What a novelty - a mid month uodate!
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Many readers will know that a few weeks ago we were asked if we
would like to participate in a feature about the garden for
Gardener's World.We didn't have to think too long abou it and today
it was the big day . A 6 o'clock start was a rude awakening for us
but it was already a glorious day when the team arrived at 8.30,
having travelled from Bristol, one of them had just arrived in the
UK from an assignment in the USA showing what a global world
production teams come from.There were 4 in total, Alex the
Director, Anne the researcher who had "discovered" us from the
obscurity this website! Matt the cameraman and Rich the sound man,
with their expensive equipment.
Most of the team work on a freelance basis but regularly work
together on Gardeners' World so have a lot of experience in the
world of horticulture. The format for the feature was that I was
aked questions about my background, and topics they would like me
to address which were currently in evidence in the
garden and in this way I acted as a presenter for the day which I
quite enjoyed and all the team made me conforthable in this role.
It was difficult to cope with external noises especially aircraft
for which we are on a main flight path to and from the USA. In
these cases the scene had to be repeated and I had to pick up
the threads of where I was before the interruption.
It was a long but really enjoyable day, broken by a delicious
buffet lunch prepared by Moira. Our good friend Richard
Bramley joined us for the afternoon and we teamed up in one of the
topics that were covered. There are plenty of fine scenes in the
borders which gave the team a wide coice of what to feature, the
only limitation was that the there will only be a 6-7 minute
slot!!! in the finished article, to be pulished when the item
appears in in a future programme. When the date for that is known I
will let you know. We can't wait to see it and we are sure that you
will too.
I hope by then I will then have the time to publish the
outstanding June News before I turn my attention to the July News
which has turned out to be an amazing but very challenging month
with some outstanding plants successes
The front entrance to the Lodge packed with some
of our summer favorites
One group of plants featured which is looking marvellous
is the hemerocallis (day lily) on which I demonstrated dead
heading techniques, noticing just in time that this flower had 2
large bumble bees in it!!
More pics in next months News