They grow in the most inhospitable parts of the landscape. Real survivors. There were some lovely little ones inside the summit cairn on a Glenshee Munros I was on last year. They cling to gaps in the rock and produce these tiny little coloured 'spores', for want of a better word, which look like tiny flowers.
Some plants are big and blousy and you can see them for miles. Others need to be sat beside and examined in detail, close up. All part of the wonderful plant tapestry.
Bit like people I suppose
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I enjoyed the episode - lichens, Barbados and limes. It is interesting seeing Gardener's WORLD rather than Gardener's average garden every week. Over the 31 episodes they're making this year there is probably room for a bit of both.
If our weather is changing as is predicted ,I would rather see what is grown in these climates now..I like to plan ahead !!!!!!!
As now I grow more African plants than several years ago in a hot dry summer .the same as plants which grow in the rainy season . .it all helps to plan a garden.
A few years ago when we didnt have hot dry sumer months these African pants would not have survived .
I was seriously fed up with last night's GW. I think Gardeners' World should be about what is or can be going on in our gardens in the week it is broadcast and I also think it should try to be relevant to a majority of its audience.
I note that Barbados did not feature in Monty's Round the World in 80 gardens and I can't see any plant from there being relevant to an average British garden which would need a conservatory to make such plants happy. Much better to spend time visiting places where our grow in the wild - South Africa, China, North America, Europe - but not tropical islands and really a subject for a whole series on garden worthy plants and their origins.
I enjoyed the item on lichens. There are lots in my garden and I never knew they varied according to alkalinity or acidity. Fascinating stuff.
I love pleached hedges on stilts and I'm sure they're a good option for people wanting privacy from neighbours so a relevant topic, if left a bit late in the year for viewers to prepare, order and plant. However, I was inordinately pleased in the first episode of the season when MD announced that he'd finally given up on the box hedges and balls and got rid. along with some large trees. I was hoping he would open his garden out as a result as it always seems to me to be closed in and contained and oppressed yet there he was last night buttoning it all down again and putting in new hedges.
These days I treat GW as a pleasant half hour to relax with a coffee or a glass of wine depending on when I'm watching but last night's episode was just frustrating.
Beechgrove is where I expect to pick up knowledge on techniques, plant comparisons, compost comparisons and more and they offer fact sheets so it's doubly practical.
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'm with you Slum, I enjoyed the programme - even if the topic isn't relevant to my garden I am still interested to learn of other plants/types of gardening. The part about the lichen was interesting as we had recently seen some amazing lichen in our local park as well as the cemetery.
Gardeners World is one of those slow, quieter programmes that demonstrates that there is life away from the glitz and bright lights of a studio. We enjoy Country File for the same reasons.
Here in the cauld windy Norf the Subtitles definitely needed by us Tykes come Makem's come tackems. sorry to mention this but London Hinglish is not the only dialect around. Loved seeing the plants on Barbados, loved the Lichens we have plenty of them up here and they come in all sizes, very interesting, may even do the pleached Limes although it would have to be all along the road. A couple of trees in each front lawn, maybe the odd one in a drive, they will not get their cars out but "hey" a blow for Global Warming. Normal every day gardening information, how to plant things can be found on Google these days by the barrow load though they never seem to mention double digging or potato trenches with plenty of horse muck, but then I am old fashioned, moderns want everything easy or quick.
I watch GW as a relaxation a nosy into other peoples gardens and to see what Monty is up to now as will many of the viewers, but then, that is me, as they say you cannot please all the people even some of the time. "OK" aisle gitten me ganzie and gan down t'Bladen Arms then for a jug.
I don't see how every bit can be relevant to every one of us, anyway. I don't grow veg or fruit. My soil is rather alkaline. My garden is windswept and hostile to anything needing shelter. But I don't get irritable or bored if there is a feature about tomatoes or acid lovers or tender plants. It's all gardening and interesting and what's more, I bet that most of us, if we can afford to go abroad, would have a look at the gardens. A week by week to do list would be silly - what you can do up in Aberdeen will be rather different from people down in Devon. These programs have to entertain as well as instruct.
The last episode was terrific. I loved the bit about Barbados. How many British gardeners are there that love these kinds of places and are thrilled to bits when they get a tropical plant to flower?
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I was likin the lichen Kitty
They grow in the most inhospitable parts of the landscape. Real survivors. There were some lovely little ones inside the summit cairn on a Glenshee Munros I was on last year. They cling to gaps in the rock and produce these tiny little coloured 'spores', for want of a better word, which look like tiny flowers.
Some plants are big and blousy and you can see them for miles. Others need to be sat beside and examined in detail, close up. All part of the wonderful plant tapestry.
Bit like people I suppose
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I enjoyed the episode - lichens, Barbados and limes. It is interesting seeing Gardener's WORLD rather than Gardener's average garden every week. Over the 31 episodes they're making this year there is probably room for a bit of both.
I would agreen. i always learn something new with gw And will definitely continue watching it. I definitely think it needs to be 1 hour long though.
Do you mean the Beechgrove gardeners Anne? Scotland.
Montys down south, somewhere.
If our weather is changing as is predicted ,I would rather see what is grown in these climates now..I like to plan ahead !!!!!!!
As now I grow more African plants than several years ago in a hot dry summer .the same as plants which grow in the rainy season . .it all helps to plan a garden.
A few years ago when we didnt have hot dry sumer months these African pants would not have survived .
I was seriously fed up with last night's GW. I think Gardeners' World should be about what is or can be going on in our gardens in the week it is broadcast and I also think it should try to be relevant to a majority of its audience.
I note that Barbados did not feature in Monty's Round the World in 80 gardens and I can't see any plant from there being relevant to an average British garden which would need a conservatory to make such plants happy. Much better to spend time visiting places where our grow in the wild - South Africa, China, North America, Europe - but not tropical islands and really a subject for a whole series on garden worthy plants and their origins.
I enjoyed the item on lichens. There are lots in my garden and I never knew they varied according to alkalinity or acidity. Fascinating stuff.
I love pleached hedges on stilts and I'm sure they're a good option for people wanting privacy from neighbours so a relevant topic, if left a bit late in the year for viewers to prepare, order and plant. However, I was inordinately pleased in the first episode of the season when MD announced that he'd finally given up on the box hedges and balls and got rid. along with some large trees. I was hoping he would open his garden out as a result as it always seems to me to be closed in and contained and oppressed yet there he was last night buttoning it all down again and putting in new hedges.
These days I treat GW as a pleasant half hour to relax with a coffee or a glass of wine depending on when I'm watching but last night's episode was just frustrating.
Beechgrove is where I expect to pick up knowledge on techniques, plant comparisons, compost comparisons and more and they offer fact sheets so it's doubly practical.
I'm with you Slum, I enjoyed the programme - even if the topic isn't relevant to my garden I am still interested to learn of other plants/types of gardening. The part about the lichen was interesting as we had recently seen some amazing lichen in our local park as well as the cemetery.
Gardeners World is one of those slow, quieter programmes that demonstrates that there is life away from the glitz and bright lights of a studio. We enjoy Country File for the same reasons.
Here in the cauld windy Norf the Subtitles definitely needed by us Tykes come Makem's come tackems. sorry to mention this but London Hinglish is not the only dialect around. Loved seeing the plants on Barbados, loved the Lichens we have plenty of them up here and they come in all sizes, very interesting, may even do the pleached Limes although it would have to be all along the road. A couple of trees in each front lawn, maybe the odd one in a drive, they will not get their cars out but "hey" a blow for Global Warming. Normal every day gardening information, how to plant things can be found on Google these days by the barrow load though they never seem to mention double digging or potato trenches with plenty of horse muck, but then I am old fashioned, moderns want everything easy or quick.
I watch GW as a relaxation a nosy into other peoples gardens and to see what Monty is up to now as will many of the viewers, but then, that is me, as they say you cannot please all the people even some of the time. "OK" aisle gitten me ganzie and gan down t'Bladen Arms then for a jug.
Frank.
I don't see how every bit can be relevant to every one of us, anyway. I don't grow veg or fruit. My soil is rather alkaline. My garden is windswept and hostile to anything needing shelter. But I don't get irritable or bored if there is a feature about tomatoes or acid lovers or tender plants. It's all gardening and interesting and what's more, I bet that most of us, if we can afford to go abroad, would have a look at the gardens. A week by week to do list would be silly - what you can do up in Aberdeen will be rather different from people down in Devon. These programs have to entertain as well as instruct.
The last episode was terrific. I loved the bit about Barbados. How many British gardeners are there that love these kinds of places and are thrilled to bits when they get a tropical plant to flower?
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