I've stopped watching garden makeover shows too. In the introduction, they do tell you that Garden Rescue provides all the labour and the recipients provide the budget for the plants and materials. When I did record programmes to watch later, some of the plants were very common and I wouldn't expect them to be too expensive. However, I would really like to know where some of the hard landscaping came from, as I couldn't buy them for the costs we are given. Are prices quoted wholesale prices or without VAT? As to the bound gravel paths - we had many tons of similar stuff used for edging the house and for our drive, in France. The dusty component was watered before being rolled in. It was much heavier than a whacker plate. The rain washed the small stuff in over time, leaving a more solid rocky (for want of a better term) medium which was very good. However, when it was newly laid, we had several pairs of shoes positioned so that the cream coloured, powdery part wasn't trailed onto the grass, the patio, and into the house. Using it in a small garden doesn't seem sensible at all.
I was wondering what this dreadful IIRC thing he advertised was. Mr Google has put me straight😉
That was when the BBC was a little bit stricter about such things and the labels on tomato sauce bottles on the table of Dixon of Dock Green's villains had to be covered up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Old Capability eh? Another person who ripped out stuff and just replaced it with something different. The original Ground Force/Instant Gardener/Garden Rescue. The only difference is - they had bigger budgets for him to play with, and no film crew.
Nothing really changes with garden designing. Always someone with new ideas on an old theme
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
There should be more like Bloody Stupid Johnson, imo.
“... there was also an ornate fountain which, upon being turned on, did nothing but groan ominously for several minutes before firing a small stone cherub a thousand feet into the air.”
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
be covered up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Another person who ripped out stuff and just replaced it with something different. The original Ground Force/Instant Gardener/Garden Rescue.
The only difference is - they had bigger budgets for him to play with, and no film crew.
Nothing really changes with garden designing. Always someone with new ideas on an old theme
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
“... there was also an ornate fountain which, upon being turned on, did nothing but groan ominously for several minutes before firing a small stone cherub a thousand feet into the air.”
https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Bloody_Stupid_Johnson