These are strange times indeed. I'm someone who doesn't spend much time watching videos, I've just never seen the point. It feels like time wasted. However in the last month I've recommended a movie, told you about some YouTube videos I've been watching, and now I'm recommending that you tune into ABC—that's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation—for a television show, Gardening Australia. Everyone knows about the BBC and good old Gardener's World. But there's a whole other hemisphere to discover!
It all happened for me when a Facebook friend posted photos of Kurt Wilkinson's garden. I clicked through to his Instagram feed (here), and then on a link in his Instagram profile, where he linked to an ABC segment on his garden Yalamurra (here).
That's all it took, I was hooked! Each episode has a segment index so it's easy to skip ahead in the program if you're not interested in an individual piece. Like Gardener's World there's a "Jobs for the Weekend" segment, and like the BBC program these hosts are actual people with some hort knowledge, not just pretty talking heads.
The topics they cover are of every sort. In 2020 Series 31 Episode 04 (here) for example, there's a segment with a gardener, Kathleen, celebrating nearly a century in her garden...
And a segment on Nifty Natives (here) that includes a look at Xanthorrhoea...
And then we watch the host, Clarence Slockee (pictured above) shake the nectar from a grevillea flower into a bowl with water for a tasty "high energy" drink, after cautioning viewers to make sure there aren't any insects present that might bite or sting.
