Your garden made perfect

[MichaelAndEagle]

Don't think anyone else has started a thread.
I didn't realise it was starting again but its on tonight BBC 2.
I'm watching on catch up now. Anyone else?

@JamMakingWannaBe

I've got a pond and there's no way I'd be dipping my feet in it!

I really can't imagine anyone's first comment on seeing the garden was "oh, you've got a floating deck! Lovely!" It's just not worth the money and a potential rat hotel I thought.

Part of the deck was some old doors from Tom's house and the shed was £250 from Gumtree? With a £25k budget I'd want more than that! You could tell the first architect was thinking, "how does this design fit the budget?" - especially in relation to the climbers on the shed. By ditching the massive boulders, that's how!

I loved the writing room in the first pitch.

In relation to the bicycle shed garden, did they seriously have no back access at all?

The roof was lined but there didn't seem to be any drainage at all, and I would have thought after heavy rain it would just be a pond. I didn't like the lolly pop planters at the front door. They were unnecessary, and what happened to their lovely roses?

I think the bike shed roof was slightly sloped backwards.

The budgets on this show are baffling me. Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers do a better job for a fraction of the price on Garden Rescue.

@dollymuchymuchness
In Garden Rescue all the labour and machine hire is free.

Anyone tuning in tonight? I accidentally missed Gardeners' World!

I missed last weeks but back tonight.

@dollymuchymuchness

The budgets on this show are baffling me. Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers do a better job for a fraction of the price on Garden Rescue.

They have huge budgets on the main design.

Why would you suggest more trees in that small space (1st designer)? Trees take maintenance which people generally don't do properly! And if they're not shading your plot they're going to be shading your neighbours in plots that close together.
The red robin (photinia) pleached trees should be sufficient imo. Red robin generally gets going in a year or two then you're preoccupied pruning it 😁

The 2nd designer is all about moving the garden buildings isn't he 😂

At least they've some lawn left.

What will they do with upholstered garden furniture in the bad weather? They've nowhere to store it.

Not a fan of the tree on the left hand side. That shallow pond's going to evaporate and be full of leaves which sink to the bottom, speaking as someone who has a small pond (set in the ground) and lives with neighbour's tree leaves!

I liked the new location of the office pod.

Why two sets of tables and chairs?

Ahh yes switch out chairs for a numb bum on a plank.

This second one looks very high maintenance whatever he says about low maintenance

I don't like either of these designer's designs - I didn't like them in earlier programmes either 😂

The proportions of the strip of lawn in the second design doesn't feel right. I understand what he's going for but the planting looks kind of overgrown and it's going to look even messier in reality. Nightmare to manage in a plot that size.

'Numb bum plank' 😁

Need sunglasses in the small project.

Love the plants on the wall, hate the paint.

That doesn't look like very much for £3k - a lick of paint and some drainpipe planting! Maybe I'm missing something.

Oh good grief why did they go for that design!

I wonder if they neighbours are still wonderful. Living next to that giant trellis and fires every night might just test their patience.

I don’t think it looks awful but I would have preferred the other design. Agree the fire pits are not great for neighbours. Lots of people with asthma can’t go outside if their neighbours have a fire pit going.

The problem with this programme is the VR looks so much better than the reality of every garden they do, so the reveal is always a disappointment as the plants are not mature.

Yes that’s true. I wonder if the people who own the gardens are disappointed or if they like the results.

I'm losing interest in this programme now as it is just too long. I hate the filler bits in between. Just show the options, pick one, do it.

I actually dislike this sort of programme and rarely like the end result. The designs are often so impractical and far from 'perfect'. But I'm becoming an old curmudgeon who looks at lots of the property programmes and harrumphs! [Grin]

I actually liked Steve's design, but I like a lots of trees/bit wild type garden.

Also, there is something about Ollie (is that the right name?) that gets up my nose. I know that's unfair but he just does.

Do you think Ollie maybe just isn’t a tv personality and is a bit shy. He struggles with Angela’s banter I think