"Sacha" wrote in message
ups.com...

Brian Watson wrote:

You mean the presenters don't really do all the planning and work they
pretend to do?

Gasp!

Amazing, innit? ;-) A great many years ago, one of the then famous TV
gardening presenters came to Jersey to do a programme and part of it
was shot at my outlaws garden. We were all there watching for the
great man to do his thing. He was one of the real 'sons of the soil'
types, down to earth, long-term garden expert etc. There was to be a
piece of him planting a shrub in one of the borders and then chatting
to my outlaws about their garden. Before the piece was done, we were
all absolutely gobsmacked to see a minion walk over, dig what was
really quite a small hole and tidily place both shovel and shrub beside
it so that the 'star' could simply lower plant into hole on camera!

Quite depressing, really, in both cases.

--
Brian