Thank you for the message David.

Hey Nick I think people thought I was being ungrateful for your advice. I very much appreciated your advice. My "helpful advice only" message was aimed at the person who advised me to burn the tree! It apears I do not understand the Forums purpose!

In article , Dean25.a4c0d17
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...

the Standard Stag horn sumach suckers the most, the other cut leaf
versions dont get as large or sucker as much. not many garden centres
have it and the garden centre that does are selling them at £15 each. I
wanted a few suckers to grow on and I cant afford to buy say £45 worth!

So buy one and grow it on. Learn some patience.

I do see lots in nearby gardens but Im not brave enough to ask strangers
to dig up suckers for me!

I thought you just did.

Janet

In article , Dean25.a4c6176
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...

Janet;961348 Wrote:
In article , Dean25.a4bb8b6
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...
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Im really just looking for replies from people who have the tree!
Helpful comments only people!-

You appear to be under the delusion you have reached the customer
advisory desk at a garden centre dedicated to serving you.

This is a discussion group, called uk.rec.gardening, which is
completely independent of gardenbanter.

There is no membership, no moderator, anyone here is free to DISCUSS
rhus
typhina whether or not what they say is relevent to your
post.Gardenbanter
has no control over what is discussed here, or who replies, and neither
do
you.


Janet.

Your incredibly rude Janet.

But the really annoying thing, is that I'm right.

I had never used this site before until last
night

Does that give you some right to jump in feet first and behave like a
spoiled two year old? Not here it doesn't. This is NOT A "SITE".

Janet

You are deluded janet, My comment : "helpful comments only" was directed at the person who advised me too burn down any sumachs, after I had quoted it was my favourite tree in my opening paragraph. I CREATED this thread with the intention of aquiring suckers from someone local, I didnt CREATE this thread to discuss Sumachs with people. Thats not being rude, its being honest. If I misunderstood the purpose of this website, I fail to see how that is your concern? You obviously have a serious attitude problem and if you cant say anything nice, might I suggest you say nothing at all???

Possibly because you don't understand gardenbanter? It's not a gardening forum, it's in effect a messaging service which posts your posts to a newsgroup called uk.rec.gardening, and collects and displays posts other people make to the newsgroup.

The newsgroup isn't a question and answer service, it's a group for chat about gardening, so while people will try to answer your question, they will also take the conversation off into quite independent routes. So asking people to stick to your subject comes across as a wee bit rude in that context.

Yes, you do seem to have misunderstood the website.

It is Janet's concern, and that of all users of the newsgroup, because the posters to the newsgroup are what have created it.

You are very welcome to join in the newsgroup, but it's a bit soon to be trying to change it!

Im not trying to change anything Kay, As ive written before, I simply didnt understand the purpose of the site. Ive asked my friends there opinion and they agree there was no reason to be so rude to me. It doesnt go any further than that.

No, I know you weren't trying to change things, but given that it isn't the norm in the newsgroup for a thread to stay on topic, asking people to stay on topic does sound like you're trying to change things, and, from this side of the fence, sounds a wee bit rude.

But now we've sorted out the confusion, there's no problem. Hopefully you'll get the answer you need, just relax about all the other advice that you don't want, and remember too that there's an army of "lurkers" out there who may not know as much about sumach as you, and for whom all the information on suckering etc will be useful.

On Jun 12, 1:49*pm, Janet wrote:
In article , Dean25.a4c6176
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...





Janet;961348 Wrote:
In article , Dean25.a4bb8b6
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...
-
Im really just looking for replies from people who have the tree!
Helpful comments only people!-

You appear to be under the delusion *you have reached the customer
advisory desk at a garden centre dedicated to serving you.

This is a discussion group, called uk.rec.gardening, which *is
completely independent of gardenbanter.

There is no membership, no moderator, anyone here is free to DISCUSS
rhus
typhina whether or not what they say is relevent to your
post.Gardenbanter
has no control over what is discussed here, or who replies, and neither
do
you.

Janet.

Your incredibly rude Janet.

* But the really annoying thing, is that I'm right.

I had never used this site before until last
night

* Does that give you some right to jump in feet first and behave like a
spoiled two year old? Not here it doesn't. This is NOT A "SITE".

* Janet

Janet is just explaining how newsgroups work. If you dont like it,
that's unfortunate.


NT

I didnt ask anyone to stay on topic. Im not the sort of person to recieve rude comments on a gardening forum of all places and siliently brood about it. I did nothing wrong and wasnt rude. If people got confused with what I wrote then thats that. As ive said I was confused about the purpose of this website. After comments from my friends/family Ive come to the conclusion the negativity from here is probably an age related issue, as im only 25 and couldnt possibly know anything about horticulture!

We didn't know your age and you don't know the age of anyone on here, so that's not a valid conclusion.

I've tried to explain why, although you had no intention to be rude, your comments did seem presumptuous - and "helpful comments only people" and similar responses sound remarkably like a request to stay on topic!

I quoted my age in my opening paragraph. Thank you for your advice.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 Dean25 wrote:

You appear to be under the delusion you have reached the customer
advisory desk at a garden centre dedicated to serving you.

This is a discussion group, called uk.rec.gardening, which is
completely independent of gardenbanter.

There is no membership, no moderator, anyone here is free to DISCUSS
rhus
typhina whether or not what they say is relevent to your
post.Gardenbanter
has no control over what is discussed here, or who replies, and neither
do
you.

Your incredibly rude Janet.

Well, that is so. I've been on the receiving end of Janet's tongue more
than once and for no good reason other than she can be extremely
prickly. She does tend to treat us like naughty children when she feels
we've done wrong. I simply ignore it!

David

--
David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
http://rance.org.uk

Oh, right, so you did! It didn't register with me, so none of my comments were based on your age.