No time to relax
Well it's Thursday night and I'm tapping this out on my laptop at home - having left the still busy office hard at work behind me...
1-2-3 and relax............
So much is going on back at base camp at the moment it's hard to catch your breath! A chunk of the GW team has been in a mad last push, dotting the I's and crossing the T's, making sure that the Hampton Court programmes are going to sparkle! The rest of us have been beavering away on a huge number of exciting projects. I've actually been out and about on recce's over the past couple of weeks (that's when we go out to investigate potential news/stories/gardens or people for the programme). It's a great part of the job - you get to meet people who are truly passionate about plants and experience first hand the gardens they cherish - I can tell you, I've seen a few corkers recently! We are always on the look out for exciting gardens, news, plants or people who have something to share - whether it is a devotion to a specialist subject or just a great character that we'd all benefit from meeting! If you ever see something or someone and think 'Why haven't they been on GW?' just let me know, it's probably because we haven't found them yet! It's the same if you have any burning issues affecting how you garden; from battling Bindweed to Mildew on your Honeysuckle, if you have a problem you should voice it here. Between the minds of the people who write the blogs and the huge wealth of information in the minds that read them - I'm sure we can find a solution to even the most hideous attack of red spider mite!!
At home my garden has suffered. I have to admit very little 'gardening' has been evident. At the allotment I have witnessed my cabbages decimated by corpulent pigeons - at home, my meadow flattened by our cat Zeet who had a little bit too much Nepeta cataria in the sun and danced a merry jig all over it! I did manage to tidy up my tiny front garden at the weekend and cut back my Buddleja globosa after its orange pom pom flowers had cheered their last. This is a plant I adore, I have used it many a times when designing gardens - it just adds such a dynamic and contemporary twist to a space. It has such an identity and to top it off, a wonderful, subtle honey scent. My other half's mum, Esther gave me this particular cutting a few years back and it's never failed me - my love affair with Buddleja globosa started at that point! People literally stopped in the street and stared at its glory - I must admit due partly to not cutting it back last year so it had gotten a wee bit big! It has left a remarkably big gap in the border but my Rudbeckia 'Herbstone' and Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer' are quickly stretching their legs to fill it back up whilst the Carex buchananii should hold the structure together before the garden sings into the mid to late summer flush of daisies. Well I'm off for a mint tea - keep those fingers green!
Ben
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