Bimblingguru

Ah ha, this old chestnut again,
I really enjoyed reading your article Ryan and know that you come to horticulture with a vigour and enthusiasm that I find refreshing- I too have some dreadful alarming stereotypes for our friends over the water and also here in Wales.....
Having moved from a colder dryer part of England(East Anglia) about seven years ago I imagined that with the warmer wetter climate the majority of gardens in Wales would be lush, interesting places with all sorts of botanical suprises? Alas, it is unusual to find havens of greenery and more normal and usual to find collections of prostrate and shrub sized fir trees with a sea of concrete or tarmac for all that delicious rain to raise the levels of run off and surface water to flood the low lying land-I thought our government were going to change the planning laws to stop this evil soil sealing practise?
Anyway, back to the planting, I so definately agree that most garden centres and large scale plant sellers show only a limited range of instant plants and F1 seeds that it really does look like an advertisement for the Stepford Wives film set! The summer bedding plants in naff hanging baskets requiring much watering in our encreasingly arid world seems immoral! I suppose that those retailers relay on the small brains of those sheople that buy clothes from a retailer's shop dummy; gosh do those humans really want to look like each other? How can we, the individuals become the majority and rescue our environments for the long term gain of our planet?
Again, thanks Ryan, I look forward to reading more of your comments on all things green........