I'm with obelixx on this ,Monty does like his hedges tho' and he has shown some gardens I would like to visit.But he is not a patch on Toby Buckland or the late Geoff Hamilton for practical gardening and what happened to Joe Swifts alottment and all his freebies,still we have Carol Klein to look forward to.Having said all this I still wach Gardeners World and just put up with Monty.
Love the presenter (didn't you know?!) but really wasn't taken by the formality of the French gardens at all. Too chou-chou and pretentious for me. That was thw whole point of them, I know, but give me an Italian garden any day of the week...preferably on Isola Bella....aaaah....recalling the beauty of the Italian gardens programme Monty prsented last year - on my wish list to visit them some day.
This weeks show will be good I hope - vegetables and flowers, I enjoy watching all the gardening programmes, so good there is one on tonight http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qm1dk
Allotment in tonight's programme, I like to grow flowers with veg - do you?
Joe Swift isn't really a vegetable gardener and his allotment lasted only as long as the filming. There's quite a lot of info and comment here, including from people with allotments on that site - http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,58912.0.html
I'm looking forward to tonight's programmes on potagers or, as the schedule says, the gourmet garden. Right up my street along with gardens full of colour and perfume and wildlife. Can't see there being a lot of buzzing in all those hedges in the very formal hedge and topiary gardens he so likes..
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)."
Thanks obelixx that's proberly the website I saw before - I knew there was something about taking all the stuff away, could not remember what the website was, watched the clip and still looks a bit formal box edging
I don't think there would be much buzzing if garden too formal
I don't know how he does it but he managed to make even potagers seem "weary, stale and unprofitable". Far too much time wasted in that flipping 2CV and tasting food in markets which could have been better spent actually talking to the gardeners about how they grow their fuit and veg and make it tasty and attractive too. He also missed a trick not asking the oinion man how he manages to grow healthy onions year after year on the same ground without being infested with disease and pests. I'd have liked more depth on the Potager du Roi and a lot less faffing.
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)."
He had the usual effect on me last night. soporific, woke up just after 10. So will attempt to watch it again. we visited an amazing potager in France but i don't think he featured it. If you go to France there really are very few 2CV about. Well will watch and attempt to stay awake
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I am in awe of those French gardens as structures but for plant/garden interest I'd have to go somewhere else
In the sticks near Peterborough
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I'm with obelixx on this ,Monty does like his hedges tho' and he has shown some gardens I would like to visit.But he is not a patch on Toby Buckland or the late Geoff Hamilton for practical gardening and what happened to Joe Swifts alottment and all his freebies,still we have Carol Klein to look forward to.Having said all this I still wach Gardeners World and just put up with Monty.
As long as I don't see the gardening army wives again I'll be happy
In the sticks near Peterborough
Love the presenter (didn't you know?!) but really wasn't taken by the formality of the French gardens at all. Too chou-chou and pretentious for me. That was thw whole point of them, I know, but give me an Italian garden any day of the week...preferably on Isola Bella....aaaah....recalling the beauty of the Italian gardens programme Monty prsented last year - on my wish list to visit them some day.
Like the show, but not into formal gardens really, too posh and a lot of clipping of hedges.
Joe Swift got rid of his allotment gave it up not fair I was just getting into watching him growing veg, people put that on the link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbgardening/NF2759004?thread=8303395 that was the dig-in forum, but not no more now they closed it.
This weeks show will be good I hope - vegetables and flowers, I enjoy watching all the gardening programmes, so good there is one on tonight http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qm1dk
Allotment in tonight's programme, I like to grow flowers with veg - do you?
Joe Swift isn't really a vegetable gardener and his allotment lasted only as long as the filming. There's quite a lot of info and comment here, including from people with allotments on that site - http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,58912.0.html
I'm looking forward to tonight's programmes on potagers or, as the schedule says, the gourmet garden. Right up my street along with gardens full of colour and perfume and wildlife. Can't see there being a lot of buzzing in all those hedges in the very formal hedge and topiary gardens he so likes..
Thanks obelixx that's proberly the website I saw before - I knew there was something about taking all the stuff away, could not remember what the website was, watched the clip and still looks a bit formal box edging
I don't think there would be much buzzing if garden too formal
I don't know how he does it but he managed to make even potagers seem "weary, stale and unprofitable". Far too much time wasted in that flipping 2CV and tasting food in markets which could have been better spent actually talking to the gardeners about how they grow their fuit and veg and make it tasty and attractive too. He also missed a trick not asking the oinion man how he manages to grow healthy onions year after year on the same ground without being infested with disease and pests. I'd have liked more depth on the Potager du Roi and a lot less faffing.
He had the usual effect on me last night. soporific, woke up just after 10. So will attempt to watch it again. we visited an amazing potager in France but i don't think he featured it. If you go to France there really are very few 2CV about. Well will watch and attempt to stay awake