Thank God you are back Monty.I've watched GW for about 15 years non stop but I hardly watched it in your abscence because I'm afraid Toby just didn't have "it" Alan is still my 1st love but.....
Good grief! Am surprised at Monty's return. Whilst the circumstances of his departure from GW were sad, I had considered we'd both now 'been there & done that' now, & had moved on.
I was pleased when GW changed to Toby, a professionally-trained gardener, as the lead presenter. Toby & Alys also comprised a slightly younger team with different perspectives. I wasn't too fond of some of the initial gimmicks, but they subsided, and I have been looking forward to seeing Greenacre develop. What has the BBC done with it - the investment of our licence fees?
I can start watching the programme again, I'm really looking forward to it to inspire my new garden challenges. Shame to loose Alys think she could have made it as part of the team.
Will continue to fast forward through carol (her voice just grates on me) and she only seems to have one topic.
Rejoice rejoice - Monty is back and the sterile Toby has gone. Couldn't be more delighted, well done BBC for recognising how brilliant we proper gardeners all think Monty is. How we missed him!
The present presenters are absolutely perfect, and do the job so much better than Monty Don ever did. As Peter Seabrook once said, 'The fellow can't garden.' I recall him also saying that Don didn't even know how to hold a spade properly!
Why, why, why do we have to give way all the time to the cult of the celebrity, when people like Monty Don are so outclassed by the present team?
I seem to remember that when it first started G.W. came from the roof of the BBC building in london, with a greenhouse with no glass and turf laid on the concrete, I rermember Percy Thrower showing how to use a hollow tine fork to arieate the lawn, and when he went to pull the fork out the turf lifted with it, so he had to put one foot on the turf to hold it diown, it was later that the Programme moved to his garden.
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Alan is still my 1st love but.....
Welcome Back!
I was pleased when GW changed to Toby, a professionally-trained gardener, as the lead presenter. Toby & Alys also comprised a slightly younger team with different perspectives.
I wasn't too fond of some of the initial gimmicks, but they subsided, and I have been looking forward to seeing Greenacre develop. What has the BBC done with it - the investment of our licence fees?
I can start watching the programme again, I'm really looking forward to it to inspire my new garden challenges. Shame to loose Alys think she could have made it as part of the team.
Will continue to fast forward through carol (her voice just grates on me) and she only seems to have one topic.
The present presenters are absolutely perfect, and do the job so much better than Monty Don ever did. As Peter Seabrook once said, 'The fellow can't garden.' I recall him also saying that Don didn't even know how to hold a spade properly!
Why, why, why do we have to give way all the time to the cult of the celebrity, when people like Monty Don are so outclassed by the present team?
stopped watching after TB took over. love MD and his veg
And yess, more JS on his allotment!