As I said on another thread complaining about houseplants, it's just indoor gardening, and for all those who want to have plants but have no garden it was probably a very good programme but the timing does seem off and it wasn't of any interest to me personally.
Was it a major boob on the part of the schedulers and programme planners or a total lack of imagination, organisation and planning by the GW production team because, maybe, Monty and Adam weren't available for filming last week?
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To me it is just another example of lack of care. Just pad the hour by telling us what's coming up next, shots of people walking, looking, smelling, viewers videos, animals and repeated general annual tasks for beginners, peat free lectures, and well being lectures.
It feels like the GW production team are like insurance providers. They don't care about viewers they have, just chasing down new viewers. I've given up looking forward to it.
I think that l can honestly say this is the first time that l have deliberately chosen not to watch an episode of GW.
Out of interest l looked at Facebook and Twitter and the reaction overall was positive, many people saying that the programme was interesting and had several contributors who came across well. A few did say that a whole hour about houseplants was too much, and personally l feel that it would have been better to either have a houseplant section in the programme each week, or keep it as a one hour special for later in the year. People who did complain about the subject matter were accused of being elitist (my paraphrase), "not everyone has a garden", "l love houseplants", etc. It seemed a strange decision and l daresay the powers that be had their reasons. Ah well, back to Longmeadow next week.
I like houseplants but I just flicked through it on iPlayer and didn't bother watching much of it. There's better houseplant content on Youtube with less filler. I know it's great for people who don't have a garden but maybe Gardener's World is aimed at people who do have a garden. I bet most gardenless gardeners don't have much more than a couple of windows above a radiator and probably aren't going to run grow lights and humidifiers in the long term. A bit more balance needed I think.
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The Twitterarty seemed to like it... I watched it. The only bit where I pressed FF was the orchid piece. The rest I found quite entertaining. I particularly liked the long haired beardy bloke with the humidifier..mad!
I watched it even though I still have only one houseplant. (Not yet got used to no longer having a plant-eating cat.) I'd have preferred a "proper" gardening programme (ie outdoors) but agree with @Chris-P-Bacon about the entertainment value of the contributors. Some of the plants were gorgeous too, and beautifully filmed.
I'm with @WonkyWomble on Carol Klein's Thursday evening ch.5 programme though - no shortage of proper gardening there.
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To me it is just another example of lack of care. Just pad the hour by telling us what's coming up next, shots of people walking, looking, smelling, viewers videos, animals and repeated general annual tasks for beginners, peat free lectures, and well being lectures.
It feels like the GW production team are like insurance providers. They don't care about viewers they have, just chasing down new viewers. I've given up looking forward to it.
In fairness that could refer to any number of episodes...especially the supercileous lecturing! Even Francis succumbed last night! And no, I don't look forward to it as much as I used to either. Most times I'll watch it on Sunday or Monday when I've remebered I've recorded it.
On the flip side, I don't really subscribe to the 'proper gardening is outdoor gardening' viewpoint.. plants is plants.
I kind of half watched it while doing the ironing. It was OK, and for people who have only started with houseplants over the last year or two probably useful and timely - repotting is a spring task, generally (that's when I do mine), But for me, there was nothing new and it would have been more enjoyable as a winter special when the main GW is off air.
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I have no problem with the lecturing, most people have no idea that depletion of peat lands is a major problem, or appreciate the mental health benefits of gardening. Part of the charter of the BBC emphasises its role in education. I did not watch last nights, because I have no interest in house plants, although I did feel a bit of a traitor. I do understand, that for some people who have no garden, indoor plants are their only option, and it is their programme too.
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They do have a bit of a challenge to have enough to keep experienced and knowledgeable gardeners interested while not alienating beginners and casual non-gardener viewers who might be watching. Sometimes I think the balance is a bit off in the direction of too basic but generally it's OK for me. Providing information on going peat-free, health benefits of gardening etc is fine particularly when it's practical advice, but just occasionally it seems to me that it's going too far over into "holier-than-thou" preachiness.
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Was it a major boob on the part of the schedulers and programme planners or a total lack of imagination, organisation and planning by the GW production team because, maybe, Monty and Adam weren't available for filming last week?
Out of interest l looked at Facebook and Twitter and the reaction overall was positive, many people saying that the programme was interesting and had several contributors who came across well.
A few did say that a whole hour about houseplants was too much, and personally l feel that it would have been better to either have a houseplant section in the programme each week, or keep it as a one hour special for later in the year.
People who did complain about the subject matter were accused of being elitist (my paraphrase), "not everyone has a garden", "l love houseplants", etc.
It seemed a strange decision and l daresay the powers that be had their reasons. Ah well, back to Longmeadow next week.
I watched it. The only bit where I pressed FF was the orchid piece.
The rest I found quite entertaining. I particularly liked the long haired beardy bloke with the humidifier..mad!
I'm with @WonkyWomble on Carol Klein's Thursday evening ch.5 programme though - no shortage of proper gardening there.
And no, I don't look forward to it as much as I used to either. Most times I'll watch it on Sunday or Monday when I've remebered I've recorded it.
On the flip side, I don't really subscribe to the 'proper gardening is outdoor gardening' viewpoint.. plants is plants.
Part of the charter of the BBC emphasises its role in education.
I did not watch last nights, because I have no interest in house plants, although I did feel a bit of a traitor. I do understand, that for some people who have no garden, indoor plants are their only option, and it is their programme too.
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