The Landscape Man

2010
The Landscape Man

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EP1 Devon Apr 22, 2010

The first show follows the story of plant lovers Keith and Ros Wiley, who work all by themselves to create their grand and extraordinary vision in their four-acre field. They carve canyons, build a Mexican style courtyard and dig a new lake, but they face a heroic battle against time, money and nature to create one of the most ambitious and stunning new gardens in Britain.

EP2 Essex Apr 29, 2010

In this episode, Jason and Demetra Lindsay battle against winter snow, a tiny budget, and acres of brambles to restore the grounds of their 900-year-old castle in Essex to their former glory. With lakes to dredge, ponds to dig, lawns and beds to lay, and thousands of flowers and shrubs to plant, Matthew rolls up his sleeves to help them bring back some magic to this beautiful, but neglected historic landscape.

EP3 Suffolk May 06, 2010

Landscape gardener Matthew Wilson helps couples take on mother nature to create beautiful new landscapes in their own private outdoor spaces. Forget gardening, this is landscaping on an epic scale. In this episode, Clive and Debbie Morris have grand ambitions: to create the best garden in Suffolk. Clive and Debbie have a big budget to match their big aspirations, they even want to bring an award-winning garden design back from Chelsea Flower Show and into their 25 acres. They've got a top designer in place and a determination to get the best, but will perfectionist Clive see his dreams of gold winning landscape come true?

EP4 Guernsey May 09, 2010

In this episode, Matthew helps Ed and Vanessa Adams as they seek to tame a wild cliff top landscape in Guernsey, and transform it into a beautiful outdoor space the whole family can enjoy. But it won't be easy as the area is an impenetrable jungle of brambles and bracken. One of them wants to take nature on. The other wants to save it all. Will they be able to bring these two ideals together to create the landscape of their dreams?

EP5 Sussex May 16, 2010

Landscape gardener Matthew Wilson helps Anne and Geoff Shaw bring their overgrown and wrecked garden in Sussex into the 21st Century. With the help of a bold designer, they're bringing a modern vision to an area of outstanding natural beauty, complete with sunken gardens, tennis court and pool complex. But they face planning nightmares, financial crisis and heartache as they struggle to create their dream landscape.

EP6 Wales May 23, 2010

Landscape gardener Matthew Wilson helps Sarah and Trevor Woods turn their back on town life for the wildness of remote Wales, where they hope to transform a five acre plot into an idyllic garden and farm, and live off the land. What they didn't bank on however was having to endure the coldest winter for 12 years, while living in a caravan. With virtually no money and little experience they'll have to battle the elements to try to create their functional, but beautiful, natural landscape. Matthew Wilson is there to try to guide them through the process and help to create a beautiful farmyard.
9| 0h30m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 22 April 2010 Ended
Producted By: Red House
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-landscape-man
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The Landscape Man stars expert gardener Matthew Wilson as he helps couples design and create bold and beautiful gardens.

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aarone2884 I like this show. I am a landscaper firstly, i have only watched the first 2 episodes and they are quite good with both very different landscapes. The couples of both these episodes seem to know what they want to achieve, and appear competent enough to do it, maybe not to a fixed timeline or budget you will get from a professional, but they do quite well, and probably for a lot less.The Host use's a Kevine McLeod of grand designs impersonation to handle the show. Probably the the best way to handle a show like this, as they are very similar, except one is exterior construction/landscaping. Unfortunately it is what he adds on top of that impersonation.Attempts to look as though he is part of the project, he constantly is stating The winter mud may.. "Make or Break this landscape" just add the reason to the start of make or break..... this is OK if it is true and you can show on film how it is making or breaking the landscape....otherwise Shut up.Or when he gets involved is cringe worthy, the plants on the embankment made me laugh....the ground is hard....then he looks over he is then sayin..hrrmm...they seem to be doing OK.....that was not hard ground.Please just stand back Mathew and let the people handle there own landscape!And then there's the Convenient "Wow someones donated $10,000 of materials for your job....or here is a $50,000 excavator you can use for 5 months for free!As much as this might be true....i doubt it. With the exception of the hosts interferences and nonsensical concerns from the shrubs with the camera in his face like something out of blair witch.....this show is really good.A show like this though will really deserve and benefit from a Revisited series, A lot more than Grand designs revisited has, as these gardens are going to take a few year to really come together and evaluate properly due to the nature of plants taking time to grow. And you can see this in a lot of the finished landscapes, Hard surface work is completed and the plants practically still the same they where when they where planted.I have given it 8 out of 10. 1 off for the host and 1 off for having the episodes drag on so long when they could have been shorter, there is a lot of unnecessary film.