| HERE'S TO A YEAR OF GREAT GARDENING! The wait is finally over! Gardening Australia starts tomorrow at 6:30pm, ABC1. We're all looking forward to a great year of gardening and new host Costa is thrilled to be part of the team:
"Gardening Australia is about gardening all of Australia - nurturing its plants and its people. I can't wait to travel the country, share incredible gardening stories and create some new projects to get us all talking and blossoming."
So here's to a great, productive year in the garden.
The Gardening Australia Team
Saturday 31st March, 6:30pm, ABC 1
Rpt Sunday 1 April 1:00pm, ABC 1 |
| WIN A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION OF GARDENING AUSTRALIA MAGAZINE AND ORGANIC GARDENER MAGAZINE To celebrate the return of Gardening Australia for 2012, there are 5 magazine subscription packs to be won.
For your chance to win a year's subscription of both Gardening Australia Magazine and Organic Gardener simply write, in 25 words or less, your favourite thing about gardening.
Email your entry to: abcmagazines@your.abc.net.au Terms and Conditions- Entry is only open to residents of Australia who enter the ABC Commercial promotion between 30/3/2012 00:01 AEDST and 5/4/2012 23:59 AEST.
- Only one entry permitted per person.
- Entrants must submit their answer to their "favourite thing about gardening." The best 5 answers from all entries received during the promotional period will receive a subscription pack consisting of an annual subscription to Gardening Australia Magazine (12 issues) and an annual subscription of Organic Gardener Magazine (6 issues.) 5 subscription packs to be won.
- Finalists will be notified by email during April 2012.
- Total prize pool is valued at $483.50... Prizes are not transferable or exchangeable and cannot be taken as cash.
- The Promoter is ABC Commercial
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| IN THE PAPERS..... Here's the Sydney Morning Herald's review of the premiere episode:
'For most of its 22 years, Gardening Australia was synonymous with Peter Cundall, a host who was affable, informed and committed to sustainable sowing. More recently, under host Stephen Ryan, the show has been more collaborative, featuring a roster of reporters providing their own peculiar slant. But now, for episode one of season 23, the TV evergreen veers off in a quirky, altogether different direction under its beardy new host, Costa Georgiadis.
To open the episode, his ambitious four-minute spiel is less a gentle introduction than a rousing, passionate call to arms. ''We're all nurtured by Mother Nature's cycles and seasons,'' he says, standing at the foot of a majestic waterfall. ''Every creature and plant is part of her amazing interconnected garden. The whole world is a garden, and we're on the verge of a very exciting time.''
A familiar face from two seasons of Costa's Garden Odyssey on SBS, Georgiadis spends the bulk of his first episode transforming a verge in Sydney's east. In his home suburb, with the help of several generations of neighbours, he aims to turn a few neglected patches of grass into a thriving, no-dig community garden. The transformation will be chronicled throughout the series. It's an excellent idea and it just might inspire hundreds or thousands of other Aussie streets to do likewise.
Then, after Jane Edmanson explores a Melbourne garden built on sand, Georgiadis travels to Tasmania to meet Tino Carnevale of the Royal Botanic Gardens. It's all capped off with a hearty meal made with vegies Georgiadis has plucked from the soil, neatly demonstrating his holistic, wide-ranging approach.
Make no mistake: this Greek garden gnome is the best thing to happen to Aussie TV since Kyle Sandilands was sacked from Australian Idol. He may brighten your day with his joie de vivre, but there's more to it than that because he's also helping to make the world a better place. As he sows with knowledge and exuberance, the harvest promises to be rich.'
SMH, 26 March 2012
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