"Victoria Clare" wrote in message
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"tuin man" wrote in
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"Victoria Clare" wrote in message
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It seemed a pity to me that because they wanted to keep up the
suspense, the 'real' gardeners were prohibited from interviewing the
designer on the earlier program. I suspect they would have asked
more pertinent
questions.

Which most likely he couldn't answer. So how is that different from
any other "Garden" Designer?


Sorry, I don't understand you. Are you suggesting you think the planting
was actually done by someone else (perhaps someone more talented?) and
that
therefore any interview with Gavin would be redundant?

No, though I would not expect he planted and did every last little
thing.Besides, that said, how much more talented would one have to be to dig
a hole and plant right way up.
Mind you... I do recall working for a certain firm who ran into a wee
problem in that area, though it has to be said in no way nearly as large a
problem as one of our compeditors.
It was circa 1982 and they (the competion) had won a contract involving
£250k worth of planting. Nice one. Onto that, was the fact that the builders
had left the site in such good condition that no preparation was needed
apart from dig the hole and put the plant in. No doubt a fact which was
probably pointed out by their boss as he dropped of his 8-12 man team to do
the planting.
Then an odd thing happened around July of that year. The whole lot started
to die. It turned out that the planters having probably listened to the;
'look lads, all you have to do is dig a hole and stick 'em in' ...kind of
instruction... did not know they should remove pot before planting.

Which brings me smoothly to a question for you; what did you mean by "more
pertinent questions"?

Patrick



Victoria
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gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
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