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love the sunlight here....very enchanting

I love the scent of these : )

i planted some recently, my daughter loves them. shes 21 and still calls them dragon snaps, the name she used for them when she was little lol

This is beautiful and it looks GREAT as your avatar.

Fantastic color Honeysuckle. Beautiful !

i like the planter too

Poor man! I wish we had the mechanism to send him our good wishes. He can't be very old - possibly in his forties? Only a guess.

Hear that Monty's had a mild stroke and will be convalescing during the next few weeks.

I understand that the 80 gardens series was done in two weeks - that seems a really tall order and enough to make anyone ill!

Even though I watch Chelsea on tele, I have no desire to visit,all those splendid plants in tip-top perfection,and not one to buy till the last day.and I am not going to push and shove,to buy a plant.
I much prefer the N.E.C,Have allready pre-booked my tickets for Thursday.
I would like that new Clemitas "Viennetta"
A White Akebia,
A new Hibiscus,and anything else that takes my fancy,which if it,s anything like last year that works out as loads & loads,and we only have a Mini!!!

Hi Bonkersbon - please believe me, I love Monty - I think he is totally sound, but, just like myself, he is capable of getting a bit carried away with himself - that's all I was saying, and just now I wish him nothing but good health and hope - and yes, I am not sure Chelsea is in tune with what he is about, although it's good to see someone like Jekka McVicar there flying the organic flag from within.

Like you Lobelialover, I think there are some wonderful sights at Chelsea, but like Bonkersbon I also feel unhappy about its excesses. As I think I have said before, I am a typical pisces - keep seeing both points of view, but that's another reason for loving gardening because mother nature is full of apparent contradictions.

Well Buzzbee if I thought that of Monty I would say he was welcome at Chelsea.If you been through what he has then think you would be a bit more understanding and realize that it is exactly because he is not a pretentious prat - as you put it - that he is not at Chelsea.

Monty can be a bit of a pretentious prat sometimes, but there are worse sins in life and I identify with him because Gardening is what got me out of depression and it did the same for him. He has learned from experience and his passion is indisputable - I loved around the world in 80 gardens - thought it was challenging and thought provoking - I would have got extremely bored if he had spent the series looking at carbon-copy English gardens - not that I dislike such gardens, I just think a TV series should attempt to do something a bit special. I was relieved to see Amateur Gardening report that he is exhausted - it just shows your human Monty - take care of yourself and get back to Berryfields soon - or better still, let's see you turn your own garden into one consisting of British plants - that would be an exciting project.

Monty is a gardener he took up gardening to get away from overt stresses in his life - he needs Chelsea like a hole in the head , bad enough Titchmash shows his face there.Call himself a Yorkshireman.

Oooh..., what a lovely, secluded garden hideaway.!

Ohh..., I just love your tulips. I gotta have some of them.! Do you remember the cultivar by any chance?

yes - i think they'll come back - just make sure they don't get munched a second time!

As are those of perennial Lobelia, come to think of it.

The new shoots of delphiniums are like caviar to slugs

Go for it, Lobelialover, they are such beautiful plants :-)

Hi, lobelialover! I, personally, think there is hope, at this time of year. This recently happened to my Rudbeckia in the border. They were reduced to bare stalks with tell-tale silver trails all around. I dug them up and replanted in pots, relocating the pots in another area. just 3 weeks on, and the pots are a mass of green leaves again! Can you, perhaps, do same?

If i dont get time to watch gardeners world, i tape it and then i can watch it when i wont.Its a good job i have a video recorder, got a dvd recorder but cant record on it for love or money. all this new tecnolagy goes over my head,must admit as you older it gets harder to learn.

Looks like you have a very large and lush landscape to garden in, your very lucky.

its great to have a blank canvas to work from.......................

Yes Fridays programme was good as most of it concentrated on Joe's allotment, the start of a 12 month project for GW. Not everyone's a GW fan but some of us amateurs there can be some tips to pick up, but GoY comes out top & no dodgy theme tune to endure!

Glad you reminded me, I got told a good programme on Friday, but i cannot see it on iplayer, a feb gardens world is on iplayer about orchards though, see what you mean I just found the other one and a fault of somesort on it, how annoying. Perhaps they will correct latest one on in a day or two.

Hope you get some fruit.

I would not use anything just wrap the sweet pea round the support and they will do the rest other wise use garden string and tie as a figure of eight.

I have just put some out today. I have had them hardening off all week. I started my in root trainers back in October and have trimmed them back twice to get them bushey. I have 2 large wigwam's for mine and will just train them into the sctructure. I love sweet pea's and the sent is wonderful.

Debs

Am I the only one that hates the new theme tune - its driving me crazy - I know they had to do it for all the HD stuff but it just feels wrong. If you've got digital UKTV Gardens repeats them all the time.

Ha ha ha ha ha - Bluespruce - you read my mind!

Don't worry about missing 'Gardeners World' your probably learn more about gardening on this site than you will watching Monty Don and Joe Swift pratting around.