Gardeners World

Now that is a piece from our self styled expert, begining to repeat himself.:WINK1:.......saying SO much but in fact saying nothing.....critisism for the sake of critisism..

I am just speaking for the silent majority............a vast majority enjoying a little piece of magic on a friday night.

 

He's just trying to explain his point of view to you Roders rather than asking you to agree with it. Your post comes across that you are offended that other people criticise the program, rather than that you understand that they have an opinion (different to your own maybe, which is surely fine?) on the program.

 

OK guys I take your point.....you are entitled to your opinion.

I am just saying that there IS another point of view that needs to be put.

I have just been reading the Mail and there is a tiny piece by Janet Street Porter on the programme that speaks for us.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1365870/Census-2011-Ill-mind-business-leave-blank.html

 

i would have liked i the format to be what it was going to be last year with the new garden with monty

the esablished garden carol and the alotment to round off but filming at montys mean the the program

seams to be how to continue gardening not how to start and continue still good to see monty back

 

Neither am I.

Because of health issues, I gave up my very successful hard and soft, private and commercial landscape business in 1994. But before doing so, I had work published in The Daily Telegraph and the Times. Amongst other things I also received a Bali award. In partnership with someone else, I also turned down the chance of doing a garden for Chelsea. I turned the offer down because I hate crowded places, and it held no interest me.

Rodders, feel free to continue to call me a "short sighted self styled expert" when my opinion doesn't suit your own.

 

Its this bit Armandii,

"Monty's welcome returnThank goodness Gardeners’ World has returned to BBC2 in a new non-trendy format, fronted by the impressive Monty Don.

He has got the knack of talking to us calmly, without flapping his hands about like two bunches of bananas and gushing like a geyser (Carol Klein, take note).

We saw Monty pruning fruit trees, dividing up snowdrops and getting on with work in a relaxed way. That’s pretty rare on telly these days. My Friday nights are now complete."

 

Just to voice my opinion...

I am sat on the fence on this one, as I can see everyones point.

Of course people have a favourite presenter. Some of us love Monty, other not so much... some people couldn't stand Toby Buckland from the last series, but I found his approach was always focusing on the positive, like teaching a primary school child the basics (and I found this very inspiring as a beginner). Im sure others would like to see Alan Titchmarsh back on gardeners world... then again, i'm sure if we could bring back the legendary Geoff Hamilton, many would agree to him being back on screen.

Co-presenters in my opinion have always been good. Carol Klein will probably always be my favourite, as she has the down to earth personality that appeals to me, however, I also enjoyed Alys Fowlers presenting style, though some might agree that she probably more upper class than Carol, as is Racheal de thame (spelling?).

In regards to the first episode of the new season, I did enjoy watching it, however, I cannot say that I have learned much that I can use in my own garden. Not particularly the end of the world (as I always have the helpful advice from Gardeners Corner :WINK1: ). Other people may have found useful advice.

Thank you BBC for providing us with 30 minutes of Gardening entertainment, but I would love to hear from anyone who would disagree with the BBC extending this show to 1 hour on Fridays... or possibly 30mins Fri and 30mins Sat... BBC2 isnt regularly solid packed with high quality entertainment, and 1 hour a week catering for all the countries gardeners (and might I add, TV Licence Fee Payers) isnt too much to ask, especially considering the BBC has so many channels nowdays. If anyone has noticed, the BBC cant seem to provide us with good gardening education, but come midnight, they manage just fine to supply the countries school children with hour after hour of educational videos.

Still, like I say, 30 minutes is better than nothing at all, and I DID enjoy the show... however there is room for improvement. It is always going to be a difficult topic to cover, considering the broad variety of garden sizes, soil types, sun aspect etc, not to mention peoples financial situations regarding disposable income to spend on the garden, and even to the point of the differences in Class, ranging from working class people who have less cash, and work longer hours... having less to invest in their garden, to upper class folk who possibly dont work, and have enough cash to entertain any plans they wish for their garden...

Any age, any class... Im sure we are all united in saying that we want more Gardening shows on the Box.

Either way, let us not squabble
Well mannered disagreement is healthy, conflict isnt.

 

It is as simple as that............. Courtesy of Janet Street Porter.


"Monty's welcome returnThank goodness Gardeners’ World has returned to BBC2 in a new non-trendy format, fronted by the impressive Monty Don.

He has got the knack of talking to us calmly, without flapping his hands about like two bunches of bananas and gushing like a geyser (Carol Klein, take note).

We saw Monty pruning fruit trees, dividing up snowdrops and getting on with work in a relaxed way. That’s pretty rare on telly these days. My Friday nights are now complete." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I am not a great fan of JSP......But she got this right.imho.

 

Hmm, well personally I found the beetroot in modules to be an interesting tip so I've just sown a few in that way to see how they go. I knew about snowdrops but some people may not and it's relavent to this time of year. Monty Don I like, Carol Clein is enthusiastic! ( very ) to the point where she can annoy me and I liked Alys in the last series.

So we all have our opinions and I was happy to watch anything to do with gardening..

 

I still think GW has missed a real oppurtunity this year, with a slight modification 20 mins could come from Monty's established garden, 20 mins from the developing Greenacre (With Toby and Alys) and 20 mins for outside films with Carol, Joe and Rachel.

Having said that, we are stuck now with 30 mins and have seen one programme that I would class only as an introduction and because these things are planned in advance, we are stuck with what we have now until next spring, lets just see how the series develops through the year and enjoy what we have.

There are some good ideas and thougts about the programme within this topic but I do not think BBC producers would read past the first few posts to get to them, but maybe direct contact with the programmes producer's might actually get to them, after all, if they do not know what we want....how can they ever provide it for us?

I should be digging at the allotment today but due to heavy rain I cannot, maybe Carols film was added due to weather restricting filming? Even the BBC cannot control the weather. Just a thought.

I would like to see an hour every Friday night, 52 weeks of the year! They could quite easily provide this and fill it with great subject matter if gardeners let them know what they wanted.

Has anyone here actually contacted the BBC?

Steve...