yeah.. but they talk funny .. God knows what language that is .... lol

im not very gizmo inclined ... but i tried this.. go figure ... ken

BTW: im kinda hooked on the great british baking off show ... the original with mary ....

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Gardeners%27+World+videos&t=ffcm&ia=videos&iax=videos

I have to say, I came adross a book of Don Monty`s by accident, but it got me really hooked.

and when I discovered that he had a TVshow...

I watch some on youtube, mostly like it,

sometimes am amused to watch a fellow plant nerd at full enthusiasm level.

In Germany there are some gardening telly shows, but I find them mostly painfull to watch and boring,

and regarding the content galaxies apart

I guess they are not that well funded

and at times you notice that they just stuck a pretty face in front of a camera interviewing some nursery owner, not a gardening person ...

Gardengal, I think you ask a really interesting question. I also sometimes wonder why there are no decent gardening shows in the US. Lots of people are gardening but the large regional differences that you mention might make it a better market for local gardening shows. Even then it seems unlikely to work. There was a quickly aborted attempt at such a show in my area. I enjoyed 'A Gardener's Diary' in the old days when, as you put it well, there was a meaningful 'G' in HGTV but then there used to be a meaningful 'A' in A&E and 'H' in the History channel. It seems to me that the reality shows did more harm than good and maybe a few good gardening shows fell victim to it as did the rest. I am subscribed to BritBox and had no idea that it includes the last season of 'Gardeners' World.' Now I can't wait to watch all of the episodes. Thank you for mentioning it!

I'm kinda hooked on Gardener's World as well. It's always got something of interest even if it does hit on some things that won't work over here.... still nice to just hear someone talk intelligently about gardening.

There's one season which is mostly available on youtube, and the newest season can be found, but nearly all the other episodes get taken off or made unavailable to US viewers. I bet there's some tech-savy way to fool youtube into thinking you're not watching from the US but my mind just resists that kind of advice so I'm stuck just moping about it.

I still miss the Victory Garden. They tried to pretty it up and ended up just dumbing it down until it was as dull as all the other Mcgarden shows.

YouTube is the only place I find gardening type shows, usually by the home gardeners that post them. I wish we did have something that was informational about plants and gardening in general.

It was the original Victory Garden show that got me interested before I ever had a yard to garden in. I especially liked the gentleman who did the vegetable gardening and learned a lot from him even though his garden was in a much different climate than mine. ...Agree that later on they dumbed it down, sped it up, shorter segments, less latin names used, too much chatter with little info, etc. I lost interest.

Sponsorship may be the answer. Here in the US the only people that matter to marketers are younger ones. Once we hit a certain age (49?) we are no longer the desirable audience. I know younger people are gardening, but mainly it's older people who have more time for it?

(It's funny that the British Baking Show is hard to understand sometimes. My DH and I both watch it and ask each other often, "What did they just say?" We could use some subtitles, lol. And what's up with biscuits and puddings? Very different than over here :-)

Sandyslopes, I have been using closed captioning on my TV for over ten years now (hearing loss, too young to realize what it was, I thought my TV was broken, lol)--- and sometimes that's the ONLY way I'd have any idea what they're saying on the show!!!

Haven't seen a Gardener's world. But I will be checking it out and all the ones that linaria posted too.

I listen to Brian Minter of Minter Gardens on CBC radio here in Canada but I think you can get it online as well. He just received the order of BC award. I really like his presentation and style and real love of plants.

https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2017-2021/2018IGRS0009-001495.htm

My folks were both British and with pretty strong accents they retained all their lives, even after living here in the US for many decades. So both the British accents and nearly all idioms are second nature to me :-) And watching as many Britbox and Acorn TV shows as I do, I have become very used to them. IMO, most of the presenters on Gardener's World (and the British Baking show) have extremely understandable accents.....no more difficult to follow than someone in this country with a strong regional accent. But all bets are off if it is a show that is based in Yorkshire!! Now that is really hard to follow sometimes!!

Thank you for the Monty Don heads up! I will watch as much as I can find. I really miss the gardening shows we used to have here. We watch British shows on WETA UK here in the DC area-mysteries, etc., but I haven't come across the gardening show. I am also a huge fan of the Great British Baking Show (have only seen the ones with Mary).