I am a younger viewer (18) and am absolutely delighted that Monty is back! I find him much more interesting and informative than Toby. I am also delighted that the program is set in a real garden (and how very beautiful it is to) as it is so much easier to get ideas from. I stopped watching the last series as it was highly patronising and I could not stand the way it was presented. I wish the team the best of luck for what I am sure will be a highly successful gardening year.
Hurrah Rachel is back! The bad news is Gardeners World is again dominated by the dull lecturing of Monty Don. Not sure I will watch again. Carol is a gardener, Toby is a gardener, Joe is a talented garden designer who makes no pretence of being a gardener.And right back to Alan Titchmarsh, you respect them...but I am sorry Monty , I am sure you are are a decent chap but I always sense it is the Monty Don show and not a gardening show. bring back Toby, bring back Alan, Bring back Alys, or even Geoff Hamilton he'd be better even now!) but Monty please no!
I for one will miss Toby and Alys because I felt that they spoke to the viewers in a straight forward and honest way. Where as when Monty was presenting the show, I felt that he spoke down to the viewers more as a school teacher telling the class what they will do. Where as Toby spoke like a friend passing on tips for good gardening.
So glad Monty Don is back. Most gardeners are lacking formal training,so what's the problem so many of you seem to have with Monty Don not having a horticultural qualification? Did Vita Sackville West or Gertrude Jekyll have such credentials, yet gardeners like them continue to inspire even now and will continue to do so. I sympathise with Toby and Alys, but the format was so dumbed down and irritating, which I'm sure was not their fault, but I for one am delighted to have Monty back. I love his style and enthusiasm and wish him and his team all the best.
I have tried the new GW twice and I will not be back for a third view. Simply awful. It is like being at a pets funeral -very sad and best avoided. Toby was enlivening and informative - let him do the programme again properly. Monty does not have that much good knowledge to impart and he just drones on and on until I am overcome with boredom. Carol is a real spark of life but I will not be watching again.
What a shock on Friday evening to find Toby and Alice had been sacked, and, to make matters worse, replaced by the oleaginous Monty Don.
Toby was undoubtedly the first true heir of the great Geoff Hamilton -- clearly interested more in gardening and the impartation of techniques and skill than in himself.
Don is in it for the money. He lacks the ordinary touch, and appeals to people who like to be patronised, who feel uncomfortable if treated as intellectual equals.
I can only conclude Don is friendly with a chum on the BBC side whom he knows from his rich upbringing.
I took over my second allotment today and asked the secretary of the Society what he thought of Monty Don. " I wouldn't like to say" so I pressed him and he said " the man is a total fraud" This from a man who has been in professional horticulture for over 40 years.Last week's programme showed he hasn't looked after his apple trees, this week's showed he hasn't looked after his currants. Coming from one's own garden is a double edged sword. What horrors await us next Friday?
What do we think of the new gardeners' world?? Seemed alittle dummed down, funny heard that before! I like monty but the series now seems to have lost a little spark, nothing against Monty as I think his agrden is cool, prehaps he should have had his own programme..maybe the Jewel garden .
The BBC have to put Toby on his own show some how to please everyone, with Alan Titchmarsh now on ITV in june on the same night as GW, with his own gardening programme. How will this effect GW?
What a let down this all is. Please take Monty away and leave him in his garden. I will not be wasting my time watching Gw any more it is so dull without Toby.
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Toby Buckland and Alys Fowler. I liked the less formal approach.
Toby was enlivening and informative - let him do the programme again properly. Monty does not have that much good knowledge to impart and he just drones on and on until I am overcome with boredom. Carol is a real spark of life but I will not be watching again.
Toby was undoubtedly the first true heir of the great Geoff Hamilton -- clearly interested more in gardening and the impartation of techniques and skill than in himself.
Don is in it for the money. He lacks the ordinary touch, and appeals to people who like to be patronised, who feel uncomfortable if treated as intellectual equals.
I can only conclude Don is friendly with a chum on the BBC side whom he knows from his rich upbringing.
PS: bet Don cannot resist pluging his new book!
I like monty but the series now seems to have lost a little spark, nothing against Monty as I think his agrden is cool, prehaps he should have had his own programme..maybe the Jewel garden
The BBC have to put Toby on his own show some how to please everyone, with Alan Titchmarsh now on ITV in june on the same night as GW, with his own gardening programme. How will this effect GW?
I will not be wasting my time watching Gw any more it is so dull without Toby.