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Radio Times

9th - 15th August

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LETTER OF THE WEEK

My gardener of over 50 years who has gardened from 'back yard to half an
acre says 'Well said'


It's been my beef with Gardeners World for a long while.
They seem to have no concept of what a small garden is and that small
gardens are now the norm especially in the South. A small garden is a lot
less than the sq footage of the house sometimes not much bigger than the
living room.

GW persist in talking like the man sitting next to a friend at a lunch who
said "I just have a small arboretum" (a total contradiction unless he had
bonsai), which is what is turning people off. It bares no resemblance to the
reality of most.

Monty talks of planting 5 or 7 of everything because it looks so much
better, true if your garden is a field, but for most of us one is all we
have space for unless you want monoculture.

--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK