Kitchen Garden Forum

oldherbaceous wrote:Dear Di, you don't remember Geoff Hamilton, just how young are you.

A gentleman should never ask such a thing!!

Lets just say that I only got the gardening bug in my early thirties, so missed many programs I could have seen.

Dear Di, i consider myself told, that seems funny being put in my place by someone so much younger than myself.

With the overwhelming no ofchannels we have now, maybe repeats of some of this old programs would not go amiss, or are we looking back through rose tinted spectacles. shallotman

Dear Shallot Man, i for one wuld be glad to see some of the older ones back on.

How nice it would be to watch a gardening progamme without the camera zooming in and out then going out of focus, and without the back ground music.

Ahh that feels better.

OH, just be thankful they havent started with the canned laughter ...i must agree that there is far too much "arty" camera work on progams now. are we all becoming grumpy old men? (and women)

We don't have a TV, so I can't really vote, but when I occasionally see a gardening programme now, when I am baby sitting for grandchildren, I am amazed how shallow the programmes have become compared to the time when we did have a telly and saw Geoff Hamilton establishing his garden at Barnsdale and, before then, in black and white, Percy Thrower (at The Magnolias?).

They seemed to go far more into depth with a subject then and when a plant was shown in close-up, the English and Latin name appeared as subtitle on the screen. Do they still do that?

We don't have a TV, so I can't really vote, but when I occasionally see a gardening programme now, when I am baby sitting for grandchildren, I am amazed how shallow the programmes have become compared to the time when we did have a telly and saw Geoff Hamilton establishing his garden at Barnsdale and, before then, in black and white, Percy Thrower (at The Magnolias?).

They seemed to go far more into depth with a subject then and when a plant was shown in close-up, the English and Latin name appeared as subtitle on the screen. Do they still do that?

Dear OH, I'm 100% with you on the background music. It spoils virtually every serious documentary programme you see these days and often it's difficult to hear the commentary over the top of it. And quite often the choice of music, in my opinion, is pretty naff anyway. I believe many complaints have been made to the TV companies about this in the past but nobody every listens. Perhaps the only way we they will notice is if we all immediately switch off any documentary programme which has a music background. Oh dear, I'm in my Mrs. Victoria Meldrew mode again!

Hi All

The Wartime Kitchen Garden, Victorian Kitchen Garden and Geoff Hamiultons series are being shown on currently on uktv gardens (channel 267 on Virgin)

Website for your perusal http://uktv.co.uk/gardens/homepage/sid/353

I love Ruth Mott, she's fab. I love the way she wobbles when she mixes something. Reminds me of a lovely aunt who used to have all kinds of yummy things cooking when I was a kid.

As for background music and canned laughter, I can't bloody stand it. It gets in the way of what's being said.

Anyway, i'm off the soapbox xo it's in the corner if anyone fancies climbing on