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Calling All Plant Lovers: This New Netflix Show Is for You
It’s like ‘The Great British Bake Off’—for plant parents.
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Amelie
May 22, 2020
I had such an exhausting week at work and none of my usual anti-anxiety techniques (reading, playing the piano, baking bread) worked. This show finally did the trick! I watched one episode standing at my kitchen counter, eating warm slices of bread with salted butter.
Thanks for recommending this!
Thanks for recommending this!
Arati M.
May 22, 2020
I don’t know what to love more: that you enjoyed the show or that warm bread with salty butter! :)
Rosalind R.
May 20, 2020
One of the things that makes GBB so great is the camaraderie among the contestants. I have zero interest in watching a competition show where there is a promise of "words" between contestants. Life is too short to waste any of it engaging in cut-throat behavior, either directly or vicariously. A shame because otherwise it sounds interesting.
Arati M.
May 20, 2020
I hear you! "Words exchanged" is in a manner of speaking. It's a good-humored show. Give it a try, it's fun!
Lauren B.
May 19, 2020
I wish there was an American version of BBC’s Gardeners’ World. THAT is a gardening show. I can only watch it occasionally on Youtube unfortunately. And no netflix in this house. GW actually teaches, inspires, and entertains. I have learned a ton of stuff from this show and its FB page. British home gardeners are amazing and I aspire to be as good as them.
Smaug
May 19, 2020
Plant lovers will be nonplussed, confounded and appalled if they notice it at all- flower arranging has very little relation to horticulture. Cooking contests are a loony enough concept, but flower arranging contests? Is the American public really this desperate for entertainment? Well, we made superheroes out of vampires and zombies, so maybe.
Lauren B.
May 20, 2020
It’s true. Many years ago I joined a GARDEN CLUB and all they were doing was flower arranging and fundraising so I quit. Yawn. They were buying the flowers, not even growing them.
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