It can't be all that bad - Breakfast have been doing the weather from there this week!
No, it's really bad - Breakfast is using the one square foot of garden that looks presentable. If the camera moves an inch either way it spoils the illusion. The pond has been stripped away, the grass is a state, weeds are everywhere.
They've filled in the sunken garden, turfed over the vegetable patch, and taken the greenhouse (and all signs of Blue Peter branding) away - but it's still quite a pleasant wee back garden.
it will probably just be left for other programmes to use and also a place to staff to escape to on their lunch breaks, there's probably a consortium of BBC smokers who mingle there on a daily basic
I don't think moving the garden in its entirety was the best idea at all - they would've been far better off leaving the garden in London as it is and starting afresh in Salford! Any news on the time capsule? Has this been relocated?
I notice there’s plenty of decking, which is rather late 1990’s “Ground Force”. Also I hope they don’t present a completed garden when it’s unveiled as gardening is about a space growing and evolving over time. But with the lack of gardening items in the past series I would imagine it will be complete.
Shame that they ripped out Percy Thrower’s Italian sunken garden as that was the most iconic part of the space.
it will probably just be left for other programmes to use and also a place to staff to escape to on their lunch breaks, there's probably a consortium of BBC smokers who mingle there on a daily basic
In the short term anyway. Long term, the BBC won't be there. TV Centre is up for sale, remember?