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Gardeners World should be pulled
On 6 June, 14:33, Broadback wrote:
Sacha wrote: On 2009-06-06 11:57:18 +0100, David in Normandy said: michael wrote: I cant avoid watching Gardeners World,since it seems part of our Friday evening ritual.However,last night the programme was awful.Making raised beds using a curved design,and requiring individual timber pieces was just ridiculous.Also the silly 30 min tasks got sillier this week with trying to make roof gardens over sheds and guinea pig hutchs.In the spice bed plants were thrown in at random,with few described.The only interesting thing was the sowing of green seed for the propagating of primroses,but since primroses seed themselves naturally,even this was hardly worth it. The content now is awful,and I am afraid to say that I think the series should be pulled. Michael The wife and me used to be avid viewers of the program when we lived in England and have seen all presenters from Percy Thrower to Monty Don. (Favourite was Geoff Hamilton). On our last visit to England in April we saw the new series and were extremely disappointed with the new presenters and the quality of the program. The program seems to have lost its "heart" somehow and seemed little better than those crappy make-over programmes with a sort of hippy twist. It's fallen into the celeb trap of too many talking heads doing 'zany' things and not enough hands doing some practical work. My main complaint is that it unrealistic, they solve problems by throwing money at it. Most of us gardeners have to manage on as little as possible. Goodness knows how much it costs them to make the beds they are so proud of. -- Please reply to group,emails to designated address are never read.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The repeat of Police interceptors on C5 was a beter choice, . I know that if you can add a bit of manure to the garden it helps things along, but I dont want to get it via the TV. I am afraid that the BBC's "experts" are geting to be a very poor lot. Did anyone notice during Chelsea an "Expert" talking about Sambucus, looking at a black leaf varietu Poss "Black Lace". said "This fine sambucus has really darlk leaves and pink flowers you can use just like an elderberry....." Oh Dear! I'm afraid I find myself wincing a few times a week at the "Experts" knowledge. David Hill |
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