The Great British Garden Revival.

[doncasterpalmguy123]

Watched every episode and think its great to see other gardening styles. I am all about the tropical garden, but its good to know that if one day i could not have my hardy tropicals then there is a whole range of beautiful planting styles out there for me to try! Although that rock garden/ cottage garden presenter was annoying as hell!!!

[fern Rob]

I wouldn't mind a stumpary.

[Alexander]

I dont know how anyone can say, Tropical Gardening is Unfashionable! its the opposite..

That was my thought too, I'm not a specialist on fashion but I would have thought it would be perceived by the masses as the coolest style of gardening, associated with expertise, innovation, uniqueness, biodiversity, health and prosperity. What's more attractive than the tropics Especially to us pale faces living at these debilitating latitudes...

Well in London you still can grow Phoenix canariensis_CIDP, Cordyline australis, Fucraea and Butia odorata to name a few. There is probably no other big city that far north where you can grow these plants!

In my country its allready just to cold for them. I am almost at the same latitude as London.

Alexander

[Alexander]

I was disappointed with the first episode, M onty & wildflower meadows, yawn...
Hope the rest are better.

Well if you really see a good wildflower meadow with orchids, Rhinanthes, Campanula, Primula, Salvia pratensis, Knautia arvensis, Origanum vulgare and so on with lots of butterflies under a blue summersky with the sound of insects you would chance your opinion. And not everywhere you can grow palms and other exotics. And suppose you get a big garden, one part you keep for exotic stuff. Another part you can use for creating wildlive habitat with a lot of wildflowers. From wild daffodils in March till Colchicum autumnale in September.
Well for good wildflowr examples have a look in the Alps or Pyrenees in June.

Lots of butterflies and other insects and many plants have became rare due to the modern intensive agriculture. So by creating wildflower meadows you can create new habitat.

Alexander

[Alexander]

Tonight's episode on Stumperies is quite interesting. I love the garden in North Wales with the ferns that have been collected from all over the world. Was that a large Cyathea Medullaris, Fern Rob?

Yesterday's episode on Glasshouses had quite a lot of different tropical plants on it as well.

That one was also nice. That stumpery garden had a bit the feeling of an oldgrowth forest full with ferns. And after some years you get all kinds of mosses, mushrooms and lichen on those stumps.

Well you can always add some Trachycarpus, Hedychiums and Musa basjoo to make it more an exotic old growth forest.


Alexander

[Alexander]

I had missed the first parts but I noticed this gardenseries. Its excellent that you get every evening a program of one hour about all kinds of gardens. I wished we had something like that only ones a week here on the Dutch television. Here on the public television there is nothing about gardens to be seen. On a couple of comercial channels they have every Saturday some crappy depressing stuff wich is more about how to destroy a garden then how to make one.

Well I can only say its a lack of culture and civilisation in this country I live and sometimes I have the feeling that I have been born at the wrong side of the North Sea...

Alexander

[Yorkshire Kris]

The tropical episode is tonight!

[Steph]

The stumpery was to die for, but how many private gardens could accommodate one... not mine for sure.
There is a lot of renovation being done in our local park, and I dream they may do one, certainly got enough trees down to make a good start.

[RozDevon]

Looking forward to tonights episode, a full half hour of tropicals! Lovely!!
This calls for a glass of something white and chilled!!!!!

[Springy]

Looking forward to tonights episode, a full half hour of tropicals! Lovely!!
This calls for a glass of something white and chilled!!!!!

I pint of milk for you it is then!

I have enjoyed most of the series so far and tonight should be good if the previous programmes are anything to go by.
It's so nice to see anything to do with gardening on TV!

[RozDevon]

Yes, its Californian white milk! Yummy!!! From Blossom Creek. Have you heard of it? LOL!

[Yorkshire Kris]

5 MINS PREVIEW at Will Giles http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01p7y1n

[Springy]

5 MINS PREVIEW at Will Giles http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01p7y1n

Thanks for that Kris, it's looking really promising!!!

[callin]

Thank you Kris.
Wow ...I m spechless... the man is definitely an exotic plant wizzard.After seeing the short preview I instantly became a fanatik fan of this man. he must be a GOD.
This man proves the words of the famous Albert Einstein who said that "only the ones who attempt the absurd will accomplish the impossible". All of his plants looks perfectly healthy and full of life.
How cold it gets in Norwich? may be he is helped by the climat.

[doncasterpalmguy123]

Thank you Kris.
Wow ...I m spechless... the man is definitely an exotic plant wizzard.After seeing the short preview I instantly became a fanatik fan of this man. he is a GOD.
This man proves the words of the famous Albert Einstein who said that "only the ones who attempt the absurd will accomplish the impossible".
How cold it gets in Norwich? may be he is helped by the climat.

Well he said -11c so id say quite cold. He's not that far from me really, the cold east of England. We received -14c in 2010. Quite ironic though how in order to create his microclimate for his tropicals he has to plant tall growing native trees and north american conifers.