It's a magazine show. Like Countryfile, which years ago was an informative programme for people who work in the countryside and the odd quirky report on bog snorkling. When it moved to its current slot it was changed to a travel magazine show for people who would like to live in the countryside with the odd serious article about sheep rustling. It's not aimed at farmers or forest rangers who are now assumed to get actual information on the internet and not on TV. The serious bits are really just 'public information' items.
So Gardeners World is a 'lifestyle' magazine show for people to plan weekend trips or to imagine what it would be like to have rolling acres of gardens, not for people who need to know how to grow cabbages to feed the kids. Those who need actual information are assumed to look elsewhere (and to be fair, on here is one place to look, supported by the same overall platform.).
I've not watched Beechgrove, though having heard it praised here, I do plan to this year
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I'm another who enjoyed the lichen section. I like people who find great beauty and great detail in the things we take for granted. I made a post after the first episode of this series saying it wasn't really relevant to my gardening, but I thought last week's piece by Carol on daffodils was terrific and really instructive for a noddy beginner like me. Haven't had a chance to set the record straight since as I've been busy slicing daffodils open so sorry GW. I think it's right that not every segment will push everyone's buttons, but for a Friday night wind-down I think it's a great watch.
Thanks to those who've pointed towards the Beechgrove Garden, I'd never heard of it before, but have set it on series record now.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
I have to agree that this weeks GW was thin on practical information. I did find the section on lichen interesting though. I though last weeks section on pruning grapes, a section which seems to appear in one form or another every year, was of little value to most people. I think they exceeded even that this week with pleaching (sp?) limes!
Funnily enough there have been several questions on here lately about "hedges on stilts" so maybe the pleached limes were relevant to someone. I made OH watch the grape section as we have inherited 3 here, all in a state of neglect and now pruned within an inch of their lives. They're OH's baby and he'd actually done some research online!
It'll be bananas in a few weeks - again.
I still haven't got over MD leaving the wee plastic ties on his clem stems when he buried them......
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 must have missed that bit about the clems...probably just as well
For those of us who are 'likin' the lichen' (ok - I promise I'll stop doing that now ) I took a couple yesterday en route through the glen to the hill. Love Papi Jo's photos, and wonder if he might be able to ID them - the grey, stone-like one, bottom left in the 2nd pic, was particularly interesting
this one was from a year or two ago - we see a lot of it on the hills. Like beautiful sea green hair
I've done a close up of that 2nd one
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It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"Ah" I heard one famous Gardener say the minute the camera's left his garden he dug up everything they had planted, Monty may do the same. The reason it appeared was they had to have good camera angles, they take each part of the process over many shots, even digging the hole can take some time as the digging is broken down. The one in question said the plants were usually in the wrong place mainly for the producer to show off the method. On TV nothing is as it seems says he who walked up and down the same section of Norton Green for the BBC Crew while they got me in with the Pond, one with the Blacksmiths forge as once was and then one with the Church circa 1100 then a couple because they wanted me to walk in a certain way, (absolutely refused to walk down with both hands on my hips). The producer knew what she wanted but the camera man and director were arguing while I perambulated around the green bored as h@@@. The eventual film shown on TV was ten seconds as I walked towards the Pond the very first shot taken, it is a funny business The best bet is half believe what you see then imagine how long it took to get a full thirty minutes and soon an hour?
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It's a magazine show. Like Countryfile, which years ago was an informative programme for people who work in the countryside and the odd quirky report on bog snorkling. When it moved to its current slot it was changed to a travel magazine show for people who would like to live in the countryside with the odd serious article about sheep rustling. It's not aimed at farmers or forest rangers who are now assumed to get actual information on the internet and not on TV. The serious bits are really just 'public information' items.
So Gardeners World is a 'lifestyle' magazine show for people to plan weekend trips or to imagine what it would be like to have rolling acres of gardens, not for people who need to know how to grow cabbages to feed the kids. Those who need actual information are assumed to look elsewhere (and to be fair, on here is one place to look, supported by the same overall platform.).
I've not watched Beechgrove, though having heard it praised here, I do plan to this year
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I'm another who enjoyed the lichen section. I like people who find great beauty and great detail in the things we take for granted. I made a post after the first episode of this series saying it wasn't really relevant to my gardening, but I thought last week's piece by Carol on daffodils was terrific and really instructive for a noddy beginner like me. Haven't had a chance to set the record straight since as I've been busy slicing daffodils open so sorry GW. I think it's right that not every segment will push everyone's buttons, but for a Friday night wind-down I think it's a great watch.
Thanks to those who've pointed towards the Beechgrove Garden, I'd never heard of it before, but have set it on series record now.
I have to agree that this weeks GW was thin on practical information. I did find the section on lichen interesting though. I though last weeks section on pruning grapes, a section which seems to appear in one form or another every year, was of little value to most people. I think they exceeded even that this week with pleaching (sp?) limes!
Funnily enough there have been several questions on here lately about "hedges on stilts" so maybe the pleached limes were relevant to someone. I made OH watch the grape section as we have inherited 3 here, all in a state of neglect and now pruned within an inch of their lives. They're OH's baby and he'd actually done some research online!
It'll be bananas in a few weeks - again.
I still haven't got over MD leaving the wee plastic ties on his clem stems when he buried them......
I thought it was just me spluttering at the tv when he did that
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
maybe it was drowned out by the loud " harumph" from down here?
Plastic ties don't die, plants and human beings do.
I must have missed that bit about the clems...probably just as well
For those of us who are 'likin' the lichen' (ok - I promise I'll stop doing that now ) I took a couple yesterday en route through the glen to the hill. Love Papi Jo's photos, and wonder if he might be able to ID them - the grey, stone-like one, bottom left in the 2nd pic, was particularly interesting
this one was from a year or two ago - we see a lot of it on the hills. Like beautiful sea green hair
I've done a close up of that 2nd one
Last edited: 27 March 2017 09:49:37
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"Ah" I heard one famous Gardener say the minute the camera's left his garden he dug up everything they had planted, Monty may do the same. The reason it appeared was they had to have good camera angles, they take each part of the process over many shots, even digging the hole can take some time as the digging is broken down. The one in question said the plants were usually in the wrong place mainly for the producer to show off the method. On TV nothing is as it seems says he who walked up and down the same section of Norton Green for the BBC Crew while they got me in with the Pond, one with the Blacksmiths forge as once was and then one with the Church circa 1100 then a couple because they wanted me to walk in a certain way, (absolutely refused to walk down with both hands on my hips). The producer knew what she wanted but the camera man and director were arguing while I perambulated around the green bored as h@@@. The eventual film shown on TV was ten seconds as I walked towards the Pond the very first shot taken, it is a funny business The best bet is half believe what you see then imagine how long it took to get a full thirty minutes and soon an hour?
Frank.
Come on Frank. Monty is planting in his own garden and should be showing how to do it properly.