And I love my garden more than most. No, not "love" "like".
How on earth do you know that … how very presumptuous.
And while Wordsworth may not have helped you grow your narcissi, his poetry has undoubtedly made many many folk want to grow them … and grow them en masse in a natural style. That’s very powerful.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well I love my garden. Absolutely love it because it makes me happy. Gardening is a sort of visual poetry if you do it right and it’s much more than “growing plants’ I had a visit from a friend last week, her life is in turmoil and as she sat in my garden with my cat purring on her lap you could visibly see her relax, she actually smiled and laughed. It’s a small suburban space nothing fancy but full of birds singing and bees buzzing away, colour and scent in abundance I spend hours planning to make it a place of beauty and many more hours working on it. I think Monty Don has it right. If Chelsea makes people smile o say it’s money and time well spent. If you don’t like it don’t watch it or attend. Let others enjoy it.
Sarah Price's garden was both romantic and haunting. It was obvious that Monty Don connected with it straight away. So many skills are needed to create a garden and not just a show garden. Looking at it with a 'romantic eye' is a very special skill, Sarah Price gave us all a Master class on the subject. It is a part of understanding design.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
If Brexit is making the importation of plants more difficult I would say that on balance that can only be a good thing. Dutch elm disease (I'm not blaming the Dutch it's just the name) and Ash Dieback have both been introduced via imported trees. Just look at the vast damage that has caused.
It’s now known that Chalara came here via several different routes … one was the importation of infected trees, but there is now evidence that it has also spread across the North Sea via the wind. It has spread right across Europe … and like it or not Britain is part of Europe.
“… The disease is caused by the invasive pathogenic fungus Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus (anamorph Chalara fraxinea), which causes severe symptoms and dieback in common ash, Fraxinus excelsior …… However, subsequent spatial mapping of infected trees in natural stands implies that H. pseudoalbidus spread to the UK by wind-dispersed spores crossing the North Sea from continental Europe, infecting natural stands particularly in the southeastern and eastern parts of the country (Sansford, 2013; www.ashtag.org). …”
Xylella, which is wiping out vast swathes of olive groves in Italy and has also arrived in France and Spain, came in on a coffee plant from Costa Rica in 2008 - https://www.nature.com/articles/d43978-022-00008-1
It could thus wipe out a lot of favourite trees and foodstuffs affecting a wide range of wildlife as well as human eatinghabits and prices. Costa Rica is not in the EU and one has to wonder how many health checks there are on, for example, bananas, avocadoes and other fruit and veg imported to the UK and EU from the entire world.
Buy and eat local is not just about food or plant miles and jobs.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
As is always the case with these threads, it's descended into the usual nonsense. All the 'goading' comments are just best ignored. People will always love/hate Chelsea, in the same way they love/hate Monty/Joe/Carol - fill in or delete as required, but there's no point in getting excited about it. That's what the WUMs love. Disruption and sh*t stirring. Some things on this forum [and others] never change - unfortunately I liked her garden too @GardenerSuze, even though I don't like that Iris, but that's the point of a design. If the basics are right, and sound, it can be adapted to an individual's personal taste. The only thing to remember is that often, show gardens have plants flowering at the same time when they wouldn't do so in the real world, and of course, they wouldn't necessarily work if you don't have the right conditions for them, so there's always a bit of adaptation needed
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Finally saw what all the fuss was about Sarah Price’s garden, having only previously seen it in camera passing. Loved those dusky, restrained colours, also the genius use of space in between the planting, which allowed the whole garden to relax and breathe.
Those muted plum, orange and yellow tones seemed popular this year, I counted three gardens which used those colours as a backdrop. The planting surrounding my patio is mainly soft lemon and muted orange with touches of plum, so I’m pleased to say I’m (inadvertently) on trend!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
The basic colours in that garden were really good - calming and soothing yet warm - but the main iris featured was muddy coloured when seen close up. I preferred the richer rusty, coppery coloured irises that popped up a bit in that garden and in others - really good paired with coppery coloured verbascums and geums.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had a visit from a friend last week, her life is in turmoil and as she sat in my garden with my cat purring on her lap you could visibly see her relax, she actually smiled and laughed. It’s a small suburban space nothing fancy but full of birds singing and bees buzzing away, colour and scent in abundance
I spend hours planning to make it a place of beauty and many more hours working on it. I think Monty Don has it right. If Chelsea makes people smile o say it’s money and time well spent. If you don’t like it don’t watch it or attend. Let others enjoy it.
It is a part of understanding design.
https://bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ppa.12196#:~:text=However%2C%20subsequent%20spatial%20mapping%20of%20infected%20trees%20in,eastern%20parts%20of%20the%20country%20%28Sansford%2C%202013%3B%20www.ashtag.org%29.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's not a fussy bug and is a danger for oaks, citrus, blueberries, grapes - https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/fthr/pest-and-disease-resources/xylella-xylella-fastidiosa/#:~:text=Xylella is a plant disease,and many herbaceous plant species.
It could thus wipe out a lot of favourite trees and foodstuffs affecting a wide range of wildlife as well as human eatinghabits and prices. Costa Rica is not in the EU and one has to wonder how many health checks there are on, for example, bananas, avocadoes and other fruit and veg imported to the UK and EU from the entire world.
Buy and eat local is not just about food or plant miles and jobs.
All the 'goading' comments are just best ignored.
People will always love/hate Chelsea, in the same way they love/hate Monty/Joe/Carol - fill in or delete as required, but there's no point in getting excited about it. That's what the WUMs love. Disruption and sh*t stirring.
Some things on this forum [and others] never change - unfortunately
I liked her garden too @GardenerSuze, even though I don't like that Iris, but that's the point of a design. If the basics are right, and sound, it can be adapted to an individual's personal taste. The only thing to remember is that often, show gardens have plants flowering at the same time when they wouldn't do so in the real world, and of course, they wouldn't necessarily work if you don't have the right conditions for them, so there's always a bit of adaptation needed
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Those muted plum, orange and yellow tones seemed popular this year, I counted three gardens which used those colours as a backdrop. The planting surrounding my patio is mainly soft lemon and muted orange with touches of plum, so I’m pleased to say I’m (inadvertently) on trend!