To my knowledge, RRD has not yet made it into my neck of the woods. But I know it's only a matter of time. I've already decided (FIRMLY) that I'm NOT going to contend with it. Consequently, I expect that I will eventually have "a garden that lacks roses". Were I 20 yrs younger, perhaps I'd dig my heels in and attempt to ride-out the plague, but that's not the case. Anticipating the inevitable, I've already begun sending budwood and rooted cuttings of some of my obscure roses to friends and to a couple of nurseries. Whatever my roseless garden shall be, it will not remotely resemble Mr. Grindle's approximation of those fantasies one encounters at the Philadelphia (and, no doubt, the Chelsea) Flower Show. I confess to being compulsive, but I can assure you I'm not quite THAT compulsive, unowaddameen? But cheers to Mr. Grindle. I hope he rakes-in a boatload of coin for the charities his occasional open garden events support. I keep thinking, though, of the Grindle son and all those childhood years he was denied the pleasure of playing amid his family and on his own turf. Charity does, afterall, begin at home -- or so we used to say.

I really miss the old gardening programs by Martha Stewart,and Gary Allen "Landscape by Design". I did not like what Gary Allen did to his program toward the end, he should have re-named it," Projects for My New Home". I use to watch a gardening show before I went to work every morning, now I do not watch TV, or just watch the news. Barbra,

I was just commenting to my husband that they should remove the G out of HGTV because there are hardly any gardening shows on anymore. At least not like there was several years ago. I really enjoy Paul James but to my knowledge he is on only twice on the weekend. He is one of the only shows that are suited to the home gardener. There use to be Rebecca's Garden, and my favorites were Gardener's Diary and Gardener's Journal, none of these shows are currently on. Most of the shows that I have seen are Landscape type shows for people with a big budget. Nothing really suited to the how to's of plant growing. Your right, other than Victory Gardening I can't think of any other shows! It would be nice to have something especially for the southern gardener.

I also think we need more real gardening shows on TV. I'm so tired of the garden makeover shows on HGTV. They don't give any real advice on how to garden and take care of plants over the long term. I love the Victory Garden, though. :) When I lived up in North MS there was a show that came on Tennessee public TV called Volunteer Gardening or something like that. It was a great show! We certainly need a show like that here in Mississippi, too.