BBC hoping its new show will be a blooming success

Here's mud in your eye: Charlie Dimmock will co-host The Great British Garden Revival on the BBC. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

The BBC is seeking to capitalise on the success of the Great British Bake Off by urging the country to get its fingers dirty … well, green, anyway … with a new gardening series. The Daily Telegraph reports that The Great British Garden Revival is aiming to encourage people to reverse the trend for paving over their own leafy corner of this Sceptred Isle and instead return to a riot of colour where flowers abound. The series starts on 9 December and will be hosted by Charlie Dimmock and Monty Don. Those two salts of the earth are back again.