I enjoyed the programme. Just transplanted some Forget-me-Not seedlings - I have a couple of places that would be suitable to place them as they give a little sparkle before some of the perennials come up in late Spring.
Watched it again after lunch and almost fell asleep again! I don't mind being told to be mindful of natural resources, wildlife etc as long as the "how to" is sensible. Apart from a few strategic slug pellets (the new kind) I don't do any pesticides and only use weedkiller on the gravel drive once a year because it's just too big to hoe every week.
I did spray an area we are planning to convert from wild grass and weeds to a tree, shrub and perennials border but, frankly, the heat and drought are doing a better job. I do water new beds and veggies but even that will lessen as we work more and more well-rotted manure and garden compost in.
Might take a while tho as it's a new garden from old pasture and farmyard so full of horrors. Lots of quarrying when I make new beds so we'll have to think up something to do with all the stones and rocks. Leaving large areas of grass uncut has made a huge difference to the numbers of insects and thus swallows, swifts and house martins.
I watched Beechgrove too and noted, with amusement, the difference between Chris Beardshaw's rescued box hedge and Monty's which is still clearly struggling.
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)."
Managed just now to watch on Catch Up the parts I missed on Friday.
I do think that some of the clips go on too long. The Isle of Man allotment and the piece on sustainable garden being cases in point. And the clip last week on Alton Towers was interminable.
What I did like very much was the knowledge and eloquence of the head gardener in that scented garden and the lovely clip of that viewer’s front garden. What a transformation in just 5 months.
"With the summer garden in full swing, Monty shows how to stake dahlias, sows seeds of perennials and celebrates an abundant vegetable harvest.
The team meet a landscape designer in Cornwall who creates gardens that are not only sustainable but also beautiful and edible and go to Wales to meet a gardener whose garden reflects memories of her childhood home in Jamaica.
There is a second chance to see Carol Klein visit Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire to look at their stunning collection of summer flowering thalictrum, and Mark Lane shows the adaptive tools he uses for planting and weeding in his garden in Kent.
And there are more viewers’ videos showing what people have been getting up to in their own gardens."
I think the GW guys have done a consistantly good through out all of this and genuinely look forward to every episode but have changed to watching them sunday morning for a relaxing start to the day
Thanks Herbaceous. Oh well. Devoid of clichés, you see. I know I should have said the scent of this plant is divine, cut to shot of gardener sniffing it.
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I did spray an area we are planning to convert from wild grass and weeds to a tree, shrub and perennials border but, frankly, the heat and drought are doing a better job. I do water new beds and veggies but even that will lessen as we work more and more well-rotted manure and garden compost in.
Might take a while tho as it's a new garden from old pasture and farmyard so full of horrors. Lots of quarrying when I make new beds so we'll have to think up something to do with all the stones and rocks. Leaving large areas of grass uncut has made a huge difference to the numbers of insects and thus swallows, swifts and house martins.
I watched Beechgrove too and noted, with amusement, the difference between Chris Beardshaw's rescued box hedge and Monty's which is still clearly struggling.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I do think that some of the clips go on too long. The Isle of Man allotment and the piece on sustainable garden being cases in point. And the clip last week on Alton Towers was interminable.
What I did like very much was the knowledge and eloquence of the head gardener in that scented garden and the lovely clip of that viewer’s front garden. What a transformation in just 5 months.
"With the summer garden in full swing, Monty shows how to stake dahlias, sows seeds of perennials and celebrates an abundant vegetable harvest.
The team meet a landscape designer in Cornwall who creates gardens that are not only sustainable but also beautiful and edible and go to Wales to meet a gardener whose garden reflects memories of her childhood home in Jamaica.
There is a second chance to see Carol Klein visit Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire to look at their stunning collection of summer flowering thalictrum, and Mark Lane shows the adaptive tools he uses for planting and weeding in his garden in Kent.
And there are more viewers’ videos showing what people have been getting up to in their own gardens."