Garden Invaders :cheeky: :cheeky: :cheeky: :cheeky:

Hi there, it seems that you only ever do gardens that dont look that bad really and for people who appear to have loads of money. I would love to challenge you to do my garden cause it like a jungle, my hubby works 60 hrs a week and i work as an anti bullying advisor, so we really dont get time to do it ourselves. it is quite a big garden but we havent been able to do anything withit since we moved in 2 yrs ago. we have 4 kdis aged 13 to 5 and it would be lovely to have a nice garden for them to play in and for me n my hubby to relax in after hard day at work. we like to entertain but cause of the state of it we cant do BBQs or garden parties so we all have to sit indoors at our parties even in the summer. It would be great if you could do our garden. that would make for great viewing.
thanx
rachel

Hi there,

I saw your program and I really would like to nominate my parents garden for your show - it would mean so much to my mum. She is a keen gardener but her garden is just getting too much for her and she needs a low-maintenance design.

I would really like to apply if this is possible,
Thanks
Nicola

I would love more than anything for your invaders to call at my house, and give me a garden i would be proud of, just about to finish the inside of my home, and the next step is the back garden, but i don't know where to start, ive always said to my daughters i would love a surprise, that someone would make it over for me, but they didn;t know who to apply to, so now it looks like i'll have to do the applying myself, but still don't know how to apply to your programme, please help me, thanking you ever so much

I would like nothing more than to have my garden makeover. I have seven children and I am not vey well because I am a dialysis patient so I am not able to do it myself, so please please can you make my dream come ture of having a gareden makeover. it would make me very happy if me and my children can spend time in our garden.
I would be very happy if i could have a chance to win your garden invaders challenge.

Hi I guess Im just another adding to this site but I do have a request as well,I really need your help!!! I have small but dangerous garden that is not child friendly,yet I have two young children,there is a drop onto concrete and it really isnt safe at the moment only the cats and rabbits can use it!! This makes me very sad I want my children to appreciate what garden they have and to be able to use it. I have severe back problems,suffer with epilepsy and cannot do it at all myself,Iam also a single mother so I do not have any partner to help,I would absolutely love it if you could help sort it out and let my children experiance the great outdoors!!

hello garden invaders
My name is jenny and I need help!! My gardening knowledge is limited. We have a garden approximately 35' x 20' which is to say the least empty. My husband does not know a weed from a wallflower and as we are fast approching retirement, I would love somewhere where I can potter about but also relax with a glass of wine on a summers evening. We also have 2 grandchildren and we would love a small play area for them. Please, please help!!!!

Dear Garden Invaders,
My dad has spent about 2.5 years landscaping half of my garden (with some help from me), but he's now getting too old to do more and finds the work too heavy. I'd love more than anything to have the know-how (and a bit of muscle) to be able to finish his labour of love and let him see it complete. I have lots of native trees planted where I'm trying to turn the top half of my 37m garden into a wild natural area,but need help with building a pathway, boundary fencing or hedging and generally making it look tidy.
Please can you help?

Hi Garden Invaders,
I would like to nominate one of my closes friends Paula Adams for a garden make over.
She has two daughters aged 4 & 1, who have never played outside. She lives on a road which is quite busy & her house is elevated from the pavement so the girls can`t play out at the front, and the back garden poses a real problem.
The garden at the rear is sloping quite steep & where a potio area would be is covederd in rock & large bolders, ypu can`t even walk outside the back garden without falling over.
She has been saving up for nearly 2 years to get the garden done pofessionaly, by working full time & taking on a second job in the evenings at the weekend. Unfortunatelly ever time she manages to get some money on one side, something crops up so she then has to spend the money on something else.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can you come to her aid and help her out, so that the children have somewhere safe to play.

Please help garden invaders! Me and my fiance Pete have been living in our first home together for almost a year and a half. On the 19th January we had a little boy, Theo. We both work full time and Pete works crazy hours. He has been etremely busy since we moved in to our home renovating every room and area in the house. He tried desperately to finish it all before Theo arrived but unfortunetley time and money ran out. Pete is still working on our kitchen at the moment but would love to be spending any spare time with his son. We have a reasonable sized garden with lots of potential, which at the moment is a bumppy, patchy lawn used as a dumping ground for the pld kitchen units and bathroom suite! I would love to supprise Pete by having the garden made over so that instead of working on it through the summer months he can be enjoying spending watching Theo grow. Please help us to create a safe area for Theo to play and for us to relax with family and friends. A makeover would mean the world to my family.
Many thanks, Kelly x x

Hi im 19years old and was wonderin how to get a makeover garden for my family can anyone help? i have a disabled mum and two younder sister and a younger brother and really don't have the time to do our family garden so i need some help if possible thanks

95% of what i have just read is utter crap,you can have a smart garden even if u only spend an hour or two a week.the lady who has epelepsy and kids,sure she does deserve a make over but how many of the others just can't be bothered or would rather spend there weekends in the pub or in front of the telly.the whole point of gardening is too get out there and do it your self,its simple enjoyable and you don,t need to be a monty don just use common sense,if u buy plants from the garden centre the label tells you evrything u need to know.I planted my first plant 8yrs ago having ad no garden till then,i now grow all my own plants from seed,my own fruit and veg and if i do have a problem i can quickly find out what to do in the one of many books i have bought over the years or within seconds on the internet

Hi. Like everyone else I am desperate for a garden makeover. I moved out of London 18 months ago and have a garden for the first time since childhood. I spent my first few months clearing the wilderness and got a builder (very dodgy one) to lay a paved area at the end for our dogs. Unfortunately the fencing has fallen apart and nexts doors fence is rotten and their land lord will not replace it. I have no plants and virtually no grass. I would love to have the time and resources to do my own garden even though the work involved is daunting but as my husband left me over a year ago I work two jobs just to cover the bills. I leave home at 6.30am and return at 8.30pm. My weekend is taken up with writing reports for my second job or driving to Wales to care for my elderly mother. I would just like some help to get started, something I can build on. So when the time comes that I don't have to work all the hours I do, that I can potter in the garden with my children and my mother when she stays can sit out in as she is not very mobile. I could go for the sympathy vote and list my various ailments but truthfully as they do not stop me from working they should be irrelevant.

Having both been through painful divorces and much sadness we found each other on the internet, in June 2004, through a dating site. Things moved on and love and happiness blossomed and we started to build our lives again. We sold our homes, moved all contents from both houses into our new home in one day…….phew! We started work on our Edwardian house straight away having to re-wire, install heating, re-fit the kitchen, new windows and doors, carpets throughout and decoration. We were part way through the work but had to break for our wedding in October 2005. Obviously we were so, so tired by now and decided to have a short break from the work and start the work in 2006. The New Year came, but Catriona fell ill so we decided to wait until she regained her health. By June 2006 Catriona was much better and we started to look at the garden. While working in the garden I pulled a muscle in my calf so I was unable to do any more work, yet again we had to put the work back. Several months passed and my leg was getting worse, eventually we got expert advice and found that I had a soft tissue sarcoma tumour in my calf. Tests on the tumor were not good the only option was only to amputate my leg above the knee, which took place in December 2006, we had a rotten Christmas. Following this I had to have 6 months of gruelling chemotherapy, it took a lot out of us but, as you can imagine Catriona and the kids were going through hell. All again was going well and I had a prosthetic leg fitted, we were trying to get our lives back and once again started the work on the house and garden. We completed the bathroom in November 2007 and stopped for Christmas. In January 2008 I had a routine scan which found that the cancer had spread to my lungs. Again our lives were turned upside down. In March 2008 I had a life sparing operation to remove 5 tumours from my left lung and now I’m due for next operation on my right lung on 24 April 2008. As you can imagine I find this also frustrating and very difficult to do anything anymore but try my best. Catriona has had to give up work to look after me. She has been a rock and kept everything together whilst going through this hell. I ask if you can help and complete the house and garden for Catriona as a way to thank her. She has done so much for me over the past 18 months, I want to give her something back in return…….she deserves it!

I'm with UK TV Style user here, some people just need to get off their bums and do it themselves! I also had no gardening experience whatsoever when I started my garden and granted, it won't be winning any awards any time soon, but the whole point is that at the end of the day, you can stand back and say, 'I did that. I have the blisters to prove it, the muck under my nails for the next fortnight to remind me, and it looks just smashing!' Rach38, if you have the time to entertain, you have the time to do your own garden. Niki10, why don't you do your Mum's garden? That'll mean much more to her than getting a TV show in to do it. I don't want to sound harsh, but I've just read the rest of the requests (sorry, not picking on Rach or Niki here, but there's just too many that I want to personally comment on) and unless you have a disability, illness or terrible ailment of some kind, you have absolutely no excuse. Don't even use the 'I'm a busy parent' thing either, get your kids out there and have them help too, not only could it be educational for them but believe it or not, they may also find it fun. But I have to say, Mr & Mrs Potato Head, my heart goes out to you and your family. If I lived anywhere near you, I'd come and do your garden myself. Garden Invaders, if you read these, this deserving couple definitely have my vote.
Lisa xx

Thank-you for your thoughts and words, thank-you. The 2nd lung operation has gone well and although I'm still in a lot of post-op pain, I feel a little better every day. Kind regards, Carl (Mr Potato Head)

hi there, i love your programme still don't know how you do it! I would love you to be able to try and revamp my sons garden. He and his partner are saving to get married next year,they have a little girl, isabella who is just one and would love to go out in the garden but its not toddler friendly! hoping you may be able to help.

hi there i just love your programme, still don't know how you do it! I would loveyou to be able to makeover my sons garden. He and his partner are saving to get married next year, they have a little girl Isabella who is just oneand would love to play outside but the garden isn't toddler friendly.Hoping you may be able to help.

hi garden invaders, my name is jackie sutherland i would like to find out how you get a garden makeover, it is for my very best friend maureen who moved in to her house 6 years ago which then the garden was quite low maintenance but now it is getting over grown, she works with children and is very busy, i try to give a hand and try to maintain the backand front garden with my friend but it is getting impossible,i would like to surprise maureen because through the years she has always been there for me and my family, i would be forever grateful if u could kindly reply to my request

GUESS WHAT?

A lot of people want someone else to do their gardens for them!

Does anyone from Garden Invaders reply to these comments and requests? Is anyone anywhere still doing garden makeovers? I'd love to find somewhere to get help (physically and financially) doing something with the playground at my daughters' primary school. I'm on the Parent Council (formerly the school board) and the school grounds are in a terrible state of repair. The school has no money to do anything with them itself, and what funds we have managed to raise have been spent on small gardening projects. Dealing with what is essentially waste land is beyond our means. All we want is something that's safe for the children and something that can be maintained by each class.

Hello Viki, these forums are hosted on the UKTV website.
UKTV is a company which buys and shows tv programmes, garden invaders being one of them.
The people you see in such programmes do not read these forums as there is little or no point. They may "star" in a programme but they have often have nothing to do with where a garden make over is done.

Any good landscaping / gardening company will / should be able to do a make over for you, at a price of course.

I suggest you get several quotes and compare, but make sure they are all like for like quotes.

I would how ever suggest that as your last comment says "......and something that can be maintained by each class."

Why not get each class to do a small part of the make over in the first place? Yes you may need extra help for moving any large objects, but it will give a better sense of achivement knowing they did that. (even if it is only planting the flowers)

regards

Martin

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