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GARDENERS' WORLD 2024

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  • But it's nice to exchange experiences on here @Stulti after all we can't know everything and frankly I'd rather people be curious and ask than just keep failing or struggling. As such the forum can be invaluable. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited 24 January
    Stulti said:
    they rely on those with knowledge repeating it to those who could not be bothered remembering what those with knowledge tried to tell them the first time round.

    I do understand the frustrations. I do get irritated when people say they don't have "time" to read or garden or craft and then, in the same breath, talk about how much time they spend on Instragram and Facebook. Most of us make some choices with how we spend our time - watching the news every night, or walking the dog or reading a  book, looking at social media, potting on seeds, watching box sets, going to the gym. We choose what we find stimulating or relaxing, to some degree. Lots of people find it highly offensive to suggest we have any choice at all in how we spend their time, as with choices about what we eat.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    2nd of the 4 compliation programmes. 8pm tonight.

    "Monty and the team celebrate the dawn of another gardening year by revisiting some recent Gardeners’ World highlights.

    Monty looks at different types of roses and shares his advice on how best to look after them. Rachel de Thame visits a garden in Kent, a real labour of love where meticulous planning, discipline and precision have cleverly extended its season of interest. Nick Bailey revels in the beauty of an incredible collection of flowering dogwoods in North Yorkshire, and Advolly Richmond sheds light on the fascinating life of Victorian plantswoman Ellen Willmott.

    A self-confessed plantaholic gives a tour of the indoor jungle he’s created at home, and there's a gardener with more than a thousand aeoniums."
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Caught up with Friday's programme.  I didn't remember seeing the piece about Ellen Willmott the first time around. What a fascinating woman. 
  • She's one of the people highlighted in the current Garden magazine by the RHS as one of the LGBT horticulture heroes @AnniD quite a life. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    She had a hard time, for sure. Unsung and rejected by 'the powers that be'.
  • Probably worth flagging the recent biography that was published...
    https://www.waterstones.com/book/miss-willmotts-ghosts/sandra-lawrence/9781786581556
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Thanks for that @amancalledgeorge :)
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited 5 February
    If you want a shot of May in Feb, Javier is uploading last year's Chelsea flower show, maybe good for those people overseas. For UK residents, the shows are still on iPlayer. Interview with Claire Austin at 1hr 10min.

    Having watched it all last year, I find don't remember any of it. Lol. Perhaps best watched on mute. :D



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