GardenRant Once Again Snubbed by British Royalty

Memo to Prince Charles:  Next time you invite a "handful of American journalists" to Highgrove for a tour of your all-organic landscape, remember those of us in the New Media.  I guarantee you we would have come up with more than "Wow, is it really all organic?" and "Look at that compost!"

Read the story, such as it is, here.

Comments

[Andrea Blair]

Hi ladies, I just stubbled across your wonderful site.....I'm book marking you as I write..type :)

~ Andrea Blair

[Michelle Derviss]

"The real organic purist might be taken aback at the amount of machinery needed to keep the gardens in order: tractors, lawnmowers of varying sizes, chippers to deal with the woody slash, diggers and tippers."

W.T.F. ? - You mean to be "truly" organic we have to banish all mechanical machinery ... no no no , not my chippers ?
Like where am I to put the goats to mow down my weeds and the team of horses to plow in the compost at the end of the season ?
Are gloves also considered too mooodern ? .. cuz after pulling out the hords of organically grown weeds with my bare hands I wouldn't want to take tea with the Prince.
Get a grip.

[Tibs]

Prince Charles has a Strumpery in his garden?! What is a Strumpery? Is it full of Strumpets? I googled this and came up with nada.

[william]

A stumpery is a collection of large rotting stumps of trees - usually large ones, preferably those that have died naturally. Good habitat for ferns, hostas etc (and slugs). Perhaps I missed your joke.

[Michele Owens]

Yeah, I'm annoyed that I was not invited, especially given that idiotic Charles Elliott piece in the NY Times, which treated organic gardening as some strange new-fangled notion worthy of suspicion.

I don't mean to be rude, but how OLD is this Charles Elliott guy?

[layanee]

I know you all would have been invited if the Prince had only though about it. Probably his press secretary invited Mr. Elliott. Next time....

[william]

Charles Elliott is an editor and writer who lives in London and gardens in Monmouth near the Welsh border. He is a regular contributor to Horticulture magazine, and has been a magazine editor and senior editor for Alfred A. Knopf in New York. He has written several books. http://www.franceslincoln.com/index.php?page=person&id=96&type=a He is old like me!

[eliz]

Seriously, both Chuck and the NYTimes SHOULD invite us bloggers in!

When the local Buffalo blogosphere exploded, one of the first things I saw was them doing was making fun of the old fuddy duds in the print media, including, of course, the 40-year-old magazine I edit.

What did I do/? I invited a bunch of the bloggers to write for us. Now they advertise our new issues on their blogs, with links. they found out we're not so bad and vice versa. I still get snark, but not so much.