Im so pleased that Monty is back, and from his oun garden!!!. looking forward to the new series. Ive got a bit of experience but am by no means an expert and with Carol and Montys help Im sure my knowledge will grow. Well done BBC.
so pleased monty is back i stopped watching two years ago i would like to see a one hour show half on veg the other half flowers big mitsake letting alys go
She was wonderful, the story of her time in New York was brilliant, guerilla gardening almost. Toby was always a bit patronising towards Alys I thought.
Why oh why get rid of the next best gardening presenter on telly after Alan Titchmarsh. Toby was warm, friendly and explained things in simple terms that an amateur gardener like myself could understand and made me start watching Gardener's World again. Monty don is not a professional gardener and he's just plain dull and boring, so while he's presenting it i will NOT be watching it!!...All the best Toby, here's hoping some other tv channel get's you to present your own gardening programme soon.
great to have monty fronting the show once again, sorry but the show had gone downhill fast for me since monty's ill health, the first series especially, it was better last year, but still false somehow, monty is a more natural presenter and similar to toby a likeable presenter, i welcome the return of monty don, very much looking forward to the coming growing year
Got up early to watch the eclipse over my frosted covered garden.Watching the moon disappear was a bit of an analogy for Toby and Alys being made to disappear by MD.Can't do anything about the moon but BBC please give us Toby and Alys back. It just will not be right without them. I would rather stand and wait for the next eclipse than watch MD.At least the moon doesn't bore me.
Glad Monty is coming back, but keep Alys and please ditch Rachel De Thame, she is too 'posh' to be a real gardener, she doesnt even like getting her hands dirty !
Oh no! Not Monty again. What a disaster and what a waste of money spent on creating a new garden for the last series. If this is an example of the BBC's waste of money, then they do not deserve my licence money.
Talk about prejudiced, you know, we wouldn't dream of saying, 'oh no, not a woman', or 'they're too black', or 'too gay', or 'too disabled', or 'too short' to be a ‘real’ gardener (whatever the hell is real anyhow), in fact of you did you’d probably be breaking the terms of using this site! So can people just give over slagging someone off simply because they're deemed 'too posh'. The fact that someone may have a different social background to yours is no basis for dismissing them – whether they’re ‘posh’ or ‘common’ or whatever other prejudiced epithet you’d care to label them with, not that anyone would conceive of saying so-and-so’s “far too poor to present this programme”. IF someone is genuinely incapable or incompetent in their role, then criticise them on those grounds (though I seriously doubt wearing gloves qualifies you as either of them, it seems sensible to me if she really is so pre-occupied with roses)! I for one actually welcome listening to someone who isn't on TV simply because they happen to have some exaggerated regional accent, with little else to recommend them. I like listening to someone who speaks clearly. I’m fed up of wall to wall poorly spoken and pronounced English, and if there’s room enough for that on TV, and there is, then there’s room for a bit of so-called ‘posh’ too, it’s no more or less worthy. P.S. I'm glad Monty is back, anyone who can carry off wearing chunky corduroy can't be all bad. P.P.S. as the second most popular past-time on here to slagging people off because they speak ‘posh’, is slagging them off because they are supposedly representative of someone’s perceived stereotype of an age or class, I may as well say I'm 39, not 93, and at best lower middle class - if you can be lower middle class in rented accommodation?!
Re:101 Aren't you being a bit accentist? I have lived in various parts of the country for work and it is sad to see local/regional accents go just because other people do not like them. I agree that well spoken English is great but do not condemn all accents just because you think you do not like them. Worst of all speech is the now ubiquitous estuary English - give me a decent local accent any day. As to the chunky cords, they just are too impractical in a real garden. They clog up with mud and then are too stiff to work in.Also fill the washing machine seal with mud which is a devil to clean out. So I would prefer Toby back - accent, plain trousers and good common sense advice. Oh and since we seem to be on a class thing as well (though what that has to do with gardening I have no idea) I am working class but educated.
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She was wonderful, the story of her time in New York was brilliant, guerilla gardening almost. Toby was always a bit patronising towards Alys I thought.
What a disaster and what a waste of money spent on creating a new garden for the last series.
If this is an example of the BBC's waste of money, then they do not deserve my licence money.
So can people just give over slagging someone off simply because they're deemed 'too posh'. The fact that someone may have a different social background to yours is no basis for dismissing them – whether they’re ‘posh’ or ‘common’ or whatever other prejudiced epithet you’d care to label them with, not that anyone would conceive of saying so-and-so’s “far too poor to present this programme”.
IF someone is genuinely incapable or incompetent in their role, then criticise them on those grounds (though I seriously doubt wearing gloves qualifies you as either of them, it seems sensible to me if she really is so pre-occupied with roses)!
I for one actually welcome listening to someone who isn't on TV simply because they happen to have some exaggerated regional accent, with little else to recommend them. I like listening to someone who speaks clearly. I’m fed up of wall to wall poorly spoken and pronounced English, and if there’s room enough for that on TV, and there is, then there’s room for a bit of so-called ‘posh’ too, it’s no more or less worthy.
P.S. I'm glad Monty is back, anyone who can carry off wearing chunky corduroy can't be all bad.
P.P.S. as the second most popular past-time on here to slagging people off because they speak ‘posh’, is slagging them off because they are supposedly representative of someone’s perceived stereotype of an age or class, I may as well say I'm 39, not 93, and at best lower middle class - if you can be lower middle class in rented accommodation?!
Aren't you being a bit accentist? I have lived in various parts of the country for work and it is sad to see local/regional accents go just because other people do not like them. I agree that well spoken English is great but do not condemn all accents just because you think you do not like them. Worst of all speech is the now ubiquitous estuary English - give me a decent local accent any day.
As to the chunky cords, they just are too impractical in a real garden. They clog up with mud and then are too stiff to work in.Also fill the washing machine seal with mud which is a devil to clean out.
So I would prefer Toby back - accent, plain trousers and good common sense advice.
Oh and since we seem to be on a class thing as well (though what that has to do with gardening I have no idea) I am working class but educated.