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General Subjects => Blogs and Diaries => Topic started by: ichristie on June 12, 2015, 08:21:32 AM
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For the first time in many months I watched the BBC Beechgrove Garden last night imagine my surprise to see and hear our very own Ian Young for once at last something interesting with such enthusiasm for the wee plants we love and his superb trough planting he also showed how to make and rescue an old polystyrene fish box, the whole part he had on the show was far to short it was great entertainment informative and fun although Carol the presenter did not like the stour (dust) from the dry sand thank you Ian. cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Ian
I will look forward to seeing this on Sunday morning.
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Ditto :D
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me too - just before I set off for Bakewell
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I wondered why I hadn't seen Maggi's dad on the programme. Then today I found it on the HD recorder from last Sunday.
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Don,t think we get Beechgrove here. Mind you, I,m not too familiar with the new box thingy.
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Ian - you can see Beechgrove throughout the UK on it's Sunday morning repeat on " regular" telly. Time varies a bit but often around 8am , after the repeat of Gardener's World on BBC2. Those with a fancy Sky box thingy can see it on the Thursday airing, via Sky Channel 971
After the two airings of each programme they are availabe for a few weeks on the BBC i-player for those in the UK : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00721bz (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00721bz)
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In the new series of the Beechgrove Garden on BBC TV, Brian Cunningham, Head Gardener at Scone Palace (and SRGC member!)last week began a revamp of the garden's alpine area. In this week's programme ( in Scotland tonight at 7pm rather than the usual 7.30 and on Sunday morning on nationwide BBC2) Brian visit the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and speaks to John Mitchell of RBGE ( and yes, of course, SRGC member and Edinburgh Group convener!)
Don't miss it!
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In this weeks programme they visited a garden with low "Yew" hedges. These were essentially brown. Is this a gold variety or the effect of Scottish weather? If mine in the south were that colour I would assume they were more or less dead.
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I just looked at the segment to see - I think, by the appearancae and the fact the gardener mentions that in summer they provide a contrast with the lush green, that the yew is a golden variety. I admit that in the long shots it looks pretty dead!
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is it off air already or moved to a new slot?
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It's not available down here any more Mark. No more Sunday spot for well over a month.
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It gets bumped from nationwide showing for sports etc. Try the i-player wotsit :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00721bz/episodes/player (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00721bz/episodes/player)
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BBC NI have dumped it also
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It's on BBC2 this Sunday morning, according to the radio times, and I have watched it recently on 1 Sunday at least. I get southern TV here.
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only ever watch it on the BBC iplayer - but it is always excellent
Gardeners World last night was an hour and has a new producer - no veg and much more plants and flowers - long may it continue
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Its back on BBC NI today
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Gardeners World last night was an hour and has a new producer - no veg and much more plants and flowers - long may it continue
Just MD donning his waders again plodding through his pond the size of Lake Garda; another bloke wondering about creating a border on a plot the size of the Wembley pitch and Carol putting the taxonomy of the Ranunculacea to rights in 25 seconds. Ho Hum!
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Just MD donning his waders again plodding through his pond the size of Lake Garda; another bloke wondering about creating a border on a plot the size of the Wembley pitch and Carol putting the taxonomy of the Ranunculacea to rights in 25 seconds. Ho Hum!
Yes I know what you mean - but it is a step in the right direction - I was wondering if they were going to ditch MD IDC and move GW to the farm house the other Chelsea Gold Medal winner has bought?
At least it was not relentless veg for 1/2 hour - hour - used to put me to sleep on a Friday night........
I really like delphiniums so it was good to see a little article on them
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David,
If you were stuck with what we have on TV here you'd look forward to GW!
Now that they are available on YouTube we are able to watch (when we get the time!)
cheers
fermi
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"Yes I know what you mean - but it is a step in the right direction - I was wondering if they were going to ditch MD IDC and move GW to the farm house the other Chelsea Gold Medal winner has bought?"
I thought that too. They seem to be lining up AFrost as a replacement, with a suitable
new house. However I quite like him and with the Geoff Hamilton background it's going
full circle.
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Their time in Inverewe was way way too short