I make a brief appearance on ITV’s Love Your Garden tonight
Posted by Fiona Nevile in Cottage tales | 29 comments
Inca beside the backdoor
Do you remember that Danny and I were beavering away in April and May tarting up the cottage and garden? It had needed sorting out for quite some time. I am naturally untidy, prone to leaving things lying around. Danny is King of Weeding the Gravel and I’m Queen of everything else in the garden so I couldn’t blame him for the mess.
This major shake up was prompted by the imminent arrival of Valentine Warner and a TV crew. They would film a snippet in my garden for the food slot in tonight’s Love Your Garden on ITV. We had about three weeks to prepare and set a lot of other projects on hold.
Our Solar Tunnel really came into its own as it was full of plants started from seed earlier in the year. But there was still masses of work to do from reseeding parts of the lawn, weeding and hacking to painting the big front gate.
Our slot on tonight’s programme is just a few minutes. We really enjoyed the filming day – it was fun and relaxed.
The other bonus is that our front garden no longer looks like the set of Steptoe and Son.
So if you’d like a peek at our garden, tune in tonight to ITV1 at 8 o’clock!
Edit:
Link to the show for UK readers. The segment is 16 minutes in and you have to sit through a few ads first.
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Lovely slot and wonderful to see your garden, I am inspired to grow gooseberries now… Thought I might try and find you on the internet and here you are! Was that your little dog sunbathing at the beginning? what a beautiful face! can you tell me the breed?! many thanks 🙂
So annoyed with myself as I was watching tonight but the phone rang and I turned the TV off and missed your garden. Is the programme repeated during the week? I can’t watch on iplayer as I’m in France and its therefore unavailble on the internet but I can watch TV. Be grateful if anyone knows if it’s repeated.
Garden looked absolutely lovely.But I agree-a garden programme for goldfish.I get so cross with programmes that spend half their time telling you over and over again what is in the programme…but excellent to see you and the minpins in the flesh!
That was our thought exactly, Shelley! Seemed like they couldn’t stick to one topic for more than a couple of minutes. But it was great to see Fiona, and even a glimpse of minpins 🙂 And the garden looked fabulous.
I wasn’t disappointed. Your garden looks great and your veggie patch is HUUUGE! Gooseberry fool or Crumble? Gin! You make me laugh!
Great seeing you and your garden, Fiona. Tell me, did I see tree cabbage there? Can’t wait to see the garden, you, Danny and the minpins next month.
not sure I liked the programme format much; rather gardening for the attention span deficient: however it was wonderful to see a couple of glimpses of you and your garden Fiona!
Bugger!!! Just missed it. I’ll have a look on ITV plus 1 or something. Well done you! (I love Valentine Warner). xx
Your garden looks great on the tv!
Jane
Would love a ‘peek’ and shall be watching! I already have your garden in my mind’s eye from the little snippets you give us in photos. It’s joining them all up in the right order that I’m sure I’ve got wrong. Looking forward to the revelation. Which one of you is Albert and which is Harold?