Can I be curmudgeonly for a moment. Last night on GW , MD said Liatris spicata alba would get to " around 4 or even 5 feet tall" "B*ll*x" I shouted . I've just spent some time with Mr Google and can't find anywhere saying more than 80cm, not even 3 feet in old money. Just sayin'
It's all those tall hedges @Hostafan1 ... (did you noticed how his guest teased him about them?). The liatris will be etiolated from growing between them
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's all those tall hedges @Hostafan1 ... (did you noticed how his guest teased him about them?). The liatris will be etiolated from growing between them
I'd given up by then and gone to bed. Is it worth catching on iPlayer?
I've watched it. I like lots of Longmeadow, but that section was all that I don't like about it. They had to walk in single file all the time,as the paths, hedge openings etc can not accommodate 2 people walking side by side. ( or even one man and a dog ) The comment " oh you have enough tall hedges " was something of an understatement. I know it's his garden etc etc, but for me it's just so claustrophobic.
.... The comment " oh you have enough tall hedges " was something of an understatement. I know it's his garden etc etc, but for me it's just so claustrophobic.
I felt the comment was very tongue in cheek ... and I thought MD's wry response was illuminating ... he obviously knows that many people agree with the comment ... however, as you say, it's his garden.
I must say that I love the look of his garden and the way I imagine it would feel to walk through it ... I love wide open spaces but I also love the feeling of being enclosed and surrounded by plants shrubs and trees ... I spent most of my childhood in playing in wild woodland and dry ditches ... eyeball to eyeball with plants
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Come on, it's lunch time and no-one has been curmudgeonly yet today.
Is it just me, or do you find the old scrap of soap doesn't stick to the new bar as easily as it used to? I bought a mould to use up the morsels, you soak them in warm water then press them together in the mould. It seemed to work, but the resulting "tablet" of soap disintegrated in use and we were back to bits. Might it be because soap no longer contains animal fat?
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Last night on GW , MD said Liatris spicata alba would get to " around 4 or even 5 feet tall"
"B*ll*x" I shouted .
I've just spent some time with Mr Google and can't find anywhere saying more than 80cm, not even 3 feet in old money.
Just sayin'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I like lots of Longmeadow, but that section was all that I don't like about it.
They had to walk in single file all the time,as the paths, hedge openings etc can not accommodate 2 people walking side by side. ( or even one man and a dog
The comment " oh you have enough tall hedges " was something of an understatement.
I know it's his garden etc etc, but for me it's just so claustrophobic.
I must say that I love the look of his garden and the way I imagine it would feel to walk through it ... I love wide open spaces but I also love the feeling of being enclosed and surrounded by plants shrubs and trees ... I spent most of my childhood in playing in wild woodland and dry ditches ... eyeball to eyeball with plants
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Is it just me, or do you find the old scrap of soap doesn't stick to the new bar as easily as it used to? I bought a mould to use up the morsels, you soak them in warm water then press them together in the mould. It seemed to work, but the resulting "tablet" of soap disintegrated in use and we were back to bits. Might it be because soap no longer contains animal fat?