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Posted by mr naughty corner (U2456974) on Friday, 18th May 2007
I just watched an episode of "Garden Rivals" and it was BRILLIANT!!
There was AMP and a young Quentin Crisp, and they both do designs for a client. The Client picked Quentin's in this episode- a perculiar four sided star filled with white gravel centred with a 'Piddle Fountain' (c. D.Pig) and the rest of the garden was turfed or had slate thrown on it and some trellis lobbed in to hide the rear.
It was brilliant!
What spoiled it for me was the misuse of AMP- they made her lay turf and as she explained herself, in her own words "I trained as a designer!!".
What are the programme makers thinking of? Garden designers are hardly two a penny you know!! To take a GARDEN DESIGNER and humiliate her by making her LAY TURF like some ordinary gardener was like watching one's favourite Norman Church being turned into a neon fronted crack dealers night club!
Surely, this sort of humiliation TV should be kept to late night slots for social outcats, drunks and nosferatus- I personally would like to see this sort of thing banned, right away!
Are you with me then?
Derek Pig
What, did they hold her down and say we'll kill you if you don't lay the turf? Couldn't she make a choice for herself?
For all I know they might of!
The point is, qualified garden designers should not be made to lay turf- who do these tV producers think they are?
I think the point is that the losing designer has to help the winner.
That hardly sounds likely amzhapcook!
No one is too good or high to do the mucky work involved in whatever job they do! AMP would do well to remember this!
I take it this message is slightly tongue in cheek Derekpig?
Can you eat pig's tongue? I know you can eat ox & lamb but don't know about pig!
, in reply to message 1.
Posted by sparklingsnowleapord (U3848262) on Friday, 18th May 2007
I have watched a lot of Ann Marie on tv and to be honest i dont like her designs at all.
If it wasnt for Joe Swift calming her down i would turn of.
I remember one episode of Take 3 when AMP designed and installed a garden using green (may have been blue) and red astro turf and plastic fencing. I remember the look of astonishment on the faces of Joe Swift and Cleve West. So my feelings are the same as sparklingsnowleapord, not keen at all.
um...........
I think she needs to lift the Homer Monkey off her back- what she needs is a blank canvas garden where she can express herself properly, and, given time, I think we'd all see something very special.
her track record is outstanding- not only did she save "Garden Doctors" from the frankly appaling tasteless amateur Dan Pearson (and introduce the dodgy camera work we all know and love into the 3rd series), she also put her name to a guide to hard landscaping that is a text book now for all those working in the garden construction industry.
Give her GW- give her a new garden- she can't have mine but when Mycowaz reads this, he might be prepared to offer her and the Â鶹Éç some land?
Give the lass a chance!
Derek Pig
, in reply to message 10.
Posted by sparklingsnowleapord (U3848262) on Friday, 18th May 2007
But shes already done a blank canvas garden DP and its still a shambles.
I would not let her loose in my garden for sure.Did you not see the building site of new houses they did.
If like me you are wondering who on earth Ann Marie Powell is -
This might help!
AMP designed and installed a garden using green (may have been blue) and red astro turf and plastic fencing.Â
Stop stop stop! I saw it too (if it was the same one with the purple plastic mulch). That woman deserves impaling on the sharp end of one of GWs rusty obelisks.
, in reply to message 13.
Posted by mr naughty corner (U2456974) on Sunday, 27th May 2007
I hope you will all be agreeing now that I WAS RIGHT and the future is Ann Marie Powell. Not only is she great and a presenter, she also has a NATIONAL CERTIFICATE IN HORTICULTURE!!
Now not many of the others can say that! I'd like to see Beardshaw's collection of National Certificates in Horticulture- not very big collection that I bet!
And Homer- lets be seeing the colour of your NCH mate!
AMP-FANTASTIC!!
I usually agree with everything you say DP. But not this time.
Manufacturers of purple plastic chipping mulch would be having a field day if AMP was the top dog… she could always team up with Daimud and his lollipops and have their own programme 'Naff Gardens with an NCH'.
Derek pig are you a pompous garden designer yourself by any chance? NCF's are not that hard to achieve it's one day a week and alot of homework, hardly degree level. Now if she had an advanced diploma in horticulture or an HND in design then OK, but I would say she is pretty lucky to be on the telly with just a certificate. Sorry.
, in reply to message 14.
Posted by sparklingsnowleapord (U3848262) on Monday, 28th May 2007
Sorry DP i still dont like AMP as a designer.
I also dont like your suggestion on another thread about drinking whiskey from a snowleapords skull.
You can understand why cant you?
, in reply to message 17.
Posted by mr naughty corner (U2456974) on Monday, 28th May 2007
Yes sorry everyone. I was just taking the mickey. I think AMP should do some part time course in dentistry and then take her enthusiasm round peoples houses ("Nathan hasn't been able to tell his new wife Jane that her breath smells like shes been necking dog poo due to some poor quality root canal work she had done by dentistry students when she was at college, but today we're going to surprise her with some of Ann's Amateur Dental Surgery!!"). Ann Maries Dental Makeovers. It would be gruesome, tasteless and vulgar.
So thats a definate go-er then.
Look forward to seeing it in the Autumn schedules.
I wouldn't be suprised. It would either be something like a docu-soap or one of those vote phone-in ones that make the channel loads of dosh but cost them * all to make!
Derek P.:´...Surely, this sort of humiliation TV should be kept to late night slots for social outcats...´
If you´re talking about the green dress Ann Marie Powell was wearing on her last Chelsea tv coverage: I agree! My God, doesn´t she realise how she looks when she bends down in that dress? At least Lorraine Kelly had something nice to show; )
Hey Hdehoon,
don't be dissing Ann Marie Powell assets, I consider myself a connoisseur of such matters, and I say they are far better than Lorraine Kelly's!
Mycowaz.
, in reply to message 21.
Posted by mr naughty corner (U2456974) on Tuesday, 29th May 2007
I can't believe I spelled her name wrong. Thing is, would any of them be as much fun as if GW was presented by a concrete cow, on the moon?
Chris Beardshaw
Tell me Chris, do you not think that now, as a highly regarded Garden Designer, you should really start calling yourself Christopher Beardshaw?
Message posted by Derek Pig:-
I hope you will all be agreeing now that I WAS RIGHT and the future is Ann Marie Powell. Not only is she great and a presenter, she also has a NATIONAL CERTIFICATE IN HORTICULTURE!!Â
In Garden Design Derek - she later did a City & Guilds in Hard Landscaping ( so she has laid turf! )
Now not many of the others can say that! I'd like to see Beardshaw's collection of National Certificates in Horticulture- not very big collection that I bet! Â
You really must do more research before you post Derek - look two mouse clicks :-
"Chris studied horticulture at Pershore where he also lectured for four and a half years - before managing the plant research and development division of one of the largest wholesale nurseries in the country and gaining an MA in Landscape Architecture from Cheltenham."
An M.A. - a flippin' MASTERS DEGREE !!!
, in reply to message 24.
Posted by mr naughty corner (U2456974) on Wednesday, 30th May 2007
I know Alan
You should also look a little further and you'll see I confess all. I was merely joshing.
Also, you'll see I am in fact CHRIS BEARDSHAW.
by the way, i know some ruddy awful horticulturists with masters degrees
Chris Beardshaw
Evenin' 1stClassA,
Long time no see. How's it going? Any lunar gardening on the go?
GM
Guten arben Gartenmeister, wie gete's?
Funny you should mention lunar gardening for we are in the throes of converting a small nature reserve of untended domestic tip into a fence to fence mud desert ! I have my mini digger and tracked loader in there and so far removed 28 cubic metres of broken concrete and miscellaneous dross in the rain. More to go tomorrow.
Was about to post this yesterday when the site closed !
posted by Derek Pig:-
Also, you'll see I am in fact CHRIS BEARDSHAW.Â
I'll only believe it if you take me for a ride in that helicopter!
by the way, i know some ruddy awful horticulturists with masters degrees
Chris Beardshaw Â
Pure qualifications never have said much about one's practicabilities but they do say that you can learn a lot of things and then churn it out again with the credits in the correct places.
Isnt AMP home secretary now?
noooooo, she does the weather on channel islands TV
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