Plus, gardeners live in hope. Given the numbers of trained gardeners around who will have been sat twiddling their thumbs whilst on furlough thru Covid, not to mention the resources of staff and expert gardeners in the RHS/NT/Scottish NT/English Heritage/Kew I wouldn't have thought it beyond the bounds of imagination or possibility to commission some film from some of those.
I look forward to GW every week. There are bits I love and bits I don't and that's what FF is for.
Exactly, and to be fair, until you've watched it , you don't know if you're going to love it or not.
Pretty sure I know that your comments on the next episode will be negative, before either of us have watched it.
Pardon my honesty. I hope you know there's an ignore facility on the Forum?. You need never seem my comments ever again
JoeX sounds like one of the 'woke' generation who can't cope with criticism or any opinion which doesn't match theirs.
Plus, gardeners live in hope. Given the numbers of trained gardeners around who will have been sat twiddling their thumbs whilst on furlough thru Covid, not to mention the resources of staff and expert gardeners in the RHS/NT/Scottish NT/English Heritage/Kew I wouldn't have thought it beyond the bounds of imagination or possibility to commission some film from some of those.
I look forward to GW every week. There are bits I love and bits I don't and that's what FF is for.
Exactly, and to be fair, until you've watched it , you don't know if you're going to love it or not.
Pretty sure I know that your comments on the next episode will be negative, before either of us have watched it.
Pardon my honesty. I hope you know there's an ignore facility on the Forum?. You need never seem my comments ever again
JoeX sounds like one of the 'woke' generation who can't cope with criticism or any opinion which doesn't match theirs.
No they don't, not in the slightest.
Not that I'm up on such lingo , but isn't it "snowflakes" who can't cope with criticism or any opinion which doesn't match theirs?
I respectfully disagree, @JennyJ . In medieval times a garden was depicted as a place of order, harmony, beauty and peace. There the weary found rest; the troubled peace; passions were subdued; wounds were healed and the heart comforted. That sounds like gardening to me.
Nope, as studies increasingly show there's a world of psychological difference between working in a garden and tending plants even just in pots on a balcony or windowsill and just sitting or strolling in a park or garden and easing one's soul for a while. You can do the latter in the countryside or a public park or garden without any sense of ownership or stewardship or satisfaction from growing things.
In medieval times gardens were a place of safety and security from the terrors of the wilder countryside especially the forests and hills which man hadn't tamed and didn't control. Just look at Het Loo, smack in the middle of a forest and every plant martialled like a wee soldier.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I respectfully disagree, @JennyJ . In medieval times a garden was depicted as a place of order, harmony, beauty and peace. There the weary found rest; the troubled peace; passions were subdued; wounds were healed and the heart comforted. That sounds like gardening to me.
Everyone's welcome to their view .
For me wellbeing is a welcome byproduct of gardening as well as of walking in a park or other outdoor space, but those are two different things. Gardening itself is, for me, about propagating, growing and tending plants, and putting them together in ways that please me (or sometimes not, and rearranging), and the parts of gardening programmes that I like are the ones that focus primarily on plants.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Plus, gardeners live in hope. Given the numbers of trained gardeners around who will have been sat twiddling their thumbs whilst on furlough thru Covid, not to mention the resources of staff and expert gardeners in the RHS/NT/Scottish NT/English Heritage/Kew I wouldn't have thought it beyond the bounds of imagination or possibility to commission some film from some of those.
I look forward to GW every week. There are bits I love and bits I don't and that's what FF is for.
Exactly, and to be fair, until you've watched it , you don't know if you're going to love it or not.
Pretty sure I know that your comments on the next episode will be negative, before either of us have watched it.
Pardon my honesty. I hope you know there's an ignore facility on the Forum?. You need never seem my comments ever again
And pardon mine, I like your comments on any other subject
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In medieval times gardens were a place of safety and security from the terrors of the wilder countryside especially the forests and hills which man hadn't tamed and didn't control. Just look at Het Loo, smack in the middle of a forest and every plant martialled like a wee soldier.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”