On 2013-09-01 12:25:20 +0100, Nick Maclaren said:

In article ,
Sacha wrote:
On 2013-09-01 10:32:54 +0100, stuart noble said:
On 01/09/2013 08:47, Martin wrote:
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:59:32 +0100, "Trevor Appleton"
wrote:

For the last 17 years since Geoff Hamilton sadly departed this world, our
household expression for watching GW at 8.30 on a Friday has been putting
'Geoff' on. No one could replace him and certainly not Titch or Toby, or
even Montys first charge of the helm.

However I can finally now say that I feel we have someone I like equally as
much as Geoff - good old Monty!!

I wish we could say the same.

Do you watch Beechgrove?
http://www.thebeechgrovegarden.com/

Having just watched his prog on Japanese gardens, Monty comes across as
a bit of a fruitcake. Zen doesn't work here because there's no one to
spend all day maintaining perfection. Anyway, a rock in the middle of a
load of gravel doesn't do it for me.

Ray always maintains that Japanese gardens made by Westerners don't
work properly and he may have something. We saw a beauty at Huntington
Gardens in California but it was designed by a Japanese and I'm pretty
sure it was maintained by one, too.

On the other hand, when I first saw the gardens in Japan, I realised
where the 19th revolution typified by the Cornish gardens of that
era came from. The Cornish always having been a maritime people,
of course! I am pretty sure that I saw the original of the pond
at Burncoose somewhere in Tokyo, though I now forget at which of
the gardens.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

It's so long since we've been to Burncoose that I don't even remember a
pond! Charlie might know more.
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Sacha
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South Devon
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