Media Reviews
From Horticulture Week online, 1st April 2009, by Marc Rosenberg: ".....some gardening publications - particularly those aimed at the retirement market - do focus on 'softer' editorial with good reason: a constant barrage of controversy, tough questions and topicality can irritate older readers who simply want gardening tips and advice."
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Designers design and the rest of us garden. This rule of thumb is brusque but works more often than not. I side with Helen Dillon, the queen of gardening in a confined suburban space. Her recent book on gardening put it typically bluntly at the end of a chapter on garden layouts: “Bugger plans." Robin Lane Fox Weekend FT 20th November 2009.
Magazine Reviews
Garden Magazines reviewed by Matthew Appleby -"The garden magazine market is skewed....."
TV reviews
Review of BBC Gardener's World, 3rd April 2009 by Matthew Appleby - "Trendy efforts such as fast cuts and (2007 vintage) Kate Nash music does not stop the show being one presented by a middle-aged man in a red anorak with a bald spot (on his head, not the coat)."
Review of Sissinhurst BBC4 March 2009, by Darryl Moore - " Ultimately the over-egged, warts-and-all approach to the fractious situation failed to be convincing...."