A garden programme with a real gardener presenting is exactly what was there with Toby and Alys. Why any sensible person would bother to watch Monty - he is not a trained gardener merely an amateur like the rest of us, is beyond reason. It is a very retrograde move and I do not see why gardeners should be fobbed off with 3rd rate information from a non expert. Toby should have been allowed to develope the programme in a more mature style. I expect that the powers in GW were trying to dumb him down knowing they were going to reduce us to Monty.
Why on earth have the BBC given the job of gardeners world to Monty Don - he has no sense of humour and is too up himself to relate to the average gardener. Still I suppose he will get his garden done at the licence payers expense. Toby and Alys were down to earth and not frightened to get their hands dirty unlike Rachael De Tame and I think it is a shame they have been shafted by the BBC - they didnt deserve it. I would also like to know what is happening with Greenacres after spending to much money on it.
Whoa what madness from the BBC this time.Monty don was just about up to that craft programme he did. He should never be let loose on the nations gardeners again.Toby and Alys were brill - just right at every level. They could show beginners and they had all the right qualifications to teach the more expert so why swop them for a bloke who is a right poser and just wants to get his garden redone at our cost? I was really mad when I read his article and told the newspaper shop not to deliver it again. I will not watch until we get real folk back and that should be Toby and Alys. Mind you if I were them I would not trust the BBC GW team further than I could throw a welly.
Seems Monty is writing his own comments now 'truly inspiring' 'Absolutely delighted' 'comments a little harsh'. No they are not a little harsh we don't want you back because we can't learn from you. It's similar to a few weeks ago when the BBC introduced Dara O Briain and Jonathan Ross on Star Gazing Live which interrupted one of the best natural presenters on TV Professor Brian Cox. Keep the comedy acts on comedy programs and leave the educational programs to people who understand their subject.
I am a 27-year-old female gardener with two allotments and a small garden of my own and I think that HAVING MONTY BACK IS MOST EXCELLENT!!! Toby and Alys were great but having Monty back is not a step back for the sake of the old-timers...I want to see real gardeners in real gardens that I can aspire to...I can get the basics from any good book, its the tried and tested practical hands on stuff that (mostly) inexperienced gardeners like me need to see. I accidentally came across Monty chitting potatoes whilst channel-flipping one friday night and he inspired me to get out into the garden. I haven't looked back since. I think he's an awe-inspring man and well done to the BBC for admitting they got it wrong and making the change, just brilliant!
While the BBC screws up again with a retrograde step, ITV is introducing a gardening program hosted by a real gardener Alan Titchmarsh with Alys Fowler. I am not that keen on the adverts but anything is better than Monty.
BBC messes it all up. How untrustworthy they are these days. Once upon a time we could rely on the BBC to put on proper experts but now it is all froth and bling. I expect to learn from a programme not to be droned at by some bloke who knows very little more than the average gardener. I expect expert advice not just pretty pictures and some twerp who the BBC quite like because middle aged women fancy him. Toby was just the right man for the job - if they had not made him do those silly 30 minute fixes. He is properly qualified and I could learn a lot from him. The BBC are degenerating in to a bunch of disorganised populist bling chasers and I will not watch as they ruin what was a good programme.
Thank goodness Montys back..I for one will begin to enjoy GW again instead of feeling I out to be out buying monstrously expensive exotic ferns and once a lifetime flowering something or others !!
We are,as a gardening family, very pleased to see Monty back heading the team on Gardners World. Having been avid viewers through Alan Tichmarsh's tenancy, we were so pleased when Monty took over, and the programme just got better & better. When Monty had to leave, we all thought that the format change was a disaster and Toby and his team had been told how to present the programme by what seemed to be a non-gardening production team. It's sad that things didn't work out for him, but we're all overjoyed to see Monty back at the helm. We think that Gardener's World just jumped back to the top of our viewing list, and we all wish Monty and the team good luck for the new series
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