I love Monty, just don’t like some of the things he does, and wonder if it’s good practice to go on like that as a beginner will think that’s the correct way to do things. Just not keen on the rest of the programme. Carol is wonderful, her enthusiasm is never ending. She actually grows things, she doesn’t buy a plant, put it in and say look what I’ve grown, she actually grows them from scratch, that’s gardening. IMO anyway. Has Monty got rid of the box hedge with blight yet?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Monty is affable and articulate which is good. He is an amateur gardener, not a trained professional and that's fine.
Where I have a problem is when he give incorrect advice and the general failure to follow up on projects or plants so anyone following those segments can see what to expect and how to go on.
Being a trained horticulturalist is not a bloc to good communication skills. GH has them in spades and so does AT tho I don't like his direction since he left the Beeb. I learned masses from them. AT had tree ferns and wrapped them properly and at the correct time to get them thru winter. Not so Monty.
Personally, I wouldn't have a tree fern or a palm tree or a flipping banana in my garden. Wrong plant, wrong place and too much faff but each to their own. It's true GW ca't please all the people all the time but it should at least be well researched and reliably accurate in advice and techniques..
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Monty is affable and articulate which is good. He is an amateur gardener, not a trained professional and that's fine.
Where I have a problem is when he give incorrect advice and the general failure to follow up on projects or plants so anyone following those segments can see what to expect and how to go on.
Being a trained horticulturalist is not a bloc to good communication skills. GH has them in spades and so does AT tho I don't like his direction since he left the Beeb. I learned masses from them. AT had tree ferns and wrapped them properly and at the correct time to get them thru winter. Not so Monty.
Personally, I wouldn't have a tree fern or a palm tree or a flipping banana in my garden. Wrong plant, wrong place and too much faff but each to their own. It's true GW ca't please all the people all the time but it should at least be well researched and reliably accurate in advice and techniques..
I love my "flipping banana" and, if we didn't have so much wind, I'd love a tree fern, but I share your opinions on palms. I use a "hardy tropicals" FB site and folk rave about their new palms and it just washes over me " really??" is my usual reaction.
I've always disliked begonias, I must admit, but when I read that they were Christopher Lloyd's favourite plant I was surprised and did start to look at them differently. Still not keen, but a bit more open minded.
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Carol is wonderful, her enthusiasm is never ending. She actually grows things, she doesn’t buy a plant, put it in and say look what I’ve grown, she actually grows them from scratch, that’s gardening. IMO anyway.
Has Monty got rid of the box hedge with blight yet?
Where I have a problem is when he give incorrect advice and the general failure to follow up on projects or plants so anyone following those segments can see what to expect and how to go on.
Being a trained horticulturalist is not a bloc to good communication skills. GH has them in spades and so does AT tho I don't like his direction since he left the Beeb. I learned masses from them. AT had tree ferns and wrapped them properly and at the correct time to get them thru winter. Not so Monty.
Personally, I wouldn't have a tree fern or a palm tree or a flipping banana in my garden. Wrong plant, wrong place and too much faff but each to their own. It's true GW ca't please all the people all the time but it should at least be well researched and reliably accurate in advice and techniques..
I use a "hardy tropicals" FB site and folk rave about their new palms and it just washes over me " really??" is my usual reaction.
I am the same as you LG, although i now grow this one, Begonia Firewings.
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