Gardening on TV

Thanks Jenny! I will be having a look a both of these!

Thank goodness for iplayer, I missed that one for tonight, thankyou for reminding us about Mr T`s programme.....

watched the botony one ............. but found it a bit boreing after a while so fell asleep lol ............. but will def be watching on fri ........... like being in a sweet shop woooooo .

a few years ago I did the NCH at the local agricultural college (it was a fulltime course lasting a year and the best fun!!)one of the subjects was botany which I found fascinating when you looked at the plans through a lens.... we started at Linnaeus so finding out yesterday that it began before him was a revelation, the programme was enthralling but I found the presenter a bit sort of 'happy clappy' for want of a better expression!!---- I'll be watching next week though....

I'm looking forward to the Alan Titchmarch programme and then on to Gardeners World :) Before I got into gardening there were programmes on all the time, now I WANT to learn they are few and far between!

I was reading an article about the whole titchmarsh thing yesterday and he said something similar... that it was time to get more variety into the the gardening programmes on TV :P I hope so :)

Hehe, I noticed that too Pamg, but it was the first time I've learnt about all this stuff + that course sounds amazing!!!

+ Lincslass, iplayer is my tv lifeline at uni ;) So glad I'm going in a time when you can catch up online :D

Thanks for that Jenny, set it to record, sounds interesting. I'll have to catch on the first one also.
The A. Titchmarch was already set , in hope it will actually deliver. Seen to many times what garden programs and magazine call a small garden and realistic budget, let's hope AT won't disappoint us. I need a gardening program I can enjoy watching without fast forward (as in the last few years of gardeners world)...

the course was amazing 50% practical and then classroom stuff such as botany, soil science, pests & disesases etc , the practical is everything from seed sowing, cuttings, grafting etc you name it -- we did it -- simply the best year I learnt so much and loved it all ( we even learnt how to drive a tractor!!!)

Haha! That sounds amazing! I'm quite jelous! I was only looking last night at gardening courses and thinking how nice it would be to do one :P

I've also just discovered that 9 o'clock tonight in BBC4 is 'Hidcote: A Garden for all Seasons', might be worth a look.

I hope it doesn't dissappoint too Columbine! Gardeners' world tends not to be very useful :( and possibly even less so since it changed format this year.

Jennyfer, I'm not a great watcher of TV but, the Hidcote programme this evening had me spellbound for an hour! Fascinating stuff. : o ))

Yeah, I enjoyed it :) Would have liked to see a little more of the garden, but the history of it was still very interesting :)