On Feb 27, 4:52 pm, "Keith \(Dorset\)"
wrote:
Who are your favourite TV garden presenters?

Mine are all dead!!!

Harry Dodson
Geoff Hamilton
Percy Thrower.

Is it something they ate? ;-)

Now:

Roy Lancaster
Anne Swithinbank
Bob Flowerdew

Oh, and Rachel... goes without saying

I know many find him over exposed - and he undoubtedly is - but as a
fair weather gardener who loves watching good (i.e. entertaining, and
interesting) gardening programmes, I enjoy Alan Titchmarsh. I quite
like Helen Dillon (Dublin home brewed).
I also vaguely remember a fabulously dull, but pre-garden-is-the-new-
sex era, Reg Moule. I thought his name was fantastic, and his
programmes always showed him in deeply muddy wellies, filmed on a dull
February day. I have no idea how good or bad he was, and I think I
used to see him on UTV or such (one of the UK channels available in
Ireland). I had no garden in those long-ago days, and my interest was
purely cerebral...
Geoff Hamilton was great - I still enjoy watching some of his re-runs
on the sky gardening channels.
I also like Monty Donn, and I could not care less if he's useless
technically... my interest is purely err.. something or other (see
your interest in Rachel). For the same reason, I wouldn't be too
bothered about Bob Flowerdew.
It is quite clear to me that people called Bob Flowerdew, or Pippa
Greenwood, or Alan Titchmarsh, were pre-destined from birth.

There is an entire generation of frankly detestable so-called TV
garden presenters, spawned by a rash of absolutely dismal TV
programmes which make up the bulk of the specialised satellite
channels. Those horrors include garden rivals, garden ER, model
gardening etc. All based on daft angles and providing pretty
unimpressive instant results.

Aren't you sorry you asked yet?

Cat(h)