You know how just before you switch off the television, you surf just to see if there might be something interesting? Well, I happened upon Your Garden Made Perfect. OK. I watched for less than 5 minutes. Maybe I shouldn't go with my instincts but it looked like Changing Rooms but without the laughs. You paint a room an unlikely colour, a tin of magnolia will sort it. You plonk a load of inappropriate plants amongst dodgy landscaping. It's not funny. If the victims were genuinely interested in gardening rather than wantig an outdoor room, maybe, there would be a chance of survival.These designer chaps should be obligated to return with the camera crew after 12 months. Maybe the garden will be well in the way to maturity or maybe it'll be a pile of 💩, Have I jumped to conclusions? Maybe I'm a gardening snob😒
Have I jumped to conclusions? Maybe I'm a gardening snob😒
I always get a bit grumpy about people - on TV or not - treating gardening as a means to an end - the perfect garden - rather than as a thing you do and enjoy doing. I feel they're missing the point. Any garden that is 'made perfect', by definition, won't be perfect next week unless it's made entirely of plastic, paving slabs and furniture. Anything growing is going to, well, grow. And then die/die back/get huge/whatever.
Still, their loss I suppose
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I actually watched some of it... though I was doing other things at the same time
The "perfect" bit is stupid, of course, but this week the couple had a genuine problem which was solved by the new design - a severely autistic child with no concept of danger, and a half-acre L-shaped garden which he loved to play in, but where he couldn't be seen from the house. The new design gave him lots of play spaces and sensory areas, and removed the conifers which were preventing his parents watching him. He seemed to love it and they were visibly relieved... it did cost £75k though!!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
If you bother to watch the whole programme there' an awful lot of info to glean about what makes a garden work, from planting plans to structures and design. Some of the gardens featured have huge budgets beyond normal means but, like GW, if you wade thru the dross there's some inspiration and useful info.
Anyone spending the sums involved is not going to leave their investment untended so, on balance, much better than cheaper garden makeover programmes.
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)."
Wars aren't what they were in my day. I hear now that Russia have been kicked out of the Eurovision Song contest and Pornhub have blocked Russians from accessing their content. Harsh but fair.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Regarding channel hopping, I caught the very end of Garden Rescue one day last week. God knows what the garden was like before they started, but it looked like the Somme after the battle when they had finished. I've never seen such a mess.
nah. Can't be a**ed. I don't feel I'm the target audience or they'd have called it something different and formulated more appealing trailers. I have better things to do than wade through dross on TV in the hope of a nugget of info I could probably have got by reading here anyway
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I don't watch the programme, had more than enough garden makeovers across the years but I'm going to have to watch one, or try to, to see what you're talking about.
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Well, I happened upon Your Garden Made Perfect. OK. I watched for less than 5 minutes. Maybe I shouldn't go with my instincts but it looked like Changing Rooms but without the laughs. You paint a room an unlikely colour, a tin of magnolia will sort it. You plonk a load of inappropriate plants amongst dodgy landscaping. It's not funny. If the victims were genuinely interested in gardening rather than wantig an outdoor room, maybe, there would be a chance of survival.These designer chaps should be obligated to return with the camera crew after 12 months. Maybe the garden will be well in the way to maturity or maybe it'll be a pile of 💩,
Have I jumped to conclusions? Maybe I'm a gardening snob😒
Still, their loss I suppose
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
That's just how I feel about it
The "perfect" bit is stupid, of course, but this week the couple had a genuine problem which was solved by the new design - a severely autistic child with no concept of danger, and a half-acre L-shaped garden which he loved to play in, but where he couldn't be seen from the house. The new design gave him lots of play spaces and sensory areas, and removed the conifers which were preventing his parents watching him. He seemed to love it and they were visibly relieved... it did cost £75k though!!
Anyone spending the sums involved is not going to leave their investment untended so, on balance, much better than cheaper garden makeover programmes.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”