BBC Gardeners World

Monty Don, I believe, is extremely attractive. He can work sit in my garden any day.

I like Carol Klein and Christine Walkden!
Ane enjoyed seeing Stephanie Cole too and her garden with its problems.

Some extraordinary gardens there though! My sister has gone off Chelsea altogether, even though we went one year...thinks it's all gone too highbrow and not ordinary peoples gardens.

As usual I have seen plants I want.....

merlotgran I agree! Do you know what I think? Carol is J02

Now they've got someone on Chelsea programme of indeterminate gender, emoting madly and loudly. I'm not being horrible - no I'm not, but why can't we just have ordinary folk we can imagine being in the garden with?

Last night I watched a wonderful programme fronted by Alan Titchmarsh about basic gardening skills and landscaping - can't remember what it was called but it was so interesting and informative. he just talked to camera like an average person.

j02 Do you live in Devon, look great in jeans and earn shedloads of money from writing about and presenting all things garden?

No I think jo2 is a Martian in disguise with an agendum to stir up old totters grannies

Bump

Anyway, she's J04 now.....

I'm too old! I can't cope with multiple Jings
If she's not a Martian she's a Confucian and that's worse!

I think she's in the Tardis whirling around with The Doctor. Get behind the sofa girls!

Who? Nellie or jing?
I think I need another drink!

I think all the presenters have had coaching in arm waving and emoting madly
even the young girl from Bristol who did a series on the 'edible garden' last year.

'Calm down my dears'

I agree that Carol Klein hit the right spot at Chelsea, a toned down effort and very nicely presented - good all round egg!!

Hooray for Carol ! She MUST be a Gransnetter! How else would she have known what we were saying? Now which one of you is she really.........hmmm ???? Come on - fess up.

I'd like her bank balance and her knees. It amazes me how she manages to do a piece to camera from a crouching position and then get up without a grimace. She's a year older than me. Gah!!

We have always liked Carol Klein, and I find her hints and suggestions very helpful. However, I hated that bit in the last series when she waxes lyrical about wild flowers - just how much can you say about the daffodil! Her bible on grow your own veg is like a bible in our house! We also loved Geoff Hamilton; how gentle and unorchestrated his style seems now, we have a DVD of his Paradise Gardens series and still love to watch it now and then.
Can't stand Rachel de Thame, though. I understand she was picked from a class of raw gardening beginners, and I can't believe that she is still rolled out to do "planting seeds with Army wives" or "how to plant bulbs". Reach for the "off" switch the minute she comes on!
Monty Don is a very able gardener with a warm style, but as one of you said, his garden is so huge with its "rooms" and what seem to be acres of space, it is hard to relate to our own humble plot. Have to admit to a liking for Toby Buckland and still miss Mr Titchmarsh. Some of his ideas were daft e.g. the beach look, but he really knows his stuff. Joe Swift is good, too, I love his Saturday column in "The Times".