Posted in Growing Vegetables, tagged Alys Fowler, Gardeners World, Gardening, Monty Don on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I am SO with my garden right now, as months of planning and loving tending are coming to manifestation. Things are coming up everywhere, the peas are flowering, the potatoes are burgeoning, the salads being picked, tomatoes potted on, courgettes and runner beans planted out, broad beans making pods and apples fruiting. Whilst I [...]
Posted in Eclectic Nonsense, tagged Gardeners World, Monty Don on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Well - it seems that my ‘missing Monty Don’ postings were a bit prophetic. Its just been announced that he has suffered from a stroke and will be stepping down from the Gardener’s World Head Gardener job with the BBC. His shoes will be extremely difficult to fill, but I really wish him well for [...]
Posted in Eclectic Nonsense, tagged Gardeners World, Gardening, Monty Don on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, now that I am on this ‘descriptive writing about Monty Don’ trip, I am finding all sorts of waxing lyricals about him. He really captures the imagination, doesn’t he - that’s because there is something of the Earth about him. After I posted last night’s whimsy, Carol announced that Monty is having a break [...]
Posted in Growing Vegetables, tagged Gardeners World, Gardening, Monty Don on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
You’ve got to take your hat off to AA Gill, the Times’ TV critic. Whilst he may have been rather unforgivably panning Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens, the way he describes Monty is a hoot. It really is such a classic that I have to include it here, where mostly I usually [...]
Posted in Eclectic Nonsense, Growing Vegetables, tagged Allotments, Gardeners World, Gardening, Monty Don, Vegetable Growing on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
I so love Gardeners World - when it’s not on I long for it, and when it is I eschew any social activity going to settle myself down in front of it on a Friday evening. It has an odd effect - something between an adrenaline rush and a mug of hot chocolate - but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gardeners World, Gardening, Seasons on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I love Monty Don - I thought that no-one could ever take the special place in my heart occupied by Geoff Hamilton of blessed memory - but Monty has such a gentle passion for the earth about him. As everything is peeping above the surface now wanting to push upwards and grow, here’s a quote [...]
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