Thanks Dove, their list of common and botantic names of popular garden plants will be a good place for me to start my learning, with lots of google image searches.
Yours, Barbata vulgaris (who I'm sure was in Gladiator)
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
I was a bit put out by the OP thinking us women regarded MD as eye-candy. GW could be presented by Nobby the Horse as far as I'm concerned - if he knew lots about gardening, he's in! I have to confess I always had a soft spot for Dan Pearson, but then I really did enjoy his type of planting which was fairly avant-garde at the time. As for LongMeadow - GW couldn't really be based in a suburban back garden as it would not be able to show the length and breadth of things which are only possible when you have 2 acres or more to play with. And no way can you keep 2 acres pin tidy. I like his style of wild and woolly gardening.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
As a lady of a certain age - perhaps I don't understand the current definition of 'eye candy'. Appearance-wise, the gentleman in question is inoffensive. But what on earth has what got to do with his ability to present a garden programme?
@IanC63, I know what you mean about AT. He's become a bit "Bob Monkhousey" , a wee bit smarmy , a wee bit, " I'm everybody's friend" a wee bit "please love me". I can't stand the "let's see if we can make everyone cry" format of TV into which he seems to have moved . But, unlke MD, I've never heard him say anything about gardening which is factually inaccurate.
I can cope with people making mistakes and getting things wrong sometimes ... I'm quite used to having my own opinion and disagreeing with other people and can accept that nobody (present company excepted) is perfect ... What I can't cope with is slimy smarmy ingratiating yukkiness and I'm afraid that's where AT is for me He's probably a very nice man, but I find his TV style appalling.
Oh! Dear, Oh! Dear, Oh! Dear. My original post was only asking peoples opinions on MDs garden. The whole thing seems to have escalated out of all proportions. (Which, by the way, doesn't particularly bother me.) But, come on aren't you all getting a bit over sensitive?
I think MD is an affable, likeable, presenter. Because I have manicured lawns and store bought flowers doesn't make me a bad person. I honestly wouldn't criticise someone who cultivated perennial weeds to attract butterflies. Or let their grass grow two feet high to attract other wildlife. Or who knows the Latin name of every plant under the sun.
I openly admit that I am not a gardener. So when MD waxes lyrical about a rare South American plant that is extremely difficult to grow, it's of no interest to me. (And, I would suspect, no interest to a great deal of other people.) However, I realize GW is primarily a TV show and rare and exotic plants give it a variety that, I suppose, is of interest to many viewers.
Finally, the 'Outraged of Tunbridge Wells' responses to my suggestion that MDs rough, hewn, looks may be attractive to some female viewers. If they are, then what on earth is wrong with that??????? Television is an imagery media so, consequently, it's seems to be a prerequisite of the job that presenters are pleasing to the eye, whether male or female. Please forgive me all you outraged ladies, but I was never suggesting that if you found MD attractive it in anyway undermined your intelligence!
And now I realize that I'm, like most of the replies, wandering down a path that is far removed from any gardening topic. Can't we all just lighten up a little. There's more to life than MDs looks, manicured lawns or whether we bring banana plants inside in the winter.
At the end of the day I only asked a simple, honest question; Whether or not you liked MDs garden?
... Finally, the 'Outraged of Tunbridge Wells' responses to my suggestion that MDs rough, hewn, looks may be attractive to some female viewers. If they are, then what on earth is wrong with that??????? Television is an imagery media so, consequently, it's seems to be a prerequisite of the job that presenters are pleasing to the eye, whether male or female. ...
Why?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@LG - my big sister, when aged 3, startled some elderly visitors in a National Trust garden, by exclaiming "Look Daddy, it's Ceratostigma willmottianum!"
He always told us the botanical names of plants in the garden at home, & she'd recognised it from there...
That's brilliant
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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Yours,
Barbata vulgaris (who I'm sure was in Gladiator)
As for LongMeadow - GW couldn't really be based in a suburban back garden as it would not be able to show the length and breadth of things which are only possible when you have 2 acres or more to play with. And no way can you keep 2 acres pin tidy. I like his style of wild and woolly gardening.
Appearance-wise, the gentleman in question is inoffensive. But what on earth has what got to do with his ability to present a garden programme?
I can't stand the "let's see if we can make everyone cry" format of TV into which he seems to have moved .
But, unlke MD, I've never heard him say anything about gardening which is factually inaccurate.
No! The plants are the eye candy
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think MD is an affable, likeable, presenter. Because I have manicured lawns and store bought flowers doesn't make me a bad person. I honestly wouldn't criticise someone who cultivated perennial weeds to attract butterflies. Or let their grass grow two feet high to attract other wildlife. Or who knows the Latin name of every plant under the sun.
I openly admit that I am not a gardener. So when MD waxes lyrical about a rare South American plant that is extremely difficult to grow, it's of no interest to me. (And, I would suspect, no interest to a great deal of other people.) However, I realize GW is primarily a TV show and rare and exotic plants give it a variety that, I suppose, is of interest to many viewers.
Finally, the 'Outraged of Tunbridge Wells' responses to my suggestion that MDs rough, hewn, looks may be attractive to some female viewers. If they are, then what on earth is wrong with that??????? Television is an imagery media so, consequently, it's seems to be a prerequisite of the job that presenters are pleasing to the eye, whether male or female. Please forgive me all you outraged ladies, but I was never suggesting that if you found MD attractive it in anyway undermined your intelligence!
And now I realize that I'm, like most of the replies, wandering down a path that is far removed from any gardening topic. Can't we all just lighten up a little. There's more to life than MDs looks, manicured lawns or whether we bring banana plants inside in the winter.
At the end of the day I only asked a simple, honest question; Whether or not you liked MDs garden?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.