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Having previously featured in
House Beautiful s list of emerging female gardeners, find out more about Poppy Okotcha s modelling past and how she s become horticulture s newest rising star.
Poppy appears in Channel 4
• Poppy was born in London but grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. During her teenage years she moved back to the UK, spending time in the British countryside, and spent her early 20s in London.
• As a trained horticulturist and ecologically-focussed grower, Poppy s mission is to inspire people to engage with and connect to the natural world. She also advocates for those who are under-represented and marginalised in both horticulture and environmentalism. Whilst confirming her new TV slot via Instagram, Poppy reflected on why her casting is significant in addressing diversity in horticulture, writing:
The Great Garden Revolution, review: a whisky barrel pond and G&Ts with Shirley Ballas? Yes please
4/5
Channel 4 s new show was full of tips for gardening novices, and great fun with it
1 May 2021 • 9:00pm
Presenters Bruce Kenneth, Poppy Okotcha and Joel Bird
Credit: Channel 4
The Great Garden Revolution is gardening done the Channel 4 way. Are you yearning to turn your outside space into an Ibiza-style bar? This show will tell you how. The presenters include Poppy Okotcha, billed as an “ecological gardener” (is there any other kind?), and Joel Bird, who wears a pork pie hat and braces and those shoes that look a bit like Cornish pasties. And the first property to get a garden makeover was situated – where else? – in North London.
Rating:
Telly loves tears. A gush of emotion when families are reunited, sobbing as a beloved heirloom is restored, a choked throat and glistening eyes.
It’s what Jay Blades, presenter of The Repair Shop, where every renovation brings the tears welling up, refers to as ‘the money shot’.
But tears have to be handled with respect. When people are goaded into displays of raw feeling the stock-in-trade of Big Brother and Love Island viewers feel used and cheapened themselves.
Journalist Anita Rani achieves a masterful blend of serious reportage and deep emotion, in Saved By A Stranger (BBC2).
Devoting a full hour to each story would have been better there was certainly enough material in both the opening investigations. Karl is pictured above with journalist Anita Rani
Wednesday, 28th April 2021 at 5:06 pm
If you’re a green-fingered horticultural fan, then it’s time to get those marigolds on – brand new garden show The Great Garden Revolution is arriving on Channel 4.
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Hosted by experts Joel Bird, Poppy Okotcha and Bruce Kenneth, this new series sees the cultivation team make-over a new back garden every episode, with a number of celebrity’s expected to drop by.
Here’s everything you need to know about The Great Garden Revolution.
The Great Garden Revolution release date
The Great Garden Revolution begins on
Saturday 1st May at 8pm on Channel 4.
The series will air weekly over four weeks.