Anywhere to watch old HGTV A Gardener's Journal with Kathy Renwald?
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Comments (53)From my brief time in a portion of Australia (granted, the portion where the majority of Australians live) I can say the gardening culture there is more "serious" than the US. (Not that it would take much lol.) It is a commonwealth country after all, settled mostly by the English. It definitely helps that it's a climate where year round gardening is possible. Even though they seemingly have a lot of land and very few people, much of the outback isn't suited to conventional agriculture. So the land use patterns reminded me more of Europe (the UK specifically) or the denser parts of the US. Melbourne and Sydney and their suburbs would remind people much more of London or the San Francisco Bay area than say, Atlanta. Even if the climate differences weren't taken into account. There isn't miles and miles of exurban sprawl with hundreds of thousands of housing units on well and septic. It's denser suburbs clustered around commuter rail lines that often quickly give way to open agricultural land past where the lines end. When people have a limited amount of land and/or places with over 1/4 acre of land are hard to purchase and insanely expensive, they tend to make more with what they've got. Just for kicks, for example, I looked for places for sale in the Blue Mountains with 1 hectare or more of land. It would be at least 5x harder and maybe 2X as expensive to buy such places as in say, the outer suburbs of Philly, DC, or Baltimore. Exceptions would be, for example, the Dandenongs outside Melbourne, where there is a lot of older, sometimes stately housing stock on larger lots and quaint village centers, sort of similar to say, Bucks Co, PA, Weston, MA, North Shore of Chicago, etc. (even the western US ended up a little more like Europe in this regard, especially California, more because of water and geographical issues than an absolute shortage of land) But, again, because people had to pay more for such acre or more properties than they would have in various American cities, they are making the most of the garden space. And some of the private gardens I saw driving around were very impressive....See MoreWhat Gardening Shoes do you watch?
Comments (31)And here's the real problem-the shows come on in the middle of the day on the weekend-when normally I would be out in my garden. OR they come on so late in the evening-again on the weekend-when I am already alseep, exhausted from another productive day of gardening-with any luck at all. I loved Gardeners Journal and Secret Gardens that came on at 5am, I had to get up very early to go to work anyway, and what a pleasure to wake up to those shows. Instead now they have some insipid show about painting coffee cans to make them into spatula holders and twenty ways to wear a red silk scarf-a show custom made for 20-something junior leaguers. Gag me. It's hard enough to drag my lazy butt out of bed in the morning knowing that I have to go to work, it's even harder knowing that while I drink my coffee, instead of a pleasant half hour looking at beautiful gardens, if I even bother to turn on the tube, all I'm going to see on HGTV is that kinda garbage. And as long as I'm ranting, I really hate any so-called-garden-makeover where they tear up a yard, lay down 30K worth of paving stone, build a fake "hill" so they can install a "realistic-looking" waterfall that comes out of nowhere and goes nowhere, and then stuff low maintainance shrublets in pinpoint-precision rows throughout the rest of the yard. In some of them, not one blade of grass remains. Excuse me, someone please explain which part of those shows is about a garden? Yep, the quality of HGTV has gone down the drain. It's as if they now cater to totally uninitiated, brain-dead couch potatoes who just happen to have 60K-80K of pesky cash just laying around gathering dust and getting underfoot. I just hate it when I have that problem, don't you? Cheryl...See MoreOT Join the HGTV protest Campaign
Comments (4)You should join my group. "Fed up with pay TV". I used to pay for a cable service but I tired quickly with the barage of commericals and scrolling through listing of channels that I had to pay more if I wanted to watch. In my opinion, 95% of the channels are garbage anyway. For those fortunate enough to be able located in an area of the County that can receive digital broadcast signals, you will save yourself a heap of money by simply canceling pay service and using the free over the air broadcast feeds. Digital and HDTV broadcasts are crystal clear and without you having to deal with the problems of the old analog reception problems of the past. Granted you don't get specialized channels like HGTV, but the way things are going, who wants them anyway? You ready should spend your time doing other things rather than watching the boob-tube anyway. Read a gardening book, talk to your family member, get out and garden you will be better off financially and remove an aggravation from your life....See Moremostly H, little G on HGTV
Comments (16)Gardeners must be a dying breed. In my neighborhood, there are only 2 families that are out there most days; putzing and weeding and deadheading. Everyone else has low/no maintenance little beds and big lawns that are faithfully mowed. As for myself, I have turned over the bulk of the work to outside help. Altho, now that I have imporved health, I hope to do more. I love it too, maybe even because it is so fleeting. I didn't get cable until '97, but there were tons of shows about gardening on at that time. Now the only one left seems to be Gardening by the Yard. Gardners Journal, Gardners Diary, Rebeccas Garden, Perennial Gardens, and so many more, are now long gone like dinosauers. Two nice ones came out of Canada. Some specials came out of England. Penolope Hobhouse (?) was a particular favorite. She made me laugh so hard with her shrieking voice, I had to tape it and play it over once I'd calmed down. As for Victory Garden, it gets more mainstream every day. Whereas, it used to be sort of charmingly quirky. Who remembers Roger? He was so homey: grungy, bearded, breathless. A sort of stereo typed farmer. Loved that guy. So, my thought is that HGTV should just stick with HTV. And perhaps another channel will take up the Gardening programs. Even if shown only on weekends, it sure would be nice. Comments?...See More
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