Beechgrove garden on BBC Scotland with Cyril Lafong

[fermi de Sousa]

Beechgrove Factsheet for the programme  featuring Cyril is here:
http://www.thebeechgrovegarden.com/fact_files/FACTSHEET_03_2009.pdf

Well, after reading that "fact" sheet I wonder why Cyril doesn't "germinate cuttings" more often!

Thanks, Tom, for your pics!

cheers
fermi

[mark smyth]

All is not lost 

Beechgrove Garden
Wednesday 22nd April on BBC2 Scotland at 19.00, Sky channel 971....

And repeated on Mondays, BBC2 at 13.00.

Maggi you cant see channel 971 because it's on 101

[Maggi Young]

Note also in pic 2009 04 16 Cyril Lafong 006.jpg ... the banks of fans along the roof of the glass house ....that's a good way to get fine ventilation.
... but I was a bit surprised to see that the fan blades had no safety covering..... best not to be a tall  person with a bouffant hairstyle when you visit Cyril, I reckon!!

[Maggi Young]

Mark, sadly the programme on the 22nd will be a new one and not the one with Cyril. 

The ways of the BBC and their alternative channels and i-player systems are indeed mysterious ....just don't think they are conducive to any kind of worship! 



Fermi...... as I say, the 'BEEB' is  often not the brightest broadcaster on the block .....though it MAY be that the Squirrel's Secret is that he CAN germintae cuttings.... frankly, it wouldn't altogether surprise me! 

[Martinr]

The programme is now available (for those in the UK) on the BBC iplayer. It isn't immediately obvious but if you put Beechgrove Garden in the search box it will appear.

Yours, a happy exile.

[Maggi Young]

Yes, the BBC website is as good at hiding info as some others I can think of!


Try this link.... from the UK only......  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00721bz   and hear, through the miracle of daft editing, Cyril tell us that Pulsatilla vernalis is " one of the best shrubs for growing in the alpine house" ...... as if  Cyril would say such a thing ?  Terrible shortage of specialised knwledge in some media folks!

[mark smyth]

silly me the programme is on channel 990

[mark smyth]

well done for finding the programme on the internet

[vivienr]

Fed up this morning because the computer is in a huff and won't download my photos of Anne's garden opening and our bluebell wood. To cheer myself up I have just watched last night's Beechgrove Garden on BBC iPlayer. They visit the Brodie daffodils this week - 18min 40sec into the programme if you don't want to know what to do with frost-damaged plants or how to plant a vegetable garden.
Thank you for telling us about this programme, Maggi. I am getting a bit bored with watching Toby Buckland dig holes on Gardeners World.
If you put 'Beechgrove' into the search bar you get straight to the programme and also the radio phone-in.

[Anthony Darby]

Yes, the BBC website is as good at hiding info as some others I can think of!


Try this link.... from the UK only......  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00721bz   and hear, through the miracle of daft editing, Cyril tell us that Pulsatilla vernalis is " one of the best shrubs for growing in the alpine house" ...... as if  Cyril would say such a thing ?  Terrible shortage of specialised knwledge in some media folks!

I think the way Cyril grows plants, his Pulsatilla vernalis would be a shrub! I'm surprised it's not a tree!

[mark smyth]

When talking about Narcissus fly problems the head gardener say he lets the weeds grow around the Narcissus. From experience in my garden nothing stops Narcissus fly eggs being laid. I've been sparying a systemic insecticide once a week this month to control the Narcissus fly and aphids. The latter are unaffected so far

[Lesley Cox]

Mark, this is way off the Beechgrove thing which we can't get anyway, but we have a product here called Ripcord which is entirely fatal to aphis and almost any chewers including woodlice and earwigs, all kinds of flies etc. I use it in a squirty bottle (the kind you use to clean the shower) and squirtit around clumps of Narcissus when they'\re in flower. The flies just die as they approach and settle. It doesn't harm the plants - or slugs. I think it's normally used to keep spiders off buildings and is effective for 2 years it says on the bottle but in reality, much longer than that.

[Anthony Darby]

When talking about Narcissus fly problems the head gardener say he lets the weeds grow around the Narcissus. From experience in my garden nothing stops Narcissus fly eggs being laid. I've been sparying a systemic insecticide once a week this month to control the Narcissus fly and aphids. The latter are unaffected so far

Mark, I would be sparing with the spray, I'd be quite liberal!

What has happened to 'Gardener's World'? I didn't much like AT, but the programme has gone wierd ever sinch MD left and I rarely watch even part of a programme.