I have to say I haven't given a thought to gardening for ages (ours is still under snow). I'd grown bored with television gardening programmes and the controversies over which presenter of Gardeners' World is best. They seemed cliched and inevitably repetetive, gardening being a fairly repetitive business really.
But Life In A Cottage Garden With Carol Klein is a gem. No hype, no clever clever stuff, little music - and what little there is is delicate and evocative of the winter season. Also, perhaps because she is on her home ground, Carol has toned it down a bit (sometimes on Gardeners' World her enthusiasm came across as just a little forced).
The editing of this programme is beautiful, and the sound editing superb. The crunch of the sharp knife through a snowdrop bulb, the sound of a mountainous heap of clematis hitting the ground from a great height as she flings it from the top of a very tall ladder. The rain. The chuckle in her voice. I felt I was there in the dimly lit shed....
This is the real thing. I watched it twice! Unheard of....and there are five more programmes to come. Hurrah.
BBC 2 Fri evenings.
But Life In A Cottage Garden With Carol Klein is a gem. No hype, no clever clever stuff, little music - and what little there is is delicate and evocative of the winter season. Also, perhaps because she is on her home ground, Carol has toned it down a bit (sometimes on Gardeners' World her enthusiasm came across as just a little forced).
The editing of this programme is beautiful, and the sound editing superb. The crunch of the sharp knife through a snowdrop bulb, the sound of a mountainous heap of clematis hitting the ground from a great height as she flings it from the top of a very tall ladder. The rain. The chuckle in her voice. I felt I was there in the dimly lit shed....
This is the real thing. I watched it twice! Unheard of....and there are five more programmes to come. Hurrah.
BBC 2 Fri evenings.
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