When I win the lottery! I shall have a hellebore garden! I no longer have room for mor e than a couple. If you get to North Yorkshire, Reighton nurseries have them dirt cheap.
I do have a big garden, can't get round to all of it, not a millionaire either. I grow seeds, take cuttings and hard landscaping is a thing of the past.
Did hellebore lady earn her living from Hellebores? If so she couldn't have been very rich.
I fell asleep in first one, (tired after being ill then gardening!) but luckily it was repeated so I recorded it, still haven't watched it.
They are always talking about small gardens. Why don't they talk about an ordinary person with a huge garden that they struggle to look after? Can't sell the house for various reasons, some to do with French inheritance laws some to do with impossible French housing market. I do love my garden though. Started planning it in 1990.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I too have a large garden and limited finances plus which I'm fed up of spending money on interesting plants that then turn out to be too nesh for the winters here so I now stick to good doers and sow and divide and swap plants.
OH retires next year and we plan to sell up and get somewhere with a smaller, more easily managed garden now rather than waiting till this one gets completely beyond us. I'd also like shorter, drier winters so France is a possibility. The property market there is certainly going through interesting times. Belgium has similar inheritance laws - Napoleonic Code and all - so selling early is probably a good idea for us.
I'm quite enjoying the current format of GW but do wonder at some of the topics chosen and their relevance to the majority of gardeners. Half an hour is too short to please everyone but I feel that that very short time should concentrate the producers' mind better than is currently apparent.
I love hellebores and have loads of creamy, pinky, purpley, black and speckled ones and am waiting to see if I get some good babies but have left them to cross pollinate by themselves.
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)."
I agree with Obilxx' earlier comment about Joe's design segment and his explanation of why things work and giving people the opportunity to explore designs that they may not have thought of - my mum's garden is similar to the one shown on friday (but not as enclosed, complete with low screens to divide the garden (although not as swanky) and she is now thinking of expanding the borders even further and getting rid of her tiny lawn path that remains.
Its a gardening programme, instead of football, cooking, cooking.......more cookingI'm a chef by trade, and even I'm fed up of flippin' cooking programmes!! I don't care if it is 'posh' peoples gardens, I love it.Give Nigel a programme of his own I say!!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When I win the lottery! I shall have a hellebore garden! I no longer have room for mor e than a couple. If you get to North Yorkshire, Reighton nurseries have them dirt cheap.
Love Beechgrove garden. Watch it on iplayer.
I know where you are coming from Oldtyke
I visited Reighton Nurseies while we were staying there last year. If only I had more time to have had a proper look around
http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/talkback/reighton-nursery-near-filey/547255.html
Obelixx, there was a thread about GW http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/the-potting-shed/gardeners-world-on-tv/613368.html but there have been a lot of posts since as people tend to post just after the programme.
I do have a big garden, can't get round to all of it, not a millionaire either. I grow seeds, take cuttings and hard landscaping is a thing of the past.
Did hellebore lady earn her living from Hellebores? If so she couldn't have been very rich.
I fell asleep in first one, (tired after being ill then gardening!) but luckily it was repeated so I recorded it, still haven't watched it.
They are always talking about small gardens. Why don't they talk about an ordinary person with a huge garden that they struggle to look after? Can't sell the house for various reasons, some to do with French inheritance laws some to do with impossible French housing market. I do love my garden though. Started planning it in 1990.
I too have a large garden and limited finances plus which I'm fed up of spending money on interesting plants that then turn out to be too nesh for the winters here so I now stick to good doers and sow and divide and swap plants.
OH retires next year and we plan to sell up and get somewhere with a smaller, more easily managed garden now rather than waiting till this one gets completely beyond us. I'd also like shorter, drier winters so France is a possibility. The property market there is certainly going through interesting times. Belgium has similar inheritance laws - Napoleonic Code and all - so selling early is probably a good idea for us.
I'm quite enjoying the current format of GW but do wonder at some of the topics chosen and their relevance to the majority of gardeners. Half an hour is too short to please everyone but I feel that that very short time should concentrate the producers' mind better than is currently apparent.
I love hellebores and have loads of creamy, pinky, purpley, black and speckled ones and am waiting to see if I get some good babies but have left them to cross pollinate by themselves.
I agree with Obilxx' earlier comment about Joe's design segment and his explanation of why things work and giving people the opportunity to explore designs that they may not have thought of - my mum's garden is similar to the one shown on friday (but not as enclosed, complete with low screens to divide the garden (although not as swanky) and she is now thinking of expanding the borders even further and getting rid of her tiny lawn path that remains.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Is he the famous gardener bloke?
Its a gardening programme, instead of football, cooking, cooking.......more cooking
I'm a chef by trade, and even I'm fed up of flippin' cooking programmes!! I don't care if it is 'posh' peoples gardens, I love it.
Give Nigel a programme of his own I say!!