Your Garden Made Perfect (TV)

[LaurasOtherHalf]

(mods I know this should strictly not be in here but I thought it would appeal to the H,G&DIY crowd more)

Is anyone watching this on BBC2?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ry6w

It's really very good but deserves some discussion-especially tonights!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

WTF was with the paths tonight?! It was just compacted sub base!

I’ve no doubt that his planting design will look great into spring and summer and will be utterly beautiful in a couple of years but even up to the she’d end-just more sub base?!

There was no mention of laying gravel on top, or was the idea just to let nature take its course and leave it like that?

£66k to walk about on what lies beneath my patio-I still don’t get it?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

sherman said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

WTF was with the paths tonight?! It was just compacted sub base!

I’ve no doubt that his planting design will look great into spring and summer and will be utterly beautiful in a couple of years but even up to the she’d end-just more sub base?!

There was no mention of laying gravel on top, or was the idea just to let nature take its course and leave it like that?

£66k to walk about on what lies beneath my patio-I still don’t get it?

It really did look like the budget had ran out for paths. Even if it was a more yellow bound gravel the paths would have looked a lot better.

I also did wonder how problematic the path/ponds layout was going to be with the guys bikes and stuff in those sheds up the back of the garden.

We wondered the same but it looked like the simplified the pond a lot.

The original design didn’t look safe, never mind as they got older.

I also wondered at the water feature safetywise for any spearing grandchildren. Obviously a close family with the offspring and partners living there but you’d not be wanting toddlers in that garden.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

To be fair on that one, the monkey puzzle was in a ridiculously stupid place in the garden. I thought their finished item was a real success.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

abzmike said:

This programme is useful if nothing else to show my wife how much sorting out a garden costs. OK, these are at the extreme end, but landscaping, decking, paths and plants don’t come cheap, even before getting someone else to do it.

That's what we discussed in each episode, the one I built the other year has cost us just over £23k so far with me doing most of the work and getting fellow tradesmen in to give me a hand. Don't get me wrong, that includes building a new balcony and all the furniture, sound systems etc but it's still not finished!

If i was pricing it for a customer it would be over £40k I reckon.

Edited by LaurasOtherHalf on Saturday 20th February 09:46

[LaurasOtherHalf]

That's the ambition for my other garden whenever it gets done, I want to create a loop or figure of 8 to walk through.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Dave_ST220 said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

To be fair on that one, the monkey puzzle was in a ridiculously stupid place in the garden. I thought their finished item was a real success.

Surely it could have been dug up & sold?? Those things are ££££ when larger. Seeing it chopped down at the base seemed such a waste. (very un-PH of me I know)

Not when they’re established in ground though, you’d just kill it.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

10 min warning

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Think of the poor guys who built the pool in the first place!

You can get huge foam blocks to fill in pools these days, there's no way you could get folk traipsing up there to dump builders bags of rubble-the success was one of the main reasons it was such a complicated job.

I also thought it was pretty brave drilling the holes for drainage mid way through the build.

I wonder if they did water table tests? I know it looked an elevated position but more often than not pools are skinned to keep water out rather than in-I had visions of them drilling through and a gusher shooting up to fill it!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

ajap1979 said:

abzmike said:

Bizarre plot... Had a swimming pool, turned it into a rock filled pit. I’m not sure what the answer to the problem would be for me, but that wasn’t it. Maybe an outdoor home cinema?

Edited by abzmike on Thursday 25th February 23:06

I couldn’t get “zoo enclosure” out of my head.

This was the really difficult part of the brief. When I saw the preview from last week I was hoping they might try something subterranean like César Manrique's house Tahíche...
https://fcmanrique.org/casas-museo-visitas/casa-mu...

there's a walk through here;



He created his house from volcanic bubbles interlinked with tunnels.