I was wondering what the rest of URG thinks about the gardeners World 'Tropical
(Jungle) garden' ??

I love 'tropical' plants but it somehow doesn't work for me at all. The space is
tiny and the layout is weird.
The plants are great, but don't seem to show to the best of their advantage.....

Thoughts ?
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Jenny
(Rotterdam the Netherlands)
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On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 11:45:56 +0100, "JennyC"
wrote:

I was wondering what the rest of URG thinks about the gardeners World 'Tropical
(Jungle) garden' ??

I love 'tropical' plants but it somehow doesn't work for me at all. The space is
tiny and the layout is weird.
The plants are great, but don't seem to show to the best of their advantage.....

I would agree although I still possess my gardening "L Plates". I think
the idea is a good one but the execution is messy and too much for the
space. I like the plants but it has put me off that "style" of planting.
I'm also not overly impressed with courtyard garden.

I was rather more taken with ideas like the small fruit garden and the
alpines. I am also looking forward to seeing how the conifer garden and
shrubbery go. This is mostly so I can see what can be done even if I
don't have anything like the space of Berryfields.

I do wish they would do a show which showed how all of Berryfields
fitted together. I get no sense of how Berryfields "works" as a whole
which is something I like to understand when I have visited gardens that
are part of the NGS. Alan Titchmarsh did one of his "gardeners world"
garden (I forget the name) which showed how it all fitted together, what
was grown where and I thoroughly enjoyed that.
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Paul C

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