I'm starting the weekend early this week due to general misery.
I went to Wales yesterday, of which more next week. But I stopped at a service station on the way where I really saw in practice how ineffective so-called "organic" gardening practices can be.
The service station had carefully designed and planted a stunningly attractive display of our best winter-interest plants such as pyracantha and berberis as ground-cover. However, forced by fashion and pure whimsy to garden organically, they were unable to keep weeds under control by proper spraying regimes. Consequently, a veritable plague of wild orchids was developing, intruding and completely detracting from the neat greenery.
You really just have to look at my picture for a moment to see that these awful native weeds are gaining a foothold amongst the delicate ground-cover plants and will soon be returning the whole place to a horrible "natural" look unless we are careful.
Why, oh why, must we persist with the folly of so-called eco-gardening?
Anyway, enough of my own personal bugbears.
This week we are lucky enough to have an interview with Marryella Wristslap, which should be fascinating, and we also have a great round-up of all the TV from Hampton Court. But first, some breaking news from the relatively new yet already completely cut-throat world of car-centred gardening.
