Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 90, Issue 5

**G* H* <h*@aol.com>**

It looks fine. I will keep it in touch.  Thanks.

Gordon Hale 
Grand Prairie, Texas 
Endeavor to Persevere

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 Today's Topics:

   1. Gardening on the boob tube (Gordon Hale)
   2. Re: BBC and US gardening (Dan Clost)
   3. Re: BBC must stop dumbing down gardening shows (Planting Stories)

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 In the Dallas/Fort Worth area there are many listings on the Home/Gardening
 channel but they are all concerning decorating the house, mostly on the
 inside.  Oh well, there was a time, and I was lucky enough to live in it.

 Gordon Hale
 Grand Prairie, Texas
 Endeavor to Persevere

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 hear, hear,  and lets add some technical bits to the mix so folks can
 understand why their organic statuary flops over only a few days after
 planting.
 dan

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 Here lies the dilemma.

 Gardening terminology and Latin names and minutia details about plants are
 a
 complete turn-off for the general population. Of course they are important,
 standards must be upheld and people who have chosen to immerse themselves
 deeper into gardening need to be catered for and encouraged.

 But the BBC isn't there to provide specialist education. It has to appeal
 to
 the masses. By presenting gardening in the context of more general
 decorating and design or a lifestyle thing that celebrities are associated
 with, a line of communication with the general public is opened. Gardening
 becomes relevant to them, and once they dip their toes in the water they
 may
 become curious to dig deeper, as it were, into doing things "properly". At
 that point, some kind of step by step route needs to be available that
 allows new gardeners to develop their knowledge in a way that holds their
 interest.

 Think about the success of Top Gear. When it started out it was a serious
 programme about cars that only appealed to die-hard car enthusiasts. But
 now
 everybody watches it because it crosses the communication boundary between
 the specialist and the casual observer. There aren't any shows on the BBC
 about "how to choose the right car for you" or "how to be a better driver".
 Maybe the motoring industry isn't happy about that - I wouldn't know. But
 if
 you look at this from the BBC's point of view you can surely understand.

 For those already in-the-know about gardening, this is hard to bear. But
 digging heels in and refusing to cater for a broader modern audience is a
 recipe for alienation. Gardening needs to be perceived as an all-inclusive
 activity. Insistence on sticking to old presentation formulas and speaking
 a
 language most people can't understand isn't the way forward.

 No, I don't work for the BBC, but I do work for several well-known
 international consumer brands (non-gardening) and this is the way of the
 world now. If we want to get more people into gardening, we need to
 reconsider how it is branded at the entry level and how we nurture new
 recruits through to specialist level.

 Just my 2-Pennies worth. It always helps to see the other side of the coin
 :-)

 Miriam

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