use the CONTACT US link below ... up near the top ... SUBMIT A REQUEST ... use your best guesses on the options ....

and hold your breath ...

someone wanted a coleus forum ... a year or two back.. i dont think anything ever came of such

ken

ps: WAIT ... dont hold your breath ...

BTW ... i wouldnt visit such.. but i enjoy reading about Hs here ...

For general holly questions, this forum is fine, but for a deeper conversation about hybridizing, - or a way to find people who are interested in trading plant material, etc, I think a Holly Forum would be great!

In lieu of that, I suggested perhaps a Broad-leafed Evergreen Forum would also be nice and could certainly include evergreen hollies.

I just got a response from them. They said they'd put it on a 'wish list'. Don't know what that means exactly. Should not be a particularly hard thing to do and I doubt it would cost much except some programming time. Maybe they wait to see how many requests there are for a particular topic.

If you go through the list of available forums, you'll find quite a few that don't have nearly enough traffic to be viable. Basically, there are two schools of though regarding forum creation. One sets a fairly high barrier to creation, say a large number of requests. The other creates many forums, but routinely purges ones that don't attract a large enough following. Historically, Gardenweb has created randomly, and it has created some problems. Enough that one of the requested 'fixes' when Houzz took over was that they streamline the forum list by eliminating the ones that weren't working.

IMHO, if there is already a forum for on-topic discussions of the subject, there should be enough existing traffic on that forum to make a viable subforum. So anybody who wants to start technical holly discussions here, feel free to go right ahead.

Technically Citrus are trees too. But there's a citrus forum and a fruit forum. I'm afraid posting something about hollies in this forum would soon get bumped way off the page and never get answered.

I like Hollies. I dislike loading another web page just to look at 6 or 7 new topics a day.

I would recommend putting such questions in shrubs. As it is, this site probably has too many forums for the realities of the post-smartphone, post-2008 housing recession era. (two cultural things I expect to forever change the landscape of high-end/advanced gardening, no pun intended!) Although most hollies are of course trees, they are considered more as shrubs by the landscaping industry. (as are various other BLEs) Shrubs forum is a little slow anyhow so I don't think your comment would bump down too fast.

i would suggest .. you go for it here ... and when you make all of us sick about it all ... lol .. we will demand you be given your own forum ...

rather than your way... with no history of interest in that topic ...

dont know if i get across my point.. build the traffic here... requisite to a new forum being formed ...

ken

"woodies" would cover both, but many people would not have a clue....way too colloquel (can't spell tonight)

At this point, any new forum detracts from what is already established. Hollies are simply not unique enough, in my opinion, to need their own forum. A separate home for holly would be pretty lonely, I believe.

Why don't you see if you can have the admin. eliminate the camellia forum, the azalea forum, and the palm forum, and consolidate them into the new broad leaf evergreen forum.

That doesn't make any sense.

Shall we request a deciduous forum?

Holly questions enrich the shrub and tree forums. I'm perplexed as to why you would think otherwise.

Probably all they ever had to do was make separate forums for plants that had their own membership organizations, the existence of these organizations being taken as indications that there was enough interest in these particular plants to also support forums devoted to them. In which case there would have been a camellia forum, a holly forum, a magnolia forum and a rhododendron forum etc. on through a fully encompassing - but perhaps not as large - list.

Of course that would have left out a place for questions about ash trees or privet hedges.