I couldn't agree more! We live just south of the border and drool with envy over the HGTV Canada listings. We can't pick them up over the airwaves because it is a cable station. However, even the 'regular' Canadian channels on the airwaves seem to have more gardening shows. The shows seem more intimate and 'cozy'. I can watch a gardening show from climates all over the world and still enjoy them.

On the down side, we're not big hockey fans and the Canadian channels are full of hockey playoffs this time of year. I can't get worked up over anything to do with 'ice' when chomping at the bit to get my trowell out!

Please - please email the HGTV web site and complain. I have done this. They have also taken off quite a few of the very good antique shows they used to show. Please - please email them and complain about their lack of garden shows. Maybe if enough of us do this they will put some good ones on that we can watch.

I'm surprised to hear we Cdn.'s get more gardening shows than the US HGTV. Our gardening shows lack actual gardening content and the trend seems to be going toward the garden makeover shows. I don't know about the US but gardening is the most popular and fastest growing hobby and or pastime in Canada but we can't seem to get much airtime on the HG network. Go figure!!

I'm happy to see I'm not the only one irritated with HGTV. The new Year's line-up has even fewer gardening shows than ever before. Gardener's journal dropped for Rebecca's garden? What are they thinking?? Paul James dropped from twice on Saturdays to just once? 5 new design shows?

I'm writing them next and if their lack of Gardening shows irks you, please do so as well...

~Chills

I couldn't agree with you more Chills. I was very upset when I discovered that Rebecca's garden had replaced Gardeners Journal. There is no comparison between the two. Now the only gardening show I have left to watch is Ground
Force on BBC and it's really just a landscaping show.

I couldn't agree with you more.
Rebecca's Garden on Monday featured pumpkins and Indian corn.
In January? How timely is that???

I've said it before and I'll say it again: they should take the 'Garden' out of 'Home & Garden' if they're not going to have gardening shows!

Makeover shows don't count, either...

And another bone I'd like to pick - why is it that all Discovery and TLC show is decorating shows and chopper shops? What happened to the 'Learning' In 'The learning Channel'???? Sorry - it's just been really annoying me for awhile.

Oh, yes. For months, maybe more than a year, on HGTV, I was enjoying A Gardener's Journal and then A Gardener's Diary (or vice versa) at 7 a.m. each morning. On each of those shows, each episode visits a different home garden. Very enjoyable. Last week it changed to Rebecca's garden, so every morning now I'm shown - how to plant plants. Today we learned how to dig holes for mums and how to dig holes for aspens.

Also, why are all the gardening shows on HGTV on Saturday in the middle of the day? All gardeners are outside on Saturday.

I live in British Columbia and subscribe to the HGTV via a large Satalite Dish. I am fed up with it too. The few times I do get to watch the HGTV, it seems to be reruns too. I worked the last two weeks so was up at 4:00 a.m. and listened to Rebecca. Learned to make "stepping stones" one morning with the kids. When I was in the "city" over Labour Day, really enjoyed watching the "Canadian" version at the motel. I have to admit I miss Martha.

I wrote them about disagreeing with dropping some of the garden shows I liked and they responded, "thank you for your support of HDTV"...maybe they work with the government, this is the same response my congressman sends me when I write in opposition to him :(

I agree that if HGTV stands for home and garden it should have equal amounts of each. Maybe the producers could do like they have with Food Network. Have a network that is dedicated to gardening and one that is dedicated to home decorating etc. I would love that since there are some decorating programs that I like to watch but get sick of the reruns.

LOL Chilidawg, know what you mean. We are encouraged to write and then receive a form letter from the politicians and other businesses which tells me that I just wasted my time, paper and stamp.

Hmmm, maybe 2 yrs ago when this thread was started, we did have more gardening shows here in Canada.

Right now I'm pretty fed up with HGTV. It seems full of these ridiculous design-a-room-in-20-minutes-shows with $100 and completely unlimited resources of carpenters, upholsterers, eletricians and plumbers along with a designer/host who looks like miss universe. And then the game show/reality TV varieties with people decorating their neighbours homes and getting into drunken fights. AND what about these makeover shows where the family says they like modern white neoclassical and so the producers bring in a designer who makes their living room look like a boudoir in the Taj Mahal, full of orange and pink and big intricate rosewood furniture, then sulk when the homeowner tells them to get rid of it? Oh Lordy.

TV is for entertainment only, it seems. Back to my gardening books and mags, then!

Pam