I have only become a regular viewer since Carol took over and it has been very much due to her enthusiasm and style that I have become totally hooked. Very VERY disappointed that she is to be replaced as lead presenter and can't for the life of me understand why there was any need to find a replacement - she is what real gardening is all about.
I enjoy watching Gardeners World and am sure that Tony B will bring other garden experts, and no doubt give us a well ballenced and fresh outlook. I do enjoy Carol chating on GW and the others Presenters too, they all have the enthusiasm to make us get up from out comfortable chair indoors and have a go at our gardens. Even if it is only looking! With all the rain we have been having lately! Good luck, and thanks for the show, also lets not forget Monty who we also enjoy watching.
Welcome Toby will be exellent to to have a new presenter i think Carol Joe and Alice are great keep up all that great gardening. Love all athe tips new planting thats going on right now.
I don't know Toby much or at all, I still miss Chris and thought they should shy away from one head presenter and have guest gardeners every week to do various gardens, that's what i thought toby was doing with the forest thing, which, i'm sorry, wasn't very inspirational. I have followed GW for 15 or so years, on and off, but by now know how to take cuttings, and seriously my first year on an allotment is going great despite joe's attempts to enthuse or teach me ;-) i think gw is over for me, sadly cos it was great but the last season didn't do much for me...i guess after all these years it isn't easy to come up with new stuff to teach/show us, but i feel it isn't even tried.. Alice or Alys would make a great head gardener/presenter and I thought that's why she was introduced last season...shamecan you remember Geoff coming out with his insulating box every spring? that was superb :-) how he used old roof tiles to make a path and sowed seeds in between for a natural, faded/established path...pure genius...
As much as I would have loved Carol to be the next presenter on Gardeners World there must have been a reason, So I say go for it Toby and prove your doubters wrong. I am a fairly new gardener, albiet a fanatical one, and I look forward to a new set of eyes on the proceedings, Joe and Carol will still be there so lets give toby a chance and not pull him before hes jumped the first hurdle. Good luck Toby
Oh dear I was hoping Carol would take over. I love her passion and enthusiasm. I am a novice gardener so I really enjoyed watching Carol and her "just have a go!" approach :-)
I am so disappointed that Carol Klein has been overlooked, her enthusiasm is second to none. Her knowledge and vitality have brought the programme alive again.
Why can't Carol carry on presenting G W? She has done a great job since Monty had to step down. I do hope that we will still see Alice, as her input has been of great interest and it is also nice to have someone who deals with the every day running of Berryfields coming to the forefront. Lets have a lady presenter!!!
As far as I'm concerned the sex of the presenter is irrelevant. I loved Geoff Hamilton, Alan Titchmarch and Monty Don. It's to do with who would have been the best presenter and I think that would have been Carol Klein for all of the reasons stated above.
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Good luck, and thanks for the show, also lets not forget Monty who we also enjoy watching.
Lets have a lady presenter!!!