Agree generally about the lack of subtitles for plant names but I think there are so many tulips now available that I think the easiest way to choose is to go by colour and height either in catalogues if you're after something in particular and are organised enough to order in advance or just from what packets are available in the shops come autumn. It was good to see them being woven in with other plants and not in regimented rows or crammed in pots.
Brassica chappy with his flowering sprouts was good too. I have a crop of PSB that has now gone over and is covered in lemony flowers and buzzing with bees. The chooks love the flowers too so I'm bending stems down each day for them to peck but will save a couple for seeds to sow for next year. It fed us for weeks. Delish.
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I love the way GW starts, with silence or a bit of birdsong, and Monty footling about happily in the garden. It makes me breathe... and relax. And usually there's a nugget of something to take away by the end of the programme.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I love the way GW starts, with silence or a bit of birdsong, and Monty footling about happily in the garden. It makes me breathe... and relax. And usually there's a nugget of something to take away by the end of the programme.
Exactly that. I do literally exhale as it starts
It's tinged with a bit of sadness as I always (well, for 11 years) watched it with my brother. He always liked to skip through all intro music for TV programmes and get to the meat of it, but I wouldn't let him for this as it is so much part of the experience, and he learned to leave it on. Occasionally he'd tease me that he was about to press the FF button, but it was literally the only programme he allowed any of us to watch from the beginning.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Did tulip lady plant 800-1000 bulbs every year or leave some/most in the ground ? I was thinking how expensive 1000 tulips each year would be, but what a beautiful setting.
As for not showing plant names, I recall a few years ago they had a terrible habit of not showing what Monty was actually doing when he was pruning, digging, planting etc. Instead the camera would focus on Monty's face as he spoke, instead of showing what he was actually doing with his hands. It was infuriating when he was explaining how to prune say an apple tree, yet they didn't show him actually doing it.
I don't know if you are interested in this, but I noticed while watching the last 2 episodes of GW that the films in between ("Joe will visit the XYZ garden" and "here is one of your videos") were always made when the flowering season is at its peak and the beds are full of flowering plants. I visit gardens from April on to see what stage the plants have at this time of the season. It is extremely difficult to find pictures or information about the beginning of a plant in a year. I personally would find it interesting to have a film once a month just showing different stages of the plants.
I agree Simone, I posted back in March that I wished they’d do a programme, or two even, in January/February to show what monty is sowing as by March/April he is already potting on or even planting out! Obviously a lot has been done in those months.
It’d be nice to show them tackling a garden that’s thick clay and stone like I have too! I’d love to plant in beautiful soft soil, I need a pick axe to plant 🤣 A lot have commented on here about not liking the viewers gardens, Im not keen either, but I suppose it’s a cheap way for the bbc to fill the slots, no presenters or film crew to send off around the country the viewers do it all for free!
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Agree generally about the lack of subtitles for plant names but I think there are so many tulips now available that I think the easiest way to choose is to go by colour and height either in catalogues if you're after something in particular and are organised enough to order in advance or just from what packets are available in the shops come autumn. It was good to see them being woven in with other plants and not in regimented rows or crammed in pots.
Brassica chappy with his flowering sprouts was good too. I have a crop of PSB that has now gone over and is covered in lemony flowers and buzzing with bees. The chooks love the flowers too so I'm bending stems down each day for them to peck but will save a couple for seeds to sow for next year. It fed us for weeks. Delish.
It's tinged with a bit of sadness as I always (well, for 11 years) watched it with my brother. He always liked to skip through all intro music for TV programmes and get to the meat of it, but I wouldn't let him for this as it is so much part of the experience, and he learned to leave it on. Occasionally he'd tease me that he was about to press the FF button, but it was literally the only programme he allowed any of us to watch from the beginning.
When l was working, that was the point where l thought "The weekend has begun".
If you plant them deep enough or go for the botanic tulips they do come back year after year.
I visit gardens from April on to see what stage the plants have at this time of the season. It is extremely difficult to find pictures or information about the beginning of a plant in a year.
I personally would find it interesting to have a film once a month just showing different stages of the plants.
I ♥ my garden.
A lot have commented on here about not liking the viewers gardens, Im not keen either, but I suppose it’s a cheap way for the bbc to fill the slots, no presenters or film crew to send off around the country the viewers do it all for free!