I liked Christopher Lloyd, Punkdoc ! However, unlike him, whenever l pass something that needs pruning, you can guarantee that my secateurs are nowhere to be found.
That pruning philosophy reminds me of my Grandmother - she always had a tabard/apron on with a secateurs in the front pocket so she could pick blooms and trim things as she walked around the garden. I look forward to GW just for the escapism. It's not all relevant to me, but the greenery, ideas and general relaxing tone is just the ticket after a hard day in work.
I suspect that dear Christopher Lloyd was a gentleman with capacious pockets in his corduroys ... they would also have contained some twine, a pen knife, a small envelope for seeds, an empty stripey snail shell, a small pebble with a hole in it and a wrapped but slightly sticky humbug.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I met him. In his garden. I was tongue tied and overawed; he, I think, was hoping no one would spot him, so I just thanked him for making such a beautiful garden and left him to it. He was gracious in response and was indeed in very old, baggy clothes, making notes (possibly with a little pencil) by the long border.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Last year I posted a rather nasty message about Adam's pieces from his large new garden and how irrelevant it was to most people. I regretted it afterwards as it sounded quite spiteful and narrow minded, and he is clearly very much admired amongst garden designers. So, I thought I should eat some humble pie, and say I really quite enjoyed last night's programme, and thought he did a fantastic job on a small urban garden that I could actually imagine trying to emulate. I've also come to terms with being able to relax on a Friday evening ogling the wonderful Wolverhampton garden without feeling planting envy. It's a bit like looking for a used Ford Escort in a car magazine and reading the article on classic Ferraris while you're there.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
The Wolverhampton couple had a wonderful combination of skills. She did the designing (which was amazing), and he built incredible summerhouses, pergolas etc where she said she wanted them. The transformation of their air raid shelter using thousands of seashells (and seven years' work!) was quite something.
That tiny space designed & planted by Adam Frost was great, and nobody could say it wasn't relevant to the "small gardener"...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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I look forward to GW just for the escapism. It's not all relevant to me, but the greenery, ideas and general relaxing tone is just the ticket after a hard day in work.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Love Dove's description.
I'm off to watch GW now.
That tiny space designed & planted by Adam Frost was great, and nobody could say it wasn't relevant to the "small gardener"...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border