Garden Rescue

The garden makeovers in this show are amazing and the varied designs for various wants and needs, children, accessibility, wildlife, & more are very interesting. The three designers have a good report, and I enjoy the humor too.

This show is very entertaining. The Rich brothers and Charlie always have great ideas to help home owners fulfill their gardening wishes. Surely an inspiration for DIYers. It is fun and informative. The designs for planting beds, pergolas, paths, materials and plant choices are awesome. I love how they are able to attrack wildlife, create a since of wonder around corners, make focal points, create playgrounds, terraces, and do something other than line the edges of a square lawn. Clients vary from retired couples to families with children to single bachelors, all with a budgets of usually 2,000~6,000 pounds. The only wish I have is that they do more return visits to see how things have grown. Maybe they could make a special episode with multiple followups from gardens they rescued from previous seasons. I hope this show continues for many more seasons! Keep on rescuing! It reminds me of Treehouse Masters the way the cast goofs around.

Dreadful, stingy, plain-Jane, and poorly-proportioned yards in England get makeovers, in a competition format. The barren, uninviting quality of all these yards must be due to the English climate. No one in the states would leave their yards this featureless.

These forlorn, unused spaces, get transformed into amazing features.

I'm always rooting for the Rich Brothers, but their stuff is very serious; appropriate for me, but not most workaday folks. Charlie is larger than life, but her best ideas are more exploratory and random, which I also like. Arit does nice work too. I think she and Charlie did that cool tumble down yard with a kid's garden at the bottom tier.

I sketch out my own ideas, as I watch. And I found this, at the exact right time in my life, as I was designing a landscape for a client. Had no idea I enjoyed designing pergolas and yard-panning as much as I do.

This show is great if you are looking for a reality program that actually teaches garden landscape design and is not about backstabbing and drama.

This is only based on the earlier seasons because that is what we can get here in the US. 10 stars for the first seasons which included Charlie and the Rich Brothers. 6 stars for the seasons after the Rich Brothers left.

I really loved the contrasting styles, contemporary and cottage, of the Rich Brothers and Charlie. By the end of the fourth season on the show, their design styles began to influence each other which made for even better gardens.

I am not a fan of Lee Burkhill's designs. The plans are very basic, repetitive and theme-ish. After a couple episodes, I just started fast-forwarding when Lee won.

I wish GR would focus more on Charlie and Chris, who has a contemporary style, because they are a great balance. Their combo would bring back some of the magic of the earlier seasons. Until then, GR gets a 6.

I have been researching garden and landscape design for DIY projects during COVID while I am home. Wanted to redesign our garden. Watched "love your garden" - that one is good and worth watching. But I like Garden Rescue better and would literally watch it every day - I actually have been :) Much better than anything else on!! They have great ideas, are extraordinarily gifted and creative people - the Rich brothers and Charlie all - and have wonderful presentation. These guys are also SUPER funny! Charlie is really cute and mom-like to all the guys. The Rich brothers are adorably cute and masculine gardeners who have great manners but also lightly poke fun at the whole thing. It is a wonderful experience - makes me laugh through all of it and gives great ideas too. Wish their co. was here in the U.S. so I could hire them to do my project!!