I wasn't expecting to like it !

When was it on Julia? It sounds interesting! It would be nice to have a new gardening programme especially in the winter!

I've recorded it "in case it was any good." I'm so fed up with gardening programmes that have no real content. I'm not much impressed with GW either. I s'pose I should take up cooking - there's a preponderance of progs. about that. I guess a lot of us are the wrong age demographic for programme makers to be bothered to make better quality programmes with detail and genuine in-depth information. Not seen any for years.

I missed it too. I will have a look next week. thanks for flagging it up.

Thankyou M'land I will have a look on Catchup as I missed it..

It feels like wall-to-wall cookery to me, Meadow, and I hate cooking. Always have! So many programmes with so-called celebs. And smug presenters. Who cares?
Rant over.

I feel the garden is a private space and an extension of the home. Whatever makes our job easier, I"m all for it. Power tools are awesome but the garden should represent our own personal style.

So many of the cooking shows on the Food Network here in the US are simply vehicles for selling books, cookware and driving business to their restaurants. Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay come to mind. Do I really need Bobby Flay to show me how to salt a steak? Then I see them all over the trashy supermarket tabloids. The drama bores me and who really cares! It's a lot of foo foo.

Thanks Julia ... I was the same ... not expecting to like another programme with a ‘winner’, i.e. one designer against another. But I loved it! The two designs were very different, but I was immediately drawn to the more relaxing space - so glad the couple chose the right one!

BBC 2, Thursday evening, just what we need right now. I was inspired, and now OH and I are planning to buy a “sofa” for our pergola area 🙂.

(And the Japanese garden at Tatton Park has been on my bucket list for some time ... lovely to experience it again.)

There were a couple competition cooking shows I used to watch here in the US on the Food Network. Then I found out they were fixed and the winners were pre-determined. It wasn't a competition at all. They were hamming it up for the camera - paid actors who know how to cry on que.

I deliberately avoided it once I saw the trailers but I may have a quick peek on catch up, if only to confirm my prejudice

I find GW OK but with Anget on lacking content, and of course with Covid a lot is just repeated bits

Thanks Julia. I will get it in BBCiPlayer

Yuk Bathgate, that's not good.

I enjoyed Gardening Together which was shown last year, and I love Beechgrove, always find it very informative.
I do share everyones views on the amount of cookery programmes and celebrities having a go at everything!!!
Not sure about Your Garden Made Perfect, a bit too much CGI, but I may watch a couple more.:)

I will look out for it Meadowland.

Yes, Julia, I enjoyed it too, so shall be watching again this week.
As for the cooking progs, for me they're a time filler. Yes the Mary Berry and Angela Hartnett one is I agree, crass, thumbs down to that. I enjoy baking but not particularly cooking. Tell you one I'm really enjoying at the minute,
Rick Stein traveling and cooking his way through France.
I love to see the areas he's visiting, the cooking comes secondary...:))
Are you watching the Great Pottery throw down? I am enjoying seeing what the amateur potters produce each week...

Yes Janey I love that pottery show too ... they are all brilliant and so supportive of each other. It’s quite remarkable what they manage to produce, they’re so good tempered even when things go wrong, and the judges are sympathetic. Brilliant television 🙂.

They are Sheila, I really didn't want Lee to leave..:((
The bust of Bruce Springsteen was so good. And the judge gets so emotional..

Julia, no, only a couple of episodes. I'll have to catch it on Iplayer. Yes, and he's quite humble, love his silver Porsche.
Exactly, food to me is a necessity. All that work, and all you do is eat it! Haha..

Oh Janey, my feelings about food exactly! I love to eat other people's but I've had decades of cooking and would love to pass it over to someones else. When I am rich....

I just bought a new blender and right now it's my favorite toy. I'm juicing everything these days and discovered something I think you'll really like - orange, banana & coconut smoothie (sweetened condensed coconut milk). It tastes like an old fashion dreamcicle but you're eating whole fruits.

So would I Ange, my own personal chef..haha!

Ooh sounds really lovely Paul, good idea. You've just reminded me I have a juicer at the back of one of the
kitchen cupboards, will retrieve it and see if it still works.
Thanks Paul!