I am not surprised the figures are dropping as the "show" is a muddled mess. No real gardening advice. What advice there is happens to be poor and ill informed. Monty obviously needs the money to do his garden because it is just a badly pruned mess. I caught a few moments while trying to find something to watch while I did the ironing. If I had wanted a comedy gardener I would have stayed tuned in but I actually wanted a real gardener - happily I still have some Toby and Alys on the Humax so I could relive a real GW. BBC please wake up and realise that serious gardeners do not watch this silly GW any more. Sack the producers/ editors who think we want this pap, bring back Toby and let him show us and the new, future gardeners some real gardening.
Now look forward to GW on friday nights, give Monty a break. The show is informative and much better paced. Great idea giving ideas of gardens to visit. Would be good to see more hands on growing and dividing plants with Carol and more veg growing with Monty. Would be nice to see more going on with Montys garden.
I was disgusted by Carol Kleins advice re the pergola. The Armandii that was there should have been huge after 4 years, what was that woman doing! And to suggest ivys for "all year round greed" - lazy. Not what I expect from a plantwoman.
If you want to see a good gardening programme watch Beechgrove Garden Mondays at 7.30pm on BBC1 Scotland, if you have SKY you'll find it around 991 or so if you're in England and Wales. It's made by Tern and has a knowledgeable and hands on cast, including the ex head of the Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. Sky plus it and your Fridays could be good again.
i enjoyed toby building the garden at greenacres as a new gardener i found it very informative unlike the new approach in montys own garden. i love monty but find it not very new gardener friendly.in a time where we are bieng encouraged to get gardening it seems a shame that we are not getting the right advice.most of us dont have the budget or the space to achieve anything like what monty has at home. i miss alyis and toby! i still love carol as she always bursts with enthusism. very little advice given to gardeners north of the border so ill continue to watch my fav beechgrove garden for us more commen people
I am really sorry to have lost Toby Buckland, I liked very much his style and not to be able to see how Greenacres develops is a shame and a waste. Why go backwards?
Monty is not for me - old and boring - bring back Toby and Alys, stopped watching all together. Let me know when you get rid of him...and I will switch back on
carol best montys good toby not bad alys grate alans the best now he is on itv and thats a first why dont gardenersworld do a program with them all on that will be good what a program that will be hey you never no one day thay may do that.
Oh joy - Toby on Chelsea and no Monty. Well done BBC - more Toby please and much, much less Monty. Can you not just give Monty his pension and let Toby have his proper job back.Then I could watch GW again instead of going out to play in my potting shed.
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i love monty but find it not very new gardener friendly.in a time where we are bieng encouraged to get gardening it seems a shame that we are not getting the right advice.most of us dont have the budget or the space to achieve anything like what monty has at home.
i miss alyis and toby!
i still love carol as she always bursts with enthusism.
very little advice given to gardeners north of the border so ill continue to watch my fav beechgrove garden for us more commen people