It's the most relaxing hour each week, inspired maybe by the fact it's on a Friday evening with (for me anyway) the working week finished, just seeing the opening section with Monty tootling along with his wheelbarrow sets me up nicely for the weekend! Yes there are sometimes sections that I'd happily skip over, I'm sure we all have those, anything to do with succulents for some reason leaves me cold...but it's surely the best gardening programme around, probably even a national treasure by now, long may it continue.
Features on exotic, sub tropical flowers, fruit and vegetables are very common this year. I just wish they’d flash up on screen how long they’d last so I know how much time I’ve got to go into the kitchen and make a cup of tea.
...but it's surely the best gardening programme around, probably even a national treasure by now, long may it continue.
May I recommend Scotlands excellent gardening program...Beechgrove. Sadly now finished for the winter. They managed admirably to make interesting programmes all summer from the presenters homes. (partners acting as the film crew!)
I think if all the viewers gardens were completely perfect it would make me feel a bit inadequate. Personally I love to see children inspired by nature and encouraged by adults even if the results are not perfect.
I don't want a garden to be perfect but I do want to see something interesting and/or beautiful and/or relevant to help me be a better gardener and I don't want to see one with piles of crud lying about and there have been some like that. I like to see children gardening and enjoying themselves but I don't want to watch them just cos they're cute.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I can only guess but it's likely that loads of the entries they get from viewers have decent gardens but terrible presenting or unwatchable filming. The choice of options that are actually good enough to show at all is probably more limited than you might think
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
They could always not show them. There must be archives of decent film to use as fillers as can be seen from when they do Gardening A to Z compilation programmes on Sunday mornings.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Haven't we all been begging for archive footage of GW to be shown all year, but as usual we get ignored. I just keep going back for a bit of Beechgrove to even things out.
I think someone pointed out earlier that it's probably to do with the production companies and what they own. Made sense to me, as I'd been puzzled about why they were showing so much recent stuff and not going further back.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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Yes there are sometimes sections that I'd happily skip over, I'm sure we all have those, anything to do with succulents for some reason leaves me cold...but it's surely the best gardening programme around, probably even a national treasure by now, long may it continue.
Sadly now finished for the winter.
They managed admirably to make interesting programmes all summer from the presenters homes. (partners acting as the film crew!)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004c4v
Personally I love to see children inspired by nature and encouraged by adults even if the results are not perfect.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”