"My Garden"

"Mein Garten" make-over yard show on RTL

Was surfing the German TV shows on the internet the other evening, and came across a gardening show on "normal" TV (meaning amongst the channels you get with your usual TV reception) called "Mein Garten", or "My Garden". Cool! I had to check it out, especially since I miss being able to watch HGTV from time to time. Luckily I didn't have to wait til it came on live on TV, which I probably would miss anyway due to my evening working hours - RTL, the channel, has an online archives of some of its shows, including this one.

German really has come a long way as far as entertainment - when I was over here for the first time 11 years ago, there really wasn't much modern on TV - just a few really cheesy German soaps and if you were lucky, some poorly-dubbed movies or varies sitcoms from the US. Now, although there is still a lot of crap on, they are making their own versions of a number of our reality shows and are doing a MUCH better job with dubbing the shows that they import directly.

This is why I was somewhat astounded and positively surprised to find this show on average TV, so I checked it out! Not bad - the premise is a team of gardeners, landscapers and yard workers will turn your backyard or garden area into your dream garden, make-over style - this episode was about a family that just moved into their house and their backyard was a mess!

After the make-over according to their wishes (an Asian-inspired theme), they got a bamboo pavilion, a rock garden, a manicured lawn, and various other Asian flare...and it looked great. The mom of the family even got the terra cotta stone warrior that she'd brought back from China once in there!

So for your German-philes and yard/garden lovers, check out the show! Here's the link to the online video library where you can watch: http://rtl-now.rtl.de/mein-garten.php. Just some inspiration until it starts to get warmer outside!