I love the whole programme and all the presenters, i love the viewers gardens too. I love everything about it. It's probably all down to the fact that i'm a newbie gardener and i just keep on learning from it all. Great stuff. It chills me out and puts me at peace with the world too.
Monty is cooler than The Fonz. Adam is as smooth as a cashmere codpiece. Francis is going to be my wife in my next life.
I've just seen Ronnie O'Sullivan at the garden center. I think he was eyeing up a plant.
It's one of my favourite programmes but I do fast forward through a fair bit of it, as some parts don't interest me such as the viewers gardens especially if presented by kids. I'm a dog person but sometimes Monty's dogs feature a bit too much. Good to have disabled presenters but it does feel like the BBC are ticking boxes, though it's difficult to explain why I think this, just something about it that seems too obvious. Maybe because as one disabled presenter leaves (such as the wheel chair user guy), another disabled person replaces them, as if they must have a replacement.
I find it so strange to somehow spend so much time not seeing what they bring to the programme beyond their disability, such a sad way to view the world through your very own custom blinkers. Guess what, a lot of people are living with a disability and actually seeing someone actively gardening may inspire them. What's the harm?
Seeing what can be achieved by someone who is disabled is very powerful and the encouragement it must provide to similar people, is an obvious reason to show it.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I don't care what a GW presenter looks like, what gender the are or how "able" as long as they have good horticultural skills and knowledge and the ability to communicate it. If they have something about them that triggers others to think "I can do that", so much the better.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I must get a different version of the programme than others. The one I see never has dogs on screen for more than a few seconds, usually as a linking shot to piece together two segments in the show. How can I get the version with more dogs?
I don't care what a GW presenter looks like, what gender the are or how "able" as long as they have good horticultural skills and knowledge and the ability to communicate it. If they have something about them that triggers others to think "I can do that", so much the better.
Exactly. I'd quite like to see a regular presenter who is an older gardener who has become less able-bodied than they used to be, maybe walks with sticks or can't kneel or bend. I'm sure that would resonate with many people and those of us who aren't there yet, probably will be one day either permanently or temporarily due to having joint surgery etc. But I suppose presenters will have retired by the time they get to that stage.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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It's probably all down to the fact that i'm a newbie gardener and i just keep on learning from it all. Great stuff. It chills me out and puts me at peace with the world too.
Monty is cooler than The Fonz.
Adam is as smooth as a cashmere codpiece.
Francis is going to be my wife in my next life.
Good to have disabled presenters but it does feel like the BBC are ticking boxes, though it's difficult to explain why I think this, just something about it that seems too obvious. Maybe because as one disabled presenter leaves (such as the wheel chair user guy), another disabled person replaces them, as if they must have a replacement.
IMHO Astrantia section was too long, Onion section was WAY too long.
I ♥ my garden.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border