Northern Lass - I'm proud to be grumpy too - use it as an excuse for everything these days
Love Your Garden is on again tonight - Bollywood theme - guess that's a cue for bright colours that don't work for at least 7 months of the year in most of the UK (northern light wavelength is all wrong or some other such technical reason).
AT is a good gardener - I have seen the pictures of his own garden - it is beautiful - why is he blowing his reputation on this show? Good pay packet no doubt...
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
These programmes aren't really about "gardening" though. They're just dumbed down cheap to make TV programmes. They get to use a "nobody" who wants 15 minutes of fame to fill TV time. They only have to pay a few pro's who can be personable and engaging but who aren't as expensive as real actors and reporters and for whom this isn't their main job. All instant, quick fix sound bite crap!
I didn't enjoy this programme for one thing if you intend to take on a project like that in such a short time the first thing that you have to do is to get your finger out, that could just be me though as I like to get on with it or I lose interest. He was up against it though as the worst time to work on a wet garden must be after heavy rain. I did think that they must have a problem with a blocked drain or a burst pipe or something similar as the ground was so saturated but the area where they planted the trees looked much drier. Anyhow they got the point about planting plants that love wet conditions in wet areas over but apart from that it was a bit of a damp squib. I will give it another chance though.
I have just watched the second episode. It is definitely aimed at the novice gardener (ie how to use a spade) but it does give them some good tips. Anyone any idea why the last 6 stakes at the right hand side were definitely squint? Again it was a bit of a nightmare garden with that slope so they are not making things easy for themselves which is a good thing. But I did fast forward again through all the touchy feely stuff.......am not interested in other people's lives and dramas to that extent.
Got to give them credit for doing it on such slim budgets - I reckon this one they spent less than £200 on hard landscaping, maybe the same on plants.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
im glad ive read all of your comments before watching this! I don't think I shall bother with it. im so sick of make over programmes with infinite budgets and sob story x factor type stuff. I didn't know carol klein was on next week. thank god!!
I don't mind "how to do" gardening programmes, but please, stop with the instant gardens. gardens evolve, constantly, its not baking a cake and its finished!! a garden is never finished!
the one today isn't going to evolve, the man in it actually said he had no interest in the garden......so why were they doing it ???? an outside 'dining space' apparently
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Seems to me to be yet another one of those crass reality TV programme!
Cheap to make and mind blowingly boring sound bite nonsense. In this case not even good gardening!
I'm a grumpy old woman and proud of it
Carol Klein's new programme starts on Monday at 7pm, a series of 4 episodes.
Take it you didn't like it then Jo?
Northern Lass - I'm proud to be grumpy too - use it as an excuse for everything these days
Love Your Garden is on again tonight - Bollywood theme - guess that's a cue for bright colours that don't work for at least 7 months of the year in most of the UK (northern light wavelength is all wrong or some other such technical reason).
AT is a good gardener - I have seen the pictures of his own garden - it is beautiful - why is he blowing his reputation on this show? Good pay packet no doubt...
Oh dear and there was me thinking I got the grumpy old and bold and cynical prize.
Seems there's other hot contenders
AT's own garden is gorgeous. Quite a high maintenance one but then I'd not expect anything else from a proper gardener.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9663886/In-pictures-Alan-Titchmarshs-secret-garden.html?frame=2392417
These programmes aren't really about "gardening" though. They're just dumbed down cheap to make TV programmes. They get to use a "nobody" who wants 15 minutes of fame to fill TV time. They only have to pay a few pro's who can be personable and engaging but who aren't as expensive as real actors and reporters and for whom this isn't their main job. All instant, quick fix sound bite crap!
I didn't enjoy this programme for one thing if you intend to take on a project like that in such a short time the first thing that you have to do is to get your finger out, that could just be me though as I like to get on with it or I lose interest. He was up against it though as the worst time to work on a wet garden must be after heavy rain. I did think that they must have a problem with a blocked drain or a burst pipe or something similar as the ground was so saturated but the area where they planted the trees looked much drier. Anyhow they got the point about planting plants that love wet conditions in wet areas over but apart from that it was a bit of a damp squib. I will give it another chance though.
I have just watched the second episode. It is definitely aimed at the novice gardener (ie how to use a spade) but it does give them some good tips. Anyone any idea why the last 6 stakes at the right hand side were definitely squint? Again it was a bit of a nightmare garden with that slope so they are not making things easy for themselves which is a good thing. But I did fast forward again through all the touchy feely stuff.......am not interested in other people's lives and dramas to that extent.
Got to give them credit for doing it on such slim budgets - I reckon this one they spent less than £200 on hard landscaping, maybe the same on plants.
im glad ive read all of your comments before watching this! I don't think I shall bother with it. im so sick of make over programmes with infinite budgets and sob story x factor type stuff. I didn't know carol klein was on next week. thank god!!
I don't mind "how to do" gardening programmes, but please, stop with the instant gardens. gardens evolve, constantly, its not baking a cake and its finished!! a garden is never finished!
rant rant rant
the one today isn't going to evolve, the man in it actually said he had no interest in the garden......so why were they doing it ???? an outside 'dining space' apparently
I could go on, but it has all been said
Really don't like this programme
It is definitely aimed at the total novice, which probably doesn't account for most forum members
Novices need help and programmes too 
I find both presenters rather irritating but will watch the series anyway.
Even people that have no interest in gardening deserve some kind of garden..... and they did get quite a low maintainance one