I agree Nut I'm not saying there's not a place for brightly coloured bedding, , and in the summer I use some in planters as highlights (and sometimes to draw the eye away from an area I'm not happy with) but in my garden, in the main, I prefer subtlety and harmony - as Robert Browning said 'less is more'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Loved the salvia guanajuato against the rudbeckia goldsturm & agree the weather was a waste of precious gardening time. If only they would have the first 5 as hour long episiodes as well. Monty still has box 'pyramids' in his front garden - the area that is never televised but featured on his twitter.
Another one glad the box balls have gone. All he needs to do now is rip out the rest of those awful mini hedges he has everywhere. I always feel boxed in when I see that garden (pun intended!)
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Perhaps the people who have copied Monty's ideas still like their gardens, even if Monty decides he doesn't, so I don't see that as being a particular problem and they do not need any sympathy.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
I'm quite often one of the first visitors to our local GC on a Saturday morning - picking up bits and bobs for the weekend's work. I regularly find myself telling the girls who are about watering the plants what was on Gardener's World the evening before so they know what to put out on the shelves at the front (the chap who owns it watches but isn't usually there as early as me on the weekend). There's no question it does affect sales - though Carol's items have as much effect as Monty's, I gather.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
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That sounds about right Hosta
Re the dark purple hellebores. They are dramatic in close up but agree with Obelixx, the lighter ones make a better display in the garden
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I agree Nut
I'm not saying there's not a place for brightly coloured bedding, , and in the summer I use some in planters as highlights (and sometimes to draw the eye away from an area I'm not happy with) but in my garden, in the main, I prefer subtlety and harmony - as Robert Browning said 'less is more'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Loved the salvia guanajuato against the rudbeckia goldsturm & agree the weather was a waste of precious gardening time. If only they would have the first 5 as hour long episiodes as well. Monty still has box 'pyramids' in his front garden - the area that is never televised but featured on his twitter.
Another one glad the box balls have gone. All he needs to do now is rip out the rest of those awful mini hedges he has everywhere. I always feel boxed in when I see that garden (pun intended!)
*yew pyramids, I correct myself
https://twitter.com/TheMontyDon/status/803884215683137536
Perhaps the people who have copied Monty's ideas still like their gardens, even if Monty decides he doesn't, so I don't see that as being a particular problem and they do not need any sympathy.
I'm quite often one of the first visitors to our local GC on a Saturday morning - picking up bits and bobs for the weekend's work. I regularly find myself telling the girls who are about watering the plants what was on Gardener's World the evening before so they know what to put out on the shelves at the front (the chap who owns it watches but isn't usually there as early as me on the weekend). There's no question it does affect sales - though Carol's items have as much effect as Monty's, I gather.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”