Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #37

Hi!

In a message dated 3/20/03 12:42:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Cersgarden@aol.com writes:
Nan, I also emailed HGTV in regard to my displeasure of their programming
cuts. No response. I cannot believe they keep such programs as the
Surprise
Gardener. 
Is this the program where the owner goes away for a day and a bare backyard
is made into a garden?

Yes


  If so, wouldn't that be modeled on the BBC Ground
Force which has the advantage of three endearing and well known
personalities?

Ah - but there is a difference here - the personalities are more than winsome, they are good at what they do, know about plants and hardscape and do the work themselves. And seem to be enjoying themselves!


  I thought they were similar to the HGTV program going
nowhere without a Charlie Dimmock.
one pretty face, non gardener, aka Mrs. Sonny Bono (the second or third time around). Actual work is done by a team of 20-30 with machinery and a landscape contractor that does the layout. I refuse to call it a design. Lots of shortcuts that looks as tacky as the materials. Rustic ladders might be ok for a herb bed, but not the broken footstool.

 My husband loves Ground Force, puzzling
to me.
so does mine. I love it - there maybe tons of gravel, but each show is different. More importantly, they like each other and working together.

Maybe we should write also, to the BBC, asking them to send along
more of their programming.
Give me more British gardening shows. Well, ok, I can skip Home Front in the Garden; seems surreal to me. And most definitely not for the average gardener, but the more money than brains crowd. (my humble opinion) But I'll take more of British gardeners in general. I like Charlie's Garden Army, where she helps a group create a community garden.

Cheryl
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Cheryl Isaak
Londonderry, NH
AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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