"Love Your Garden" - ITV1 - starts Tuesday 26 June at 8pm

Reminder to set your recorders

Thanks to Rusty http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/tv-gardening-programmes.43884/#post-555017

 

Got it to record so let's hope it's worth watching. Gardeners World goes off again now for 4 weeks ! As we are in the peak of the gardening year you would think there would be more gardening programs on TV .
gazania

 

Not much of a peak this year though, more of a Trough

 

Makes me fume losing GW for 4 weeks, more so due to sports. We've got more than enough digital space these days to have a dedicated channel for us gardeners. In addition to BBC2 the beeb only put GW out on BBC HD which isn't a regular scheduled channel anyway unlike BBC1 HD so why take it off??? Perhaps as license paying gardeners we should all complain. I think this is the correct place.

 

I agree Scorpio - the commercial channels are full of ads and not everyone likes sport. Whilst I'm not averse to seeing Alan Titchmarsh, I would prefer to see a gardening programme where the presenters did not have a vested interest in promoting the products. The US has a lot to answer for!

 

Since England have been knocked out of the football why do we always have to have the only half-decent gardening programme 'axed' to make way for even more wretched sport?

And as for 'Love Your Garden' - if I'd realised it was 'Ground Force Resurrected', I could have saved myself the trouble of setting the machine to record it. On the positive side, I won't have to waste the time doing it in the coming weeks.

 

And B&Q lol.

 

Just watched it , I bet next door not to happy as all he went on about is screening them out .

I rang my mum she said Alan is "more camp than a row of tents" she does make me laugh.

Spruce

 

Yup, a variation on Ground Force. Mind you, I did enjoy it, as it covered Japanese Gardens They showed somewhere I must get round to visiting, Apple Court garden. Looks rather nice

 

I agree with most that has been said. It is GF but without the humour. I enjoyed it, but i enjoy everything with Mr T in thats related to gardening.

I thought though that Mr T left GF to do new things. It seems like he's gone back on what he has said.

G

 

Didn't do anything for me. Loads of "filler" after the adverts - do they think that after a couple of minutes (or seconds if on x30 on Sky+) we forget everything in the first half?

Didn't see any of the nice Japanese-ness from the viewed garden brought back to the build-garden. The two female presenters added almost no technical input. The root-barrier-ing of the Bamboos was a joke - they'll be all over the garden, and the neighbours, in a few years - and I don't suppose mowing them is an option with a Hoover on Astroturf! Would have been better to do a trench if the objective was a hedge of bamboo (and better to have alternated the varieties, although I wasn't paying enough attention, maybe they did that?)

Only amazing thing was that they converted the waterlogged squelchy clay into something presentable - I'd like to see how they did that bit! although presumably it was filmed in the Spring we have just had, so tough-conditions for sure.

No list of plants on the web site, but lots of product-placement links to the products included - like the £2,000 pond-table ...

Box plants in the red planters were far too small - probably couldn't get them on Product placement, so budget didn't stretch. I didn't think the Box Elder was a good choice, but that's probably just my personal preference. I think Flamingo is very overrated - the leaves on the one planted looked pretty weedly - although it might have been filmed in early Spring I suppose.

I thought the pergola was a good idea for privacy, not considered that before. I didn't see anything planted to clamber over it? Wisteria or somesuch would be good (and Japanese-y)

I liked the shots of the Big Plant Nursery - I could do with a camera crew spending a whole day there (daren't go myself with my own wallet!)

Yet again a great program, "Secret gardens", dumbed down through a second edition (the last series of Love your Garden) into what is now a reality TV show copy-take of Groundforce, DIY SOS et al. Market research must be telling the bean-counters that that IS what people actually want. Pity.

 

Still, you watched it all then Kristen?

 

I thought the way they wrapped the bamboo in plastic was "interesting".
Yes, it will prevent the rhizomes from being invasive. But it will also limit the nutrients that they will get. They have effectively been planted in a tiny pot.