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29-04-2006, 06:21 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

wrote:
Sacha wrote:
Brian Watson wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
ups.com...
In a trade mag. today " Seven months contract. Responsible for
maintaining and developing the BBC's flagship garden at Berryfields in
Warwickshire, you'll need to balance the demands of a hands-on
gardening role with the ability to manage a small off-screen team.

You mean the presenters don't really do all the planning and work they
pretend to do?

Gasp!

Amazing, innit? ;-) A great many years ago, one of the then famous TV
gardening presenters came to Jersey to do a programme and part of it
was shot at my outlaws garden. We were all there watching for the
great man to do his thing. He was one of the real 'sons of the soil'
types, down to earth, long-term garden expert etc. There was to be a
piece of him planting a shrub in one of the borders and then chatting
to my outlaws about their garden. Before the piece was done, we were
all absolutely gobsmacked to see a minion walk over, dig what was
really quite a small hole and tidily place both shovel and shrub beside
it so that the 'star' could simply lower plant into hole on camera!

that is not fair; who was it??
Please please.

Not on your life. ;-) But he's one of the several who has gone to the
great garden in the sky! This must have been back in the late 70s, I
think.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon