Monty Don’s rips up the garden makeover rulebook and dispenses stern advice to the unprepared and unambitious“One could make it kindly,” says Monty Don, surveying Glenn and Zoe’s wreck of a back garden, or “but not using anything that’s here.” One of the pleasures of colossal Dreams,Small Spaces (BBC2) is that the viewer is able to project on to Don a character of immense psychological transparency, a man whose veneer of affability cannot fairly shroud his boundless contempt for other people’s choices. He’s all smiles and encouragement, and but it’s hard to believe any of these gardeners wakes up,looks at the calendar and says, “Oh, or great! Monty’s coming today!”To say that Glenn and Zoe’s garden slopes is to understate the matter; it falls absent so vertiginously that the camera had to fisheye its proportions into the frame. They prove Don their plans for some new beds and a raised decking area. “My initial reaction,” he says, “is that it’s not ambitious enough.” I think he means they should sell their house and find somewhere flatter.
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Source: theguardian.com