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r/gardening

Gardening, Plants, and Agriculture.. A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care. Founded 2008 · 9M members

9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 76.3K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
9Mmembers
76.3Kbest post
3.1Kmost comments
1.7Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

45% 38% 9%
Gallery 45% Image 38% Text 9% Question 6% Video 3%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Join the Battle for Net Neutrality! Don't let the FCC destroy the internet!

↑ 76.3K 💬 456 link 2017

My space potatoes, grown aboard the ISS

↑ 56K 💬 1.4K gallery 2026

Dragon fruits on my rooftop garden

↑ 54.1K 💬 1.2K image 2018

My rhododendron had a little visitor 🌸

↑ 50.9K 💬 303 image 2026

My grandpa says we "need to get the word out" about how beautiful his Crepe Myrtle is.

↑ 48K 💬 949 image 2017

Something I grew just from seeds

↑ 43.2K 💬 472 image 2025

The happiest little bumblebee I’ve ever seen

↑ 38.5K 💬 466 video 2025

Unwrapping gifts from the garden, Glass Gem reveal

↑ 38.3K 💬 507 video 2025

My mother in law’s garden today.

↑ 36.8K 💬 651 image 2026

My dads Wisteria, 20 years in the making.

↑ 34.8K 💬 489 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/gardening, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/gardening?
r/gardening ("Gardening, Plants, and Agriculture.") describes itself this way: A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care. It was founded in 2008 and has 9M members.
How many members does r/gardening have?
r/gardening has about 9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.7K of its posts; the biggest reached 76.3K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/gardening?
"Join the Battle for Net Neutrality! Don't let the FCC destroy the internet!" reached 76.3K upvotes and 456 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/gardening.
What subreddits are similar to r/gardening?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/antiwork, r/youseeingthisshit, r/Satisfyingasfuck, r/shitposting, r/PrequelMemes, r/oddlyterrifying.
What kind of posts do best on r/gardening?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are gallery posts and 38% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/gardening?
Across 1.7K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (15.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 16:00 UTC (8.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 11:00 UTC (8.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/gardening?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/gardening has 30K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/gardening, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.