I don't see how you can learn to care for the plants in your garden if you don't know where they come from and what conditions suit them best
As Punkdoc says, South Africa is so rich in plant varieties and since trade between there and Europe has increased we are seeing more and more of them in our gardens - I think the features on SA have been really relevant to 'today's garden'.
So hard to please all the people all the time
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well, TBH I've grown tomatoes successfully for more years than most of the GW team have been around...Alas, I know absolutely zilch about Peru, let alone its soil & climate.
I personally dont dislike the South African segment, found it very interesting; However, With such a small amount of time allotted each week, I think my niggle is that it is less relevant to a lot of gardeners than the long meadow hands on stuff.
if the program makers and schedulers allowed more airtime then I'm sure everyone would love every moment of the south African section, maybe afterwards a following segment showing how such plants can be grown well in our own conditions!
But as it is, time is too compressed to squeeze everything in. Half an hour realistically wouldn't even cover jobs for the weekend!
A 1 hour GW would be great, plenty of time to keep us all happy. Also why don't they use BBC3 and 4 during the day to show reruns of useful progs. such as old GWs?
Well, TBH I've grown tomatoes successfully for more years than most of the GW team have been around...Alas, I know absolutely zilch about Peru, let alone its soil & climate.
You've sort of made my point David tomatoes have been grown here successfully for quite a long time now - even longer than you've been around I believe so we know what conditions suit them (consequently you probably know more than you realise about the climate and soil in Peru).
But many plants that are coming from southern Africa, and RSA in particular, are relatively new here (ok, not Streptocarpus - I remember that from my childhod, and I'm quite old ) but lots of the species that are being used in prairie-type plantings are quite new here, or only known to a few specialist growers - we have a lot to learn
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Brilliant idea Woodgreen-would love to see repeats of old GW progs. The BEEB is good at repeatsMight as well put some on the someone would want to watch!!
Would love repeats of any and all gardening programmes to air on BBC3 or BBC4. I have an ipad but usually get the 'not enough bandwidth' when trying to watch the gardening programmes on iplayer.
Would really enjoy seeing repeats too. I had a look at some Geoff Hamilton episodes on YouTube; very different intro music back then! It was an episode with a very young carol being interviewed! The content was really interesting and felt very relevant to me.
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I don't see how you can learn to care for the plants in your garden if you don't know where they come from and what conditions suit them best
As Punkdoc says, South Africa is so rich in plant varieties and since trade between there and Europe has increased we are seeing more and more of them in our gardens - I think the features on SA have been really relevant to 'today's garden'.
So hard to please all the people all the time
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well, TBH I've grown tomatoes successfully for more years than most of the GW team have been around...Alas, I know absolutely zilch about Peru, let alone its soil & climate.
I personally dont dislike the South African segment, found it very interesting; However, With such a small amount of time allotted each week, I think my niggle is that it is less relevant to a lot of gardeners than the long meadow hands on stuff.
if the program makers and schedulers allowed more airtime then I'm sure everyone would love every moment of the south African section, maybe afterwards a following segment showing how such plants can be grown well in our own conditions!
But as it is, time is too compressed to squeeze everything in. Half an hour realistically wouldn't even cover jobs for the weekend!
A 1 hour GW would be great, plenty of time to keep us all happy. Also why don't they use BBC3 and 4 during the day to show reruns of useful progs. such as old GWs?
You've sort of made my point David
tomatoes have been grown here successfully for quite a long time now - even longer than you've been around I believe 
so we know what conditions suit them (consequently you probably know more than you realise about the climate and soil in Peru).
But many plants that are coming from southern Africa, and RSA in particular, are relatively new here (ok, not Streptocarpus - I remember that from my childhod, and I'm quite old
) but lots of the species that are being used in prairie-type plantings are quite new here, or only known to a few specialist growers - we have a lot to learn 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oooo, love a bit of stalking on Google maps Jimmy Crawford! Good work
Brilliant idea Woodgreen-would love to see repeats of old GW progs. The BEEB is good at repeats
Might as well put some on the someone would want to watch!!
Would love repeats of any and all gardening programmes to air on BBC3 or BBC4. I have an ipad but usually get the 'not enough bandwidth' when trying to watch the gardening programmes on iplayer.
Would really enjoy seeing repeats too. I had a look at some Geoff Hamilton episodes on YouTube; very different intro music back then! It was an episode with a very young carol being interviewed! The content was really interesting and felt very relevant to me.
What a contrast to last week! Loved tonight's episode! All so relevant I felt. Thank you Gardeners World!