On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:50:07 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill
wrote:

On Apr 22, 11:41*am, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:24:24 GMT, Baz wrote:
Sacha wrote :

On 2011-04-22 09:14:02 +0100, Dave Hill
said:

Did anyone see the Blue Peter gardener planting that tub /pot on
Breakfast this morning?
I thought it must be April 1st.
I don't think I've ever seen so many shrubs etc crammed into a
container that must ahve been no more than 24" probably less,
A spreading conifer, a rose bush, What looked like a golden
Philadelphus, 2 smaller plants possiblt Euonymus fortunei *and some
thing else around the same size.

Didn't see it but it would be funny if it wasn't so tragically
misleading!

Pathetic isn't it. No wonder the 'would be' gardener gets confused.
TV can be so uneducational in the wrong hands. This is the BBC I take it?
The one channel which was always boasting correctness, and the one we pay
for with the license fee! Education, who needs it? Shocking really.

This story and others like it make me feel that in a few generations when
we have all gone, what will become of us as a species?

A bit over the top, I know, but a Blue Peter gardener educating young
people this way during their most informative years sickens me. Ok on
"Breakfast" there will not be many youngsters viewing, but it shows the
type of misinformation broadcasted to young ones on their Blue Peter show.

Baz

Blue Peter's definitely going downhill - when I was a youngster they
wouldn't have tried that number of plants in a 24" tub, it would have
been the bottom half of a washing up liquid bottle!

More seriously, there willhave been adults watching who don't know
anything about plants but want to get started with a pot *or two and
who could well go out and waste anything up to 50 on copying that
pot. When it all fails they will give up. Result more gardens covered
over with paving slabs and decking or just left to rot.

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Jake
I think you missed something
The Prog was BBC Breakfast 6am - 9am Not a childrens prog, the person
doing the container was the Blue Peter Gardener, but it was aimed at
adults.
Also if the person with a garden covered with decking or paving would
be the person who this item would be for, not the person with enough
garden space to plant them out properly.
Charlie
Which are you calling Jasmin grandiflora, oval leaf or segmented leaf?
David

Dave

First para of my post was a bit of a joke.

Second para was more in keeping with the audience of Breakfast.
Picture - you have a garden area. You don't know what to do with it.
You may not have that much time to do whatever you want to do with it
but you want something. So on a reputable programme you've seen a
"gardener" potting up a tub. You're geting ready for work so hit the
record button on your bedroom DVR. You like the look of that so next
weekend you go out and buy the tub, the compost and the plants.

The tub fails. So you think why bother and what you've got of a garden
gets decked, paved, gravelled.

Not everyone watching will be that daft but I bet you a fair number
are.

Jake