"Love Your Garden" - ITV1 - starts Tuesday 26 June at 8pm

I take it you didnt like it ??
Its the trouble with ITV usually. Making money rather than a decent program. Mr T does seemed to have dumbed down a lot. A shame, as he has awe-inspiring knowledge.

G

 

yeah, good point. I'm going to have my hair bleach-blonded to go with my new-found intelligence! Did lots of x30 though - I'm getting good at that after X-Factor and TheVoice etc.

Now with Monty I have do x -2 and || to go back and get the plant name so I can write it down ...

Nah, the joints have to be lap-sealed, or better, for that; just wrapping it round once won't keep them in; Have to have lip above grown to stop the runners "jumping" out too. And I agree, far too small a root-run (hence my earlier trench& root-barrier comment). Plenty of well behaved clumping Bamboos available, if all they wanted was individual clumps, rather than a "hedge".

Won't be good if they were all the same variety and happen to flower sometime soon :(

 

Kristen,

You say that tree would not be your first choice. May i ask why ? I have a clay, sticky wet soiled area and im looking for a tree to fit. I thought this one maybe my tree. Your thoughts ?

G

 

Its probably just a personal thing. I don't like the Flamingo variegation, that pink doesn't do it for me. I have grown one as a shrub and I think it was a weakling (again, may just have been my bad luck, but it was a quality plant - it died though). The leaves on the one on L.Y.G. looked a bit pathetic - but, like I said, that might have been early spring and the buds had only just broken.

I have a box elder here (plain-jane variety), its a lovely tree. Really wide, relative to its height.

The first garden I created I put an Acer negundo in, can't remember the variety, but from memory it was a golden variegated form. Aurea and/or Variegatum probably. It was a smashing eye catching plant, and grew very strongly. Don't seem to see it much now, clearly out of fashion, but that would be my preference for a "Big shrub", and for a small tree I would choose a Mountain Ash with interesting autumn foliage and whatever colour berries takes your fancy. Or grow a Topiary of something amazing that will astound your friends!

 

Thanks for your reply. Im tending to agree with you on the foliage aspect. Maybe for a shrub but for a tree, maybe not.
I already have two Rowans'. Is the mountain Ash variety hardier and suit wetter soils ?

G

 

My loose terminology "Mountain Ash" is probably the same as your "Rowan" so I doubt any difference (although various forms available). I don't know if they are suited to wetter soil, sorry.

 

Agree with all of what you said. Found the show quite dull and didn't really learn anything to do with gardening techniques. Was more how to get "the look" which is pointless until you know what to plant, how to plant it and look after it. I know these things, but I'm sure many people watching that were hoping to learn and are perhaps a little overwhelmed Gardeners World.

There is a gap in the TV scheduling for a programme for beginner gardening, which I seemed to remember this program was originally designed to do but seems to have lost its way I wonder.

Also found it interesting the girl who was a landscaping expert wearing hot pants in a garden similar to Glastonbury. Found it also interesting that considering the conditions none of them really got filthy, even her pretty little legs. Makes you wonder who's really doing the work.....

 

It's more like a gulley up here at the moment.

 

There were lovely legs though Jane

 

I'll have to watch it again, 'coz that certainly ain't what I remember seeing ...

 

You aint seen what im used to !!

 

I watched both ... it's interesting, however:

it's a tv program, so they choose plants and shrubs that are at their best during the filming (everything is in bloom) ....

looks good when planted, but what will it look like in a month when everything has stopped flowering?