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BY the way, whats the name of that lady who replaced R.de T whilst she was
germinating and growing on her seedling? I thought she was OK and ought to
have a place on the regular GW team. Maybe she is no real looker , but she
was a gardener!

Sarah Raven, the Queen of Grunge - also a lecturer and columnist for
the Daily Telegraph amongst others.

I think she's more than OK. She'd be better still as a presenter if she
went to the same smile trainer that Ms Dimmock has been using. She is
fallible though: I rather like my gardening presenters to be world
champion plantspeople (like James Alexander Sinclair) and it undermines
my faith when one of them says "What is that?" or "I've never seen that
before".

If AT is out of the equation, then JAS (he of the wide-brimmed hat) is
my favourite TV presenter. He's a brilliant plantsman and a very clever
garden designer - and he's very entertaining to boot, although I
concede that his language may be too flowery for some. I loved his
series of Small Town Gardens last year and can't understand why he
isn't more widely used by the BBC.

Simon