1-2 February 2021
I looked at YouTube for some reason and it suggested an old Monty Don show called Real Gardens that I had wanted to see for years. There were five episodes (an incomplete season) featuring a very young Monty Don and Carol Klein.
The episodes were added recently so I hope there are more to come.
Monty, Carol, and other gardeners help amateur gardeners with their gardens. That led to a link to another site with all but two episodes of an entire season of Love Your Garden that I had not seen before…..a heartstring tugger of a show where Alan and his team help someone inspirational by making them a garden. I wish that the episode featuring a WWII veteran had not been deleted. When I find one of these sets of shows, I watch it as fast I can, setting books aside, in fear that it will disappear.
Each episode includes Alan touring a garden that inspires the one he and his team are building.
Today, I found on the same channel the entire (I think) 2002 season of Gardeners’ World, set partly in Alan Titchmarsh’s own garden and including visits to other gardens, including a gorgeous coastal garden in the first episode.
Thrilling!
That’s where I will be for at least another full day. You might want to go there, too.
Real Gardens: https://youtu.be/vT3ZeHl6Vrg
Love Your Garden 2019: https://hdclump.com/category/love-your-garden-2019/
Gardener’s World 2002: https://hdclump.com/category/gardeners-world-2002/page/5/
And there is so much more….I’ve seen many of the Gardeners’ World seasons online (searching around the internet and also on the Inside Outside subscription channel)….but I am sure there is more here that I haven’t seen, including episodes of the Scottish show, Beechgrove Garden. Follow me down the rabbit hole if you so desire. (And oh!! There’s the sixth episode of Real Gardens!)
We enjoy Beechgrove Gardens.
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Goody!!! I’ve watched several episodes of “Love Your Garden”, but I’ve not seen “Real Gardens”. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll be watching Real Gardens soon. (Too exhausted today. Workers in the house from 7 am til ?)
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That does sound tiring.
I think the “hdclump” site has one more of the Real Gardens than the YouTube does.
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Thank you, Skyler….for the IM. Got involved in reading a book today and never got around to your blog until now. I’ll have to explore YouTube more often. Do you remember some 30 or so years ago there was a Canadian channel that carried the couple of male gardeners? I so enjoyed their show! Don’t recall the name of the program or the hosts names though. I watched them while in the Seattle area.
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What a nice find for mid-winter watching!
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I can do nothing else even though it’s not raining today….GW is so addictive to me.
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Was it Canadian Gardener with David Tarrant? I loved that show. Was sorry to lose CBC channel when we moved here in 92. Used to watch Coronation Street on it, too. There was a great show out of Portland called In Your Garden that got canceled. It featured the host (still well known but his name slips my mind) touring real private gardens. As did the old HGTV shows, Gardener’s Journal and Gardener’s Diary. Now American tv is a gardening wasteland. Ciscoe rarely did any kind of proper tour of a garden in his show.
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Have now watched six episodes of Real Gardens, and enjoyed them. I agree, if you don’t watch something when you find it on YouTube, if it is a UK gardening show – odds are it will soon disappear. They seem to be very diligent with copyright.
Now I need to check out your Love Your Garden link, and see if I have seen them before.
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I am dedicated this week to watching those shows and also the 2002 season of GW, have eight more hours to go. The one that is missing of that season is the GW live show. I have kept a list of all the eps I have seen of various GW seasons so I think I can fill in some missing ones with that channel. Also, Alan T is much funnier than Monty!
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We gone upload the entire series of Real Gardens (but not on youtube) and if there is a video not available please comment on it and we will reupload
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Thank you so much for uploading these. You have made us ever so happy. In Love Your Gardens there are two episodes missing, 3 and 1: “page not found…restricted or missing.” I’ll be spending the next eight hours immersed in GW 2002. 💚
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