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Posted by drwalter (U1365507) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
ITV's LOVE YOUR GARDEN show with Alan Titchmarsh is to be previewed in next week's RADIO TIMES.
I don't have an exact broadcast date yet BUT it has been hinted that it would be at 19:30 on Friday on ITV1.
Are you looking forward to this new show?
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ITV's LOVE YOUR GARDEN show with Alan Titchmarsh is to be previewed in next week's RADIO TIMES.
I don't have an exact broadcast date yet BUT it has been hinted that it would be at 19:30 on Friday on ITV1.
Are you looking forward to this new show?Â
Oh, just found out.
The eight-week (30-minute) programme starts on FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2011.
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Supposed to be 8pm - Corrie on at 7.30
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Supposed to be 8pm - Corrie on at 7.30Â
As I mentioned before, this show starts THIS FRIDAY at 20:00 on ITV1, and runs for eight episodes.
The second episode CLASHES with GARDENERS' WORLD as Monty Don has a full 60-minutes on-air.
ITV1 - LOVE YOUR GARDEN - 20:00-20:30
Ö÷²¥´óÐã2 - GARDENERS' WORLD - 20:00-21:00
It's like high-eightoclock with the two mighty gardeners weilding loaded secatuers at twenty paces.
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According to my TV guide GW is on from 20.30 - 21.00, only 30 minutes as usual. So you will be able to see both
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ITV's LOVE YOUR GARDEN show with Alan Titchmarsh is to be previewed in next week's RADIO TIMES.
I don't have an exact broadcast date yet BUT it has been hinted that it would be at 19:30 on Friday on ITV1.
Are you looking forward to this new show?Â
The showdown starts tonight.
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Hardly a showdown with tv on demand, is it?
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Gardeners' Wolrd 1 - 0 Love Your Garden
Has Alan just dug-up his old HOW TO BE A GARDENER VHS tapes and thought, "Eee by gum, I could make some brass out of this old muck!"? Predictable, Titchie.
Monty - well done m'ol mucker - good show.
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The way it appeared to me is that the two programs are addressed to very different audiences.
LYG is main-stream ITV. It's addressed to an average family, who just want some entertaining TV to watch on a Friday night.
GW is addressed to the more serious gardener, or at least someone who positively wants to switch over from Ö÷²¥´óÐã1, because they really want to watch a gardening show, and maybe to learn something about gardening.
I think it's an ideal arrangement.
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I hardly dare comment - but that's just what I thought. about AT
it was pleasant
though, and will be very useful to those who didn't watch How To...
I'd watch anything unless it was Ground Force or tjhat disatrous thing some years ago when a designer woman put some voile over plants as a designer thingy fashion thingy statement.
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The point is very clear. At last the telly bods are coming to realise that the ever-increasing number of green-fingered public want more gardening shows. Let's hope they don't go too far and dumb down the quality.
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Sorry Janji but i have to disagree with you. i'm all for more tv gardening programmes but i cant get worried about dumbing down- it is light entertainment and anyone who is above this should read books and do courses- there is no substantial market for it- if bbc did a massively in depth programme based on proper horticultural training programmes, you're talking about following the teaching of courses that used to be twenty four hours a week (my city and guilds national certificate) over a whole accademic year.
that just cant be scheduled in. Amateur gardeners just need a good friendly introduction. if they want more, go to college. and looking in horticulture week regularly, the colleges are nearly all in trouble- even Pershore is in danger of being taken over-
There just isn't the appetite for proper horticulture. If people are really interested then they need to get off the couch- and the bbc can hardly justify putting on programmes for people who could go to college instead.. They don't do it for dentists...
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I agree with your comments and the current programmes give me the inspiration to get off my bum and do the garden after a busy working week. What I meant by dumbing down was the silly cook shows like Come Dine With Me - reality tv for idiots.
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I am a highly qualified horticulturist, but am no pro cook. I love Come Dine With Me and Masterchef. I see no problem in having gardening programmes geared at people with no gardening knowledge - AT & CDWM are aiming at the same audience. 'Dumbing down' - so all people with no gardening knowledge are dumb and shouldn't have a programme to teach them? No one is an expert in every field, if we were, there would only be academic programmes on TV. Have some empathy for those who have only just discovered gardening.
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LYG is a commercial venture. The program needs to attract advertisers and sell gardening products. It's as simple as that.
At the NEC this week, there will be thousands of gardeners itching to spend money, and hundreds of small businesses who want to sell plants and products. Gardeners World Live brings the two together. That's what LYG should have done.
For me, LYG was a complete failure. I didn't find the gardening informative, nor the products promoted appealing. LYG failed to attract serious gardeners, and failed to attract serious advertisers.
AT's hose-and-bottle trick was the sort of gimmick that got Toby Buckland a bad name. It was entertaining, but has nothing whatsoever to do with real gardening.
The beekeeping feature was potentially interesting. But there was no practical advice about encouraging bees. This was not about beekeping. It was a botched attempt to promote that fake bee-hive compost bin.
The cat deterrents: will anyone here be buying that lion poo, because that was the intention of the program. Or that, apparently useless, sonic device.
Something along the lines of LYG could work. For example, I'd like to see a program which compared hand-mowers, naming brands, giving prices, and testing them. But if I saw this on LYG, I just wouldn't trust the recommendations. AT has a credibility problem.
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I agree, for once it seems Alan has failed to deliver.
As for GW...oh those bluddy box hedges!
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garyhobson:
The cat deterrents: will anyone here be buying that lion poo, because that was the intention of the program. Or that, apparently useless, sonic device. Â
Our new kitten was asleep on me until that sonic device came on the TV and it defiantly woke her up. So I guess it might work in some circumstances
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Posted by Pumpkin_Patch_Paul (U14565900) on Saturday, 11th June 2011
Good people give LYG a chance it was the first one, at least its better then some celebrity infested quiz show which is what it will be replaced by if we dont watch it.......
PPP.
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>AT has a credibility problem.<
AT should keep in mind what happened to Morecambe and Wise when they took the ITV shilling!
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Or that, apparently useless, sonic device.Â
The sound from that device was bothering me more than it was the cat. Perhaps the cat was old and had poor hearing?
The programme seemed fine to me, though a bit too commercial for my taste; it looked like an excuse to target older people for selling join cream, and another of those dreaded premium rate competition lines.
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Must admit I'm warming to Monty and cooling towards Alan.
Gardeners World is far superior to LYG, but there's definitely room for both.
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Well I thoroughly enjoyed LYG, it was good to see what can be done with a small garden.
I'm afraid I was a bit bored half way through GW and went to make a coffee. There are far too many overly long shots of Monty's dog on GW. I can't relate to Monty's garden but felt I could the one on on this week's LYG.
H
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As a "new gardener" I enjoyed both
A.T brings a bit a humour and light to his shows while still giving some good tips. Monty is just well....good.
Friday night is light entertainment surely and I must be a lightweight cos I enjoy them both as I do top gear, which isn't a show about cars its an entertainment show with cars in it.
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Alan's show is greener than something green on display in a museum called "The Museum of Green Things" - everything in his "show" is recycled from his Ö÷²¥´óÐã 2 programme's HOW TO BE GARDENER...
Come on, Alan, if you cannot say something new don't bother.
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i really can't understand what all the fuss is about !
to me lyg is gw 'lite '.
okay it's only half an hour, each item appears to be a few minutes long, not too much info & too many presenters trying to ply their speciallities but so what !
how many gardening programs do we have on the box for goodness sake.
they could put these type of programs on the box everyday for all i care, at least it's more than we usually get is'nt it ?
don't forget there are a lot of gardening 'virgins' out there who could use all the help they can get.
so c'mon stop moaning and take each morsel as it comes.
alan.
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Posted by the cycling gardener (U2350416) on Thursday, 23rd June 2011
Back from a long holiday and just caught up with LYG. Its simple, requires no concentration and should be filed under the TV equivalent of the "Easy Listening" section that you used to find in music stores. (Perhaps you still do but I haven't been into one for years). Definately an ironing programme.
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I beg to differ. Sport on TV is ironing time. OH gets to watch his interminable golf and the rest if he's doing the ironing.
Other than that, yes. Gardening lite but pleasant for all that.
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Friday 24th June 2011 - watched AT but wasn't overly impresed with the show this week and as for that soppy girl gardening in her marigolds (gloves, not flowers!) - well, whatever next?
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I didn't understand using marigolds with fresh compost and window boxes either. Nothing of much interest or use really but i did enjoy tghe one on formal gardens. Great impact with a limited palette of plants, foliage and flowers - though I wouldn't want a whole garden like that. I like to have messy bits where plants are allowed to be exhuberant.
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Me too! I'm not too keen on the effect that cloud pruning gives either. Mine is a more cottagey, natural garden where the dogs, birds and other wildlife can feel at home, although my other half would prefer a garden where nothing spilled over the border between bed and lawn. However, since I do 98% of the work, I feel I'm entitled to my own way!
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Lots of husbands are like that. Funny lot. One of my gardening group got into serious trouble for planting crocuses in HIS lawn and then telling him he couldn't cut the foliage till 6 weeks after flowering finished. Serious marital tensions.
On the other hand, spilling over from beds can be taken to extremes. I have a path we can no longer negotiate because the phlox, hemerocallis and hardy geraniums are not only spilling over but they and the pulmonarias and honesty and hellebores have self seeded the path too. I shall sort that out in the autumn and have lots of lovely babies and divisions. A good sort of mess.
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Programme 2 went downhill fast. Titchmarsh really should leave us with the memories. I didn't like the 'green' garden at all, but at least appreciated the hard work which had went into it. The girly with her window boxes was just embarrassingly awful. This is someone of limited intelligence who really just wanted to be different, and be talked about. She was successful - for all the wrong reasons. The 'designer' is the kind of guy who gives design a bad name - all hand-flapping and trendy phrases. It would be nice to meet a designer just once that I could relate to. I recorded Love Your Garden to ensure that I didn't have to suffer the adverts, little realising that these might have been better than the actual programme.
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Not far off ken. My daughter mde me stop whizzing past adverts to watch the one with 3 ginger kittens in training to be Rambo cats..
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Titchmarsh really should leave us with the memories.Â
Yes, this is the way I'm starting to feel!
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The windowbox girlie, Laetitia, has a website. I think that this page says everything (the page is called 'Something for the Weekend'):
If you can't wait for some more great gardening tips from Laetitia on 'Love Your Garden', Laetitia is also on YouTube.
Now this is really useful tip... Laetitia says she uses it 'very very often':
Is she serious?
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lost for words....................................
ok
kill me now..............................
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Also losing the will to live watching that. Good job tomorrow is another day filed with hope and optimism and no You tube please.
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Posted by the cycling gardener (U2350416) on Wednesday, 29th June 2011
I'm warming to this girl. Initially I thought she was a bit crackers when she doned the Marigolds on LYG then I watched the youtube video. Apart from the quite bizarre cake stand arrangement she sat there in all seriousness delivering her piece to camera, a yummy mummy in what I'm guessing is her rather tasteful west London residence, with a floor mop proped up behind her AND she has a book deal! Brilliant. Is she a Betterware rep in her spare time? Is she addicted to Lakeland Plastics catalogues? So many questions. They tell designers to have conviction and self belief. Laetitia has it in spades.
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As I wrote somewhere else she thinks with her looks to camera- comments like "
size doesn't matter' and "dirty nails aren't sexy "-books called" something for the weekend" that she is the Nigella Lawson of gardening-but she is no Nigella -just make her go away soon- please......
Geoff
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...to be honest I've never heard of her, but she sounds like a right minx!
checked out the website..... no Nigella thats for sure, but some of those recipes do sound rather good.....
to be honest we need some sexy young things on TV gardening to replace the old school....AT might be the housewives favourite....but he aint mine!
Zam
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Sarah Raven is this househusbands favourite- and she has got a new programme coming in the autumn-now she is a Nigella!!!
Geoff
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Posted by ladynovicegardener (U5368058) on Wednesday, 29th June 2011
To be honest I could hardly bear to watch. Even 'tho it's only on for a short time I had to fast forward.
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No she's not. She's a frump.
This housewife doesn't much care for how presenters look but does have sensitive ears so hates Joe's Mockney and Chris whatever's sarf london or is it east or Essex? Painful either way.
Loves Chris Beardshaw for clear communication and inspirational words. Likes Monty's command of English, AT's clear enjoyment of all things gardening and his sense of humour, Carole on propagation and so on. Rachel's fine too.
I liked Sven ?? when he was on daytime gardening. What happened to him? And I liked the Welsh allotment chappy that does Jeremy Vine's slot and some of his pals too. Real people and not sex symbols.
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Are you calling Sarah a frump??
I cant believe what I am reading!- leave her alone- I like her!!- and I love her dress sense- we are all allowed some guilty pleasures aren't we?
Geoff
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Ha! a frump.....love it! do agree though Obs.....
what about Alice Bowe....now shes a little hottie!!
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Zam,
Alice Bowe- just googled her- never heard of her till now- she's all right I suppose in a superficial way-but she is no Sarah!!-sorry........
(Who is this Sven??)
Geoff
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I don't understand why you all need to find someone totally sexually compelling and all you have dreamed in a man to admire their gardening skillls.
Oops
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Sven Wombwell.He is a very good designer and gardener
Sarah Raven is a total frump - who gardens in a Boden coat??
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Sven Wombwell.He is a very good designer and gardener
Sarah Raven is a total frump - who gardens in a Boden coat??Â
She does-when she used to appear on GW it was always a source of expectation of what garb she would be wearing - but that is why I like her- can't really explain what it is-and I am in a fan club of 1 it seems- perhaps I should seek professional help??
Somebody back me up here!!
And anyway she knows her stuff !.
Geoff
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