I had already read the previous thoughts on this thread before watching the latest episode last night and thought Adam showed great stoicism under the circumstances. A brave man to continue in his usual affable manner. I also thought good, we now have a nearer to typical UK garden with the limitations and challenges that many of us face. It will be interesting to see how Adam tackles these.
Yep. Monty's "Here's my enormous greenhouse stuffed to the gills with plants you can't afford tended by staff you don't have" is not really that useful tbh. Here's my cricket pitch, here's my paradise garden, here's my lake-sized pond... I like Monty but I was wowed by the practicality of Beechgrove. It was quite a stark contrast, actually.
Adam is just brilliant IMO. Wish him and his family well.
yes.i love gardeners world but I have no greenhouse but my kitchen is starting to look like one!I only have about 3 windowsill and they are crammed too
The cricket pitch, is in reality a fairly small strip of lawn, only named the cricket pitch, because he used to hit a ball there with his son. Lake, I don't think so.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
@Uff - if they are thalictrums they'll be wonderful. I love them. Try and work with them.
@punkdoc It's all relative. I expect the majority of garden ponds range between a half barrel and a preformed liner or single sheet butyl liner which limits size so by comparison, and in relation to the size of most urban and suburban gardens, Monty's pond is huge. Not as big tho as the one in his first phase of GW when he worked with Chris Beardshaw on creating that enormous pond - and fell in. Priceless.
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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)."
@Lizzie27, he said that over the past few months he'd made a few decisions to make some changes to his life and one was to downsize. Apparently there is illness in the family (possibly his wife, but no one knows for sure as far as l'm aware). I felt for him, he was so proud of his beautiful house and garden and rightly so, but other things come first. I look forward to seeing the development of his new garden, which to be honest is a bit nearer to what most of us have.
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Lake, I don't think so.
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@Uff - if they are thalictrums they'll be wonderful. I love them. Try and work with them.
@punkdoc It's all relative. I expect the majority of garden ponds range between a half barrel and a preformed liner or single sheet butyl liner which limits size so by comparison, and in relation to the size of most urban and suburban gardens, Monty's pond is huge. Not as big tho as the one in his first phase of GW when he worked with Chris Beardshaw on creating that enormous pond - and fell in. Priceless.
Apparently there is illness in the family (possibly his wife, but no one knows for sure as far as l'm aware).
I felt for him, he was so proud of his beautiful house and garden and rightly so, but other things come first. I look forward to seeing the development of his new garden, which to be honest is a bit nearer to what most of us have.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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