In message . com, Mike
Lyle writes
I'm not a big telly man, but this thread got me to watch last night's
prog, and I don't go all the way with the generally negative reaction.
For various reasons I didn't like the garden they threw together, and
I'm very uneasy about strangers hurtling in and offering to solve awful
emotional problems at a stroke -- in public, at that. But I thought the
concept was actually a good one: the psych aspects of gardening and
garden design, at one level or another, are what gardening is actually
_about_, and well worth a TV series.

You can pose questions of taste about the on-screen image of the
sweeties (I didn't mind) and the worrying intrusiveness, and as
gardeners they don't seem to know shit from shoeshine; but they really
did identify a link between the garden and what was going on for that
family, and I found that valid and interesting. It made me think a bit
about how I would have tackled it.

It wasn't anywhere near as bad and cringe-making as the first one.

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Klara, Gatwick basin