Learn Skills on the Web? reviews of My Garden School courses
The advent of online courses for garden interested people is another useful aspect of the web, making skills available to anyone who is online, no…
Show Me Your Best Back Garden – tv review by Alison Levey
I have been known to wonder if the New Perennial look is getting a bit passé. That was before I watched a bit of television…. Anne Wareham, editor…
Monty Don’s French Gardens – a review by Darryl Moore
Thinkingardens has been rather over Montyied recently, but we rarely get a serious television programme about gardens, so a review of BBC 2’s series…
Gardens Illustrated and The Garden – a comparative review by David Wong
You wait for years for one to come along… then you get two reviews of The Garden in one year! Well, I don’t look gift horses in the mouth (I…
Three views of the RHS by Elizabeth Musgrave
Apologies – this one has jumped the queue.. (nothing to do with me overlooking what’s on my schedule, of course..) Does the RHS offer anything which…
Reviews of the The Garden by Graham Rice, Deborah Bird,and Bridget Rosewell.
A few months ago the RHS magazine The Garden had a major revamp and it seemed right to review the results. A little time has gone past, but the…
Alan Titchmarsh’s Garden Secrets: review
“Why do they have to turn everything into a banal makeover program? ‘…Oh yes – I’ll have a trompe l’oeil window in my hedge’.”
The Garden Magazine Market is Skewed
A review of garden magazines by Matthew Appleby.
Sissinghurst – BBC4 reviewed by Darryl Moore
“Ultimately the over-egged, warts-and-all approach to the fractious situation failed to be convincing….”
Gardener’s World – 3rd April 2009
thinkinGardens asked Matthew Appleby to review Gardener’s World.
“Trendy efforts such as fast cuts and (2007 vintage) Kate Nash music does not stop the show being one presented by a middle-aged man in a red anorak with a bald spot (on his head, not the coat).”
