Donutsmrs, I thought love your garden was like ground force too, I half expected Tommy Walsh to pop out. I wasn't totally impressed with it, but will give it another go. Thanks to all for the Hampton court heads up, sky + set and ready. Well one week without GW has passed only 3 to go.
4 weeks before gardeners world is back because of wimbledon, well i also like tennis but please bbc couldn't you have moved monty to another time so we all could still get the gardening fix , it was only 30min long ( which i don't think is long enough anyway ) just love it when monty looks to the c.amera and says it will be an hour long programme next week . there is that much rubbish on the TV cancel them when tennis is on and give monty the slot. i did check out LOVE YOUR GARDEN WITH ALAN titch, but it is just like the old ground force, although it was a for a good reason , i found it quite boring and won't be watching it next week .
but thanks kate i will be watching hampton court programmes.xx
Just a reminder to set your recorders for Hampton Court Flower show, Tuesday morning at 11am on BBC2.
Hmmm 11am on a Tuesday morning. Is this another example of how much the BBC holds gardeners in contempt? No offence to those at home in the daytime, but surely they'd get a better audience if it was shown in the evening. Apart from those of us who work, the ones at home maybe out gardening, seeing to the kids, shopping. I could even understand it if it was lunchtime
Agree with everything said before. There is plenty of room on BBCs 3 and 4 for Gardener's World and no excuse to drop it particularly at this time of year when people are usually working in their gardens and looking either for advice or inspiration. I suspect poor planning is behind it.
Monty Don is away filming for a series on Italian (or maybe French) gardens according to his twitter.
Love Your Garden has a different format from the previous one that Alan Titchmarsh did last time. Wasn't it more a gardening show before rather than a make over?? I quite like his gardening series in the past ones where he built grassy knolls and so on. I didn't warm to the recent episode but I think it will have to do.
I have been following this thread for a day or two now. I have had one of those unsatisfactory generic replies from the BBC to my complaint and although have left my comments on the Points of View web site find gardeners are getting a bit of a rough ride there on this topic. Again not impressed with alans latest offering and like other viewers switched off after a while as it was just like Ground Force . thanks for the HC details above , any port in a storm so I will record this to watch. some years ago when I lived in Wales and could not get GW my daughter in law recorded a couple of years worth of programmes on old fashioned "tapes" and gues what. I have dug them out and will be watching these in the interim till GW returns
Like all of you I'm infuriated with the BBC for bumping GW just for wimbledon, makes you wonder what's going to happen during the Olympics. We could be without GW for more weeks than we think!!!
GW is off air for two weeks because of Wimbledon-the other two weeks would appear because of televised Prom concerts
This does happen ever year-but cant recall it being 4 weeks in succession
As I have said before BBC1 and 3 are the designated Olympic channels but that does not mean that all usual programmes will be shown on BBC2-I think we have to accept that this year of all years GW might get disrupted-we have seen 14 episodes out of 31 so there is still plenty to come.
What has happened to all our gardening programmes, we use to get more than one a week ! I think its a real shame we loose out to sport, there interests are catered for, I'm fed up with taking a back seat. Sacrifing one programme a week is not good enough BBC ??
country file manages to be on every sunday; which I enjoy but they often have programmes that seem made up of clips from old ones! So why is it never off because of other programme priorities? Is it that porgrammes traditionally shown on a sunday are less likely to be disrupted? or perhaps there is a stronger lobby for it in the BBC If so lets have Gardeners World moved to a sunday please. I noted in an earlier comment that Monty is away filming for another series but really how did they manage when he was ill. His co presenters performed heroically so surely they could hold the fort for a few weeks? I say move it to a sunday and lets have it as a weelky programme throughout the year please BBC
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4 weeks before gardeners world is back because of wimbledon, well i also like tennis but please bbc couldn't you have moved monty to another time so we all could still get the gardening fix , it was only 30min long ( which i don't think is long enough anyway ) just love it when monty looks to the c.amera and says it will be an hour long programme next week . there is that much rubbish on the TV cancel them when tennis is on and give monty the slot. i did check out LOVE YOUR GARDEN WITH ALAN
titch, but it is just like the old ground force, although it was a for a good reason , i found it quite boring 
and won't be watching it next week .
but thanks kate i will be watching hampton court programmes.
xx
Hmmm 11am on a Tuesday morning. Is this another example of how much the BBC holds gardeners in contempt? No offence to those at home in the daytime, but surely they'd get a better audience if it was shown in the evening. Apart from those of us who work, the ones at home maybe out gardening, seeing to the kids, shopping. I could even understand it if it was lunchtime
Agree with everything said before. There is plenty of room on BBCs 3 and 4 for Gardener's World and no excuse to drop it particularly at this time of year when people are usually working in their gardens and looking either for advice or inspiration. I suspect poor planning is behind it.
Monty Don is away filming for a series on Italian (or maybe French) gardens according to his twitter.
Love Your Garden has a different format from the previous one that Alan Titchmarsh did last time. Wasn't it more a gardening show before rather than a make over?? I quite like his gardening series in the past ones where he built grassy knolls and so on. I didn't warm to the recent episode but I think it will have to do.
I have been following this thread for a day or two now. I have had one of those unsatisfactory generic replies from the BBC to my complaint and although have left my comments on the Points of View web site find gardeners are getting a bit of a rough ride there on this topic. Again not impressed with alans latest offering and like other viewers switched off after a while as it was just like Ground Force . thanks for the HC details above , any port in a storm so I will record this to watch. some years ago when I lived in Wales and could not get GW my daughter in law recorded a couple of years worth of programmes on old fashioned "tapes" and gues what. I have dug them out and will be watching these in the interim till GW returns
Like all of you I'm infuriated with the BBC for bumping GW just for wimbledon, makes you wonder what's going to happen during the Olympics. We could be without GW for more weeks than we think!!!
GW is off air for two weeks because of Wimbledon-the other two weeks would appear because of televised Prom concerts
This does happen ever year-but cant recall it being 4 weeks in succession
As I have said before BBC1 and 3 are the designated Olympic channels but that does not mean that all usual programmes will be shown on BBC2-I think we have to accept that this year of all years GW might get disrupted-we have seen 14 episodes out of 31 so there is still plenty to come.
What has happened to all our gardening programmes, we use to get more than one a week ! I think its a real shame we loose out to sport, there interests are catered for, I'm fed up with taking a back seat. Sacrifing one programme a week is not good enough BBC ??
country file manages to be on every sunday; which I enjoy but they often have programmes that seem made up of clips from old ones! So why is it never off because of other programme priorities? Is it that porgrammes traditionally shown on a sunday are less likely to be disrupted? or perhaps there is a stronger lobby for it in the BBC If so lets have Gardeners World moved to a sunday please. I noted in an earlier comment that Monty is away filming for another series but really how did they manage when he was ill. His co presenters performed heroically so surely they could hold the fort for a few weeks? I say move it to a sunday and lets have it as a weelky programme throughout the year please BBC