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Gardeners' World: Gardening on the Edge
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Message 1.Â
Posted by saima_host (U13967342) on Friday, 2nd July 2010
Hi all
Gardening on the Edge airs tonight on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú2 at 9pm. In this programme Toby Buckland sets out on a coastal odyssey to meet the passionate men and women who garden on the edge. You can find a preview clip on the website , along with a fact sheet after the show. -
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Posted by jane (U14541599) on Friday, 2nd July 2010
I have just watched tonight's programme, Gardening on the edge. Really good programme, but what a disappointment when Toby whizzed past Northumberland, Norfolk and Suffolk without a mention. For me, these are the the most beautiful coastal areas in the country - why were they not shown?
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Message 3
Posted by poshHebeJeebie (U9319867) on Friday, 2nd July 2010
A one-hour programme has, perforce, to be selective. There were no gardens shown from Wales, for example.
Does it matter? Not particularly imo - the gardens selected were diverse and interesting. It was a little superficial - more a taster programme than anything else. Enjoyable, nonetheless.
Did you have specific gardens in mind, Jane? After all, as the TV programme "Coast" has shown, there are lots of lovely parts of the country. They don't all necessarily have gardens of merit that would have fitted the brief of this particular programme however.
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Posted by Toadspawn (U2334298) on Friday, 2nd July 2010
What a load of cr@p.
The Toby Buckland show. This is a picture of me, this is another picture of me, this is a fuzzy picture of me, this is the gardener, this is us talking, this is the view from the garden but what about the plants and the garden? -
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Posted by Ken Smart (U1158196) on Saturday, 3rd July 2010
The Toby Buckland show. This is a picture of me, this is another picture of meÂ
I confess that I was thinking along these lines myself. I recorded the programme, but could only watch half of it last night before fatigue set in. I'll probably watch the second half tonight - although I may just give it the go-by. There were some nice gardens, some nice stories - but somehow it was lacking 'sparkle'. Maybe if I complete my viewing, I'll end up being more enthusiastic about it. I wonder why Toby didn't mention his 'special' when telling us that GW would be off for a few weeks? Also begs the question as to why a 'special' can be aired at 2100hrs no problem, but GW has to 'stand down' for 3 weeks because of sport. Methinks the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú are being a bit disingenuous here. -
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Posted by Satin (U14303179) on Saturday, 3rd July 2010
I really enjoyed the programme - it was nice to see gardens I would never see in real life as live nowhere near.
I'm guessing that the reason they had a 1 hour special on but cancelled GW for 4 weeks is that a special like tha one could be shown at any time. Therefore if the tennis went on late due to long 5 sets mens semi-finals then they could just have cancelled the special and shown it any other time. If they cancelled GW they would have to try and fit it in before the next episode and could be out of date information given. -
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Posted by Ariadne Knickerbocker (U4534559) on Saturday, 3rd July 2010
I turned off after 20 minutes thinking exactly what Toadspawn and Ken have said I'm afraid. I was left with no concept of what the gardens were like and an image of Toby in his bathers that I'd rather forget.
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Message 8
Posted by Liz_Bauer (U2468801) on Saturday, 3rd July 2010
Someone on the pov mb has asked the question: what was the instrumental music played in Friday night's edition of GW. I wondered that too, so I looked at the website and at the music listed as having been played but the pieces listed bear no relation to the actual music at all. Nowhere during the programme did I hear Elbow or Doves or Aphex Twin. I had to look at itunes to hear some of his stuff.
Anyone know what the instrumental piece is at about 10 minutes into the programme was? -
Message 9
Posted by poshHebeJeebie (U9319867) on Saturday, 3rd July 2010
Each to their own, I suppose.
It wasn't a programme that enthused me - but was ejoyable enough.
For once, I wasn't aware of instrusive music - so that's a plus. I have never even heard of "Elbow" (except in connection with grease
) or Doves or Aphex Twin, which may be a mixed blessing.
Monty Don's gardens around the world (or whatever the actual title was) was selective - but none the worse for that. This programme was of the same genre - selective, personal and at least marginally informative.
Better than nothing!
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Message 10
Posted by Gaynor Witchard (U11583299) on Sunday, 4th July 2010
Well, I really enjoyed the programme. There were enough camera shots lingering on the planting, and I think Toby presented the programme really well.
Beautiful and interesting locations - ranging from the warm tropical to the almost bare, but intriguing, dry, windswept gardens.
I liked the format - reminiscent of'Coast' and Alan Titchmarsh's 'The Nature of Britain'.
I'm going to watch it again...I'd love to see more programmes like this - about gardens as gardening. -
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Posted by Gaynor Witchard (U11583299) on Sunday, 4th July 2010
I meant to say '...as well as gardening'.
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Message 12
Posted by hereisabee (U2342191) on Sunday, 4th July 2010
Inverewe is good, I can remember visiting five years or so ago. However one mistake Osgood made when building the garden, was the source of the topsoil bought in. Apparently when it was tested this century it was very high in lead, hence the vegetables were just for show. I expect the old fellow lived mainly on venison anyway?
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Message 13
Posted by Obelixx (U2157162) on Tuesday, 6th July 2010
Pretty enough programme but neither challenging nor informative by which I mean it did not contain enough information to enthuse or inspire so it became TV wallpaper.
I'd have liked more information on techniques and plants. As ever, I'd have liked the botanical names of plants on screen to aid further research on varieties and cultivation needs.
There are many forms of exposed garden - hillsides, mountains, windy plains - that could benefit from the experiences of coastal gardeners in providing shelter belts and planting pockets and suiting plants to place. This programme was another failed opportunity from the GW team and seems to have been researched, scripted and filmed with the usual lack of throughness and low expectations of its target audience - assuming it was aimed at gardeners whether old, expert, amateur, new or aspiring. -
Message 14
Posted by the cycling gardener (U2350416) on Wednesday, 7th July 2010
I was really looking forward to this programme because I dream of 'gardening on the edge'. I would love to swim, garden and sail like the lady in Polruan and hoped lingering wide shots of gardens cascading down to the sea and the sort of detail Obelixx expected would help me understand the technicalities and experience of gardening in such a brutal landscape - how each gardener developed their own sense of place.
But, I got swooshing shots of the landscape interspersed with rapid gun fire stills of plants and rocks designed for those with the attention span of a gnat. Most of the lingering shots were of Toby looking admiringly and what I was desperate to see for myself. Exasperating!
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