Flower Show News

• Oct

  24

  Autumn's here!
  5.00am the alarm jolts me from sleep, 5.50am I leave my house, 6.20am I pick up Sharon (programme director) and at 6.40am we arrive at the garden to b...
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• Oct

  17

  The listeners
  I read the message board religiously, as do my colleagues, and often, when I do, I think of"The Listeners" - a poem by Walter de la Mare. The relevant...
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• Oct

  13

  Stolen moments
  Sometimes it's hard to steal a moment with Toby and Alys while filming. It's so busy that grabbing time in-between takes to finalise the plans for th...
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• Oct

  3

  Hydrangea heaven
  If you do one thing this weekend, buy a hydrangea. Yep, contrary to popular opinion, hydrangeas are very much in. If you do one thing this weekend, bu...
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• Sep

  26

  Cosmic Rain
  To dead-head or not to dead-head? That was the question. Whether it was nobler to brave the summer wind and rain; to snip the heads of Candy Stripe, G...
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• Sep

  19

  WHAT A WEEK!
  If anyone ever says to me again that making gardening programmes must be all sitting in deckchairs and just watching presenters gardening - I will hap...
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• Sep

  15

  The nearly naked gardener
  It's wet..... wet and cold, this is not my idea of September! So much for harvest festivals and hazy late summer days. I'm now back at work after a ...
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