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Re-locate GW to Carol's Garden in Devon

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  Posted by Gardenballet (U4233452) on Thursday, 6th November 2008

  I think the main problem with Berryfields is that the garden does not belong to any of the presenters or production team. Therefore, it lacks the consistency and continuity that an owner would give to it.
  
  I love the brief pieces shot in Carol's garden.
  
  Why not move the programme there? I know that Devon is not centrally located as is Stratford upon Avon; so that could cause problems as it is a Birmingham produced show.
  
  Just a thought - anyone got any views?
  
  

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  Posted by Joe_the_Gardener (U3478064) on Friday, 7th November 2008

  Gb,
  
  Have you asked Carol about this? I think she might move house!
  
  However, I do think the whole idea of ownership is interesting. I wonder if GW could go to a number of mainly medium-sized private gardens and devote a programme to each, looking in detail at what they think is right or wrong, successful or unsuccessful, and giving their ideas and solutions to problems indentifed but not solved by the owner.
  
  I'm not suggesting a 'garden makeover', heaven forbid, or a Diarmuid Gavin style high-tech creation, but a realistic look at options for improvement of a particular garden over a defined period. Costings would be interesting too - not definitive quotations, but broad indications of the likely costs of various options. After all, they do talk money on Grand Designs.
  
  The failure of the garden makeover programmes was that it all happened by magic over the weekend, which made a lot of people think that we gardeners could turn up and transform their gardens by the end of the month for a small three-figure sum. So we now spend time trying to deal with the disasters left behind by fly-by-night chancers with untaxed pick-up trucks, or 'landscapers' with no feel for actual gardening.
  
  The advantage of the present GW garden format is that we see a garden developing over a realistically long period of years, which is what happens with most people's gardens.
  
  I seem to remember a couple of years ago they played with the sort of idea I'm tentatively suggesting, but only looked at one small problem per garden - am I thinking of the GW bus?
  
  What does anyone think?
  
  Joe

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  Posted by little-ann (U12937473) on Friday, 7th November 2008

  that sounds like a good idea to me

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