Gardener's World

I know this subject has been covered several times here before, ad nauseam, but I caught the tail end of it this evening. Jesus wept! Talk about dumbed down TV - example, how to find lupin seeds? And who on earth is that scraggy looking female presenter?

I know it probably introduces people to gardening which is a good thing of course, but does it have to be so lowest common denominator? Please tell me the rest of the programme(s) isn't quite so simplistic.

Sorry, rant over.

 

I stopped watching it when Alan Titchmarsh packed it in.:gnthb:

 

I think that's probably when I last watched it too!

 

I don't mind it catering for very basic beginners-I still have things to learn. Patronising people is not on, thankfully that seems to be gone ( along with that ice cream van good riddance) but some people really do need to learn from the bottom up because they haven't ever been shown.


I like it better than last season.

And on a county note-beautiful place is Lancashire !!

 

Yes. Carol is a bit of a Gummidge :hehe:. At least Rachel de Thame looked nice. But then she annoyed people by being too perfect and always wearing gloves whenever she had to do something icky.

 

Stopped watching it when jolly Jeff sadly passed away.

 

Oh dear Aaaron, Carole Klein is not a "scraggy looking presenter" but a true gardener. I've met her a couple of times an she's charming and she knows what she's talking about.

When I told her I'd followed her TV career since she started on Channel 4, she said "Oh yes. That was when we were doing proper gardening".

I think she tries to bring some maturity (in gardening terms) to her presenting, but I suspect that she has to do and say what the producers tell her, rather than how she would like to do it. So blame them!

Chris

 

Unfortunately there seems to be general view in television at the moment that the only way to attract and keep viewers is to produce tosh. Soon Gardeners' World will have guest appearances from Ant and Dec saying things like: 'now Carol, what exactly is a seed? Or: 'for new viewers, soil is this brown stuff I'm standing on'.

 

Thnaks for that Woo.:thumb:

Chris

 

Shiney,It is a pity that you didn't see my posts that I put up on here a few times stating that Carol Kleins nursery was run down.We tried to find it when we visited my sister a few years ago and in the end had to ask at the local Tourist Info centre who told us that quiet a few people had visited her nursery and had found it to be run down.We got as far as the entrance and found it was shut as it was Easter time so never did get to see it for real.

The problem with all these celebrities,is that they spend so much time travelling round the country and to far flung places that they have to employ people to look after the stuff while they are away,so they don't actually do the gardens for themselves.We only have to go away for a weeks holiday and we come back to find the place getting overgrown and after two weeks being away it is even worse.

The best gardens we ever visited was Clacks Farm at Ombersly owned by Arthur and Riet Billit{sp},everything was immaculate,but sadly the land has been sold off since their passing and a house now stands there instead:(