tidyness is taking over
Last post 14-11-2005 11:43 AM by Obelix. 2 replies.
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28/10/2005 01:24 PM
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- gatita
- 28 Oct 2005
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I get fed up with gardening programmes that show everything all pristine and new. Novice gardeners soon get to think that they are rubbish at it because they have dead leaves and seedheads about, and some of their plants die. Stuff seeds everywhere and the bindweed has to be battled. Welcome to gardening as it really is. Only ''Gardeners World'' even attempts to show this, and even they don't show how many hours work a week go into keeping Berryfields smart. New gardeners should be encouraged to see it as an adventure, not as an exercise in producing a perfect picture. Lets have a live monthly gardening programme that follows a new garden with a new gardener who has 2-3 hours a week to spare and no helpers. Make people see that everyone has problems, and nobody would REALLY want a garden designed by Diarmud Gavin if they had to mow the fiddly lawns themselves twice a week
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28/10/2005 01:51 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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You are quite right have you seen those grass seats how the devil can you mow them? i would say that a large proportion of garden tv is just entertainment and should be treated as such, if you are fortunate to have sky tv or cable there is a channel called uktv gardens, whilst its all garden shows some are better than others, i prefer my garden to evolve over a period of time not in an instant, and there is too much gravel, membrane and patios in these shows a garden that is well tended and full of flora and fauna is truly a joy to behold, Harlow Carr at Harrogate is a good one to visit and Great Dixter is top notch(and not a gnome in sight)a garden says so much about it's owner don't you think? my place is a garden with a house in it rather than a house with garden.
digger 
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14/11/2005 11:43 AM
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- Obelix
- Belgium
- 24 Nov 2004
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Having bought a tatty old farmhouse surrounded by former cow pasture both house and garden are "in development" and won't be as I want them to be for some years and by then I'll have changed my mind and started to alter them again.
The garden is what gives me most satisfaction though and yes, there are always things needing attention and another invasion of couch grass, creeping buttercup, nettles, thistles, bindweed and groundsel in a bed I've just cleared every time I turn my back to deal with another project. I deliberately leave old stalks and seedheads through the winter but I do try to scrape up leaves to reduce slug shelters. My garden pleases me but is never perfect.
There was a series by Helen Yemm who took beginners with limited time, skills and budgets and helped them transform their gardens. That would bear repeating during the winter months and would be certainly more interesting than the umpteenth repeat of Cash in the Attic or yet another escape to the country or abroad.
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