About r/gardening
A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care.
The community at a glance
r/gardening is a Subreddit for Plant Parents with roughly 9.0M members. It uses a forum format for communication. It is the 1st largest community in the Plants topic page.
Roughly 260K members have joined in the past year. Popular discussion topics include Struggling, Looking, and Plant. Common discussion themes are Advice Requests and Solution Requests. Product recommendations often mention garden hose, weed killer, and plants.
Community Topics
Community Features
This community has a forum
Subreddit Analysis
via GummySearchMember growth over time
All time (yearly)
- 2013: 30K members
- 2014: 33K members
- 2015: 24K members
- 2016: 57K members
- 2017: 242K members
- 2021: 3.6M members
- 2023: 2.0M members
- 2024: 1.5M members
- 2025: 1.2M members
- 2026: 216K members
Past year (monthly)
- Sep: 1K members
- Oct: 2K members
- Nov: 13K members
- Dec: 11K members
- Jan: 13K members
- Feb: 16K members
- Mar: 27K members
- Apr: 29K members
- May: 35K members
- Jun: 45K members
- Jul: 36K members
- Aug: 16K members
Themes
- Advice Requests30 posts in the past month
- Help with closing my garden beds for winter!
- Help me save my tomatoes please!
- Complete gardening beginner moving into a rental with this garden. What would you do?
#130Advice RequestsHelp with closing my garden beds for winter! · Help me save my tomatoes please! · Complete gardening beginner moving into a rental with this garden. What would you do? - Solution Requests1 post in the past month
- Watering monitor app
#21Solution RequestsWatering monitor app - Pain & Anger1 post in the past month
- The rabbits are eating everything this year
#31Pain & AngerThe rabbits are eating everything this year
Topics
- Struggling38 posts in the past month#138Struggling
- Looking22 posts in the past month#222Looking
- Plant15 posts in the past month#315Plant
- Plants13 posts in the past month#413Plants
- Gardening9 posts in the past month#59Gardening
Product recommendations
- garden hose2 posts in the past month
- Best Hose
- Best most reliable garden hoses
#12garden hoseBest Hose · Best most reliable garden hoses - weed killer2 posts in the past month
- Please give me your best products for weed control!
- Best weed killer?
#22weed killerPlease give me your best products for weed control! · Best weed killer? - plants2 posts in the past month
- My Grandma is starting a garden, what the best plants to put?
- Please recommend plants to grow next to sunflowers.
#32plantsMy Grandma is starting a garden, what the best plants to put? · Please recommend plants to grow next to sunflowers. - soil2 posts in the past month
- best soil for raised bed planters
- Can anyone recommend a good organic potting soil?
#42soilbest soil for raised bed planters · Can anyone recommend a good organic potting soil?
Community Reviews
Frequently asked questions
- Who is r/gardening for?
- Best for Plant Parents enthusiasts looking for a Reddit-based community with forum discussion.
- Is r/gardening free to join?
- This listing is not marked as paid-only. Access rules and any fees are decided by the community.
- How many members does r/gardening have?
- Roughly 9.0M members, based on figures reported by the community or its host. Member counts are approximate and change over time.
- What platform is r/gardening on?
- r/gardening runs on Reddit. Reddit communities (or "subreddits") are forum-based groups on the popular social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website Reddit. Reddit is commonly known as "the front page of the internet". Users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down and discussed by other members. From investing Reddit communities, to professional ones, to ones just for laughs, you're likely to find a community for you on Reddit.
- What topics does r/gardening cover?
- On the Hive Index, r/gardening is organized under Plant Parents.
- How do I join r/gardening?
- You can join r/gardening by clicking this link, or pressing the "Go to community" button above.
- What are the Plants communities like?
- Communities for plant enthusiasts covering houseplants, outdoor gardening, and specialty collecting. Dedicated forums serve niche communities for carnivorous plant collectors, succulent enthusiasts, and tomato growers, with larger gardening groups active on Facebook and Reddit.
Monthly Stats
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- Views /mo (-23%)
- 9
- Visitors /mo (-31%)
- 0
- Referrals /mo (-100%)
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