I think @didyw makes some very good suggestions ,if only the researchers and/or producers were looking in ! Like quite a few others, l look back with fond memories to the days of Geoff Hamilton, but l think GW is looking a little tired, a bit like Monty himself. I think being in the same garden week after week is necessarily limiting. There's only so much that can be done with the space and conditions available. It's the 21st century, and there are so many ways of obtaining information about plants etc. of which this forum is just one. The lockdown and pandemic created a situation that the BBC, Monty and the production team managed to deal with in order to keep the programme on the air, but l feel like they've got into a groove they can't get out of . The viewer's videos were a good idea, but it strikes me that they're now being used as filler rather than anything else. So many people have discovered the joys of gardening over the last 15 months or so, l feel that now they're hooked, let's reel them in to the next stage. It's difficult to strike a balance between beginners and those with more experience, but l'm sure it can be done somehow. That's my two penn'orth
The trouble with GH today is that it comes form a very personal garden, so private that Monty never acknowledges the help he has.
In Geoff Hamilton's day it came from a large plot that was designed to be accessible to TV cameras and crews and was divided into different styles of garden to reflect the suburban reality of most gardens in terms of size, time and budget available. It also had space for the special series on Cottage Gardens, Ornamental Kitchen Gardens and Paradise Gardens and the programme was full of tips on how to do things on a budget or how to splash out and have something a bit more fancy.
Monty's garden just doesn't have that relevance of scale or scope or easy DIY.
The clematis feature was good this week but I do think some of the home garden videos are poor. I don't mind having eco stuff. I fact I find it interesting and relevant but I have never liked being preached at. If I don't have a squilllion plastic bottles about, how am I to grow my strawberries?
Have just watched it again with lots of FF and yes @Busy-Lizzie too many herbs in that pot.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I'd also like to see a visit to a nursery each week, showing their passion for the plants they grow and specialise in, with snippets of the different varieties of one of the plants that are available for us to grow/buy.
Such an interesting idea! I hope those who decide the content of these programmes take note.
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day..
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
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My banana lives in an unheated polytunnel all winter. Thermometer once read -7C over night. It's moved in the garden ( next week ) and lifted again. Takes less than an hour in total. It never gets watered, never gets pruned, doesn't need dead heading doesn't need training and stops everyone in their tracks when they see it. I've no idea why folk ( wrongly ) say they're too much faff. Try giving the same lack of treatment ( apart from an hour or so A YEAR ) to roses, a veg plot, a lawn, a hedge or virtually anything else you care to mention.
I have banana plants i love them. They are moved into the house over winter and treated as house plants. I've just put them back out in the garden today. I agree with @Hostafan1, I spend more time on my Roses and apple and plum trees than I do the bananas.
" Arit Anderson and Frances Tophill introduce a special Gardeners’ World from Wakehurst, Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex. They not only explore the gardens but also meet the gardeners, joining in on their planting projects and finding out more about the UK’s largest conservation project, the Millenium Seed Bank.
There's also a houseplant enthusiast whose passion for monstera has taken over most of the rooms in his flat in Cheltenham, and in London, we visit the garden of a designer who has made the most of the limited space in his outdoor courtyard - but who still finds room for the odd weed or two. And in Cornwall, we discover a gardener with a unique approach to planting meadows by combining edible and ornamental plants. "
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Like quite a few others, l look back with fond memories to the days of Geoff Hamilton, but l think GW is looking a little tired, a bit like Monty himself. I think being in the same garden week after week is necessarily limiting. There's only so much that can be done with the space and conditions available.
It's the 21st century, and there are so many ways of obtaining information about plants etc. of which this forum is just one.
The lockdown and pandemic created a situation that the BBC, Monty and the production team managed to deal with in order to keep the programme on the air, but l feel like they've got into a groove they can't get out of . The viewer's videos were a good idea, but it strikes me that they're now being used as filler rather than anything else.
So many people have discovered the joys of gardening over the last 15 months or so, l feel that now they're hooked, let's reel them in to the next stage.
It's difficult to strike a balance between beginners and those with more experience, but l'm sure it can be done somehow.
That's my two penn'orth
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In Geoff Hamilton's day it came from a large plot that was designed to be accessible to TV cameras and crews and was divided into different styles of garden to reflect the suburban reality of most gardens in terms of size, time and budget available. It also had space for the special series on Cottage Gardens, Ornamental Kitchen Gardens and Paradise Gardens and the programme was full of tips on how to do things on a budget or how to splash out and have something a bit more fancy.
Monty's garden just doesn't have that relevance of scale or scope or easy DIY.
The clematis feature was good this week but I do think some of the home garden videos are poor. I don't mind having eco stuff. I fact I find it interesting and relevant but I have never liked being preached at. If I don't have a squilllion plastic bottles about, how am I to grow my strawberries?
Have just watched it again with lots of FF and yes @Busy-Lizzie too many herbs in that pot.
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther KingIt's moved in the garden ( next week ) and lifted again. Takes less than an hour in total. It never gets watered, never gets pruned, doesn't need dead heading doesn't need training and stops everyone in their tracks when they see it.
I've no idea why folk ( wrongly ) say they're too much faff.
Try giving the same lack of treatment ( apart from an hour or so A YEAR ) to roses, a veg plot, a lawn, a hedge or virtually anything else you care to mention.
" Arit Anderson and Frances Tophill introduce a special Gardeners’ World from Wakehurst, Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex. They not only explore the gardens but also meet the gardeners, joining in on their planting projects and finding out more about the UK’s largest conservation project, the Millenium Seed Bank.
There's also a houseplant enthusiast whose passion for monstera has taken over most of the rooms in his flat in Cheltenham, and in London, we visit the garden of a designer who has made the most of the limited space in his outdoor courtyard - but who still finds room for the odd weed or two. And in Cornwall, we discover a gardener with a unique approach to planting meadows by combining edible and ornamental plants. "