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r/GardeningUK

Gardening subreddit for the UK. GardeningUK is a subreddit for the discussion of gardens, gardening, tips, advice and successes with other gardeners here in the UK. Visit the Wiki for tips on where to buy seeds and what information to include when asking for advice. Founded 2014 · 267.2K members

267.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 18.8K upvotes, which works out to 70 per 1,000 members.

70peak upvotes per 1,000 members
267.7Kmembers
18.8Kbest post
2.2Kmost comments
402posts 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% 34% 11%
Gallery 45% Image 34% Text 11% Question 5% Video 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Showing Off 84 New Gardener SOS 60 New Garden 37 Tree Care 31 Wildlife 27 Food Plants 23 Lawn Care 22 Winter Prep 18 Ornamentals 15 Sowing & Spring Prep 12

What the ceiling looks like

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

Quoted £96k, so I did it myself!

↑ 18.8K 💬 910 gallery 2025

Last year I posted my husband's insane giant basil. Here is 2022's Even Gianter Basil(s). Once again, little pot in the centre is what the original s…

↑ 12.5K 💬 459 image 2022

Not much colour yet, but everything’s woken up.

↑ 12K 💬 310 image 2024

I did ok with the pumpkins this year

↑ 11.3K 💬 258 image 2022

Five year progress of our new build garden

↑ 8.7K 💬 284 gallery 2026

I harvested my first leek

↑ 8.3K 💬 448 image 2023

Should I knock down my 1940s greenhouse?

↑ 7.9K 💬 2.2K gallery 2023

"Grow veg", they said. "It'll be a relaxing hobby", they said. "Just turnover a bit of lawn", they said.

↑ 6K 💬 344 gallery 2023

Garden Transformation (£800) beginner

↑ 5.8K 💬 227 gallery 2025

My Wildlife Garden

↑ 5.7K 💬 275 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/GardeningUK, in numbers

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

What is r/GardeningUK?
r/GardeningUK ("Gardening subreddit for the UK") describes itself this way: GardeningUK is a subreddit for the discussion of gardens, gardening, tips, advice and successes with other gardeners here in the UK. Visit the Wiki for tips on where to buy seeds and what information to include when asking for advice. It was founded in 2014 and has 267.2K members.
How many members does r/GardeningUK have?
r/GardeningUK has about 267.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 402 of its posts; the biggest reached 18.8K upvotes, which is 70 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/GardeningUK?
"Quoted £96k, so I did it myself!" reached 18.8K upvotes and 910 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/GardeningUK.
What subreddits are similar to r/GardeningUK?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/GardeningUK?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are gallery posts and 34% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/GardeningUK?
Across 402 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 10:00 UTC (6.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 08:00 UTC (3.6K 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/GardeningUK?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/GardeningUK has 4.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/GardeningUK, 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.