Fantastic news! Sorry to lose Alys though. Hope we'll see her on other gardening related programmes. It was a shame Carol didn't get the lead job when Monty had to leave. Will look forward to Friday evenings again now.
Thank goodness someone has seen sense to bring back a presenter who knows what they are talking about. Hopefully gone, will be the juvenile antics of the current presenters Toby and Alys. We have not watched the programme since Monty left as we feel it lacks the adult content most gardeners want. It will be good to see the old crowd back together for some serious gardening and good old fashioned humour. What about Sarah Raven, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood as guest presenters also?.
Peter Seabrook got it right in yesterday's Sun - "Fool Monty back at the Beeb". Why get rid of two qualified gardeners and preplace them with an unqualified niche presenter who uses the programme as a platform to bang on about veg and being organic.Style over substance if you ask me.
We need Monty Don like a hole in the head. He was utterly useless last time he did it, and he'll be equally useless this time.
Maybe he's good at something (I'm not sure what) but it certainly isn't presenting gardening programmes.
Toby Buckland did a fantastic job. He knows what he's talking about (unlike Don) and I'm sick and tired of 'play' gardeners saying how good Monty Don is. If they want lightweights like Don, let them watch ITV, which should be more to their taste.
re Monty Don's ressurection as presenter of Gardeners' World. The following are quotes from an interview with MD Oct09 with The Telegraph:
"Monty Don has had enough of traditional horticulture. I’ll repeat that, while you pick yourself off the ground. The crinkly eyed thinking-woman’s pin-up, Mr Mulching of Gardeners’ World, now thinks that almost everything British gardeners try to do is futile. Neat borders, clipped hedges and huge colourful flowers are all passé.
What happened to turn him into an iconoclast – was it too many years spent at Berryfields? “I always thought it a great weakness,” he says, “that the BBC rejected filming at my own garden, so we had to film at this fake garden, with a whiff of the corporate car park about it.”
Without any help in the garden for the past three years, Monty spent last summer watching his once “primped and preened” design go shaggy. “What are we going to do now?” he asked himself. The answer he arrived at was: let go."
Mmmmm! Or ask the Beeb for his old job back but using his own garden as the location?
HOW FANTASTIC! THE BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Aly was the best thing about GW at Greenacre and she was hardly ever on anymore, I had basically stopped watching. Love Monty. He has been gardening for nearly fifty years that's enough of a qualification for me and he doesn't talk down to the 'amateurs' like Toby did. Bring back Alys as well and I will be completely happy!
Monty back as lead presenter of GW is the best news I've heard all year. Like many I realised I'd stopped watching GW and had found others things to do. Now Friday evenings will be energising and inspirational again, just what I need to help get through this recession.
Having Aly, and her back garden, on GW were excellent and it would be good to see both again. Thank goodness we haven't lost Carol and her knowledge, skills, ability and genuine love of gardening. Hopefully GW will still visit Glebe Cottage.
As a veg grower, who is aspiring to grow organically,I want to see a healthy portion of GW given over to organic veg growing. I would also love to see items from 'up and coming' new gardeners and garden designers.
It would also be great if GW could be broadcasted every week, it is annoying and disappointing when it isn't. Especially as GW is often taken off during the most busy times of the gardening calendar, why?
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We have not watched the programme since Monty left as we feel it lacks the adult content most gardeners want. It will be good to see the old crowd back together for some serious gardening and good old fashioned humour.
What about Sarah Raven, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood as guest presenters also?.
Maybe he's good at something (I'm not sure what) but it certainly isn't presenting gardening programmes.
Toby Buckland did a fantastic job. He knows what he's talking about (unlike Don) and I'm sick and tired of 'play' gardeners saying how good Monty Don is. If they want lightweights like Don, let them watch ITV, which should be more to their taste.
"Monty Don has had enough of traditional horticulture. I’ll repeat that, while you pick yourself off the ground. The crinkly eyed thinking-woman’s pin-up, Mr Mulching of Gardeners’ World, now thinks that almost everything British gardeners try to do is futile. Neat borders, clipped hedges and huge colourful flowers are all passé.
What happened to turn him into an iconoclast – was it too many years spent at Berryfields? “I always thought it a great weakness,” he says, “that the BBC rejected filming at my own garden, so we had to film at this fake garden, with a whiff of the corporate car park about it.”
Without any help in the garden for the past three years, Monty spent last summer watching his once “primped and preened” design go shaggy. “What are we going to do now?” he asked himself. The answer he arrived at was: let go."
Mmmmm! Or ask the Beeb for his old job back but using his own garden as the location?
Having Aly, and her back garden, on GW were excellent and it would be good to see both again. Thank goodness we haven't lost Carol and her knowledge, skills, ability and genuine love of gardening. Hopefully GW will still visit Glebe Cottage.
As a veg grower, who is aspiring to grow organically,I want to see a healthy portion of GW given over to organic veg growing. I would also love to see items from 'up and coming' new gardeners and garden designers.
It would also be great if GW could be broadcasted every week, it is annoying and disappointing when it isn't. Especially as GW is often taken off during the most busy times of the gardening calendar, why?
Also looking forward to GW Live now.