New TV Gardening Programe.

As usual with these celebrity gardening progs, there is too much faffing about and not enough gardening. All of a sudden, we had a pergola up and all the plants planted and all we saw was knowles and company pushing trees about.
Lets see the nitty gritty not the nutty twitty!!!:hehe:

 

Couldn`t agree more:gnthb:, they never show the swearing as you take a slice off your thumb with the saw, or the swearing as none of the pieces fit as they should, or the swearing as you lose your trowel-which you "put right there, why does it always disappear!" or the swearing as you kneel on a sliver of stone and it digs through your jeans, or the swearing as you realise you have the wrong screwdriver-again!!.............

 

Quercus and Ginger 100% right...... except I normaly get shot down when I say it lol!!!

BTW, welcome back Gingernut.

 

It's not a programme about gardening it's supposed to be a programme encouraging wildlife into the garden and is certainly impractable to the average person,not many people have access to the equipment and resources that they have,it was a laugh last Wednesday when N Knowles went along a row of houses asking everyone to plant a pine in the middle of their back garden to create an aerial runway for the red squirrels to get from the park to the garden that was being transformed to a squirrel heaven,if he had asked me to plant that pine it would have been well fertilized were I would have put it (mind you he would have had difficulty walking). I am a wildlife person but let nature take its course protect their own environments not create artificial ones which after all is just for your ammusement.

 

I totally agree with the philosophy behind the programme.... we can all do lots to encourage wildlife into gardens, but if the answer seems to be to get in a large team of professionals, plant (how many was it?) expensive semi mature trees, and do a makeover that must have cost thousands, then it's goung to scare folk off, not encourage them.

 

I read recently in a mag that the reason so much of our wildlife has dissappeared was due to certain TV programmes encouraging ripping up of natural gardens and replacing them with Acrylic sheets, decking and other hard landscape items not conducive to wildlife.:( Never watched them so can't comment but if there is some truth in it then this TV prog is trying to reverse it (possibly).