WHAT? Him again - oh no. I am sure he may be a nice bloke but please why bring back someone who had their day and was not that good. Leave GW to Toby. Bad move Aunty beeb.
Oh dear here we go again Monty Don! The BBC has yet again listened to the Gardening Elite.New gardeners and people with small gardens will be ignored by the pompous Mr Don. The tips given for propigation and saving money will be a thing of the past. No more Toby or Alys so sad. I put up with him last time round if we had to change why not Carol Klein.Think I will give Gardeners World a miss and I am a core viewer over many years.
why is ever one moaning if you like gardening has much has i do does it matter who does it , i,v watched all of the presenters, and i have my fav but gardening is gardening who ever does it, i like monty don the best but i like toby to they both have great styles of gardening. lets just get back to enjoying gardening, not arguing who,s presenting it
so glad monty is back, but they could have stuck with monty, toby, alys and rachel....there is enough scope in gardening for all their views, plus greenacre could have been maintained, along with new developments in monty's garden. still, i will always prefer monty, he's like the nigel slater of gardening as far as i'm concerned.
I too am wondering why no comments from Adam Pascoe/BBC one comment was about Tobys fans crawling out of the woodwork I was unaware sides had to be taken lest some one lost their job still think its a poor show BBC I think the fault lies with the production team not Toby and co what an accolade though for you Toby to be compared to the late great Geoff Hamilton I wouldn't mind that on my CV
NO not monty - he makes my toes curl in horror. And as for saying he is the Nigel Slater of gardening - that is an insult to Nigel. Nigel trained as a chef and was cooking from a very young age - monty is a failed costume jewellery guy who took to gardens as a late found hobby. Nothing wrong with that - I only took to gardening as a hobby in my 20s but I would not oust an expert from his job. I prefer to get my advice from a trained gardener such as Toby . And as for fans crawling out of the woodwork, surely we did not need to let the BBC know how much we liked someone (although I do recall letters in the Radio Times praising Toby a while back). I adored Geoff Hamilton and Geoffrey Smith but I never let the BBC know. The BBC have behaved appallingly on this matter and will lose a good many viewers I am sure. Toby deserves a programme of his own.
So pleased to hear that Monty is coming back! At last I won't need to fast forward through most of GW in order to get the occasional useful bit. I really disliked the Greenacres site, too. I'm glad to hear this will be presented from a real home garden again.
Too bad about Alys, though. I liked her mixture of quirkiness and knowledgeability and enjoyed her own programme about her veg garden. Perhaps the BBC can find her another show?
Too bad - no Toby. Byebye beeb. I am surprised that any presenter would trust you with your retro swaps and over desperate measures to please the greedy middleaged.
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still, i will always prefer monty, he's like the nigel slater of gardening as far as i'm concerned.
And as for fans crawling out of the woodwork, surely we did not need to let the BBC know how much we liked someone (although I do recall letters in the Radio Times praising Toby a while back). I adored Geoff Hamilton and Geoffrey Smith but I never let the BBC know. The BBC have behaved appallingly on this matter and will lose a good many viewers I am sure. Toby deserves a programme of his own.
Too bad about Alys, though. I liked her mixture of quirkiness and knowledgeability and enjoyed her own programme about her veg garden. Perhaps the BBC can find her another show?