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Gardeners' World BBC2 8:30pm Fri 8 Mar

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  • Steve the Gardening VetSteve the Gardening Vet Posts: 1,630
    Monty said 'make sure you chose the right rose for a pot' but gave no idea of what he would use as criteria for selection?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Nor the best/minimum/maximum size for a pot.  Oh well.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Watched it at last. Enjoyed. ‘That’ Fuchsia was indeed fabulous. 
    I too wonder how the Paradise Garden will turn out, (Who said bus stop?! Brilliant 😅), and what he will put in to complement the roses. 

    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Sorry, forgot to bookmark this thread - otherwise I'd have already thanked @Busy-Lizzie for her potential invitation to say hello, and @Dovefromabove for that great article about the Bloom family.  Norfolk is a long way away... but it'll happen one day!   :)

    Returning to GW, that music always brings a smile to my face, too.  And I'd watch Carol Klein enthusing about any plant, whether or not I wanted to grow it.  I hope she's as happy a woman as she appears.   :D
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Liriodendron said:
      And I'd watch Carol Klein enthusing about any plant, whether or not I wanted to grow it.  I hope she's as happy a woman as she appears.   :D
    I bought some plants from Carol Klein many years ago when she still had her nursery & was at one of the RHS early shows in London. She came across exactly as you see her on TV, gave us loads of free advice about the plants best place to put them, how to look after them etc. Lovely lady. :)
    AB Still learning

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I agree, l bought plants from her at Malvern years ago, and she was the same. Although her stand was busy, she was only too happy to give advice. I saw her a couple of years ago at Gardeners' World Live where she was filming. She was chatting to one of the exhibitors (off camera), and they were getting on like a house on fire. Like all of us, l am sure she has her off days, but l think what you see is what you get with her.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    We met Carol several years running at Hampton Court, and even in the second year, she remembered us from the previous year, even asking after the plants we'd bought from her.
    I was amazed she'd remember which we'd bought.
    Devon.
  • jamesharcourtjamesharcourt Posts: 465
    I haven't always watched GW but this one started off really interesting for me, the winter garden was particularly stunning.
  • Steve the Gardening VetSteve the Gardening Vet Posts: 1,630
    Steve the Gardening Vet said:
    Monty said 'make sure you chose the right rose for a pot' but gave no idea of what he would use as criteria for selection?

    I got a reply from Monty on twitter, the answer is apparently 'small!'
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    So not Rambling Rector then? 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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