I think Monty will have another dog he has kept them for years. Maybe a Nigella or perhaps too long. Gnat or Nutty[not really his style]Neff[no that's an oven]. Where does Pattie fit in?
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
" Monty continues with his revamp of the Cottage Garden by planting bare-root roses and starts preparing for winter. He also sows broad beans and plants tulips in pots for a colourful display in spring.
Adam Frost visits a challenging garden built on an exposed slope high above Coniston Water in the Lake District. Joe Swift takes in a stunning garden in East Sussex, admiring not only its magnificent array of water features but also its rich display of plants.
There's a tropical paradise in a back garden in Surrey, as well as a garden newbie in North Yorkshire who has transformed the back of her rented house into a cornucopia of fruit and veg. Plus more films sent in by viewers."
I was enjoying it last night and inwardly laughing at my wife who'd fallen asleep 10 minutes in. I myself woke up later to find I'd slept through the last half. And I was doing so well.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I can't believe we've reached the end of the series (apart from the new Winter specials). It seems to have passed by so quickly.
The garden with the waterfalls etc was beautiful, quite a feat of engineering but had certainly blended into the landscape.
I agree, always nice to see the enthusiasm of a new gardener as you say @rowlandscastle444, including the lady who said she could never see the point of gardening and then discovered succulents. I wonder how many people who took up gardening (in whatever form) during the pandemic are still doing it ?
Is he the last presenter of the programme to have a huge garden? “What my garden cost, I couldn’t buy a parking space in London for now,” he says. Longmeadow, which he bought in the early 90s, is aspirational, but totally unrealistic for the average viewer to attain (or maintain). To keep it looking good enough for TV, Don has two full-time gardeners helping him. The younger presenters on the show now noticeably have small gardens or city patches. “I would like to think the next Gardeners’ World presenter ideally would be female, would represent either singly, or in multiplicity, the diversity in this country, that has at least some urban context. So I think all that leads to it not being just one garden any more, because if it is one garden, it’s got to be a big one.”
I'd be very happy to see GW rotating around three or so smaller gardens, maybe a small city courtyard garden, and average suburban garden with front and back areas, and a bigger rural plot. They could have the main programme from one of them each week, with short self-filmed updates from the others instead of some of the viewer videos.
It's just dawned on me that one of the reasons why the Geoff Hamilton era of GW worked so well was that he made several smaller self-contained gardens within Barnsdale, each with their own boundaries, seating areas, utility/composting areas etc, not just "garden rooms" within a single overall design
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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8pm tonight. Last in series.
" Monty continues with his revamp of the Cottage Garden by planting bare-root roses and starts preparing for winter. He also sows broad beans and plants tulips in pots for a colourful display in spring.
Adam Frost visits a challenging garden built on an exposed slope high above Coniston Water in the Lake District. Joe Swift takes in a stunning garden in East Sussex, admiring not only its magnificent array of water features but also its rich display of plants.
There's a tropical paradise in a back garden in Surrey, as well as a garden newbie in North Yorkshire who has transformed the back of her rented house into a cornucopia of fruit and veg. Plus more films sent in by viewers."
A thoroughly enjoyable episode.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
The garden with the waterfalls etc was beautiful, quite a feat of engineering but had certainly blended into the landscape.
I agree, always nice to see the enthusiasm of a new gardener as you say @rowlandscastle444, including the lady who said she could never see the point of gardening and then discovered succulents.
I wonder how many people who took up gardening (in whatever form) during the pandemic are still doing it ?
https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/06/im-a-sex-symbol-that-makes-me-embarrassed-monty-don-on-love-class-and-his-future-on-gardeners-world
Is he the last presenter of the programme to have a huge garden? “What my garden cost, I couldn’t buy a parking space in London for now,” he says. Longmeadow, which he bought in the early 90s, is aspirational, but totally unrealistic for the average viewer to attain (or maintain). To keep it looking good enough for TV, Don has two full-time gardeners helping him. The younger presenters on the show now noticeably have small gardens or city patches. “I would like to think the next Gardeners’ World presenter ideally would be female, would represent either singly, or in multiplicity, the diversity in this country, that has at least some urban context. So I think all that leads to it not being just one garden any more, because if it is one garden, it’s got to be a big one.”