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Garden rescue

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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Would you wedge those trees in what looked like solid clay with something that looked like chalk at the bottom of the hole?

I only saw the last ten minutes of the programme but I wasn't impressed.

In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    I missed it last night but I wasn't impressed with the last run of programmes. I admire Charlie with all she has been through but the brothers seem a bit random at times and I wouldn't want them in my garden.

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318

    I watched it having seen comments on this forum and found it instructive in a negative sort of way. I have no sympathy with the 'clients' as in any 'reality' programme - they volunteered.

    It reminds me of my Dad and living at home. His veg were a bit odd, sometimes blemished, often hit by disaster but delicious! Our neighbour's veg were magnificent, unblemished, huge and completely inedible. They rarely managed to survive past a show. I know which I would rather have.

    Now I grow my own I have so much respect for my Dad but I wonder how long those tree ferns will last?

    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    I watched one ( recorded ) last night. Pizza oven episode. I think I'd climb the fence and kill the kids if they banged on those "bells".

    Why do folk think it's ok to inflict noise and smoke on their neighbours?

    Got another one recorded, tree ferns seemed to play a part in it. Is it worth devoting half an hour of my life to watching it?

    Devon.
  • irishgardeneririshgardener Posts: 29

    When is this programme on guys?

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    7pm bbc2

    well, it has been each night this week.

    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    I watched a couple yesterday - the 'Italianate' one with bells image and the one for the two chaps who had the purple shaggy rug in their sitting room and the tall shiny water feature in the garden ......'afraid I really didn't like Charlie's design - looked truly awful IMHO image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Go on Verdun - what are you waiting for? image

    I like watching Garden Rescue, but I don't always like the designs - happily the garden owners seem to - horses for courses, and all that image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    A tree fern doesn't take up much 'acreage' Verdun - it's all top and very little bottom image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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