Posted by Kate Morgan on September 5, 2010, 6:24 am
snip David
> If it likes you, it will rampage all over the place. There is a rather
> nice little story about some Italian prince or other with a fabulous
> garden, who, when asked the name of his favourite plant, said that
> Erigeron was it. He said he always carried some clay balls in his pocket
> with the seed embedded in them and whenever the opportunity arose, he
> shoved some into all kinds of little bits of space in stone walls. We
> have some low walls here normally covered in it but last winter did knock
> it back a bit. There's a long, high wall on a garden on a road near here
> which is usually smothered in it but it's very sparse this year.
> --
> Sacha
> www.hillhousenursery.com
> South Devon
What a delightful story
kate, maybe I should ask it to come and live on my new stone walls, it could
cover up the spots that I didn't do very well :-)
Posted by Janet Tweedy on September 6, 2010, 11:26 am
>My wife was quite taken with it so I think I'll get some seed to sow
>at our stone house in Normandy. A number of places seem to sell the
>seed.
>David
I've found that when it's happy it's very very happy but when it isn't
amused with the soil it won't grow?) I tried 4 years to get it to grow
and then suddenly it flowered well and has seeded everywhere but it is
very well behaved
Janet
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Posted by Sacha on September 5, 2010, 5:27 am
> DavidinNormandy@nospam.nospam says...
>>
>> I'm 90% interested in veg and 10% interested in ornamentals.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Agreed, SWMBO does the flowery bits, my domain is the veggies, although
> I also have to mow the lawns and do they heavy work in her bit!
>
> Roger T
So 50/50 for your household then!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Posted by David Rance on September 4, 2010, 6:11 pm
On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 David in Normandy wrote:
>> ... perhaps we should do a mini-poll on here. How many
>> people are only interested in growing veg, not ornamentals and vice
>> versa? My impression is that most people go in for both with equal
>> enthusiasm if they grow both at all.
>I'm 90% interested in veg and 10% interested in ornamentals.
I'm not so interested in growing ornamentals but I do learn a lot by
watching that section of the programme.
David
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David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
http://rance.org.uk
Posted by Daddy Tadpole on September 4, 2010, 3:09 pm
>>
>>> We think the improvement has been huge - leaps and bounds. They're now
>>> reducing the number of presenters and the presenters are doing just
>>> that, not cracking daft jokes or having some stupid competition about
>>> making a hanging basket. We met one of the directors who had driven
>>> down from Birmingham to get some plants here and to shoot at Carol
>>> Klein's garden for last week's episode. We said we thought it had
>>> improved a LOT but asked if more plant names could be shown onscreen.
>>> Apparently there's some rule that if a plant is shown for less than x
>>> seconds, its name doesn't go up. I can only guess this is to do with
>>> expense but have no actual knowledge of that. We said that no
>>> gardeners we knew would waste money putting a fork and spade on a shed
>>> as handles and that did raise a laugh - not his idea, obviously! But
>>> it's a real pleasure to see some proper gardening information coming
>>> back into the programme and much less celebrity type focus on the
>>> people, rather than the gardening. We have the impression just from
>>> watching him, that Toby Buckland is enjoying it more, too. He seems to
>>> be allowing his personality to come through whereas before I felt
>>> always that he was just a bit embarrassed by the nonsense!
>>
>> Agreed but,
>> I was wondering....
>> When will the BBC give us a nice tv programme dealing with vegetable
>> growing only? and another for "flowers"
>> There are enough of us around now to justify its air time.
>> Gardeners World is ok, but many of us are not interested in shrubs,
>> flowers
>> etc. and many are not interested in vegetable growing.
>> To me the difference is like chalk and cheese.
>> Am I alone thinking this?
>>
>> regards
>> Part_No
> I'm not that interested in growing veg though a tiny part of me is. But I
> don't think there's a hope of two programmes entirely devoted to one and
> the other. They're supposed to be cutting down BBC expenditure, after
> all. ;-) It would be a good idea to make a veg programme with just one
> presenter, I agree because a lot of people are turning to growing their
> own now, both for reasons of cost and health. Or, they could extend GW so
> that one half is ornamentals and the other is veg. Though wily producers
> will not be willing to lose half their audience at the halfway mark! But
> perhaps we should do a mini-poll on here. How many people are only
> interested in growing veg, not ornamentals and vice versa? My impression
> is that most people go in for both with equal enthusiasm if they grow both
> at all.
> --
> Sacha
> www.hillhousenursery.com
> South Devon
Just a word of caution. It's nice growing your own veg (I do) but you won't
Save The World like that. Half a dozen cabbages at the bottom of the garden
will attract all the cabbage whites (and worse) from miles around. By
contrast, a fieldful will have been harvested long before the nasties have
had the time to divide and multiply too much. So in the end, given that not
all amateur gardeners are bio (horribly mistaken term), unless you hand pick
the caterpillars it can be more ecologically correct to pay a producer than
to grow your own.
Regards
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> nice little story about some Italian prince or other with a fabulous
> garden, who, when asked the name of his favourite plant, said that
> Erigeron was it. He said he always carried some clay balls in his pocket
> with the seed embedded in them and whenever the opportunity arose, he
> shoved some into all kinds of little bits of space in stone walls. We
> have some low walls here normally covered in it but last winter did knock
> it back a bit. There's a long, high wall on a garden on a road near here
> which is usually smothered in it but it's very sparse this year.
> --
> Sacha
> www.hillhousenursery.com
> South Devon