Kate Garroway's husband returned from hospital 2 days ago and I think some kind of update could have been overlaid on that. The viewer's videos are getting pretty poor - the slowworm one we say images of the viewer herself and the slowworms and that was pretty much it. OK - you can grow plants indoors under grow lights. Cannabis growers have known that for years! Oh for the end of Covid when we can have proper filming again!
I think it can be quite helpful showing fruit and veg harvest at this time of year ... there are lots of new gardeners out there now ... seeing examples of what they could end up with if they sow now will be helpful to them I'm sure. The same with the sunny little gardens ... if people start now by the time its warm enough to sit outside by their front doors, they too will have flower-filled gardens to sit in.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Though Derek Draper is indeed home now, he still needs 24 hour care and the family home has had to be adapted to cater for his needs. It’s very sad.
I felt I was in a distinct minority last season saying I thought many of the viewers’ videos were pretty rubbish and there were too many inclusions of gardens with very little appeal. This year I think the standard is slightly better but zoned out completely when the clip from Maine was on and wished I had done the same with the slow worms.
I wonder if GW solicits in a systematic way feedback on the programme. On another garden site I look at correspondents fall over themselves to praise the viewers’ clips; expressing a contrary view is a capital offence.
Does anyone else think Monty might regret planting oriental poppies right at the front of the border? For me the foliage always gets tatty after the flowers go over, and are better cut back then which leaves a gap, so they're better with something else in front.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
History of lawns was interesting, once I’ve finished with my other list of Things To Do I might create a “lawn within a lawn” and see if I can make a small piece look nice
If oriental poppies are cut back hard after fliwering they regrow a nice tidy clump for the rest of the season, sometimes you may get a flower. I have beauty of livermere it's a beautiful poppy but like all O poppies vulnerable to the rain
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I felt I was in a distinct minority last season saying I thought many of the viewers’ videos were pretty rubbish and there were too many inclusions of gardens with very little appeal. This year I think the standard is slightly better but zoned out completely when the clip from Maine was on and wished I had done the same with the slow worms.
I wonder if GW solicits in a systematic way feedback on the programme. On another garden site I look at correspondents fall over themselves to praise the viewers’ clips; expressing a contrary view is a capital offence.
I did wonder myself, but I guess it’s an experiment and he’s looking to see if the conditions will combat the problems his other poppies are having