Comment on It’s beginning to look a lot like gardening by Kay Lay
How lovely to see that other people like gardening. I work in a wasteland of celebrity lovers who only talk of soaps and celebs! It is lovely to walk around the very small garden I have in my rented...
View ArticleComment on It’s beginning to look a lot like gardening by The StopWatch Gardener
Thank you so much for your comments, Kay – you’re not going to like this at all, but digging out the ground elder is really the only way. Weedkiller won’t do enough! I tried to get Isphahan from DA...
View ArticleComment on A good gardening podcast is hard to find by Steve
Absolutely spot-on. I couldn’t agree more with your assessment on the current state of gardening podcasts. I continually seek them out and have floundered through countless attempts by so many. At the...
View ArticleComment on A good gardening podcast is hard to find by The StopWatch Gardener
thank you Steve for your comment – the only very large change is that Away to Garden with Margaret Roach has become 100 times better, because she has left the old informal set up behind (no more Jill)...
View ArticleComment on A good gardening podcast is hard to find by Steve
I forgot one that might interest you. It is pulled from a radio show in Texas. It is called Gardening Naturally with John Dromgoole. You might get a kick out of the accent. Interestingly, they are in a...
View ArticleComment on The Scottish daffodil without a name by The StopWatch Gardener
An update! Thank you to the wonderfully skilled Duncan and Kate Donald from Croft 16 in Wester Ross in Scotland. Duncan writes, “We are sure that your plant is ‘Feu de Joie’, raised – like so many...
View ArticleComment on Great gardening podcasts are easier to find by Vanessa Mann
Hi Sheila Thanks for a great blog – superbly presented, photographed and written. Check out the Gardening Hour with Christopher South, live on Sundays from noon on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. Hear a...
View ArticleComment on Great gardening podcasts are easier to find by The StopWatch Gardener
Dear Vanessa, I’m absolutely delighted to hear about Christopher’s show, and I will certainly be downloading it. Thank you so much for that, and for your very kind comments about the blog.
View ArticleComment on Snowdrop time at Cambo Estate by Robina
Stonecrop – long way out of NY, but well worth it. Good write-up in Hortus. High Line, of course. Brooklyn Botanics. Storm King (sculpture park) – again a long way out of New York but great display of...
View ArticleComment on Snowdrop time at Cambo Estate by The StopWatch Gardener
Thank you Robina, I am going up to Margaret Roche’s garden so Stonecrop is quite possible. Thank you so much for the ideas! Am getting very excited. Have only just realized I’m going to be there on...
View ArticleComment on A good gardening podcast is hard to find by Great gardening...
[...] long time ago, when the earth was green, I wrote a post listing my Top Ten gardening podcasts. For The Guardian newspaper’s gardening blog I’ve just done a reprise of my Top Five [...]
View ArticleComment on Great gardening podcasts are easier to find by judy
Super eccentric but I am totally addicted! Mississippi (very Southern USA) It wont necessarily apply to your climate but Felder Rushing is ultra knowledgeable & very funny. His podcasts are posted...
View ArticleComment on Great gardening podcasts are easier to find by The StopWatch Gardener
Thanks Judy, I tried listening to the Gestalt Gardener for a while but I just couldn’t get into it – I’m glad you mentioned that suggestion, however, for other people reading this who might be...
View ArticleComment on Would you like to win tickets to the 100th Chelsea Flower Show? by...
I’m working at Chelsea this year – on Jo Thompsons show garden, make sure you come and visit!
View ArticleComment on Would you like to win tickets to the 100th Chelsea Flower Show? by...
Fab, can’t wait to see you there! Was pleased to see Jo’s design includes some truly weather-proof trees.
View ArticleComment on Would you like to win tickets to the 100th Chelsea Flower Show? by...
Would love to go to Chelsea. I’m starting a new garden this year and would like to get some great ideas. Thanks………
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Our garden is a miss so I need some inspiration from The Show
View ArticleComment on Five reasons I’m ok with growing edibles by Fennel and Fern » The...
[...] Stopwatch Gardener discovers that growing edibles is fun and [...]
View ArticleComment on Making Gertrude Jekyll’s golden wonder garden by Anne Wareham
I do focus colour in different parts of the garden – and have so far found the yellow eyeful one of the hardest to achieve. In fact, I haven’t – is it because I get seduced into adding contrasts? (love...
View ArticleComment on Making Gertrude Jekyll’s golden wonder garden by The StopWatch...
Thanks Anne for your comment. I saw alchemilla mollis and a golden carex together recently in a Gardens Illustrated – that looked pleasing. I’d love to see a proper rendition of all-gold, and next year...
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