I was delighted recently to have teamed up with Channel 5 and Anglian Home Improvements to present an exciting new gardening based programme, Garden ER. Read more about our innovative plans.
Together with my team, we will celebrate the best in outdoor living in FIVE’s new primetime gardening show.
Fun Garden ER
This brand new weekly show is set to put the fun back into gardening. Forget Latin names and complicated techniques, this show is about getting maximum relaxation and enjoyment out of your outdoor space, with minimum effort. Packed full of clever ideas, inspiring make-overs and opportunities for you as viewers to get involved, Garden ER is designed for gardeners and non-gardeners alike.
Every week, Garden ER will bring you -
- Inspiration – from a total garden makeover, with real prices and time involved
- Great Ideas – as I transform viewers’ old sheds from shabby to chic
- Help and Advice – as the team sorts out viewers’ embarrassing garden gaffs
- Insider Info – from gadget testing and my top tips
- A look behind the garden gate – into some of Britain’s celebrities’ gardens
The show producers, Hotbed, have already found many gardens to feature on the programme to include 4 celebrity gardens. Our aim is to demystify gardening and bring back the fun like Ground Force had.
I firmly believe you don’t need to be an expert to have a great garden – simply imagination, a few tricks of the trade and a sense of adventure. Our Garden ER series from FIVE will demonstrate that.
It’s a makeover and ER show for people who maybe don’t have a high level of skill but are looking for inspiration.
Garden Gaffs!
The show will also feature Garden Gaffs – Gardens that are more gaff than gorgeous. Did the man of the house do something rickety with the rockery? Was a pond dug only to only to see the water vanish, leaving the goldfish gasping? Then Garden ER can help!
Pimp My Shed!
Our show will also be “pimping sheds” and producers are looking for gardeners with rundown sheds that they want to transform.
Pimp my Shed feature will focus on – Garden sheds more shabby than chic; an eyesore that lurks at the bottom of the garden! David Domoney and the team from Garden ER are looking for some of Britain’s redundant or under-used sheds that need transforming into something useful, good-looking and inspiring.
We’re looking for DIY garden projects that have gone seriously wrong, don’t work, look terrible or simply didn’t live up to initial hopes. We want to meet the perpetrator of the gardening ‘crime’, help them put it right and finally win them a pardon from their long-suffering ‘victim’.
We will present inspirational designs and the skill and knowledge of the construction will be by specialists, paving, decking, lighting and planting. Important issues to be covered will be honest budgets and realistic pricing, amongst others.
Production has already kicked off and I hope you have as much fun watching the programme as we are having filming it.
No further gardens are required for the current series, however if you wish to register to be considered for any future series please visit this link
Take a closer look at what’s going on with the series, visit http://www.garden-er.tv/
Looking foward to the first episode in particular, about time to put the fun into the garden shows on TV!
Chris
Thanks Chris, I’m working hard on the filming as we speak…. It’ll be a great series.
Cheers, David
Hello there David , please hear my call,
to do my” so called”, garden, lawn and all,
watching Garden E R,gave me a thought,
for that dream of a lovely garden, i,ve sort
i,ve tried some things, green fingered i,m not,
i need you to help me, give all you’ve got,
flowers and plants, die when ever touched by me,
and i sit and pray for a garden for all to see,
my lawn is huge,and way out of control,
the flower beds lack debth, colour,beauty and soul,
the lack of light, in parts, dont help too much,
and despratetly needs some of your loving touch,
so help me please to put all this right,
so i can enjoy, a garden and a tranquil sight.
Regards Julie.
Hi Julie… thanks for your comment.
No further gardens are required for the current series, however if you wish to register to be considered for any future series please visit this link
Cheers, David
here’s a test for you , we have an open space of so called garden , that whatever we try to do to it , just seems to stay the same , uninviting , and just one shade of green , we have been trying to give the kiddies their own patch of garden , and give us grown ups a relaxing patch of garden away from all 5 of them , but what ever we do , we just seem to lack the know how or the flare to create what we want , would love if u could help us to transform the green , into a garden fit for the queen , or nearly lol
) yours hopefully Dani 
x
Hi Daniella… thanks for your comment.
Sorry to hear your garden is not inspiring you. It would have been great to use your garden on Garden ER however no further gardens are required for the current series. If you wish to register to be considered for any future series please visit this link
Cheers, David
hi my name is sarah , i used to love gardening but find it a bit hard due to having fibromyalgia i have quite a big garden and would love to enjoy it more but it just looks a bit messy all the time lol any tips for me ??i love to spend my time in the garden as i dont get out much with my fibro there is so much that could be done with the space i have any good ideas xxx
My garden is terrible its a small terraced yard with gates that don’t open or ever close if if we force the peeling wood monstrosities open. I also have a ‘lean to’ thats so leaning its falling over. I tried to replace the corrugated roof with some plastic I found in the ally that was ironically from someones new shed but that has collapsed and leaks water onto my one preciouse item my bicycle that has been forced outside since the birth of our new baby. Im really looking forward to your show & hope your show will give me some new ideas to improve it or even better pay me a visit and help make it usable or just even accessible to our new baby girl
many thanks Craig
Hello Craig, I have passed your request onto our TV production company and they have committed to review your request to assess if they wish to progress your enquiry to the research stage. As you can appreciate we have received lots of enquiries recently.
If your application is successful, then they will be in touch with you quite quickly. However if it is not successful then may I take this opportunity to thank you for contacting us and wish you all the best for the future.
Cheers, David
Please pleasehelp us! Our garden is horrific! Not even a garden! My daughter loves playing outside she is only 14months and our garden is so unsafe and unrealistic. Me and my parter dont go on it. It has a massive shed at the bottom which we dont use and looks awful, a green house that has alsorts growing in it. I take me daughter to friends and family as we dont use our garden! Its just a wasted space. We have tried sorting it but just looks worse whatever we do to it. Its getting me really down with it being summer i just want to have fun on the garden wit my little girl and i cant even peg the washing out never mind play on it! Please helpus!
Hello Luca, I have passed your request onto our TV production company and they have committed to review your request to assess if they wish to progress your enquiry to the research stage. As you can appreciate we have received lots of enquiries recently.
If your application is successful, then they will be in touch with you quite quickly. However if it is not successful then may I take this opportunity to thank you for contacting us and wish you all the best for the future.
Cheers, David
Hi David,
My garden is actually not too bad really, its just a large area with grass & slabs. It’s just not practical to us as a family. We moved house for our disabled son, John. John is 17 and has always been disabled but after his 3rd spinal surgery 3 years ago his spinal chord was damaged and we moved home to allow John a ground floor bedroom & toilet. Anyway, the garden just isn’t very practical when it comes to wheelchairs, the slabs are all uneven and Johns wheels often get jammed. I’d love to have a practical garden 
that’s all!
I loved the show last night, its great family viewing. I was wondering if I could be considered for a garden makeover
Many thanks, Kathleen
Hello Kathleen, many thanks for your comment.
As you can appreciate we have been inundated with applications. The TV production company now have all the gardens required for the current series.
However your request has been passed onto our TV production company for consideration for future series. Should they wish to progress your enquiry to the research stage then they will make contact with you directly.
If your application is not successful then may I take this opportunity to thank you for contacting us and wish you all the best for the future.
Cheers, David
have tryed to submit all my details if you do another show but will not let me send ???
Hi Seadhna, after the shows we do experience high volumes of visitors to our websites. It’s well worth trying again using this link
Cheers, David
Just watched an episode of Gardening ER and then went to website to find out what plant you used in programme but cannot find episode so not sure if I caught repeat but you turned a young couple’s nothing brown back garden into a lovely space with monolith water feature. You did simple planting with a lovely yellow flower plant in all four corners and said it would die down and come back each year – just the sort of plant I need – could you let me know the name? Great show by the way and much, much more accessable than Gardeners World – keep up the great work.
Hello Nicola, many thanks for your nice comments about the show, glad you enjoyed it. The plants you refer to are the delightful Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Early Sunrise’, lovely yellow flowers that come again and again. Enjoy.
Cheers David
HI David
In the first programme of Gardening ER you mentioned
something about teabags to keep cats from using the garden as a loo.
Can you help
Angie
Hello Angie, thanks for your query, I hope you are enjoying the show. If you go to my web site using this link, there is a write up on using teabags and Ralgex.
Alternatively you can visit my YouTube Channel where I have this many other great gardening tips.
Click here to view the video.
hi David we needed help I work in a nursing home and the garden needs a makeover we need to make it more disable friendly as this would help the residents and their family to be able to enjoy their last bit of time together please help thank you
Hi Susan…. thanks for your comment.
Sorry to hear about your garden. It would have been great to use your garden on Garden ER. If you wish to register to be considered for any future series please visit this link
Cheers, David
hi David thank you for get back to us I tried to visit the link but don’t know which one to link on could you email it to me thank you
Hi David please help me I have had nearly all my family living with me and thwir kids whom I love dearly but my garden is an awful awful mess thier trampoline has killed all my grass there is a small hill which I would love to get rid of so my garnen could be flat
it is awful to look at with the 3 dogs too that 2 of them came with them they have helpd mess it up I have shererd Gus who is old bless him but would rellay love you to help me so I can sit there in the summer and try to relax Honesly it is a tip I have the worlds best husband but he works so hard and has to do loads for our kids whihc we noth enjoy but then we get left out
PLease Please David just com and look it is a real tip and makingme ill looking at it
Thanks Jenny
Hello Jenny,
Thanks for taking the time to send your email. We finished the first series of my programme Garden ER, in September this year and everyone is hoping that a second series in commissioned for 2012.
Keep your eye open for announcements and then you can email again; the TV programme producers then assess all the applications and decide the most suitable garden makeover opportunities.
Cheers, David