Dirty Business

A garden redesign show from Canadia. Very nice results, but also: the show with the highest number of iffy results. The glass dividers are overused. The maze/pergola project was really unfortunate. Too much design per square foot in a tiny yard. If they forget to go vertical, a yard still just looks like a yard.

The cost for doing these projects is remarkably low. I'd bet that a decent yard design can save a marriage, and free you from your cabin-fever.

The 4-man design team is sort of charmless, but I enjoy seeing their work. James is picked to do the narration. He's a helpful reminder to me that a lower percentage of exuberant, forced charm could be useful. When I think I'm charming, I'm probably this trying. His line readings are stiff. His jokes are ...not good.

This show allows the client only one comment about the finished garden, and then they're gone, and the gents review things. I'm fine with that.