Gardeners World

 

We think the improvement has been huge - leaps and bounds.  They're now
reducing the number of presenters and the presenters are doing just
that, not cracking daft jokes or having some stupid competition about
making a hanging basket.  We met one of the directors who had driven
down from Birmingham to get some plants here and to shoot at Carol
Klein's garden for last week's episode.   We said we thought it had
improved a LOT but asked if more plant names could be shown onscreen.  
Apparently there's some rule that if a plant is shown for less than x
seconds, its name doesn't go up.  I can only guess this is to do with
expense but have no actual knowledge of that.  We said that no
gardeners we knew would waste money putting a fork and spade on a shed
as handles and that did raise a laugh - not his idea, obviously!  But
it's a real pleasure to see some proper gardening information coming
back into the programme and much less celebrity type focus on the
people, rather than the gardening.  We have the impression just from
watching him, that Toby Buckland is enjoying it more, too.  He seems to
be allowing his personality to come through whereas before I felt
always that he was just a bit embarrassed by the nonsense!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 

On Sat, 4 Sep 2010  Sacha wrote:


I watched it yesterday evening for the first time for years and, in view
of all the recent negative comments, I was very pleasantly surprised. I
thought Toby's presentation was good - reminded me of Geoff Hamilton's
style.

Regarding the names of the plants being shown, there was one which we
had recently seen growing out of walls at Llandaff Cathedral (we were
singing the services there at the end of July as a visiting choir) but
it flashed past too quickly for us to make a note of it.

I suppose I could try and see what it was on the iplayer....

David
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David Rance        writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
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Agreed but,
I was wondering....
When will the BBC give us a nice tv programme dealing with vegetable
growing only? and another for "flowers"
There are enough of us around now to justify its air time.
Gardeners World is ok, but many of us are not interested in shrubs, flowers
etc. and many are not interested in vegetable growing.
To me the difference is like chalk and cheese.
Am I alone thinking this?

regards
Part_No

 



I'm not that interested in growing veg though a tiny part of me is.  
But I don't think there's a hope of two programmes entirely devoted to
one and the other.  They're supposed to be cutting down BBC
expenditure, after all.  ;-)    It would be a good idea to make a veg
programme with just one presenter, I agree because a lot of people are
turning to growing their own now, both for reasons of cost and health.  
Or, they could extend GW so that one half is ornamentals and the other
is veg.  Though wily producers will not be willing to lose half their
audience at the halfway mark!  But perhaps we should do a mini-poll on
here.  How many people are only interested in growing veg, not
ornamentals and vice versa?  My impression is that most people go in
for both with equal enthusiasm if they grow both at all.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 

On 04/09/2010 16:05, Sacha wrote:

I'm 90% interested in veg and 10% interested in ornamentals.

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