Are you in the 285 club?
THIS 285th issue of Weekend Gardener is a milestone for us.
It is the 200th issue of Weekend Gardener we have published – along with 12 editions of Gardener’s Quarterly.
Weekend Gardener was first published in 1998 but was closed down before we relaunched in 2001.
Now in its 13th year, Weekend Gardener has record high readership and subscribers in a dozen countries.
With issues every fortnight, Weekend Gardener is New Zealand’s most frequently published gardening magazine and with Gardener’s Quarterly is on sale 28 times a year.
The most delightful aspect of putting together the magazine each fortnight is the readers – Weekend Gardener readers are a legend – and we have got to know many very well.
We love you all, including those who call in the middle of the night, those who have threatened to sue us before they discovered their missing magazine was being stolen and the ones who are miffed because we are not weekly.
The most common reason for cancelling a subscription is when we get a sad note that we have lost a deceased elderly reader. However we even received a homemade Christmas card one year from ‘a collector’ who said she was taking her Weekend Gardeners with her.
Many readers have been with us all our tenure and some have collected every Weekend Gardener published – all 285 copies. If you are one with ‘a full house’ – 285 – let us know (no more than 50 words) and you could win one of many celebratory prizes we have.
Email robwg@xtra.co.nz or write to the editor.
Good luck.
Rob Lahood
Publisher
