"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Duncan Heenan" wrote in message
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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In a recent edition of a trade magazine Peter Seabrook has spoken
out
quite
strongly about TV gardeners and the poor advice they give at
times. In
particular, he writes of one such suggesting that people plant
tulips
bulb-to-bulb along a wall and then saying a while later that it's
better
to
space them to avoid tulip fire! He wonders whether these people
ever
actually trial the advice they give. His rather depressing
comment is
that
the gap between real gardeners and garden presenting is now so
great that
he
doubts it can ever be bridged - sad thought for new gardeners
particularly,
I think.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)
My favourite hate is Garden Makeover shows, where nothing is
actually grown,
but all suck in to the ground to produce an instant effect. Very
superficial
and not really in tune with nature I think.

Too true. I often wish they would go back to a made-over garden about
one or two years later to show us how it thrived.

Franz


Which Ground Force did, of course, and to be fair most of their gardens had
settled down pretty well.

The problem I have with most of these shows is that they don't actually give
any advice! They create a ready-made garden with ready-made plants but don't
give any tips on how the plants they use need to be looked after. For those
of us with a good knowledge of gardening, and a small library of books, this
is not such a problem but for a newcomer it may lead to disappointment as
they would be relying on the often sketchy advice on the 'care label' on the
plants.

--
Neil

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