Summer's gone before it's started
| 09:46 UK time, Friday, 20 June 2008
Because I spend so much of my life driving up and down motorways and back and forth to Berryfields, I often use that time getting lost in ideas and plans for the programme. Coming back from Berryfields last night after two long days filming, it suddenly struck me that, in my head, I was living in August and I was thinking and planning the programmes for then. In reality, it is the middle of June. How much of our lives on this programme is lived in the future? Producing Gardeners' World is very much about now, this week, next month and even next year all at the same time. Time begins to race away and before you know it, another whole year has gone by.
But that is the way that gardeners think - we constantly plan in our heads what the garden is going to look like if we plant these seeds, this rose, that shrub. We plan for years ahead when we plant trees. We can already taste our home-grown vegetables when we sow the seeds and always THIS year, everything is going to be glorious and perfect.
And so it is with Gardeners' World. And we have certainly planned some great programmes over the next few weeks when we will have guests working on projects at Berryfields. We'll also be featuring the gardens of designers, keen gardeners and people who have a real passion for plants over those hour-long summer programmes. So I'm excited about how those programmes are going to turn out - sometimes it's like waiting for a bud to burst when you don't quite know how it's going to look!
On my drive home it struck me that this Saturday is midsummer's night. Where has the year gone? It's the middle of summer and before long, I'll have planned away the rest of the year! Those thoughts have made me determined that this weekend when I get home, I'm going to live a little bit in the now, appreciate the garden whatever way it looks and most of all, spend lots of time in the present tense with my family.
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