Working class/middle class gardening...

Crikey - this thread has given me food for thought - never dawned on me about a class system in gardening
I do, however, operate a 'glass' system which involves sitting up the garden with a drop of the red stuff after a bit of hard graft :D
Very interesting thread.

 

I am in complete agreement here - I am a GARDENER, not a garden designer!
I had thought about the topic before I read Hoyles' book, but not in any detail - it's certainly opened my eyes!

 

Yes, what makes them our betters? They are richer?? Does that make them BETTER or just richer?? And how did they - or their families - acquire their wealth? Quite often by exploitation, or piracy, or downright theft!
What makes anyone 'better' than anyone else? I would say that - for instance - a professional gardener is better than me at gardening, since I'm only an amateur...but I am probably better than them at translating, since that is MY profession!!

 

My brothers and I recently found out that a few years ago my Dad was not allowed to join the Village gardening club because he lived in a Council house...Revenge was swift!

I have a new neighbour who said to me she would soon have her garden as pretty as mine,and was most offended when I told her that my garden comes from the heart not the wallet!

 

</font>[/quote]Ooh....what did he do??
I am wondering if I'll be allowed to join Hampstead Horticultural Society...but also if I actually WANT to join Hampstead Horticutural Society!
But I mean - these people who belonged to the Village gardening club, would they have EMPLOYED your father as a gardener?

 

Yes Leonora,they certainly would have loved a gardener like him...But not on equal terms it seems!
Our dad didn't do anything in revenge...It was my brothers and I that substituted the Clubs collective store of Growmore for agricultural Nitram.

 

I bet the lawnmowers thanked you for that one Pal.

 

Love it Pal!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

 

I always presumed one to be working claaahss is ONE grew dahlias (oh appart from Bishop Llandaff)

 

I just love gardening. The starting, tidying, back renching bits the whole lot. Let ppl think they are better, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. Them poor sods!

 

Aaaah Shiney that's a lovely storey

 

Shiney I think you are dead right. I have come across one person who has a title to their name but they still get dirty like everyone else cause they have to earn a living and that means hard graft. When it comes talking about plants it doesnt matter to true gardeners where you come from.

 

Well said geoff, shiney and dizi.