Ok I'm wrong! The BBC should crack on filling kiddie gardens with poisonous plants and hope no child is unfortunate enough to have parents who aren't aware the plants are poisonous or are too incompetent to tell their kids not to eat them.........................
or leave the washing liquid capsules and bleach in the cupboard under the sink, the brandy in an unlocked sideboard, the bowl of jelly cubes dissolving in boiling water close to the edge of the worktop ............
As jo47 says, it's about parenting and common sense.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
But it's also about the BBC being responsible in the information it puts out there. Lets see the BBC hold up a bottle of bleach and say 'put this under the sink in an unlocked cupboard' in a program about building a safe kitchen for a house with kids aged 7 months, 2 years and 5 years old.
I'm really enjoying the programme and I'm no novice in the garden. I love the relaxed and realistic way the gardens are made over for what would be a reasonable amount of money. I do watch all the garden programmes on TV but some spend thousands of pounds whereas this one at least seems to stay within the bounds of reality.
. I see no reason whatsoever for the BBC to say the Foxgloves are dangerous for children. Children should be supervised in the garden when they're young and taught not to eat any plants, they soon learn. I've always grown both them and Euphorbia in the gardens I've had and my Children and Grandchildren have been perfectly safe. It's a case of over reaction I think. We can't have warnings on every single thing that can do harm, that would be unrealistic.
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or leave the washing liquid capsules and bleach in the cupboard under the sink, the brandy in an unlocked sideboard, the bowl of jelly cubes dissolving in boiling water close to the edge of the worktop ............
As jo47 says, it's about parenting and common sense.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes it's about common sense.
Yes it's about parenting.
But it's also about the BBC being responsible in the information it puts out there. Lets see the BBC hold up a bottle of bleach and say 'put this under the sink in an unlocked cupboard' in a program about building a safe kitchen for a house with kids aged 7 months, 2 years and 5 years old.
Perhaps you should take your issue up directly with the BBC Lw1970.
We're just gardeners here
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
No personality and the makeovers look hideous !
Alan Tichmarsh would quake in his boots if his garden makeovers
Looked like these cheap show gardens ! Where did they
Find this gardener ... He fluffs his words & comes across
as very condisending !!! Terrible !!!
I'm really enjoying the programme and I'm no novice in the garden. I love the relaxed and realistic way the gardens are made over for what would be a reasonable amount of money. I do watch all the garden programmes on TV but some spend thousands of pounds whereas this one at least seems to stay within the bounds of reality.
. I see no reason whatsoever for the BBC to say the Foxgloves are dangerous for children. Children should be supervised in the garden when they're young and taught not to eat any plants, they soon learn. I've always grown both them and Euphorbia in the gardens I've had and my Children and Grandchildren have been perfectly safe. It's a case of over reaction I think. We can't have warnings on every single thing that can do harm, that would be unrealistic.
You're right ladygardener - it's 'Nanny state' - how on earth have we all survived as long as we have...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...