I think I'll have my two-penn'orth on this. I like the viewers vids. Its inspiring seeing what 'normal' people are doing in average sized gardens in average situations. It inspires and encourages me, helps me realise I can have a beautiful, productive garden and it doesn't need to be the size of Longmeadow!
I have no problem with the viewers gardens, it's some of the viewers in the garden! I'm sure some of them think it's their big opportunity to get into broadcasting or film!
But it's all football, and just as valuable as Man U and Man City to the people who take part and their local community ... in fact in some ways it's probably more valuable, because the local community actually get involved ... stewarding, fund raising, selling pies and hotdogs and washing the kit ... been there and done that.
Just as my garden is nothing like Monty Don's or Adam Frost's ... but it's valuable to me, it provides passers by with something relatively pleasant to look at and they get tomato plants and courgettes etc to take away in exchange for a donation to the local school funds ... and if passing on my experience either on here or on tv, encourages folk to have a go then that's ok by me. Fear not ... I'm far too self conscious to submit a video ... but I have no problem with those that do ... and if they're also a bit self-conscious and feel that they have to 'perform' ... well, that's not a problem either ... they're not professionals so what's the issue?
It seems the professionals get slagged off on here as well, for sometimes being less than perfect, for finding out that not doing stuff by the book works for them, for having been a model earlier in their lives, for looking/sounding a bit posh, for looking/sounding a bit common, for being too laid back and for being too enthusiastic. No one can please everyone all the time but it seems that some folk still expect it of everyone.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I totally agree Dove. I am very happy to see viewers’ videos if, for me, they inform, educate or entertain. Not all do, but I’m a cantankerous old git who’s bitter because the two videos I sent in last year were summarily rejected (😉, only joking).
And I fully agree with you about irrational prejudices towards the presenters. But, we’re human. We have foibles. I do get very slightly miffed by Carol’s giggle, by filming clichés, by sloppy English on the TV (and that’s not a complaint I’m levelling at GW), and by a thousand other pesky quirks that fill up Curmudgeons’ Corner.
" There’s been a huge surge of interest in houseplants over the last couple of years, so Frances Tophill and Nick Bailey celebrate the joys of indoor gardening in a special programme from Oxford Botanic Garden.
Rachel de Thame visits a nursery in Devon which specialises in growing the ever-popular orchid. We meet an interior designer in London, whose use of houseplants at home has allowed him to reconnect with nature. A self-confessed plantaholic gives us a tour of the indoor jungle he’s created at home in Worcestershire, and we meet a gardener in Manchester who gardens on his balcony 18 floors up.
We also look at the latest trends and must-have houseplants of the moment, giving the best practical advice on how to care for houseplants and showing how to grow your own for free."
I have all the houseplants I need thanks and no space or time for more. My huge rubber plant has just gone out in the terrace with ficus benjamina - no direct sun but lots of light - for their summer hols and the oriental hibiscus are also outside now that night time temps don't dip below 10C. The Xmas cactus will follow in a week or two and be kept out of direct sun.
That just leaves an asparagus fern, aloe vera and fancy leaved pelargoniums which have to be moved away from the sunniest windows.
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I have no problem with the viewers gardens, it's some of the viewers in the garden! I'm sure some of them think it's their big opportunity to get into broadcasting or film!
Just as my garden is nothing like Monty Don's or Adam Frost's ... but it's valuable to me, it provides passers by with something relatively pleasant to look at and they get tomato plants and courgettes etc to take away in exchange for a donation to the local school funds ... and if passing on my experience either on here or on tv, encourages folk to have a go then that's ok by me. Fear not ... I'm far too self conscious to submit a video ... but I have no problem with those that do ... and if they're also a bit self-conscious and feel that they have to 'perform' ... well, that's not a problem either ... they're not professionals so what's the issue?
It seems the professionals get slagged off on here as well, for sometimes being less than perfect, for finding out that not doing stuff by the book works for them, for having been a model earlier in their lives, for looking/sounding a bit posh, for looking/sounding a bit common, for being too laid back and for being too enthusiastic. No one can please everyone all the time but it seems that some folk still expect it of everyone.
🤷♀️☕
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And I fully agree with you about irrational prejudices towards the presenters. But, we’re human. We have foibles. I do get very slightly miffed by Carol’s giggle, by filming clichés, by sloppy English on the TV (and that’s not a complaint I’m levelling at GW), and by a thousand other pesky quirks that fill up Curmudgeons’ Corner.
" There’s been a huge surge of interest in houseplants over the last couple of years, so Frances Tophill and Nick Bailey celebrate the joys of indoor gardening in a special programme from Oxford Botanic Garden.
Rachel de Thame visits a nursery in Devon which specialises in growing the ever-popular orchid. We meet an interior designer in London, whose use of houseplants at home has allowed him to reconnect with nature. A self-confessed plantaholic gives us a tour of the indoor jungle he’s created at home in Worcestershire, and we meet a gardener in Manchester who gardens on his balcony 18 floors up.
We also look at the latest trends and must-have houseplants of the moment, giving the best practical advice on how to care for houseplants and showing how to grow your own for free."Thanks for posting,.AnniD.
I have all the houseplants I need thanks and no space or time for more. My huge rubber plant has just gone out in the terrace with ficus benjamina - no direct sun but lots of light - for their summer hols and the oriental hibiscus are also outside now that night time temps don't dip below 10C. The Xmas cactus will follow in a week or two and be kept out of direct sun.
That just leaves an asparagus fern, aloe vera and fancy leaved pelargoniums which have to be moved away from the sunniest windows.