I love Monty & the guys, but miss Carol & Rachel. I would think that the extended time would have allowed for more woman gardeners. And I love everything Nigel & Nell. They make me laugh ever time.
I love Monty & the guys, but miss Carol & Rachel. I would think that the extended time would have allowed for more woman gardeners. And I love everything Nigel & Nell. They make me laugh ever time.
Carols been on most weeks. Rachel was on last week, and there have been two other women Gardeners with regular slots recently. The lass who visited the garden on the Cornish cliffs and other extreme spots, and the woman who did the mini makeovers in inner-city gardens. Sorry can't remember their names and I'm posting on my phone so it's complicated to look them up halfway through posting.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Frances Tophill is often on Gardener's World now, to add to the other women gardeners. She's the one who visited gardens in extreme spots.
Agree with aym about Monty's banana. It's something most of us probably don't have and he's spent some time last year and this year digging it up for the winter. I couldn't have one anyway, it's just too big and heavy. I prefer flowers anyway.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Yes but the point is really that banana is a rather niche interest and most niche interests are covered occasionally at best. It's valid to show taking softwood and hardwood cuttings, sowing seeds, planting shrubs, pruning fruit trees - the basics - every year because as has been said, there are always beginners coming new to gardening and anyone who is starting to garden needs to know a few really core skills and techniques. I have no issue with those being done every year. And overwintering tender plants is fair enough, but they should ring the changes with some others that people are more likely to have - pelargoniums, dahlias, echeveria - rather than that insane banana EVERY year. It's lovely but really, who has the time or space for such a monster except someone who gardens for a living?
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Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
LoadS of useful short videos on this GW site. Check out the How To tab. And we get several queries on here every year about banana plants so as you say, something for everyone
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I love Monty & the guys, but miss Carol & Rachel. I would think that the extended time would have allowed for more woman gardeners. And I love everything Nigel & Nell. They make me laugh ever time.
Hurray, Monty said on the last programme that it will stay an hour long when it starts again in March!
That's great! I love this new format.
I'm liking it too. Gets my vote
Carols been on most weeks. Rachel was on last week, and there have been two other women Gardeners with regular slots recently. The lass who visited the garden on the Cornish cliffs and other extreme spots, and the woman who did the mini makeovers in inner-city gardens. Sorry can't remember their names
and I'm posting on my phone so it's complicated to look them up halfway through posting.
Last edited: 24 October 2016 09:00:39
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Frances Tophill is often on Gardener's World now, to add to the other women gardeners. She's the one who visited gardens in extreme spots.
Agree with aym about Monty's banana. It's something most of us probably don't have and he's spent some time last year and this year digging it up for the winter. I couldn't have one anyway, it's just too big and heavy. I prefer flowers anyway.
I'm sure MD spends more time tossing balls for dogs than digging up tenders. Who said " something for everyone"?
Yes but the point is really that banana is a rather niche interest and most niche interests are covered occasionally at best. It's valid to show taking softwood and hardwood cuttings, sowing seeds, planting shrubs, pruning fruit trees - the basics - every year because as has been said, there are always beginners coming new to gardening and anyone who is starting to garden needs to know a few really core skills and techniques. I have no issue with those being done every year. And overwintering tender plants is fair enough, but they should ring the changes with some others that people are more likely to have - pelargoniums, dahlias, echeveria - rather than that insane banana EVERY year. It's lovely but really, who has the time or space for such a monster except someone who gardens for a living?
Last edited: 24 October 2016 09:29:34
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
LoadS of useful short videos on this GW site. Check out the How To tab. And we get several queries on here every year about banana plants so as you say, something for everyone
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I dug my banana up over the weekend it's all snug in my polytunnel.
There's a huge " tropical gardening" group on facebook , for example.
I think if you include things like cannas, dahlias etc in " tropicals" which need winter protection, it's far bigger than a " niche".
More bananas, less dogs for me.