Three beautiful days have brought the Pulsatillas into full flower, helped the germination rate in the greenhouse no end and given me a bit of a watering headache. The frogspawn is now a writhing mass of tadpoles. And we’ve spotted the first swallows on the phone wires on the lane, about two weeks earlier than […]
If you want to keep bang up to date with what’s new in herbaceous perennials this is the blog-daddy. Graham Rice is editor-in-chief of the RHS Encyclopedia of Perennials and is a prolific blogger. OK, so perennials are his job, but even so – the dizzying rate of new plants he mentions makes me feel […]
Here it is, the new man on his new plot, with a new producer too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUqYLDYVy0 Is it just me or has Toby got a much bigger smile on his face now that he never has to go back to Berryfields again? I think I know how he probably felt. I’ve coped quite well for […]
GW moves to new location I never did take to Berryfields – it always looked a bit uninviting. Oddly cold and gloomy. Too big and too many problems to solve. The garden effectively dominated the agenda. With a new location the producers should be able to shape the programme exactly as they wish. Let’s see…
A dry, frost-free week meant we are finally making real headway on the ‘to-do’ list. Although there is time left before we open, walking past endless outstanding jobs leaves me in an almost continuous state of low-level stress. So, a good week takes the pressure off a bit. Janet and Tracey have all but finished […]
It is simply incomprehensible that we will get no proper weekly GW on the Beeb till April 10th (Good Friday). By then the GW garden at Berryfields will be full of produce growing away merrily, having been sown weeks before in ground prepared over winter when the programme was off air. How dispiriting for people […]