On Thu, 22 May 2008 17:24:02 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2008 12:56:53 +0100, Janet Tweedy
wrote:

Am i just miserable beggar from Amersham or is the 2008 "media female
personality" taking us round Chelsea grating on anyone else's' nerves?

i don't know who she is, some afternoon TV presenter, certainly not a
gardener of the keen kind and too easily made to do 'media' stuff such
as pace up and down (cue pacing music) waiting for the girls who give
out the cards, then running behind them giving girlish shouts of alarm
as they hurry on. Probably trying to get rid of her i should think!.
Sorry don't think she's the right personality/media presenter for the
programme, she even asked one entrant who had just received a bronze for
goodness sake, if he was pleased!! Not sure if the answer wasn't edited
a bit

Why not Penelope Keith or any other 'personality' gardener if that's
what is needed?

Think Andy Sturgeon comes over very self effacing and still pleased to
get a medal, but weird fence/hoops. Glad not to see the dreaded Dermuid.

Did anyone go and were the gardens as good or bad as they appear?

Afraid Mrs Lennox-Boyd is going to find the immaculate pond she built
needs to be cleared every day or it will get weed and floaty bits of
rubbish under those trees every few seconds. It will never look
immaculate after the first ten minutes! In our garden there would also
be blown in plastic pots, the wrapper from some chocolate, leaves, the
dogs ball would land in it and heavens know what other rubbish and
especially duck weed!!

Did like that huge stone ball in the sensory/dementia garden, very
tactile and unusually acceptable, don't know why.
Nobody commenting?

Janet

I agree with you Janet. I have been staying with a friend, and we
have watched most of the coverage, getting more and more frustrated by
the zooming in and out on plants, dashing about, close-ups of the
presenters and celebrities IN the gardens but not enough detail of the
gardens themselves, except for some of the top ones which got too much
coverage. Yes I like Andy Sturgeon and his garden, apaart from the
cylinders!
My friend IS going tomorrow (Friday) and I await her verdict.

For people who can't go, it would be nice to have at least one
programme with a tour round the gardens and the stands, telling us
about them without so much of the presenters.

I also wondered who that lunchtime girl is, and why she was chosen.
Why can't we have Carol Klein doing it? I've not got digital, so
can't see the extra programmes which sound as though they are much
more plant orientated.
The whole TV coverage is getting more and more gimmicky. I've had
enough!

Pam in Bristol

I think tonight's programme was better than others with a bit more
"meat".
I'm VERY sad about the news about Monty Don. Who will replace him?
Any suggestions? Carol is the one with most enthusiasm, but perhaps
they'll bring in someone new.

Pam in Bristol