Terry and Nicola, Have you read "Three Men in a Garden" by Clay Jones, Stefan Buczacki, and Geoffrey Smith? They are obviously gardening in different climes than I, actually more in your area Terry, but the writing is quite humorous. I'm about halfway through the book, and am enjoying it immensely.

Wish there were three men in my garden....

Clay Jones and Geoffrey Smith were two of the TV gardening pioneers and very good they both were. Geoffrey Smith in particular has a great way of writing about the countryside around where he lives and the wildlife he observes. Stephen Buczacki writes a series of "how to" books, but his style does not appeal to me, too impersonal for my tastes. Clay Jones is a very down to earth old school gardener with a wealth of experience to draw on. I haven't read the book you mention Carolyn, but would expect it to be as you describe.

Gail, how can you get three men in your garden when you won't tell us where it is? J

Gail. I can't believe you didn't think of this. What could be easier than to get three or more men in your garden? All you need is a keg of beer! They'll sniff it out from miles around!
J J

Carolyn! What a fantastic idea!

Terry, if you can bring 3 gardening men, I'll pass out my address!

I'm not touching this one. But Oh the temptations.

No Carolyn, I have not seen the book. Do they each write separate sections or do they all chip in at once?
And Maggie, do you mean the subject or the men?

Yes, Nicola, they divided up the subjects and each write on whichever subject they were assigned. However, its funny, because you'll be reading about building a greenhouse, and the guy just can't help but say something like, "Although Geof is doing the section on propagation techniques, let me just say......"

Are those guys some kind of gardening bigshots in the UK?

Oops! After posting, I saw Terry's previous post about who the authors are. It was wedged in between some of Gail's excitement about 3 men in the garden, and I somehow had missed it. Thanx Terry for the background. Its interesting you should say that the older man is a "down to earth" type gardener. He looks a lot like Malcolm Beck, who is one of my favorite garden authors/speakers/maker of gardening products. Here is a link to one of his articles. http://www.builtonline.com/articles_search.cfm/p_id373. This is another link that might be interesting http://www.gardenville.com

NICOLA! :-0
lol !!!

Man!! I am not going to touch any of the above listed info......All I can remember is some woman named P. Hobhouse talking about POTS!POTS!and more POTS.....and I barely remember a certain red head in England??? Gee, I forgot her name!!

It's not her name most men remember, David, it's when you forget the other "bits" that you need to start worrying.

Now look what you started Gail ;-)

And btw Caro, I'd like to borrow the book, I remember Geoffrey Smith from Brit gardening mags.
I agree Terry, he has a masterful way with words and sharing his love of nature.