I do have winds that whistle up your trouser leg, never mind down the plain. I know it's a very well established style and there are many very highly regarded examples - Hidcote being perhaps the most famous. I have been there - it's very nice. It's just not for me But that's the point of gardening, isn't it. Each to our own - do it for yourself and not for other people's approbation if you want to enjoy it. And if you'd rather watch snooker then I won't criticise as long as you don't make me watch it with you, which is my problem with the perennial "GW off air for sport" issue.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I'm with you @Obelixx. I think it's too claustrophobic. I'm sure there's lovely countryside outside it , but you can't see it. and IMHO so long as the hedges are above head height, they'd serve the same purpose of " rooms" why they're all so tall is beyond me. Even MD must be thinking the same as many of them have been cut much lower lately, but please, please , please can he give up on those diseased box hedges? I also feel the paths/ openings are so narrow he must be in there alone as 2 people could never walk along side by side, or even pass each other.
Many years ago, fridays were the big night out, all the gang met up for beer and food, it used to be the best of fun. Now my favourite friday night, is a nice bottle of wine, and Monty. [ OH likes the dogs ]
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, yeah, I have to concede, it's lost its charm for me too. Too many folk there, and too many of them just there because they feel they "should" be there. (like Henley, Glyndebourne, Wimbledon , Ascot etc etc.) I think the TV coverage has lost the plot too of late.
So many programmes that are about 'events' seem to be more about the attendees rather than the event itself ... I think 'they' want to give us the feel of 'being there' ... what about those of us who avoid such places simply because of all those people and the crowded atmosphere ... some of just want to see 'the event' ... without experiencing the feeling of being in the crowd ... that's why we don't go.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't like the coverage of CFS because it is constantly repeating itself on every programme. If you are ardent CFS fans you will watch every programme so no need to repeat itself. I wish it would spend less time on the big gardens and more time with the small exhibitors - gardens, nurseries, sundry suppliers etc. I'm sure their 'journey' is just as interesting if not more, than the 'showstoppers'.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
And yes, Monty's garden does make me feel a bit claustrophic! But next year I am going to be planting a lot of crocuses and baby irises in half pans. I love that display outside his potting mansion aka shed!
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
Monty's Garden is exactly that His, when the camera's leave he has to live with it and as with all of us he changes things. Along my road no two gardens are the same as we all make them for our own needs and wishes, they are never finished, much like the Fourth Bridge you sort out one section then go back to the beginning. If my garden was as big as Monty's I would have secret gardens behind hedges and surprises round the corners. the Programme is not for criticism it is to learn techniques in gardening more for the new comers to gardening who never saw their Fathers providing everything from the garden as some of us older ones did. Mowing a rough playing field lawn and painting miles of decking is not gardening as I know it, at least Monty has a real garden. Frank.
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Naughty step comfy PP? Don't stay there too long.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Even MD must be thinking the same as many of them have been cut much lower lately, but please, please , please can he give up on those diseased box hedges?
I also feel the paths/ openings are so narrow he must be in there alone as 2 people could never walk along side by side, or even pass each other.
Now my favourite friday night, is a nice bottle of wine, and Monty. [ OH likes the dogs ]
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Very comfy thank you RG. I brought a cushion.
I think the TV coverage has lost the plot too of late.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
But next year I am going to be planting a lot of crocuses and baby irises in half pans. I love that display outside his potting mansion aka shed!
If my garden was as big as Monty's I would have secret gardens behind hedges and surprises round the corners.
the Programme is not for criticism it is to learn techniques in gardening more for the new comers to gardening who never saw their Fathers providing everything from the garden as some of us older ones did. Mowing a rough playing field lawn and painting miles of decking is not gardening as I know it, at least Monty has a real garden.
Frank.