Talking about RHS gardens (sorry if I digress from GW), Wisley is absolutely glorious at the moment. I went earlier this week and the paulownias, rhodos, crab apples and so much more were bursting with blooms and colours.
Still digressing, sewer or sewist? @JennyJ. Researching the history of my village I was initially surprised to read in the 1890 school log book that Mary Dalby was awarded a prize for being ‘queen of the sewers’.
Well seamstress doesn't cover it anymore does it? I love Sewing Bee too tho I do wonder at the amount of time they get to make something like a child's waterproof coat. 4.5 hours seems a bit short to me and I still don't see the point of the transformations. If you can sew you can make an outfit from scratch and not have to bodge. Maybe it's cos I'm a gardener but all my old clothes get recycled as garden or painting gear before they come to the end of their use. Anything too good for that goes in the charity collections.
I enjoyed the Bridgewater programme and very much like the way they've set out to employ local artisans and train up volunteers who have since become employed staff. Not covered yet but they've also involved local community groups and schools and have a "well-being" programme too which works with local GPs and hospitals to help patients with depression, anxiety and other such disorders.
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 enjoyed the Bridgewater programme as well. I was interested in the comments from the Manchester Evening news reporter that not everyone was fully on board with the project. l thought it was going to be a positive PR piece for the RHS all the way through. Don't know why the second episode is not until next month, presumably they are filming the opening.
Lots of people still think the RHS is only for posh people with loads of money and huge gardens or estates so a Labour council is bound to have reservations. There's also the problem of access and traffic levels but the RHS is pretty good these days about such things and that garden should attract people who would never otherwise go to that area and who will shop and eat and even stay locally so should be a huge boost to the local economy and a great leisure and learning facility too.
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)."
Has anyone watched the new(ish) gardening programme on Channel 4, "The Great Garden Revolution", with Joel Bird & Poppy Okotcha hosting? I saw it a week or so ago when they were in Oldham sorting out a garden with a fabulous view. Sadly not impressed. PA is undoubtedly easy on the eye, but her plant knowledge just seemed too superficial - it's a Ceanothus, Poppy, not a Ceanthus - and JB planted a lovely Amelanchier but seemed not to have dug the hole deep enough, so the top of the rootball was a couple of inches above the surrounding soil... and I felt that the now-obligatory outdoor kitchen would only get used a few times a year, in a garden in the Pennines. Pity.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I've been watching that at @Liriodendron and yes, Poppy does come across as lacking. I did wnder about having an outdoor "kitchen" on an Oldham moor with no shelter/canopy/wind protection and let's not mention all the rain on the right side o' th'ills.
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)."
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I enjoyed the Bridgewater programme and very much like the way they've set out to employ local artisans and train up volunteers who have since become employed staff. Not covered yet but they've also involved local community groups and schools and have a "well-being" programme too which works with local GPs and hospitals to help patients with depression, anxiety and other such disorders.
l thought it was going to be a positive PR piece for the RHS all the way through.
Don't know why the second episode is not until next month, presumably they are filming the opening.