Gardeners' World

I loved Carol Klein's piece on re-visiting East Lambrook. I read Margery Fish's 'We Made a Garden' when I was a hort. student. We all agreed that it was as much about her difficult relationship with her control freak of a husband as the garden itself.

She had the last laugh when he died and she joyfully set about having the garden as she wanted it.

I must dig out my copy. It's not very long and a great bedtime read.

Very inspirational.

Me too ginny!

That's the look we went for in our ( much smaller!) garden, the natural cottage garden style of planting, not everywhere but in two of the borders, next to where we sit, and the colour and scents are lovely at this time of year.I would love to read the book ( we made a garden) but it will long be out of print.

Merlotgran,glad you confirmed what DH and I guessed just watching the Margery Fish article last night, that her husband was very controlling. No wonder her garden became a bit wild after he'd gone!
I would like to read her book, now.
We are about to pull up hundreds of self-seeded marigolds this morning,to give the hydrangeas some breathing space.

You can still get the book from Amazon. It's available on Kindle as well.

She had such spirit.

Monty is a nice guy, but so boring, his dogs are gorgeous. He sends me to sleep which is wonderful because not much does.

I have to disagree. I don't think Monty is boring. I like his gentle, no nonsense approach. I think he is an antidote to a lot of what is wrong with much of TV today. No doubt I'll be shot down in flames, but quite a lot of what is on TV lacks subtlety and is quite vulgar. I know, I'm an old fogey!!

Enjoyed most of last night's programme. I like the "what you should be doing " bit - sometimes a bit of a push is needed in our rainy Devon climate.
I liked Frances Tophill's allotment feature. It's like listening to a normal person- so unlike the over emphatic, phoney delivery of Carol Klein!

I think Monty sounds heavily 'scripted' and feel he is not allowed to deliver spontaneously. I real shame as I now find myself only interested in guest presenters or those with interesting gardens/collections etc.

Monty used to suffer from winter depression, or seasonal affective disorder. Maybe that's why his delivery is slow.
Maybe he will perk up if we get any better weather.

Felt so sorry for Monty on Friday he looked so cold and it was obviously filmed before the heatwave. A week is a long time in gardening.

I like the programme and Monty don but I do think his garden is rather small so year on year its similar
I think his garden is two acres, so just a little patch really

Just realised that this is last year's thread

Doesn't matter, Jalima1108 - as a new season of gardeners world has begun, I think it will be ok to make comments about it. ?

Thanks!