I say jee um, as in jee gosh. No idea if the geum society would agree, but hey ho.
Glad it's not just me who is bored with the " let's do a good job for a deserving person/ couple/ family and see if we can get everyone to blub at the end " format.
Oh I'm not saying in any way you are wrong Verdun, I just wondered what the budget would be if they factored in the labour costings too. I wonder how many days each garden takes?
I'm still catching up with the series but, again, I've enjoyed most of what I've seen. I don't like the sentimentality of Love Your Garden and I don't like the fact that Instant Gardener is supposed to be done in a day on a ridiculously low budget - often for people who seem to have very little interest in gardening.
At least the 'clients' in this series seem to have an interest in their garden but want some help with ideas and planning (can definitely relate to that) and some of them have stumped up reasonable sums of money for plants and materials.
The only downside is that my OH has seen it and doesn't understand why the projects I have engaged a landscaper for have cost considerably more.
I think for many of those projects if you budgeted for 2 landscape designers to produce designs and quotes, one to project manage, the hire of equipment / skips etc and the cost of labour (how many people in the landscaping team?) you could probably treble the budget for each garden.
I got the impression that all these gardens will be maintained and further developed by their owners so I would love a revisit to them in perhaps 2 years time
Good gardening series BBC - well done
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Topbird presumably the prices of the jobs you've paid for contained an element of profit - probably about one third? My thought is that the tv gardeners don't need to build their profit into the cost of the tv work as they presumable make money from the programme in some other way ?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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It was more of a ghee than a gee which is how I'd pronounce it!
I say jee um, as in jee gosh. No idea if the geum society would agree, but hey ho.
Glad it's not just me who is bored with the " let's do a good job for a deserving person/ couple/ family and see if we can get everyone to blub at the end " format.
I like the fact that this is much more 'lets do a garden that someone is paying for' but I'll bet the budget doesn't include the costs of the team...
Oh I'm not saying in any way you are wrong Verdun, I just wondered what the budget would be if they factored in the labour costings too. I wonder how many days each garden takes?
Oh god, just seen 7k in Fleet with that awful deck, pergola and stone path with no membrane or stabalisation. Hideous!
That fountain at a 'jaunty angle'...
What the hell did they spend thousands on???
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What kind of Japanese garden doesn't have acers..?
I'm still catching up with the series but, again, I've enjoyed most of what I've seen. I don't like the sentimentality of Love Your Garden and I don't like the fact that Instant Gardener is supposed to be done in a day on a ridiculously low budget - often for people who seem to have very little interest in gardening.
At least the 'clients' in this series seem to have an interest in their garden but want some help with ideas and planning (can definitely relate to that) and some of them have stumped up reasonable sums of money for plants and materials.
The only downside is that my OH has seen it and doesn't understand why the projects I have engaged a landscaper for have cost considerably more.
I think for many of those projects if you budgeted for 2 landscape designers to produce designs and quotes, one to project manage, the hire of equipment / skips etc and the cost of labour (how many people in the landscaping team?) you could probably treble the budget for each garden.
I got the impression that all these gardens will be maintained and further developed by their owners so I would love a revisit to them in perhaps 2 years time
Good gardening series BBC - well done
Topbird
presumably the prices of the jobs you've paid for contained an element of profit - probably about one third? My thought is that the tv gardeners don't need to build their profit into the cost of the tv work as they presumable make money from the programme in some other way ?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.