A blast of Black Sabbath makes plants bloom, says radio gardener

[A Lark Ascending]

And all these years I've been playing the plants Delius and Debussy!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/19/black-sabbath-radio-gardener-chris-beardshaw

I must try some Albert Ayler in the greenhouse.

Edited April 21, 2013 by A Lark Ascending

[Royal Oak]

And all these years I've been playing the plants Delius and Debussy!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/19/black-sabbath-radio-gardener-chris-beardshaw

I must try some Albert Ayler in the greenhouse.

I find all celebrity / TV gardeners to be insufferable. The exception, bizarrely, is Titchmarsh, given that he's essentially a parody of himself.

Edited April 21, 2013 by rdavenport

[A Lark Ascending]

They can be terribly precious. They go into raptures over a potato seedling as if it's...well...Schnabel!

The only one I watch irregularly is Gardeners' World. The woman on there who looks like she might have been a punk 30 years ago drives me nuts. I throw things at the TV. Old plastic plant pots, withered weeds etc.

Edited April 21, 2013 by A Lark Ascending

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Yeah - but I've passed through the lounge when 'Sidewinder' has been playing on a gardening programme. And 'Back at the Chicken Shack' by JOS.

Bet you'd get good plants with a selection of Prestige soul jazz material, particularly Gator Tail

MG

[Jazzjet]

And all these years I've been playing the plants Delius and Debussy!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/19/black-sabbath-radio-gardener-chris-beardshaw

I must try some Albert Ayler in the greenhouse.

Best steer clear of Cliff Richard as his music apparently kills alstroemerias. I know how they feel.

[A Lark Ascending]

They quite like Nick Drake on Gardeners' World.

[Royal Oak]

They can be terribly precious. They go into raptures over a potato seedling as if it's...well...Schnabel!

The only one I watch irregularly is Gardeners' World. The woman on there who looks like she might have been a punk 30 years ago drives me nuts. I throw things at the TV. Old plastic plant pots, withered weeds etc.

I agree - it's so terribly upper middle class (or whatever the new classification is - elite?)

[A Lark Ascending]

I was reading somewhere that Ozzy Osborne was going through a bad patch - drink, drugs, marital problems. Maybe he could start a new career as a Gardeners' World presenter. Just make sure he's driven home before the bats come out.