18:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
The same for these as well. It would be better to have one cat, and if we have only the one (Gardeners), then somebody would create the other (Horticulturists), so we might as well have both together (Horticulturists and Gardeners). SilkTork * YES! 19:16, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Just want to let people know that two years on, the work on http://www.plants.am is still going strong, with thousands of articles. Since Wikipedia is not a "how-to", this site is specifically a how-to on growing every single garden plant in the world. It is broken into plant requirements and statistics, cultivation, propagation, pests/diseases, cultivars, etc. All of the older articles are being totally rewritten from scratch into this format, and all articles will have links to Wikipedia by default in the new article template. Anyway, I hope some of you who are more interested in the "how-to" of things might find the site helpful, and maybe even want to contribute there as well. An example of a solid article showing the direction new articles are meant to take can be seen here: http://www.plants.am/wiki/Nerium_oleander - If you have any feedback, let me know! Thanks, -- RaffiKojian ( talk) 21:38, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
I think those articles which already have appropriate external links, such as Banana and Asparagus don't need any more, especially as the link is simply to a site which has mainly copied information from Wikipedia. However, if, like Alstroemeria, there are few or no links to useful sources there might be an argument in keeping your link. The value of the link would depend on the unique information contained there which is not contained in Wikipedia. The difference, as you say, is in the instructions to how to plant and cultivate - and that is quite useful. However, in that case, your Alstroemeria article contains no sources, so the information ends up simply the opinion of the creator of that article - which is yourself. That the website is mainly yourself, this comes in the realm of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.
Your post here was the right way of doing things. Putting links to your site in various articles, even though well intentioned, is discouraged for various good reasons. You are falling foul of a couple of guidelines, and I could stack up some more which are related: Wikipedia:Spam, Wikipedia:Reliable sources, etc.
If you'd like to help out here in tracking down good sources for this project that would be useful. [6] is one such source I found. There would be others. Regards SilkTork * YES! 17:01, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
I have now removed the links from articles. As part of my general clean up of horticulture I would be going through external links in articles anyway, as it appears there's too many, and a good number of them are very dubious. I'd also be putting {{ find}} on the talkpage of every article, as that will provide links to a variety of sources. People can help out with the {{ find}} template by putting it on every article they visit in the normal course of editing.
While going through RaffiKojian's edits I noticed that this is not the first time he has come into conflict with putting links to his own website - [7], so he is aware that this sort of thing is discouraged and unwanted. SilkTork * YES! 11:52, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
I apologise for upsetting you Raffi. My perspective on this incident is that I noticed your post, and went to your site, had a look at it, and left you an encouraging message. Then I noticed that you had been placing links to your site, and those links were not adding value and were against guidelines. I drew this politely to your attention. You disputed my view. I gave you further guidelines which indicated that the links were not adding value. You continued to dispute the issue, then - instead of removing the links - you announced you were leaving Wiki. I removed the links myself, and again left you a welcoming message. As I was removing the links I noticed that you had previously been involved in a dispute over linking. Forgive me for not looking deeply into the case, such is the nature of what we do here, we do not always have the time to examine things deeply, and I had already spent a fair amount of time removing your links which I had hoped you would do yourself. However, the impression I gained from seeing the previous dispute was that you were aware that linking to other Wiki sites was contentious, and that you would have learned that an appropriate approach would be to bring it to the attention of the WikiProject before adding them to articles. None of this is to say that I think you are a bad person, or that you are a trouble-maker. I wish you well with your site, and again I welcome you to work here on Wikipedia within this project. SilkTork * YES! 20:32, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
You know First Light, not once did I actually protest the removal of the links, nor do I intend to do that now - here or on anther page. I have merely said I don't think the issue was quite as black and white as it was portrayed as. That's all. I was done with this conversation back then. Ever since that time though, I've been defending my site and myself against what are coming off more and more as personal attacks by SilkTork. This last message complaining about the licensing of my site, and saying the site adds no value was a perfect encapsulation of what I think has been an extremely negative stream of notes, one after another, from him, that I've felt I had to defend myself from again and again. I was done with this conversation a long time ago, but he always manages to widen the gash, every time he replies. I'm at a total loss to understand him, or his problem with me. -- RaffiKojian ( talk) 05:52, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Thinking out loud here. As I'm going through and tidying up I am wondering how we deal with the relationship with Botany. And how we would differentiate between a botanist and a horticulturist. I see Horticulture as a branch of Botany dealing with domestic plants - so plants that appear in a garden (such as roses) might be categorised under Botany and also under Horticulture in a sub-cat - Category:Garden plants. Is that useful? Or, as gardeners can put any plant they like in a garden, is separate cat for garden plants really that useful? SilkTork * YES! 08:34, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
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Not sure who is watching this page, but Prostrate shrub is a new article almost of sufficient size for a DYK - I have expanded it but it is heavily Australian-focused. Any American or British gardeners are welcome to give other examples or expand page. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Can we do anything with this stub I wonder.... Casliber ( talk · contribs) 14:06, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I have never seen this written as one word..I mused on a merge with pot plant..but that redirects to houseplant. Not quite the same. What to do I wonder.... Casliber ( talk · contribs) 12:58, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
There is an ongoing dispute regarding the Bhut Jolokia pepper article so I'd like to ask other members from this project to take a look. At the heart of it is whether the term "Ghost chili" or "Ghost pepper" are legitimate names for this pepper, apparently an academic paper published by a student from Nagaland University disagrees with articles published by National Geographic, Time Magazine, The Guardian, and a multitude of other major publications. Example diff: [9]
So, what to do? Even if "Ghost chili" is a mis-translation, should we be removing all the references that call it by that name? I'm sure there have been situations in the past which are similar to this one and I want to know how it was resolved. I am taking a break from editing this particular article until I receive some community feedback. If possible please leave a note on Talk:Bhut Jolokia pepper as well. JBsupreme ( talk) 20:27, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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Tree shaping article has ungone a lot of editing back and forth. It is mainly about the word Arborsculpture and in what context the word should be used within the article. Blackash ( talk) 03:26, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Blackash ( talk) 03:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Please note that editor 208.59.93.238 and 96.233.40.199 are one and the same person. They outed themselfs in the section Recap "Please note that this IP address and 96.233.40.199 are used by the same person." Blackash ( talk) 07:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Blackash ( talk) 03:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Blackash ( talk) 03:28, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Basically these three editors are attempting to give undue weight to the word Arboursculpture. They are claiming that I have COI so they don't have to give reasons or to come to a compromise for their changes. Initially I said that I didn't see we had a conflict, but then I read the ICO article and this was my reply after that.
208.59.93.238 and 96.233.40.199 have implied I only edit for self promotional reasons. Check out some of my editing of related articles, I don't promote Pooktre, but try to improve Wikipedia in general. They have also accused me of micromanaging when I asked them for the reasoning for the change/s to the content. These editors plus Slowart insinuate that the original naming of the article was instigated by me. Which is not true. My reply to this was "I don't prefer Tree shaping verses Arborsculpture. Any neutral name would do. Tree shaping was changed from Arborsculpture becuse there is a method linked the word. Arborsculpture and Pooktre both have methods linked to their names and it would be inappropriate to use these as they are not neutral, generic, or descriptive. Richard Reames and now this editor keep trying to imply that we were responsible for the naming of this article. There was a consensus of quite a few different editors. Move from Arborscusculpture to Tree Shaping Blackash (talk) 16:11, 24 January 2010 (UTC)"
I refute the point, I do research and give quotes as to why it is wrong, I contradict what I believe the issues are (as they don't say why it can be a bit confusing) and find evidence to back up what I have said.
I have repeatedly asked them to give reasons for the changes. I have attempted to work towards a compromise, between their view and mine. Any changes I make are basically undone or they change the sentence to give more weight to the word Arborsculpture. Example they asked a citation, after three days they removed the content from the page. This content was related to the usage of the word Arborsculpture. Blackash ( talk) 03:25, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
In short I like some new eyes looking at the content before this editing started to voice an opinion on which edits are improving the content and what isn't.
Blackash ( talk) 03:22, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
There's plenty of evidence of arborsculpture being used as a generic term. Please consider it before opining. -- Griseum ( talk) 03:18, 8 February 2010 (UTC) (same user as IP address used recently in "arborsculpture" discussions).
Hi, confused where gardening's boundary is in the 'design direction.' Was surprised the History of gardening article seems a good History of garden design. (much better the history articles connected to landscape architecture and garden design). However is does not talk about 'gardening' in the care & horticulture area. (not saying that's wrong, but that I'm confused.) Would like to help & be a part of team, but not sure where its focus. Thank you--- Look2See1 ( talk) 07:25, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
We have too many overlapping poor articles around this area. Any thoughts on how many we actually need of Charbagh, Persian gardens, Paradise garden, Mughal gardens, & Islamic garden? Large chunks of this useful book are online, if anyone wants to knock them into shape. Johnbod ( talk) 02:34, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
We could sure use a few more eyes and green fingers to consider the facts and help us reach consensus at the article currently being called tree shaping, which started out as arborsculpture and which is the craft of cultivating and training trees, shrubs, and vines to grow into ornamental shapes, useful implements, and structures. It has a project tag for us here, and I got wind of it over at arboriculture back in April. I've since edited a lot, and also finally initiated a request for comment, surrounding an involved & covered artist-editor having maintained a commercially motivated hostile editing environment over a period of years. This yielded a few new editors now, including myself, who reached consensus in a proposal to change the page title to proceed with a requested move to consider the page move back to its original name, which may end up in mediation or not, depending on whether some consensus can be firmly established, and there is some. Meanwhile, the article is moving in new directions and getting much better, though it's a wrestle, and it may be due for a re-appraisal as to quality anyway. Thanks very much, if you can help us out over there. Duff ( talk) 05:45, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I am trying to start an article on Lilac walks. As a number of these exist around the country in Arboretums and Botanical Gardens pictures are not a problem. I first heard the term used by Father John Fialla who wrote "Lilacs" published by Timber Press so I'll be able to use that book for references but I would like to invite you'all to help out if you can. Andyvancleve ( talk) 05:02, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
I was checking some references, when I come across this one Titled A History of Grafting at [13] This is a fairly large pdf with lots of good info published by an experts. I thought this site may be of interest to your wikiproject. Blackash have a chat 13:26, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi,
I have recently joined Wikipedia as an editor. I am extremely keen on discussions around architechtural desings and the variety of options they offer. One of the area where architectural designs play an extremely important role is Terrace Gardens as, a lot needs to be understood in terms of structural design of the building specially if it is a high rise, water proofing methods, the direction of the sunlight, type of plants to be used etc.
Some of the modern architechts are doing an extremely wonderful job of providing terrace gardens in their buildings. Kamal & Shibanee Sagar have designed some of the most beutiful apartment projects with terrace gardens, compost bins etc. One of their projects Windmills of Your Mind has terrace gardens in all of it's nineteen floors.
Our intention here may not be to advertise, but certainly the work of such architechts should be highlighted. There could be other names as well. These names will create a lot of interest amongst the readers.
Even if an external link is not allowed, a section on what is happening currently and who all are providing Terace Gardens should be there.
Thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Total Environment Building Systems ( talk • contribs) 18:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
The following image is currently at Files for Deletion: 2812--Flowers-Hearst Castle-2.JPG
The image was taken at the Hearst Castle. Can anyone tell me what sort of flower this might be? BusterD ( talk) 16:46, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
There's a kind of tree in China that looks like a banyan tree. It surrounds palm trees and eats them. It makes lots of branches that wind around it and fuze together again. It also has long brown roots that hang down. I have pics of it, but want to know what it's called because it's surely already an article. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 05:50, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Horticulture and Gardening will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in horticulture and gardening's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch ( talk) 00:51, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
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All main articles for each subcategory were listed in the main category as well. In my opionion this was more confusing then helpful. Please let us know your opinions on these matters. Wiki-uk ( talk) 18:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Looking at the table on Persian_gardens#Styles, I have my doubts if it is correct that currently ‘Gardens’ is a subcategory of ‘Parks’. According to me it should be the other way around, because a parks can be seen as public gardens, while not all gardens can be seen as a type of park. Any comments (agree/oppose)? Wiki-uk ( talk) 16:03, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, could someone to work on this article Biodiversity of New Caledonia. It is very important in Paleobotany and evolution. Could you to work on this article, please?. It is a very important archaic species group in Paleobotany and evolution. Curritocurrito ( talk) 17:38, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi gardening people!! :) Some listed there have pepper infoboxes, some cultivar taxoboxes, and some I don't know. I don't know the difference between a cultivar and a variety. I'm wondering if you could give us some guidance at that talk page (I already posted there) about how to make things consistent, if that's possible. Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 11:22, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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As part of GibraltarpediA we aim to cover every plant in the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens and create QRpedia codes (a type of bar code your phone can read through it's camera that automatically takes you through to a Wikipedia in your own language) in the garden to give people easy access to the information. As far as I know the first botanic garden to do this. A full list of the plants is available here, I would estimate around half already have some information in English but many have an article in other languages already.
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Much to my surprise, sources for the article Organic food have to satisfy WP:MEDRS. Recently I added a some text, based on a agricultural journal, only to see it removed due to it not being indexed by Medline. The guy doing this operates quite aggressive, so I need more people to check this article, as I think it is not neutral and hijacked. Your input please here: Talk:Organic food#WP:MEDRS — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Banner ( talk • contribs) 10:58, November 24, 2012
If any of you would like to address my concerns, that would be great.-- Curtis Clark ( talk) 03:24, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to consolidate discussion here.-- Curtis Clark ( talk) 23:33, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Request for comments at Talk:Organic_milk#RFC The Banner talk 03:41, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to let gardening people know that this could be a really terrific article if someone wanted to put some more work into it. I fixed it up quite a bit just now, but there is much more that could be done without very much effort; it's a very interesting topic. These gardens have been called "American's Greatest Forgotten Garden", but they are currently the focus of much new work and restoration, so it won't be forgotten for very much longer! best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 18:02, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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I've started a discussion on the above topic at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories#Gardens_and_landscapes_by_designer and would appreciate any input from members of this wikiproject. Thanks, Waggers TALK 08:00, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Agriculture#Crop calendar
Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 11:16, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear gardeners: This old abandoned Afc draft was never submitted, but seems to have some interesting material. It's about to be deleted unless someone edits it. Is this a notable topic? — Anne Delong ( talk) 03:31, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Template:Hortibox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.112 ( talk) 05:39, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Another editor, Leopoldhausen, and I have been very busy adding citations to the "List of Companion Plants" page. At what point could we have the banner stating that the article needs more inline citations removed? Do we just do that ourselves? Can this page be given a quality rating? Thanks- Jenjhall ( talk) 23:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
We need some images over there. If you have a camera and a shovel, or one of those new camera-shovels, please help.
Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 17:51, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear plant experts: Here's another of those abandoned draft article that will soon be deleted. Is this a notable topic, and should the article be saved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 14:25, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
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There is an AFD about Hill Farm Community Garden (in Louisiana, in the U.S.), at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hill Farm Community Garden, which may be of interest. And there is an AFD about Community gardens in Omaha, Nebraska, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Community gardens in Omaha, Nebraska, which may be of interest. Please consider commenting. -- do ncr am 19:26, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I've suggested a split of English rose (personal description) into a girl and a plant article. See talk:English rose (personal description). Is this plant concept significant? -- 65.94.169.222 ( talk) 06:38, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Currently there are individual articles for various dahlia cultivars, and each article is very brief. I think the information would be much more useful if someone could view all the cultivars in a single article, like has been done for garden roses.
Here are the individual dahlia articles I'm talking about:
I'd appreciate any thoughts on this. Thanks. Gccwang ( talk) 05:23, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
In re: to User:Tryptofish I created a merge discussion at Talk:List_of_''Dahlia''_cultivars Gccwang ( talk) 07:55, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
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I posted Food Not Lawns, as a meme, onto Wikipedia, but there are issues about me as author/founder being the only person who has written the article. I do believe that Food Not Lawns, both as a meme and as an organization, are an important part of the gardening, horticulture, sustainability sections of wikipedia, and also Food Not Lawns directly connects to tFood Not Bombs and the Anarchist labyrinth there.
Would anyone consider adding your two cents to the entry? That would be great!
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Planting season and Sowing season have been nominated for deletion -- 70.51.200.135 ( talk) 04:39, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
On the Defoliant page it mentions how defoliation is used to aid in harvesting cotton plants (it's used to increase the yield, efficiency and quality), however it doesn't have much information about it, and I'm not sure if that would even be appropriate to add a lot of information about defoliation to the Defoliant stub. I thought it might be appropriate to make a new article about "Defoliation of Plants" to describe how this process is used with cotton plants, as well as how it's used for many other species of plants/crops. What do you think? Should I start this as a new article (with citations from journals of course), or would it be better to add more information to the Defoliant page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plantlady223 ( talk • contribs) 03:06, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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I find the rating of articles currently highly arbitrary. Why is Dahlia high priority, Peony low, and why is Rose not rated at all? Why is Enid A. Haupt top priority (never heard of her before) and is André Le Nôtre, only the creator of the gardens of Versailles, not even identified as part of the Project? Should articles that are and should be part of the project not be identified and their priority rated in a concerted action? I'd be willing to give it a go, but only if there is no opposition. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 17:05, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I am looking for some help concerning the toxicity of a plants in the genus Colchicum. Sorry if this is not the right place to ask (I was not sure). 143.176.56.102 ( talk) 09:43, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
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This article, which needs a lot of work, is currently rated as of Low Importance on the Horticulture and Gardening project scale. That seems a very odd rating for one of the world's most famous gardens. I propose to change it to High, unless there are any objections. KJP1 ( talk) 07:47, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
This project's articles are already categorised by importance and quality using lowercase "gardening", see Category:Horticulture and gardening articles by importance and Category:Horticulture and gardening articles by quality, so it would not be difficult to change the project name and a few other categories to match that naming format.
Following a suggestion at WP:CFDS, I therefore propose renaming this project from WP:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening to WP:WikiProject Horticulture and gardening.
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I'm planning to expand this article, with a view to FAC. It has an interesting mix of horticultural, historical and architectural aspects, and there's an abundance of source material - much of which I have. Sadly, I'm no gardener, and I think the article would benefit greatly from the input of an editor who knows about plants/horticulture. I've some experience of working collaboratively on FAC articles and I would be really interested in working with an editor with a horticultural focus. I think there's a fairly simple split between the history/architecture and the garden that would lend itself to a collaborative approach. If the idea appeals, just drop me a note, here, on my Talkpage, or on the article's Talkpage, where I've copied this message. KJP1 ( talk) 07:51, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
I want to merge 4 articles about sustainable gardening, and title it Sustainable gardening. If I understand it correctly, gardeners in the USA like to call themselves "landscapers". Am I wrong? Discussion? In the discussions on the various talk pages some people feel landscaping pertains to municipal grounds, and gardening to home gardens, but then in that case the articles are mixed up, with the text at Sustainable gardening 100% about (being accredited for) designing municipal green spaces and that at Sustainable landscaping 95% about constructing home gardens. As the terminology is confused, I advocate use of the more ubiquitous and unambiguous "gardening". I have also rewritten the landscape-scale conservation article; in that case, and in regards to the articles Landscape and Landscape ecology, an even larger unit of land is referred to. This usage also conforms to the original German/Dutch sense (in which "landscape architect" comes across as ridiculously pompous). The best sources (all American) in Sustainable landscaping go so far as to refer to a portion of garden as a "landscape", i.e. a green roof or a rock garden. The other articles I want merged with this are Sustainable landscape architecture (devoid of references) and Sustainable planting (confused about subject matter, should be chopped up and distributed among valid articles). Most of the articles on such subject matter were written by either someone in 2006 (he didn't feel references were necessary) or someone else in 2009 (who previously wrote a book on the subject and wanted to promote it), the text has largely stayed the same since then, hence the problematic sourcing to these opinions. So, let's hear it: Leo Breman ( talk) 13:06, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hi.
I am very disconcerted and have to see me very offended and very insulted.
There are 2 articles: No-dig gardening and No till farming. (Ignoring the titles in other terms: Organic horticulture (redirect from Organic gardening), Regenerative agriculture, and surely more.
I did an own one for my needs and connectivities, No till garden.
It first was nominated to speedy deletion, by the author of No-dig gardening. I contested, without success. Today the nominating had gone for some hours, then was nominated again for speedy deletion, reasons: hoax and vandalism.
But no way to contest, because of taken away again this message and my title redirected to the title No-dig gardening.
Without help in Teahouse I would not even have the knowledge, my article still exists and having so far still access to it, without a link. Thanks a lot to the Teahouse.
Competition, rivalry: is NO support for a knowledge database. It is just the opposite. Thanks the interesst. -- Visionhelp ( talk) 22:18, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Normal Op, thanks the reaction.
2 similar existing is OK ? But 3 not ?
This is not clear rules, where one can work with, please.
Editing in an article I do keep me back, from very bad and unnice experiences. I can do notes in "Talk". But at behaviour as this from the author of No-dig gardening, this for me is a clear sign (alarm) to deny this contact at all. So what ?
Alone the permaculture ideology ´propagating´ there, and wikipedia in parts is propagating always with, is very against my prefering to deny ideology at all. There is no coming together possible. And the claims are very different.
To "No-dig gardening" ?: Why not to
Regenerative agriculture, or
Organic horticulture, or
No till farming ? I have a big work with my view to this topic. The article is in progress. But stopped now. I do not go on editing at this stadium of the article. I am thinking of an other title, but will not be easy and must not be successful.
And a possible lobbyism: where being amazed and convinced but overjumping just the truths and being disrespectful (discrediting and so on), this are 2 kinds of lobbyism, please. Thanks.
"duplicate articles" ?: till and dig is double ? Garden is double. ´OK.´
And to redirect ´my´ term to his article (without my permission), which leads to hiding and surpressing mine with, is just clear to call ABUSE, please !
--
Visionhelp (
talk) 08:56, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Normal Op, my article WAS just in the beginnings, in the meanwhile it did become more saying now. But I may doubt this.
The second nomination to speedy deletion was saying hoax and vandalism.
This now I MAY call back hoax and vandalism.
English is not my native language. But using in my native language already easy and good fast understandable words for everybody is a neverending work I do, and this for in english, too. Very in the article. And even in german I have to read, german is not my native language, from but just NOT WANTING to understand what I am saying. So what ?
Reason for redirect: The author of the site to redirected is the one, who nominated to speedy deletion. This nomination was removed at about 11 o´clock AM yesterday, wednesday. At about 6 o´clock PM it was nominated again for speedy deletion, and after this, suddenly very fast redirected to the first nominator´s article site. (My english in the article can not be a problem, I am sure.)
The draft-page, I will look at it and check how to handle this. Thanks for now. All the best.
"Difficult to understand" ? Example, please ?
All the best.
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Visionhelp (
talk) 16:38, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
I am very sorry,
Normal Op.
There are very different views to (from ´
No-till farming´) from food self-providing to ´being able, having a GOOD life from a farm´, and there is a very difference from dig to till. (I am still realizing this, after could not really understand it until these days now, for me this very difference, and it is not easy even to remind me of it, when needed. Because it seems so near together, but it is just not.)
So I have to persist on ´Not till garden´, because I do MEAN ´not till´, and not ´not dig´, please.
But I have to admit, I cannot (and I do not) mean the garden, it is meant the garden soil, the garden ground. Hm.
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Visionhelp (
talk) 19:30, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello.
Is anyting wrong with my english, which is not my native language, in the Draft:
/info/en/?search=User:Visionhelp/sandbox ?
The reaction of claiming this from the ´Teahouse´ does very reject me:
"Base: a philosophy is not CLEAR an ideology, but permaculture yes".
The (my) article fits to ´Project tasks, 4.
/info/en/?search=Category:Organic_gardening´.
Therefrom I should have posted instead of in the ´Teahouse´ directly here.
But I fear, I will here not find better reactions, sorry. So what then ? OK.
In "Talks" my english CAN be not so well, from being upset, if. And trying to say what I have to say, but have to say it respectfully, despite of being emotional, but entirely in the thing and clear and not offending at all ! But to do it as I can in german, I will never have or reach the word-treasure and the insight as requirement, which word does who understand how, and which words have quite fast misunderstanding double meanings possible and misleading.
But not in the article. Then even help couldn´t help. Because a word in this terracing has quite another nuance as a word with the exact same meaning but with an other nuancing.
From this I have to use in english still more the most easiest words as already in german, to say all CLEAR and good and fast and easy understandable. And not nuanced, so far as possible at all.
If now no question to You is to find, OK. I just do not ask ! Visionhelp ( talk) 14:41, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
A new article has recently been created on Shute House in Wiltshire. The house is most notable for its gardens by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe. They are only open for group visits by prior written appointment. The article would be greatly improved by some photographs of the gardens. Are there any editors who have been fortunate enough to visit and could upload some images? KJP1 ( talk) 07:05, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Created garden writing last night, but I'm no expert. Any thoughts/contributions/ideas welcome! I was confused that I didn't turn up anything good in secondary sources about Vita Sackville-West, so she's a somewhat glaring omission from the article at present. AleatoryPonderings ( talk) 17:59, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I've proposed the merge of pot farming to container gardening and would appreciate input from others. There is a discussion section started at Talk:Container garden. Thank you! Dinanderie ( talk) 00:26, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I recently made an article for the Herb Society of America. It is a work in progress. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 03:26, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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Sandbox Organiser A place to help you organise your work |
Hi all
I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful, especially if you create new articles. Wikipedia:Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.
Huge thanks to PrimeHunter and NavinoEvans for their work on the technical parts, without them it wouldn't have happened.
Hope its helpful
John Cummings ( talk) 11:23, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Introducing the Horticulture and Gardening Barnstar. Jerm ( talk) 04:06, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Category:Horticulture and Gardening articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peaceray ( talk) 20:36, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Over the next week, there is going to be a work project on Garden by the Wikipedia Discord server as part of an attempt to get Garden to B-class and we would appreciate your help. They are trying to get all vital articles to B-class. (Oinkers42) ( talk) 03:15, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:George Russell (racing driver)#Requested move 28 August 2021 which may be of interest to members of the WikiProject. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion. HumanBodyPiloter5 ( talk) 06:12, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
The article Jardin botanique alpin "Daniella" has been nominated for deletion. Your feedback would be appreciated at WP:Articles for deletion/Jardin botanique alpin "Daniella". Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 22:06, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{ cite web}}, {{ cite journal}} and {{ doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
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Hello everyone -- I wanted to extend an invitation to all members of WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening. Throughout the month of July, WikiProject Women in Green (which focuses on bringing articles about women and women's works up to Good Article [GA] status and beyond) is hosting a GA editathon event on the theme of "Women and the Environment." Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and the environment (e.g., gardeners, biologists, horticulturalists, or environmental-related books and films by women), with editors of all experience levels welcome. GA editing resources and one-on-one support will be made available by Women in Green, and participants will have the opportunity to receive a barnstar for their efforts. We hope to see you there! All the best, Alanna the Brave ( talk) 20:30, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
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Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at
Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent
Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
parameter to {{
WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{
WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom
parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present.
Aymatth2 (
talk) 14:41, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Villa Borghese gardens#Requested move 5 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:12, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Are the terms 'horticulturist' and 'horticulturalist' both considered acceptable for the occupation? Both terms seem to be represented in dictionaries, but I've seen discussions suggesting that horticulturalist is incorrect. Our category tree at Category:Horticulturists uniformly uses horticulturist, but we have many articles that use horticulturalist in the body and title of the articles ( John S. Harris (horticulturalist), John Cripps (horticulturalist), Graham Ross (horticulturalist)) . gobonobo + c 21:29, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
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I'm starting this project because the horticultural categories are rather disorganised. I'm fairly new to wiki, but not to horticulture. (Please help set up the project page!) As well as looking for experienced wikipedians, I'm also recruiting from web forums, where there are some people with great expertise and knowledge on gardening subjects. SB Johnny 14:10, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it proper form to simply delete a bunch of the boilerplate that's not being used? It's rather ungraceful at the moment... I suppose things could just be added back in later. SB Johnny 14:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
In the Organic Garden category, many pages are linked from the main article page, but do not have the category tag. Should they be added? SB Johnny 13:59, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
(Moved from the main project page) Clean up Category:Organic_gardening. There is also a page linked on the Organic_gardening page of related pages, which should probably go on the category page. That page is here: List_of_organic_gardening_and_farming_topics.
Might be good to have one... I've started putting some tags for garden pests to the Horticulture category. SB Johnny 16:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I've seen several discussion pages regarding the "how-to" quality of some horticulture and gardening articles. Perhaps cleaning some of these up to me more encyclopedic would be a good idea, with links to wikibooks that can go into greater detail about how-to information? SB Johnny 10:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Cheers, Shanel 20:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I though members of this project could pitch in at Talk:Pruning about the proposal to merge Pruning fruit trees into that article. Circeus 22:18, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I've created a new wikibook called b:A Wikimanual of Gardening on our sister site, in the hopes of clearing up the "how-to" problems involved with many of the plant and garden pages. I will watch this book and try to keep on top of it, but help would be greatly appreciated. For information on transwiking to this book, please see the chapter b:A_Wikimanual_of_Gardening/How_to_Transwiki_Information_to_this_Book
I'm cross-posting this on the Plants project as well. SB Johnny 17:22, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, shall we list native gardening soiceties on the native gardening page or is there a list elsewhere (tried a wikisearch..) cheers Cas Liber 05:05, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I've been thinking for a while now that some sort of box (like the taxobox) might be good to have for garden plants. Maybe the following fields:
Sound good? Am I leaving something out? Anyone know how to make templates? SB Johnny 17:02, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I have made a User Box feel tree to use it Template:User WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening
Any objections to me putting it on the project page? (Unsigned comment by user:Lynnathon)
Hi there, I just had a quick scan through the lawn article and it requires quite abit of work. It needs to be globalised as at the moment it mainly focuses on United States lawns. Have a look and see what you think, I have put this on my to do list but would welcome any help...... many thanks Lynnathon 21:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi folks! I wandered over while sorting out non-fiction books. I don't know what gardening-book articles may be lurking out there, but do you think there are enough books about botany/horticulture/gardening etc. to merit a sub-cat? Currently we have Category:Agriculture books, but it's very underpopulated. ♥ Her Pegship♥ 15:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Do the project members here have any constructive advice with regard to the following category that is up for deletion: Freshwater aquarium plants? David D. (Talk) 23:04, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Hye guys, much of these two articles are the same and I think a bigger article encompassing the ideals of both is a great idea, there is a vote on on the discussion page of Native gardening. cheers. Cas Liber 23:22, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi all,
Just in case anyone's been wondering, my horticultural writing has been mostly on wikibooks these days, as it's just a lot easier to write on gardening topics in a "how-to-friendly environment". If anyone wants to work on this, there's plenty to do in A Wikimanual of Gardening.
I'm mostly working on pages about weeds, sometimes transwikiing wp articles and modifying them (e.g.: A Wikimanual of Gardening/Trifolium repens), other times starting from scratch (e.g.: A Wikimanual of Gardening/Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides).
The "hortibox" template -- which ran into resistance here from the tree of life people -- is now in use by some chapters over there, e.g. A Wikimanual of Gardening/Iris sibirica. There are also templates for weeds, trees, and weedcontrol, more are in the works. -- SB_Johnny| talk| books 11:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 23:39, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Beginning cross-post.
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Hey guys, much of these two articles are the same and I think a bigger article encompassing the ideals of both is a great idea, there is a vote on on the discussion page of Native gardening. Natural landscaping is probably the broader term though I have not heard it used as such in Australia. Cas Liber 10:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:09, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I would like to put foward the following stub, indoor plant culture, which at the moment is (not even) a stub and is not written in a formal style so if anyone would like to have a go at it. I have been thinking in nominating it for deletion because it does not give any relevant information. It has also been tagged for it to be transwikified to wictionary. I would like to know if anyone can improve this article or shall we just nominate it for deletion? Francisco Valverde 15:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I've just set up a wiki just for plants and gardens. The articles on Wikipedia are by rule encyclopedic, and I want to create a plant encyclopedia and garden wiki with much more gardener friendly information, presentation. I am currently working on adding base material from Wikipedia itself, and then adding things like USDA plant zones, Sunset zones, propogation, common pests and diseases, and all the other types of things a gardener would want to know about a plant... so hopefully the sites will compliment each other with time. -- RaffiKojian 15:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Anybody here know if there is a infobox for botanical gardens/arboretuims etc.? I've look a bit but could not find one. Thanks. Aboutmovies 20:00, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I have recently created a banner for Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology which has assessment parameters. I notice that your existing banner does not. Given the amount of overlap in the biology sector, and the concerns expressed elsewhere about the proliferation of project banners, I was wondering whether the members of this project would be interested in perhaps utilizing the Biology banner, with a "drop down tab" for this project, perhaps similar to the {{ WPMILHIST}} banner. Doing so would permit for individual assessment for each project, as that is something the Military History banner does, while at the same time reducing the amount of banner "clutter" on talk pages. If you would be interested in such an arrangement, please let me know and I will work to revise the Biology banner to include the "drop-down" tab and make the other arrangements required for your project, as well as theirs, to have assessment data available. Thank you. John Carter 21:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
As gardeners are often interested in the period when flowers are in bloom, I suggest categories be created with which to mark the estimated flowering period of plants. Proposal is at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Plants#Proposal for flowering date categories. I haven't found a Wikipedia article about flower garden design which considers blossoming time. I also think the Growing season article could use some expansion to help gardeners. ( SEWilco 18:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC))
Meteorology | Months ( North/ South) |
Category |
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Winter | Jan/Jul | Category:Mid winter flowers |
Feb/Aug | Category:Late winter flowers | |
Spring | Mar/Sep | Category:Early spring flowers |
Apr/Oct | Category:Mid spring flowers | |
May/Nov | Category:Late spring flowers | |
Summer | Jun/Dec | Category:Early summer flowers |
Jul/Jan | Category:Mid summer flowers | |
Aug/Feb | Category:Late summer flowers | |
Autumn | Sep/Mar | Category:Early autumn flowers |
Oct/Apr | Category:Mid autumn flowers | |
Nov/May | Category:Late autumn flowers | |
Winter | Dec/Jun | Category:Early winter flowers |
I ran into this page, and it's listed in the peer review, and so I thought I'd list it here, in case some more edjudificated people could look at it. Thanks for any help. Rhetth 01:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Rearrangement of Category:Flowers is being discussed in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants#Category:Flowers. As some gardeners are interested in the flowering part of the plant, perhaps some here would have something to contribute. ( SEWilco 03:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
I point out the existence of Wikipedia:WikiProject Beekeeping for consideration whether it is of sufficient interest to horticulture to mention it. ( SEWilco 17:16, 28 May 2007 (UTC))
I'm working on a proposal to subsume all the WP:TOL project banners into a single one. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Template union proposal and its talk page. Circeus 19:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Saving a Hibiscus
Hi my name is Rene and I live in northern KY. I recently rescued a very dried out Hibiscus from a lccal store for $5.00 dollars. I brought it home and nurtured it and it was flowering and growing very well. Then a squirel dug it up and exposed the roots and it the plant layed on top of the soil for a day before I found it. I tried everything I could think of to revive it to no avile. Is there anybody that could make any suggestions to help me out? I would be very thankful as i hate to lose such a beautiful plant.
Please email me Mr_abstract@insightbb.com
Can you reformat the project banner? It's fully over 4X the height of the plants banner on the Weed article and is not very tidy looking. KP Botany 19:03, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I recently added 17 images, constituting Commons:Category:Butterflies & Blooms (about an exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo). There are some good pictures, but I am no good at all on names of plants. Many of these feature particular flowering plants and could use species-specific descriptions and categories, and I'm not the one to do it competently. - Jmabel | Talk 03:25, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
The Aeroponics article is a reasonably informative one which covers many aspects of the subject. On the minus side, it reads like a promotional brochure (especially in places). There has been some sparring over this (over neutrality tags, or little edits here or there), but nothing too big yet. I'm not really posting here as a battle cry (at least, not a battle I plan on leading), but sooner or later I expect this to boil over one way or another. I added the article to this wikiproject, and am mentioning it here, but don't plan on doing anything else. Kingdon 19:04, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
If someone has time, could I get help identifying the tree and plant in Image:Cattail.jpg, Image:TreeFruit1.jpg, Image:TreeFruit2.jpg? I put what I think they are, but I'd like a proper plain and scientific name for them if I can get help. I made them PD at WikiCommons and they are high resolution. Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:18, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
"Phragmites Australis" is what someone told me the grass is and that it's of European origin, not native to the area I found it in Virginia. "Callery Pear"-I went back there today and look closer at the fruit. The skin is just like what we called "Asian Pears" when I lived in Japan, so I'm going with these IDs unless someone has a better ID. I'll upload another photo and change the old photos names in a bit. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wikimedians,
This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).
The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests
If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.
The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.
thanks, pfctdayelise ( talk) 13:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)
Hi all! Couple questions for you. I was wondering if anyone on this project intends to use the /Comments function of the project banner or the /To-do list. As far as I can tell, neither are currently used and clutter up the template. I can remove them if everyone agrees, to be added back later when the project expands. Also, I monitor the User:AlexNewArtBot/PlantsSearchResult and see quite a few botanical gardens fly past my eyes. I haven't added them to WP:PLANTS in the past and User:Kingdon suggested this project might want me to tag those botanical gardens with your project assessment banner. Is that something that's within your scope? Thanks! -- Rkitko ( talk) 15:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Would this article be a part of this wikiproject? SriMesh | talk 03:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 21:44, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.
A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.
We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:40, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
I am currently putting together an article on Charles Curtis (botanist), who was the first superintendent of the Penang Botanic Gardens. My sources say that Curtis was honoured by the genus Curtisina, so I was planning to create an article on this genus. On researching this, I find on zipcodezoo [1] that there is only one species of this genus – Curtisina penangensis. Googling further, I came across this article [2], which implies that Curtisina penangensis is a synonym for both Dacryodes longifolia and Santiria longifolia. Back to zipcodezoo, I see that there are separate entries for both these species at [3] and [4] respectively.
According to zipcodezoo, Curtisina penangensis is a member of the Sapindaceae family, while both Dacryodes and Santiria are separate genera but are both members of the Burseraceae family. I am mightily confused. Can anyone shed any light? Cheers. -- Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 07:24, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
The Cottage garden article is being considered and reviewed for GA here. Anyone who would like to help improve it, please dig in! First Light ( talk) 05:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Are all the botanical gardens in Hawaii covered by the scope of this project? If so, I'll tag them. Viriditas ( talk) 13:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
About tagging in general. Editors interested in horticulture and gardening are definitely the ones to ask for clean-ups, look-over, monitoring of botanical garden articles. I am adding this project's tags to a large assortment of European botanical garden articles being created by an editor. These gardens pop up in the AlexNewArticleBot lists, and I would like to show general Wikipedia support to the editor who is creating them by helping with any issues that arise. -- KP Botany ( talk) 09:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
SilkTork recently did a great job of merging and organizing some very stubby garden articles (Planting Design, Front Garden, Formal Garden, Residential Garden, Rock Garden) into Garden design, and some more stubby articles (Herb Garden, Vegetable Garden, Potager Garden) into Kitchen garden. Those two articles, Garden design and Kitchen garden now offer a lot of room for development to anyone interested, and seem a much better way of organizing the garden related articles. He also created a new category, Category:Types of garden, which helps to organize these and many other garden types. Horticulture and Gardening editors are invited to use this new category, and to help develop these two expanded gardening articles. And of course, feedback is invited. First Light ( talk) 04:24, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
There is no encyclopedic difference between Horticulture and Gardening. See [5]. In the library system, Horticulture and Gardening are listed under the same Dewey number of 635. Our current category system either has articles listed under both or arbitrarily assigned to one or the other with no clear logic. I propose that we merge the categories together as one parent article termed Horticulture and Gardening from which we can have appropriate sub-articles. SilkTork * YES! 18:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
The same for these as well. It would be better to have one cat, and if we have only the one (Gardeners), then somebody would create the other (Horticulturists), so we might as well have both together (Horticulturists and Gardeners). SilkTork * YES! 19:16, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Just want to let people know that two years on, the work on http://www.plants.am is still going strong, with thousands of articles. Since Wikipedia is not a "how-to", this site is specifically a how-to on growing every single garden plant in the world. It is broken into plant requirements and statistics, cultivation, propagation, pests/diseases, cultivars, etc. All of the older articles are being totally rewritten from scratch into this format, and all articles will have links to Wikipedia by default in the new article template. Anyway, I hope some of you who are more interested in the "how-to" of things might find the site helpful, and maybe even want to contribute there as well. An example of a solid article showing the direction new articles are meant to take can be seen here: http://www.plants.am/wiki/Nerium_oleander - If you have any feedback, let me know! Thanks, -- RaffiKojian ( talk) 21:38, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
I think those articles which already have appropriate external links, such as Banana and Asparagus don't need any more, especially as the link is simply to a site which has mainly copied information from Wikipedia. However, if, like Alstroemeria, there are few or no links to useful sources there might be an argument in keeping your link. The value of the link would depend on the unique information contained there which is not contained in Wikipedia. The difference, as you say, is in the instructions to how to plant and cultivate - and that is quite useful. However, in that case, your Alstroemeria article contains no sources, so the information ends up simply the opinion of the creator of that article - which is yourself. That the website is mainly yourself, this comes in the realm of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.
Your post here was the right way of doing things. Putting links to your site in various articles, even though well intentioned, is discouraged for various good reasons. You are falling foul of a couple of guidelines, and I could stack up some more which are related: Wikipedia:Spam, Wikipedia:Reliable sources, etc.
If you'd like to help out here in tracking down good sources for this project that would be useful. [6] is one such source I found. There would be others. Regards SilkTork * YES! 17:01, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
I have now removed the links from articles. As part of my general clean up of horticulture I would be going through external links in articles anyway, as it appears there's too many, and a good number of them are very dubious. I'd also be putting {{ find}} on the talkpage of every article, as that will provide links to a variety of sources. People can help out with the {{ find}} template by putting it on every article they visit in the normal course of editing.
While going through RaffiKojian's edits I noticed that this is not the first time he has come into conflict with putting links to his own website - [7], so he is aware that this sort of thing is discouraged and unwanted. SilkTork * YES! 11:52, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
I apologise for upsetting you Raffi. My perspective on this incident is that I noticed your post, and went to your site, had a look at it, and left you an encouraging message. Then I noticed that you had been placing links to your site, and those links were not adding value and were against guidelines. I drew this politely to your attention. You disputed my view. I gave you further guidelines which indicated that the links were not adding value. You continued to dispute the issue, then - instead of removing the links - you announced you were leaving Wiki. I removed the links myself, and again left you a welcoming message. As I was removing the links I noticed that you had previously been involved in a dispute over linking. Forgive me for not looking deeply into the case, such is the nature of what we do here, we do not always have the time to examine things deeply, and I had already spent a fair amount of time removing your links which I had hoped you would do yourself. However, the impression I gained from seeing the previous dispute was that you were aware that linking to other Wiki sites was contentious, and that you would have learned that an appropriate approach would be to bring it to the attention of the WikiProject before adding them to articles. None of this is to say that I think you are a bad person, or that you are a trouble-maker. I wish you well with your site, and again I welcome you to work here on Wikipedia within this project. SilkTork * YES! 20:32, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
You know First Light, not once did I actually protest the removal of the links, nor do I intend to do that now - here or on anther page. I have merely said I don't think the issue was quite as black and white as it was portrayed as. That's all. I was done with this conversation back then. Ever since that time though, I've been defending my site and myself against what are coming off more and more as personal attacks by SilkTork. This last message complaining about the licensing of my site, and saying the site adds no value was a perfect encapsulation of what I think has been an extremely negative stream of notes, one after another, from him, that I've felt I had to defend myself from again and again. I was done with this conversation a long time ago, but he always manages to widen the gash, every time he replies. I'm at a total loss to understand him, or his problem with me. -- RaffiKojian ( talk) 05:52, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Thinking out loud here. As I'm going through and tidying up I am wondering how we deal with the relationship with Botany. And how we would differentiate between a botanist and a horticulturist. I see Horticulture as a branch of Botany dealing with domestic plants - so plants that appear in a garden (such as roses) might be categorised under Botany and also under Horticulture in a sub-cat - Category:Garden plants. Is that useful? Or, as gardeners can put any plant they like in a garden, is separate cat for garden plants really that useful? SilkTork * YES! 08:34, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
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Not sure who is watching this page, but Prostrate shrub is a new article almost of sufficient size for a DYK - I have expanded it but it is heavily Australian-focused. Any American or British gardeners are welcome to give other examples or expand page. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Can we do anything with this stub I wonder.... Casliber ( talk · contribs) 14:06, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I have never seen this written as one word..I mused on a merge with pot plant..but that redirects to houseplant. Not quite the same. What to do I wonder.... Casliber ( talk · contribs) 12:58, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
There is an ongoing dispute regarding the Bhut Jolokia pepper article so I'd like to ask other members from this project to take a look. At the heart of it is whether the term "Ghost chili" or "Ghost pepper" are legitimate names for this pepper, apparently an academic paper published by a student from Nagaland University disagrees with articles published by National Geographic, Time Magazine, The Guardian, and a multitude of other major publications. Example diff: [9]
So, what to do? Even if "Ghost chili" is a mis-translation, should we be removing all the references that call it by that name? I'm sure there have been situations in the past which are similar to this one and I want to know how it was resolved. I am taking a break from editing this particular article until I receive some community feedback. If possible please leave a note on Talk:Bhut Jolokia pepper as well. JBsupreme ( talk) 20:27, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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Tree shaping article has ungone a lot of editing back and forth. It is mainly about the word Arborsculpture and in what context the word should be used within the article. Blackash ( talk) 03:26, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
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Please note that editor 208.59.93.238 and 96.233.40.199 are one and the same person. They outed themselfs in the section Recap "Please note that this IP address and 96.233.40.199 are used by the same person." Blackash ( talk) 07:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
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Basically these three editors are attempting to give undue weight to the word Arboursculpture. They are claiming that I have COI so they don't have to give reasons or to come to a compromise for their changes. Initially I said that I didn't see we had a conflict, but then I read the ICO article and this was my reply after that.
208.59.93.238 and 96.233.40.199 have implied I only edit for self promotional reasons. Check out some of my editing of related articles, I don't promote Pooktre, but try to improve Wikipedia in general. They have also accused me of micromanaging when I asked them for the reasoning for the change/s to the content. These editors plus Slowart insinuate that the original naming of the article was instigated by me. Which is not true. My reply to this was "I don't prefer Tree shaping verses Arborsculpture. Any neutral name would do. Tree shaping was changed from Arborsculpture becuse there is a method linked the word. Arborsculpture and Pooktre both have methods linked to their names and it would be inappropriate to use these as they are not neutral, generic, or descriptive. Richard Reames and now this editor keep trying to imply that we were responsible for the naming of this article. There was a consensus of quite a few different editors. Move from Arborscusculpture to Tree Shaping Blackash (talk) 16:11, 24 January 2010 (UTC)"
I refute the point, I do research and give quotes as to why it is wrong, I contradict what I believe the issues are (as they don't say why it can be a bit confusing) and find evidence to back up what I have said.
I have repeatedly asked them to give reasons for the changes. I have attempted to work towards a compromise, between their view and mine. Any changes I make are basically undone or they change the sentence to give more weight to the word Arborsculpture. Example they asked a citation, after three days they removed the content from the page. This content was related to the usage of the word Arborsculpture. Blackash ( talk) 03:25, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
In short I like some new eyes looking at the content before this editing started to voice an opinion on which edits are improving the content and what isn't.
Blackash ( talk) 03:22, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
There's plenty of evidence of arborsculpture being used as a generic term. Please consider it before opining. -- Griseum ( talk) 03:18, 8 February 2010 (UTC) (same user as IP address used recently in "arborsculpture" discussions).
Hi, confused where gardening's boundary is in the 'design direction.' Was surprised the History of gardening article seems a good History of garden design. (much better the history articles connected to landscape architecture and garden design). However is does not talk about 'gardening' in the care & horticulture area. (not saying that's wrong, but that I'm confused.) Would like to help & be a part of team, but not sure where its focus. Thank you--- Look2See1 ( talk) 07:25, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
We have too many overlapping poor articles around this area. Any thoughts on how many we actually need of Charbagh, Persian gardens, Paradise garden, Mughal gardens, & Islamic garden? Large chunks of this useful book are online, if anyone wants to knock them into shape. Johnbod ( talk) 02:34, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
We could sure use a few more eyes and green fingers to consider the facts and help us reach consensus at the article currently being called tree shaping, which started out as arborsculpture and which is the craft of cultivating and training trees, shrubs, and vines to grow into ornamental shapes, useful implements, and structures. It has a project tag for us here, and I got wind of it over at arboriculture back in April. I've since edited a lot, and also finally initiated a request for comment, surrounding an involved & covered artist-editor having maintained a commercially motivated hostile editing environment over a period of years. This yielded a few new editors now, including myself, who reached consensus in a proposal to change the page title to proceed with a requested move to consider the page move back to its original name, which may end up in mediation or not, depending on whether some consensus can be firmly established, and there is some. Meanwhile, the article is moving in new directions and getting much better, though it's a wrestle, and it may be due for a re-appraisal as to quality anyway. Thanks very much, if you can help us out over there. Duff ( talk) 05:45, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I am trying to start an article on Lilac walks. As a number of these exist around the country in Arboretums and Botanical Gardens pictures are not a problem. I first heard the term used by Father John Fialla who wrote "Lilacs" published by Timber Press so I'll be able to use that book for references but I would like to invite you'all to help out if you can. Andyvancleve ( talk) 05:02, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
I was checking some references, when I come across this one Titled A History of Grafting at [13] This is a fairly large pdf with lots of good info published by an experts. I thought this site may be of interest to your wikiproject. Blackash have a chat 13:26, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi,
I have recently joined Wikipedia as an editor. I am extremely keen on discussions around architechtural desings and the variety of options they offer. One of the area where architectural designs play an extremely important role is Terrace Gardens as, a lot needs to be understood in terms of structural design of the building specially if it is a high rise, water proofing methods, the direction of the sunlight, type of plants to be used etc.
Some of the modern architechts are doing an extremely wonderful job of providing terrace gardens in their buildings. Kamal & Shibanee Sagar have designed some of the most beutiful apartment projects with terrace gardens, compost bins etc. One of their projects Windmills of Your Mind has terrace gardens in all of it's nineteen floors.
Our intention here may not be to advertise, but certainly the work of such architechts should be highlighted. There could be other names as well. These names will create a lot of interest amongst the readers.
Even if an external link is not allowed, a section on what is happening currently and who all are providing Terace Gardens should be there.
Thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Total Environment Building Systems ( talk • contribs) 18:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
The following image is currently at Files for Deletion: 2812--Flowers-Hearst Castle-2.JPG
The image was taken at the Hearst Castle. Can anyone tell me what sort of flower this might be? BusterD ( talk) 16:46, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
There's a kind of tree in China that looks like a banyan tree. It surrounds palm trees and eats them. It makes lots of branches that wind around it and fuze together again. It also has long brown roots that hang down. I have pics of it, but want to know what it's called because it's surely already an article. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 05:50, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Horticulture and Gardening will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in horticulture and gardening's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch ( talk) 00:51, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
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All main articles for each subcategory were listed in the main category as well. In my opionion this was more confusing then helpful. Please let us know your opinions on these matters. Wiki-uk ( talk) 18:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Looking at the table on Persian_gardens#Styles, I have my doubts if it is correct that currently ‘Gardens’ is a subcategory of ‘Parks’. According to me it should be the other way around, because a parks can be seen as public gardens, while not all gardens can be seen as a type of park. Any comments (agree/oppose)? Wiki-uk ( talk) 16:03, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, could someone to work on this article Biodiversity of New Caledonia. It is very important in Paleobotany and evolution. Could you to work on this article, please?. It is a very important archaic species group in Paleobotany and evolution. Curritocurrito ( talk) 17:38, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi gardening people!! :) Some listed there have pepper infoboxes, some cultivar taxoboxes, and some I don't know. I don't know the difference between a cultivar and a variety. I'm wondering if you could give us some guidance at that talk page (I already posted there) about how to make things consistent, if that's possible. Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 11:22, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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As part of GibraltarpediA we aim to cover every plant in the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens and create QRpedia codes (a type of bar code your phone can read through it's camera that automatically takes you through to a Wikipedia in your own language) in the garden to give people easy access to the information. As far as I know the first botanic garden to do this. A full list of the plants is available here, I would estimate around half already have some information in English but many have an article in other languages already.
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Much to my surprise, sources for the article Organic food have to satisfy WP:MEDRS. Recently I added a some text, based on a agricultural journal, only to see it removed due to it not being indexed by Medline. The guy doing this operates quite aggressive, so I need more people to check this article, as I think it is not neutral and hijacked. Your input please here: Talk:Organic food#WP:MEDRS — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Banner ( talk • contribs) 10:58, November 24, 2012
If any of you would like to address my concerns, that would be great.-- Curtis Clark ( talk) 03:24, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to consolidate discussion here.-- Curtis Clark ( talk) 23:33, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Request for comments at Talk:Organic_milk#RFC The Banner talk 03:41, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to let gardening people know that this could be a really terrific article if someone wanted to put some more work into it. I fixed it up quite a bit just now, but there is much more that could be done without very much effort; it's a very interesting topic. These gardens have been called "American's Greatest Forgotten Garden", but they are currently the focus of much new work and restoration, so it won't be forgotten for very much longer! best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 18:02, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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I've started a discussion on the above topic at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories#Gardens_and_landscapes_by_designer and would appreciate any input from members of this wikiproject. Thanks, Waggers TALK 08:00, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Agriculture#Crop calendar
Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 11:16, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear gardeners: This old abandoned Afc draft was never submitted, but seems to have some interesting material. It's about to be deleted unless someone edits it. Is this a notable topic? — Anne Delong ( talk) 03:31, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Template:Hortibox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.112 ( talk) 05:39, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Another editor, Leopoldhausen, and I have been very busy adding citations to the "List of Companion Plants" page. At what point could we have the banner stating that the article needs more inline citations removed? Do we just do that ourselves? Can this page be given a quality rating? Thanks- Jenjhall ( talk) 23:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
We need some images over there. If you have a camera and a shovel, or one of those new camera-shovels, please help.
Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 17:51, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear plant experts: Here's another of those abandoned draft article that will soon be deleted. Is this a notable topic, and should the article be saved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 14:25, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
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There is an AFD about Hill Farm Community Garden (in Louisiana, in the U.S.), at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hill Farm Community Garden, which may be of interest. And there is an AFD about Community gardens in Omaha, Nebraska, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Community gardens in Omaha, Nebraska, which may be of interest. Please consider commenting. -- do ncr am 19:26, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I've suggested a split of English rose (personal description) into a girl and a plant article. See talk:English rose (personal description). Is this plant concept significant? -- 65.94.169.222 ( talk) 06:38, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Currently there are individual articles for various dahlia cultivars, and each article is very brief. I think the information would be much more useful if someone could view all the cultivars in a single article, like has been done for garden roses.
Here are the individual dahlia articles I'm talking about:
I'd appreciate any thoughts on this. Thanks. Gccwang ( talk) 05:23, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
In re: to User:Tryptofish I created a merge discussion at Talk:List_of_''Dahlia''_cultivars Gccwang ( talk) 07:55, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
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I posted Food Not Lawns, as a meme, onto Wikipedia, but there are issues about me as author/founder being the only person who has written the article. I do believe that Food Not Lawns, both as a meme and as an organization, are an important part of the gardening, horticulture, sustainability sections of wikipedia, and also Food Not Lawns directly connects to tFood Not Bombs and the Anarchist labyrinth there.
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Planting season and Sowing season have been nominated for deletion -- 70.51.200.135 ( talk) 04:39, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
On the Defoliant page it mentions how defoliation is used to aid in harvesting cotton plants (it's used to increase the yield, efficiency and quality), however it doesn't have much information about it, and I'm not sure if that would even be appropriate to add a lot of information about defoliation to the Defoliant stub. I thought it might be appropriate to make a new article about "Defoliation of Plants" to describe how this process is used with cotton plants, as well as how it's used for many other species of plants/crops. What do you think? Should I start this as a new article (with citations from journals of course), or would it be better to add more information to the Defoliant page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plantlady223 ( talk • contribs) 03:06, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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I find the rating of articles currently highly arbitrary. Why is Dahlia high priority, Peony low, and why is Rose not rated at all? Why is Enid A. Haupt top priority (never heard of her before) and is André Le Nôtre, only the creator of the gardens of Versailles, not even identified as part of the Project? Should articles that are and should be part of the project not be identified and their priority rated in a concerted action? I'd be willing to give it a go, but only if there is no opposition. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 17:05, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I am looking for some help concerning the toxicity of a plants in the genus Colchicum. Sorry if this is not the right place to ask (I was not sure). 143.176.56.102 ( talk) 09:43, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
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This article, which needs a lot of work, is currently rated as of Low Importance on the Horticulture and Gardening project scale. That seems a very odd rating for one of the world's most famous gardens. I propose to change it to High, unless there are any objections. KJP1 ( talk) 07:47, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
This project's articles are already categorised by importance and quality using lowercase "gardening", see Category:Horticulture and gardening articles by importance and Category:Horticulture and gardening articles by quality, so it would not be difficult to change the project name and a few other categories to match that naming format.
Following a suggestion at WP:CFDS, I therefore propose renaming this project from WP:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening to WP:WikiProject Horticulture and gardening.
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I'm planning to expand this article, with a view to FAC. It has an interesting mix of horticultural, historical and architectural aspects, and there's an abundance of source material - much of which I have. Sadly, I'm no gardener, and I think the article would benefit greatly from the input of an editor who knows about plants/horticulture. I've some experience of working collaboratively on FAC articles and I would be really interested in working with an editor with a horticultural focus. I think there's a fairly simple split between the history/architecture and the garden that would lend itself to a collaborative approach. If the idea appeals, just drop me a note, here, on my Talkpage, or on the article's Talkpage, where I've copied this message. KJP1 ( talk) 07:51, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
I want to merge 4 articles about sustainable gardening, and title it Sustainable gardening. If I understand it correctly, gardeners in the USA like to call themselves "landscapers". Am I wrong? Discussion? In the discussions on the various talk pages some people feel landscaping pertains to municipal grounds, and gardening to home gardens, but then in that case the articles are mixed up, with the text at Sustainable gardening 100% about (being accredited for) designing municipal green spaces and that at Sustainable landscaping 95% about constructing home gardens. As the terminology is confused, I advocate use of the more ubiquitous and unambiguous "gardening". I have also rewritten the landscape-scale conservation article; in that case, and in regards to the articles Landscape and Landscape ecology, an even larger unit of land is referred to. This usage also conforms to the original German/Dutch sense (in which "landscape architect" comes across as ridiculously pompous). The best sources (all American) in Sustainable landscaping go so far as to refer to a portion of garden as a "landscape", i.e. a green roof or a rock garden. The other articles I want merged with this are Sustainable landscape architecture (devoid of references) and Sustainable planting (confused about subject matter, should be chopped up and distributed among valid articles). Most of the articles on such subject matter were written by either someone in 2006 (he didn't feel references were necessary) or someone else in 2009 (who previously wrote a book on the subject and wanted to promote it), the text has largely stayed the same since then, hence the problematic sourcing to these opinions. So, let's hear it: Leo Breman ( talk) 13:06, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hi.
I am very disconcerted and have to see me very offended and very insulted.
There are 2 articles: No-dig gardening and No till farming. (Ignoring the titles in other terms: Organic horticulture (redirect from Organic gardening), Regenerative agriculture, and surely more.
I did an own one for my needs and connectivities, No till garden.
It first was nominated to speedy deletion, by the author of No-dig gardening. I contested, without success. Today the nominating had gone for some hours, then was nominated again for speedy deletion, reasons: hoax and vandalism.
But no way to contest, because of taken away again this message and my title redirected to the title No-dig gardening.
Without help in Teahouse I would not even have the knowledge, my article still exists and having so far still access to it, without a link. Thanks a lot to the Teahouse.
Competition, rivalry: is NO support for a knowledge database. It is just the opposite. Thanks the interesst. -- Visionhelp ( talk) 22:18, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Normal Op, thanks the reaction.
2 similar existing is OK ? But 3 not ?
This is not clear rules, where one can work with, please.
Editing in an article I do keep me back, from very bad and unnice experiences. I can do notes in "Talk". But at behaviour as this from the author of No-dig gardening, this for me is a clear sign (alarm) to deny this contact at all. So what ?
Alone the permaculture ideology ´propagating´ there, and wikipedia in parts is propagating always with, is very against my prefering to deny ideology at all. There is no coming together possible. And the claims are very different.
To "No-dig gardening" ?: Why not to
Regenerative agriculture, or
Organic horticulture, or
No till farming ? I have a big work with my view to this topic. The article is in progress. But stopped now. I do not go on editing at this stadium of the article. I am thinking of an other title, but will not be easy and must not be successful.
And a possible lobbyism: where being amazed and convinced but overjumping just the truths and being disrespectful (discrediting and so on), this are 2 kinds of lobbyism, please. Thanks.
"duplicate articles" ?: till and dig is double ? Garden is double. ´OK.´
And to redirect ´my´ term to his article (without my permission), which leads to hiding and surpressing mine with, is just clear to call ABUSE, please !
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Visionhelp (
talk) 08:56, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Normal Op, my article WAS just in the beginnings, in the meanwhile it did become more saying now. But I may doubt this.
The second nomination to speedy deletion was saying hoax and vandalism.
This now I MAY call back hoax and vandalism.
English is not my native language. But using in my native language already easy and good fast understandable words for everybody is a neverending work I do, and this for in english, too. Very in the article. And even in german I have to read, german is not my native language, from but just NOT WANTING to understand what I am saying. So what ?
Reason for redirect: The author of the site to redirected is the one, who nominated to speedy deletion. This nomination was removed at about 11 o´clock AM yesterday, wednesday. At about 6 o´clock PM it was nominated again for speedy deletion, and after this, suddenly very fast redirected to the first nominator´s article site. (My english in the article can not be a problem, I am sure.)
The draft-page, I will look at it and check how to handle this. Thanks for now. All the best.
"Difficult to understand" ? Example, please ?
All the best.
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Visionhelp (
talk) 16:38, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
I am very sorry,
Normal Op.
There are very different views to (from ´
No-till farming´) from food self-providing to ´being able, having a GOOD life from a farm´, and there is a very difference from dig to till. (I am still realizing this, after could not really understand it until these days now, for me this very difference, and it is not easy even to remind me of it, when needed. Because it seems so near together, but it is just not.)
So I have to persist on ´Not till garden´, because I do MEAN ´not till´, and not ´not dig´, please.
But I have to admit, I cannot (and I do not) mean the garden, it is meant the garden soil, the garden ground. Hm.
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Visionhelp (
talk) 19:30, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello.
Is anyting wrong with my english, which is not my native language, in the Draft:
/info/en/?search=User:Visionhelp/sandbox ?
The reaction of claiming this from the ´Teahouse´ does very reject me:
"Base: a philosophy is not CLEAR an ideology, but permaculture yes".
The (my) article fits to ´Project tasks, 4.
/info/en/?search=Category:Organic_gardening´.
Therefrom I should have posted instead of in the ´Teahouse´ directly here.
But I fear, I will here not find better reactions, sorry. So what then ? OK.
In "Talks" my english CAN be not so well, from being upset, if. And trying to say what I have to say, but have to say it respectfully, despite of being emotional, but entirely in the thing and clear and not offending at all ! But to do it as I can in german, I will never have or reach the word-treasure and the insight as requirement, which word does who understand how, and which words have quite fast misunderstanding double meanings possible and misleading.
But not in the article. Then even help couldn´t help. Because a word in this terracing has quite another nuance as a word with the exact same meaning but with an other nuancing.
From this I have to use in english still more the most easiest words as already in german, to say all CLEAR and good and fast and easy understandable. And not nuanced, so far as possible at all.
If now no question to You is to find, OK. I just do not ask ! Visionhelp ( talk) 14:41, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
A new article has recently been created on Shute House in Wiltshire. The house is most notable for its gardens by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe. They are only open for group visits by prior written appointment. The article would be greatly improved by some photographs of the gardens. Are there any editors who have been fortunate enough to visit and could upload some images? KJP1 ( talk) 07:05, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Created garden writing last night, but I'm no expert. Any thoughts/contributions/ideas welcome! I was confused that I didn't turn up anything good in secondary sources about Vita Sackville-West, so she's a somewhat glaring omission from the article at present. AleatoryPonderings ( talk) 17:59, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I've proposed the merge of pot farming to container gardening and would appreciate input from others. There is a discussion section started at Talk:Container garden. Thank you! Dinanderie ( talk) 00:26, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I recently made an article for the Herb Society of America. It is a work in progress. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 03:26, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful, especially if you create new articles. Wikipedia:Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.
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Introducing the Horticulture and Gardening Barnstar. Jerm ( talk) 04:06, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Category:Horticulture and Gardening articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peaceray ( talk) 20:36, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Over the next week, there is going to be a work project on Garden by the Wikipedia Discord server as part of an attempt to get Garden to B-class and we would appreciate your help. They are trying to get all vital articles to B-class. (Oinkers42) ( talk) 03:15, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:George Russell (racing driver)#Requested move 28 August 2021 which may be of interest to members of the WikiProject. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion. HumanBodyPiloter5 ( talk) 06:12, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hello everyone -- I wanted to extend an invitation to all members of WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening. Throughout the month of July, WikiProject Women in Green (which focuses on bringing articles about women and women's works up to Good Article [GA] status and beyond) is hosting a GA editathon event on the theme of "Women and the Environment." Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and the environment (e.g., gardeners, biologists, horticulturalists, or environmental-related books and films by women), with editors of all experience levels welcome. GA editing resources and one-on-one support will be made available by Women in Green, and participants will have the opportunity to receive a barnstar for their efforts. We hope to see you there! All the best, Alanna the Brave ( talk) 20:30, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Villa Borghese gardens#Requested move 5 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:12, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Are the terms 'horticulturist' and 'horticulturalist' both considered acceptable for the occupation? Both terms seem to be represented in dictionaries, but I've seen discussions suggesting that horticulturalist is incorrect. Our category tree at Category:Horticulturists uniformly uses horticulturist, but we have many articles that use horticulturalist in the body and title of the articles ( John S. Harris (horticulturalist), John Cripps (horticulturalist), Graham Ross (horticulturalist)) . gobonobo + c 21:29, 27 September 2023 (UTC)