I wouldn't like to walk down a path and have things brush against me. I'd be covered in insect bites. I'd have to walk about in a bee suit all the time.
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You’re exaggerating right?
Brushing against a plant should not be filling you with dread.
Horses for courses. I like it. My veg patch is probably bigger than new build gardens in total. I have a wild area. Lots of nettles. Compost corner. Even one of the infamous bananas. Log pile. Puddle masquerading as a pond.Even a semi tidy cottage garden bit. I accept a lot of people won't like it, but it doesn't seem to stop them accepting fruit and veg at this time of year. One of the local councillors commented that it was very naturalistic. I haven't decided yet whether it was a compliment or an insult.
A maize maze? Love it ... but you’re supposed to follow the paths in a maize maze ... not push through the rows of corn 😕
I was running through fields of wheat long before Theresa May was ‘naughty’ ... ... although I learnt to follow the tractor tracks so I didn’t cause ( much) damage ... and laying on my tum in the middle of a haymeadow with the grass above my head, watching the hundreds of tiny creatures ... not to mention playing amongst the bushes and grasses at the edge of the woods ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You'll have the monty fan club spluttering on their crumpets with this post! I agree, not a fan of his garden, OR his methods/advice. He'd be good presenting an antique show or something as his presentation skills are good enough. He's just a hobby gardener though.
Like most previous posters, I like his garden a lot, find it full of inspiration and ideas and - most importantly to me - clearly the result of lots of love / work / thought. However, whether I like his overall style is fairly irrelevant really. I don't watch gardening programmes or visit gardens in the hope of slavishly copying any one of them, but for information, enjoyment, ideas, and to find out about plants. If it's in a different local climate to mine (as long as I know), is bigger / smaller / not to my taste doesn't stop any of those uses.
I also think that sometimes it looks a bit cramped, but I doubt very much that it is - as it's a garden that was created not for TV but for and by its owners prior to MD getting the GW job, it doesn't necessarily show itself to best advantage on camera. No matter - the individual aspects still work, even if the whole doesn't always sell itself.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Well, that's true, glasgowdan, but most of us are hobby gardeners, too. I am much too old to become a professional and I LIKE personal, idiosyncratic gardens. Of course, I love to visit a professionally produced garden - just as I enjoy the houses in Ideal Home, but I don't want to garden or live like that. Monty knows more than most of us, I guess and seems to have a lot of success.
I admire much of Longmeadow, even parts which wouldn’t be my choice, mainly because there are so many fabulous plants. I would love to know the cost of all the gorgeous new plants that Monty, and the other presenters, acquire. I realise that they propagate, divide and sow seeds (as they have greenhouses) but every episode there are £££s of new plants going in - so no wonder it looks amazing.
I am a lone gardener with a creaky back. You have to work with what you have. My hubby is no gardener.and will move the odd bag of compost I can't do heavy lifting so its light weight plastic pots. Believe it or not my hubby bought me a trolly so I can move the bags more easily.
If only I could manage more or had a keen gardener as well as me. My garden is too big. Oh! and there is finances to consider. So I do what I can. Oh! and for 30 odd of those I was working. Do not judge.
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Brushing against a plant should not be filling you with dread.
I was running through fields of wheat long before Theresa May was ‘naughty’ ...
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 also think that sometimes it looks a bit cramped, but I doubt very much that it is - as it's a garden that was created not for TV but for and by its owners prior to MD getting the GW job, it doesn't necessarily show itself to best advantage on camera. No matter - the individual aspects still work, even if the whole doesn't always sell itself.
You have to work with what you have. My hubby is no gardener.and will move the odd bag of compost I can't do heavy lifting so its light weight plastic pots.
Believe it or not my hubby bought me a trolly so I can move the bags more easily.
If only I could manage more or had a keen gardener as well as me.
My garden is too big.
Oh! and there is finances to consider.
So I do what I can. Oh! and for 30 odd of those I was working.
Do not judge.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
@glasgowdan I’m not sure about crumpets or spluttering, but I can smirk into my flat/white if you like? 😏