And for those who need to be indoors a lot at the moment ... caring for their houseplants may be the only gardening they can do ... and some houseplants improve the air quality of your home ... very welcome if you’re stuck indoors.
Think we’re lucky to get a programme at all at the moment 😊 👍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
To be be honest I am not a big fan of indoor plants unless there is a place to put them that can cope with sloshed water. I can be sloppy with the watering and get tongue pie if it spills onto soft furnishings or leaves ring marks under the pots.
I also wanted to ask the gardener with the 1000+ pots - Why? The clashing colours of the pelargoniums in the conservatory was a car crash of a design, in my opinion.
I enjoy GW. I'm not always in agreement with Monty or like what he does (same for the other presenters too, in fairness) but overall I think its a good programme.
However.... IMHO its sort of starting to get a bit "preachy" (at least in parts). Yes, re-use and recycle plastic, yes, cut down on peat (even cut it out all together) but don't keep "banging on" about it repeatedly - it becomes irritating to the point where the message becomes diluted.
Same with clips not featuring the presenters - there is often "a message" ... thats fine but can we occasionally just have gardening without a guilt trip.
Also the language used sometimes gets my hackles up - "You must", "we must" (inferring that I will become a gardening outcast if I don't).
Having said that, I enjoyed the first episode.
Ditto. I think I watched less than half the episodes last year. Gone are the days I'd record GW if I was out on a Friday ( those were the days ) and I'd watch it when I came in before going to bed, no matter how late it was.
I also wanted to ask the gardener with the 1000+ pots - Why? The clashing colours of the pelargoniums in the conservatory was a car crash of a design, in my opinion.
She pretty much said it was an addiction, that her mother was a plant pot enthusiast and she loved gardening this way.
I have a neighbor that has at least 50 pots, and as many gnomes, ornaments and solar lights in a yard of about 10ft square. Many different colours and all pretty much on the floor. It is far worse and less cohesive than the lady on GW last night. We overlook it and it makes my brain ache 😄
We have a couple of hundred plants in pots but only because we haven't yet been able to make the beds they will go in - combination of cr*p soil up near the house and then drought and now a ban on weedkillers but we'll get there. I go round with a hosepipe watering them and that can take ages. I save water buuts for the acidic loving plants and that takes even longer. I use a sprinkler for the ones all gathered together against a wall as that means they create a micro-climate and don't need watering every day except in seriously hot weather.
Looking forward to getting them all in the ground except for the hostas, mints and other herbs up near the house.
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)."
I must admit l thought she would have a comprehensive watering system, possibly linked to a timer. When she said she did it with watering cans and it took up to 2 hours, l was flabbergasted.
And for those who need to be indoors a lot at the moment ... caring for their houseplants may be the only gardening they can do ... and some houseplants improve the air quality of your home ... very welcome if you’re stuck indoors.
Think we’re lucky to get a programme at all at the moment 😊 👍
I'm lucky I have a small garden to tend to. I'm growing more vegetables than I've ever grown. Not only to help feed me, but my grandparents, and elderly neighbours. Still, I was thinking of getting some asparagus fern seeds for indoors..
yep that lady was definately potty :)but you never know spending that long watering and caring for her plants might be her therapy :)either way it clearly makes her happy so no harm done
Gardeners’ World celebrates the snowdrop and visits one of the world’s largest collections, lovingly nurtured in a suburban back garden and Monty gives tips on what to do once they have finished flowering.
At Longmeadow it’s time to get dahlias into growth and, for inspiration, last summer we visited a field full of dahlias in Sussex to get tips from a professional grower.
Nick Bailey revels in the beauty of magnolias and Monty has plenty of jobs for us all to be getting on with this weekend.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
To be be honest I am not a big fan of indoor plants unless there is a place to put them that can cope with sloshed water. I can be sloppy with the watering and get tongue pie if it spills onto soft furnishings or leaves ring marks under the pots.
I also wanted to ask the gardener with the 1000+ pots - Why? The clashing colours of the pelargoniums in the conservatory was a car crash of a design, in my opinion.
I think I watched less than half the episodes last year.
Gone are the days I'd record GW if I was out on a Friday ( those were the days ) and I'd watch it when I came in before going to bed, no matter how late it was.
She pretty much said it was an addiction, that her mother was a plant pot enthusiast and she loved gardening this way.
I have a neighbor that has at least 50 pots, and as many gnomes, ornaments and solar lights in a yard of about 10ft square. Many different colours and all pretty much on the floor. It is far worse and less cohesive than the lady on GW last night. We overlook it and it makes my brain ache 😄
We have a couple of hundred plants in pots but only because we haven't yet been able to make the beds they will go in - combination of cr*p soil up near the house and then drought and now a ban on weedkillers but we'll get there. I go round with a hosepipe watering them and that can take ages. I save water buuts for the acidic loving plants and that takes even longer. I use a sprinkler for the ones all gathered together against a wall as that means they create a micro-climate and don't need watering every day except in seriously hot weather.
Looking forward to getting them all in the ground except for the hostas, mints and other herbs up near the house.
Gardeners’ World celebrates the snowdrop and visits one of the world’s largest collections, lovingly nurtured in a suburban back garden and Monty gives tips on what to do once they have finished flowering.
At Longmeadow it’s time to get dahlias into growth and, for inspiration, last summer we visited a field full of dahlias in Sussex to get tips from a professional grower.
Nick Bailey revels in the beauty of magnolias and Monty has plenty of jobs for us all to be getting on with this weekend.