Easy Viewing For Armchair Gardeners (Ground Force)

Member Name: Vivien

Product:	Ground Force
Date:	20/07/00 (187 review reads)
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Advantages: Relaxed and jolly garden show

Disadvantages: Charlie should buy a bra

For a person who hates gardening, like myself, the prospect of spending half an hour in the evening watching a gardening programme is something I would have never considered. Then one day I was strangely attracted to a jolly theme tune performed by a brass band whilst flicking through the channels. I watched a bit of the show and then quickly became hooked.

The show is based on a simple idea. Arrange for the gardens owner to be away for the weekend, and then completely make over the garden.
The presenters include every ones favourite TV Gardner, Alan Titchmarsh, the water feature expert Charlie Dimmock who probably doubles the ratings because she chooses not to wear a bra, and a down to earth construction expert , Tommy Walsh.
Complete Jungles of back gardens or even ugly back yards are then transformed into miniature paradises. The team never seems to have much time to finish the projects, and always seem hampered by bad weather. The programme really inspires you to do something with your own garden and has probably tripled sales of decking and pond liners throughout the U.K.

A nice touch in the repeated versions of the show is to show footage of a surprise visit back to the garden the following year, to see how the garden has matured or if it is being looked after properly.

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