Telling:

Monty Don: ‘In America, gardening isn’t part of the culture. Why do something yourself when you can pay someone else to do it?’

The article isn’t so damning.

But I go back to the story of HGTV, and how the “G” part is ignored… because their TV viewers would rather watch 60 minute long advertisements (for Wayfair, Lumber Liquidators, etc.) than objective or artistic views of inhabiting the landscape.