I agree with everything Lavendar Lady says. I watched the program last night. Phil Tuffnel was as much use as a chocolate teapot--always buzzing off to swig tea,and Anneka seemed to use it as an excuse to hug a load of men.The real gardeners were the volunteers.
I only watched about 10 mins of the programme and I thought it was a load of rubbish, turned over to watch Mrs Moneypenny (superscrimpers), not much better then gave up. Totally agree with Lavender Lady! The BBC haven't a clue about gardening programmes at the moment. We often refer to books or the Internet for advice Will watch Beechgrove on I-player, much more down to earth, sorry about the pun
It's not intended as a gardening programme, is it? It's a reality-feelgood-makeover show or whatever they call them. Personally I don't see anything wrong with these shows if viewers want to watch them - mawkish seems to be an audience-puller. It is a pity if the message is going out that this is how to 'do gardening' but I don't think it is.
Totally agree that there should be one more proper gardening programme somewhere in the schedule.
PS I only watched the second half, that was long enough. PPS I like Phil Tuffnell
I like both Phil Tuffnell and Joe Swift and can take Anneka Rice in small doses. I knew it was going to be a sort of "DIYSOS" of the garden but thought I'd give it a go.
It was even worse than I feared, mawkish,over sentimental, supposedly tearjerking and very little to do with gardening. I managed to watch about 10minutes of it, in 3 segments ( I'd recorded it and kept FFing to see if it improved - it didn't) and won't bother again. A gardening opportunity missed
I don't understand why homes like these are not required to have safe and stimulating outside areas where inmates, families and staff can enjoy the outdoors in security and comfort. Why does the Beeb have to send in the "experts" and drum up help from the community. It should be a standard feature of all care homes for the elderly, disabled, whatever.
As for the programme, I missed the first 15 minutes and, given what we got, won't be in a hurry to watch the next three programmes.
As LL says, we need help for people of any background and experience to cope with their plot, be it from scratch or just needing a tweak or two, so they can make it a resource for their family to relax in, play in and/or feed themselves. This programme won't do it and nor will GW in its current form so a new series is clearly needed.
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I used to love Real Gardens when Monty used to visit gardeners in their own gardens - they planned tog. and the gardeners did the work and we revisited to see how they had got on - real gardening with all its highs and lows. I think it was on C4 - a looong time ago.Much missed by me.
It had all the elements of the truly aweful makeover programme: "stars" who interviewed the hapless and the hopeless, who, on cue, dissolved into teary thanks at the end. Armies of locals, drummed up to do the hard graft, did their bit, and seemed pleased to have their own five minutes of TV "fame". Saddest of all, the residents of the home seemed unable to appreciate in full the work that had been done. (And as for the Sounds of the Seaside recording - words fail me).
Won't watch again. What a waste of licence-payers' money.
And did I need to mention the weather? On cue, it tried to de-rail the project. Plucky participants persisted against the odds. Oh, good. (Not).
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I agree with everything Lavendar Lady says. I watched the program last night. Phil Tuffnel was as much use as a chocolate teapot--always buzzing off to swig tea,and Anneka seemed to use it as an excuse to hug a load of men.The real gardeners were the volunteers.
I only watched about 10 mins of the programme and I thought it was a load of rubbish, turned over to watch Mrs Moneypenny (superscrimpers), not much better then gave up. Totally agree with Lavender Lady! The BBC haven't a clue about gardening programmes at the moment. We often refer to books or the Internet for advice Will watch Beechgrove on I-player, much more down to earth, sorry about the pun
It's not intended as a gardening programme, is it? It's a reality-feelgood-makeover show or whatever they call them. Personally I don't see anything wrong with these shows if viewers want to watch them - mawkish seems to be an audience-puller. It is a pity if the message is going out that this is how to 'do gardening' but I don't think it is.
Totally agree that there should be one more proper gardening programme somewhere in the schedule.
PS I only watched the second half, that was long enough.
PPS I like Phil Tuffnell
Oh gosh and darn, did it miss it
Guess I was doing something more interesting like shopping, or playing in my own garden
Was going to watch it, for a larf
, glad I didn't bother wasting my eyes given the comments above.
I totally agree with the above...although I only watched a little bit during the footie half-time, I don't think I'll bother to watch again.
BBC have certainly lost the plot (geddit)
when it comes to making gardening programs.
I like both Phil Tuffnell and Joe Swift and can take Anneka Rice in small doses. I knew it was going to be a sort of "DIYSOS" of the garden but thought I'd give it a go.
It was even worse than I feared, mawkish,over sentimental, supposedly tearjerking and very little to do with gardening. I managed to watch about 10minutes of it, in 3 segments ( I'd recorded it and kept FFing to see if it improved - it didn't) and won't bother again. A gardening opportunity missed
I don't understand why homes like these are not required to have safe and stimulating outside areas where inmates, families and staff can enjoy the outdoors in security and comfort. Why does the Beeb have to send in the "experts" and drum up help from the community. It should be a standard feature of all care homes for the elderly, disabled, whatever.
As for the programme, I missed the first 15 minutes and, given what we got, won't be in a hurry to watch the next three programmes.
As LL says, we need help for people of any background and experience to cope with their plot, be it from scratch or just needing a tweak or two, so they can make it a resource for their family to relax in, play in and/or feed themselves. This programme won't do it and nor will GW in its current form so a new series is clearly needed.
I used to love Real Gardens when Monty used to visit gardeners in their own gardens - they planned tog. and the gardeners did the work and we revisited to see how they had got on - real gardening with all its highs and lows. I think it was on C4 - a looong time ago.Much missed by me.
It had all the elements of the truly aweful makeover programme: "stars" who interviewed the hapless and the hopeless, who, on cue, dissolved into teary thanks at the end. Armies of locals, drummed up to do the hard graft, did their bit, and seemed pleased to have their own five minutes of TV "fame". Saddest of all, the residents of the home seemed unable to appreciate in full the work that had been done. (And as for the Sounds of the Seaside recording - words fail me).
Won't watch again. What a waste of licence-payers' money.
And did I need to mention the weather? On cue, it tried to de-rail the project. Plucky participants persisted against the odds. Oh, good. (Not).