If you access GardenWeb on a laptop, on the lefthand side of the 'Your Topics'/recent discussions screen, there is a listing of various Forum groupings under 'Explore Topics'. The first one is all the Garden forums in alphabetical order.......Native Plants is right there where it should be. All the Garden FAQ's can be reached by scrolling down a bit more in the same area.

If these are forums you want to access easily, hit the "follow" tab asigned to each one and they will show up in your list of favored topics/forums.

I have no idea what one sees when entering through Houzz......I avoid that :-) And I have no idea how things show up using different devices.

Have you checked the Explore Houzz Topics page? I see Native plants topic there and all the FAQs are listed close to the bottom.

I am on a desktop. I enter as I always do. I've done everything as you suggested, and it's still missing. I did a windows update, but that shouldn't have affected it.

The topics used to be divided between Home and Garden; now they're all together on my PC.

Sometimes it can be an issue with the browser you are using. On my screen, underneath my listing of preferred/favorite topics, this is what I see:

Explore Topics

• Garden Forums
• Home Forums
• Nature Forums
• Exchanges & Trading
• Garden FAQs
• Home FAQs
• UK Forums
• Australia Forums

You just need to scroll through these listings until you find the forum you want. But this is accessing the website only through GardenWeb. I have no idea what things look like if entering via Houzz.

Thanks gardengal; I followed your link and now it's back to normal, except I'm still missing "native plants".

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/explore-topics#Garden-Forums

Scroll down. Native Plants is right there between Native Plant Exchange and Nevada Gardening.

On the Houzz side Native Plants is missing.

If you click on any of GG's links does the URL at the top of your browser stay with gardenweb.com or does it change to HOUZZ.com?

tj

I cannot keep Gardenweb 's colorful floral banner in my sights. As soon as I click on a thread, and then back, the nice floral banner turns to black and white Houzz.

Carol, does the URL at the top of your browser change to Houzz.com?

tj

Yes

If you go HERE and click on Name That Plant, does the URL change to Houzz also? If so, try clicking on a couple of different Nature Forums and then go back to Name That Plant. Don't ask me why, but I've had that kick-start things into working again. May have something to do with the way the old Gardenweb was divided.

tj

It did not change back to Houzz until I clicked on the Begonia thread and returned to NTP.

I'm guessing houzz may be consolidating and that's messing with some people's bookmarks. I had a bookmark for the FL gardening forum in my toolbar, and used that as my landing page, but now it goes to a page of highlighted discussions from a variety of forums, and the URL is 'houz.com/discussions'. I no longer see 'gardenweb' in the URL.

As long you are following a topic, it will be there in your 'Your Topics' list on the upper right , so once you find it, do that (if you haven't already) and you should be able to navigate to it more easily.

I am also following the “Native Plants” it is still bouncing back and forth from this and just “Plants” on my list of topics I am following.