Monday 23 May 2022 07:01 AM CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV trends now
The Great Garden Revolution
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The Chelsea Flower Show runs all this week, with daily coverage of its elegant pavilions on both BBC1 and BBC2.
This might create the impression that gardening is a genteel pastime, best suited to those of a placid temperament. The Great Garden Revolution (C4) sets out to correct that misconception.
Gardening, it turns out, is cooler than Wim Hof’s ice lolly and hipper than a hippie doing the Hippy Hippy Shake.
This backyard makeover show, returning for a second series, is a kind of horticultural Top Gear, with three blokes rolling up their sleeves for some loud and lairy garden action.
The Great Garden Revolution (C4) sets out to correct that misconception. Gardening, it turns out, is cooler than Wim Hof’s ice lolly and hipper than a hippie doing the Hippy Hippy Shake
Designer Joel Bird is in charge, wearing a sheepskin coat and a Homburg hat. The hat is slightly too small, as if Joel’s trying to look like the lead singer in Madness but ended up as Arthur Daley instead.
Bruce Kenneth showed us how to build a ‘firepit’ or outdoor burner using the drum from a washing machine. Just unbolt the metal barrel from the middle of your appliance, turn it on its side, fill it with wood and set fire to it.
You won’t be able to wash your clothes any more but, now that you’re a true hippie, you don’t need to.
Errol Reuben Fernandes gave us a mind-blowing tip on how to lay out a gravel path when your whole back garden is covered in gravel.
First, paint a wavy line from the back door to the garden wall. Then place boulders on either side of the wavy line. Finally — and this is genius — rake
