@Loxley I was thinking he has planted the wrong grass again!! I went for a similar look but chose panicum and miscanthus that didn't flop among the verbena! But I did it the year before Monty and my garden doesn't have a name except sanctuary!!
Watched last night. Am I the only person who didn't really notice MUCH difference in the "new" orchids? They all looked pretty much like their parents to me. None of the viewers' videos did anything for me. ditto to yet more hedges. I wish he'd widen the paths too. In one shot the path was so narrow he had one foot on the path and the other on the bed.
Watched last night. Am I the only person who didn't really notice MUCH difference in the "new" orchids? They all looked pretty much like their parents to me.
No I was looking at them wondering what was the difference. I have no interest in growing them but I don't mind at all GW showing those articles as it is interesting in a kind of 'oh really? Moving on' kind of way.
I liked both the wildlife gardens. I'm happy with scruffy (just as well) and I thought the shed roof was worth showing to encourage people to try something like it, for the sake of wildlife in towns. scruffy bits of space are better on a roof when the garden is so small and it's hard to find a bit to leave to nature. I get a bit 'meh' about the viewers videos always feeling they have to tell us how to do something. I assume it's in the brief. I was a bit fed up to see Beechgrove are going down the same route, albeit in slightly different fashion but still. Ho hum. Guess I'm not the target audience.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I'm fascinated by these people who become absolutely absorbed by developing just one plant. Giant leeks, perfect sweet peas, a non-standard colour. They are usually men and they dedicate their lives to their passion. I don't have that drive or single vision, I couldn't do it. Listening to them is just amazing. A world of gardening wholly closed to me.
My cynical view about viewers’ videos is that it does not matter how cra.. sorry, unphotogenic, the garden is or how banal the advice, the garden will be included if the gardener is from an otherwise under-represented group on the programme. It’s box ticking.
Sorry to go back to the hedge thing, but am l correct in thinking that Monty said a few weeks back that removing them had "opened up the garden" ? I got the impression that he thought it was a good thing. Maybe he changed his mind as we all do from time to time .
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Am I the only person who didn't really notice MUCH difference in the "new" orchids? They all looked pretty much like their parents to me.
None of the viewers' videos did anything for me.
ditto to yet more hedges.
I wish he'd widen the paths too. In one shot the path was so narrow he had one foot on the path and the other on the bed.
Smiled at the notion of more hedges, worried that putting my blueberries in the ground is a folly.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I liked both the wildlife gardens. I'm happy with scruffy (just as well) and I thought the shed roof was worth showing to encourage people to try something like it, for the sake of wildlife in towns. scruffy bits of space are better on a roof when the garden is so small and it's hard to find a bit to leave to nature.
I get a bit 'meh' about the viewers videos always feeling they have to tell us how to do something. I assume it's in the brief. I was a bit fed up to see Beechgrove are going down the same route, albeit in slightly different fashion but still. Ho hum. Guess I'm not the target audience.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I have charcoal ash and separately wood ash to use or dispose of.
I got the impression that he thought it was a good thing. Maybe he changed his mind as we all do from time to time .