"Janet Baraclough" wrote
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from Paul Corfield contains these words:


While the "all for free" garden being developed in GW by Carol Klein
is a great idea it's a waste of time for someone like me as I don't
have access to the bountiful resources of Berryfields and previous
season's cast offs ;-)

She's only using that as material to demonstrate with. Home
gardeners have a huge resource of free plant material , from the
gardens of neighbours family and friends and plant swaps at their
local garden club. Or, dirt cheap from the plant table at local jumble
sales and "open gardens". Get one new plant and divide it; use some of
your home-propagated plants to swap with other gardeners etc.

Yes, f'rinstance, after she was potting up seedling hellebores the other
week it prompted me to check under some reddish ones that flowered first
time last year and Lo! they had gone forth and multiplied. So I've
potted some up to grow on which might otherwise not have survived the
weeding.

I'm glad Carol Klein is on GW regularly now, she's great. In fact the
whole programme has definitely improved no end imo. I only wish they
could stick to the hour long format.

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Sue