Am I alone in thinking that gardening, at least judging from Chelsea
this year, is following food in being treated as something that should
have an arty touch? Food has become so dressed up that I can't tell what
I'm supposed to be eating and what is just decoration. I much prefer my
meals to be like meat-and-two-veg as they used to be. Quite what the
equivalent is in gardening I'm not sure, but I'm not against a few weeds
occasionally: dandelions and daisies are quite pretty plants, after all!

I expect that Yes I am alone, here at any rate!

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

www.evershot-weather.org

On 2014-05-19 07:21:22 +0000, Hugh Newbury said:

Am I alone in thinking that gardening, at least judging from Chelsea
this year, is following food in being treated as something that should
have an arty touch? Food has become so dressed up that I can't tell
what I'm supposed to be eating and what is just decoration. I much
prefer my meals to be like meat-and-two-veg as they used to be. Quite
what the equivalent is in gardening I'm not sure, but I'm not against a
few weeds occasionally: dandelions and daisies are quite pretty plants,
after all!

I expect that Yes I am alone, here at any rate!

Hugh

I'd say there's a more naturalistic approach to both gardening and
flower arranging now, so perhaps that's reflected in food too,
especially when edible flowers are added.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On 2014-05-19 12:10:21 +0000, Martin said:

On Mon, 19 May 2014 09:30:10 +0100, Sacha wrote:

I'd say there's a more naturalistic approach to both gardening and
flower arranging now, so perhaps that's reflected in food too,
especially when edible flowers are added.

There's a vegan in the club my wife belongs to. In her opinion the natural way
to grow vegetables is to buy a packet of "organic" vegetable seeds and scatter
them on unprepared ground. You can guess the result.

Tell her just to throw the Euros on the ground and let other people
benefit from her ideas!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On 2014-05-19 22:18:43 +0000, Martin said:

On Mon, 19 May 2014 17:59:51 +0100, sacha wrote:

On 2014-05-19 12:10:21 +0000, Martin said:

On Mon, 19 May 2014 09:30:10 +0100, Sacha wrote:

I'd say there's a more naturalistic approach to both gardening and
flower arranging now, so perhaps that's reflected in food too,
especially when edible flowers are added.

There's a vegan in the club my wife belongs to. In her opinion the natural way
to grow vegetables is to buy a packet of "organic" vegetable seeds and scatter
them on unprepared ground. You can guess the result.

Tell her just to throw the Euros on the ground and let other people
benefit from her ideas!

Maybe she is inspired by the biblical person who let his seeds fall on the
barren ground.

I once read of someone who called his budgie Onan for that very reason. ;-)
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On Mon, 19 May 2014 08:21:22 +0100, Hugh Newbury wrote:

Am I alone in thinking that gardening, at least judging from Chelsea
this year, is following food in being treated as something that should
have an arty touch? Food has become so dressed up that I can't tell what
I'm supposed to be eating and what is just decoration. I much prefer my
meals to be like meat-and-two-veg as they used to be. Quite what the
equivalent is in gardening I'm not sure, but I'm not against a few weeds
occasionally: dandelions and daisies are quite pretty plants, after all!

I expect that Yes I am alone, here at any rate!

Hugh


No! I leave them in areas where I can. They grow through things in the 'wild' garden and
are very pretty. We pay a fortune for multi-petalled golden yellow daisy flowers, yet we
have dandelions...

Yes, I know they can be thugs but so can our expensive purchases, as I have found to my
cost sometimes.

Kath