Mods: are we allowed to brag/skite/be big headed on this sub forum ??
Never mind...here goes :

"Hi Doug, It’s Larissa Romensky from Gardening Australia. Thanks for meeting with us and showing us your incredible garden. I’d love to include you as part of the Darwin episode - we’re filming between the 18th and 29th May. I’m just working out exact dates. What’s your email so I can stay in contact that way, if that’s okay? Cheers Larissa...."

Bit of saga for me as I'm in Camden, NSW ( 4,000klm from home in Darwin ) atm, so I have to get my backside into gear to be home a week early so I can prepare as in watering, picking up palm fronds, clean up after the cursed bush chooks that will have moved cubic meters of soil onto garden paths etc... ( cursed things )...lol

So anyways, I flew home from Sydney for a week to do the filming...

'Well they wanna film at mine on the 18th May ( confirmed today ) so I will fly home a few days prior and then back down here to finish off cleaning and then disposing of Mum's place.
They said they'll be at mine all day filming to get enough footage...and to leave my old busted / broken rusty trailer full of palm fronds in the driveway....lol.
I'm thinkin' a few thawed out cane toads from the freezers strategically placed, a coupla fruit bat carcasses and with a bit of luck the resident carpet snake will make an appearance.... oh and I will put a coupla green tree frogs in the downstairs tpilet and washing machine ( if they're not in there already... hehe'.

'The crew from Gardening Australia filming at my place today...
Been a long day but of course very interesting seeing how its all done and how it all comes together...
I think they needed an old school Darwin palm garden and someone who is fulla B/S and talks crap .... so I fitted the bill....lol
The ABC boys hiding the beers I fed them ...hehe, I was under no such constraints...
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So basically they were filming at my place to show off an old style Darwin palm garden that was planted 35-40 years ago.... the storyline exploring how palms have fallen out of favour in modern Darwin gardens/landscaping. I was able to show them the ravages of the Ganoderma disease, some exotic wins and failures, damage from TC Fina that tore through my place 6 months ago ... and of course the mountains of fronds/green waste that I have to deal with... all on a suburban block of 900 square meters.
Oh and the fact that I'm mostly a 'lapsed' enthusiast who has forgotten the names of some of my exotics, and that I never had ( and still havent a 'plan' re plantings ... nowasays if a bird or a fruit bat poops out a seed and it sprouts, I mostly let them grow... as in keeping with the shady jungle theme.
Anyways a days worth of filming for perhaps a 5-10 min segment on a national TV show... yeah, I'll calling it a win...lol
The show goes to air on 25th Sept 2026 on ABC TV.

Very cool! Wonder if it will play in the USA? That's a lovely mature jungle.

Can't wait to see it when it airs on TV!