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

"Keith (Dorset)" wrote in message
...

Who are your favourite TV garden presenters?
Mine are all dead!!!
Harry Dodson
Geoff Hamilton
Percy Thrower.

Is it something they ate? ;-)

Geoff and Percy for sure - harry was before my time (I think!)


Now:
Roy Lancaster
Anne Swithinbank
Bob Flowerdew

Monty Don
Carol Klein
? not sure

Oh, and Rachel... goes without saying

Oh, I wish she would......... I dislike her enormously
Jenny

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)

"Keith (Dorset)" wrote ...(snip)

Who are your favourite TV garden presenters?


Percy Thrower (Gardeners World, can still hear his voice)
Harry Dodson (Victorian Kitchen garden etc , same)
Roy Lancaster (infectious enthusiasm re plants in lots of progs)
Geoffrey Smith (same)
Alan Titchmarsh (Gardeners World, excellent presenter with good knowledge)
Carol Klein (GW etc, similar infectious enthusiasm)

--
Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK

"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? ;-)

Geoff Hamilton.
He seemed to care about ordinary gardeners and not too much about
expensive stuff from garden centres. What he couldn't make with old
floorboards from the local breaker's yard wasn't worth knowing about.

Monty. His gardening books and columns are a joy to read, for the way he
writes as well as the content.

Carol Klein. I love her infectious enthusiasm. Her fluent style and wide
knowledge are worth at least two dozen RdeT's or C.Dimmocks put
together.

Dan Pearson. It's about time they gave him another series. 'Home Farm'
was very interesting.

Chris Beardshaw - as long as he's not zooming around in helicopters, or
abseiling down cliffs, pretending to be some horticultural 007. When
he's just being a down to earth gardener he's great.

Geoffrey Smith. Someone mentioned him on another thread recently and Mr
Smiths Vegetable Garden was the first tv gardening programme I remember
ever making a point of following, way back when. More recently I used to
make sure to read his evocative columns when I got my father's Garden
News mags second hand, but I haven't caught up with them for a while.
Is he still writing?

And although he's not exactly a tv presenter, I'd watch anything that
included Matthew Wilson from the RHS at Harlow Carr.

--
Sue

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

Mine a
Geoffrey Smith
Fred Downham
Geoff Hamilton
Bob Flowerdew

I don't go much on Alan Tichmarsh, he doesn't seem to be a real gardener to
me

On 27/2/07 21:00, in article , "Robert
(Plymouth)" wrote:

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

Mine a
Geoffrey Smith
Fred Downham
Geoff Hamilton
Bob Flowerdew

I don't go much on Alan Tichmarsh, he doesn't seem to be a real gardener to
me

I think he's very knowledgeable but has committed the grave sin of being a
good TV presenter, too. Like it or loathe it, he does a very, very good job
of talking to people through their tv screens as if he was in their living
room with them. It's a true gift for a presenter and he has it in spades.
Percy Thrower was a real gardener but when doing a tv prog at my outlaws'
garden, the hole for the plant was dug for him and he was then presented
with the plant, the spade and the hole. I watched it all while the BBC OB
van was at the top of their drive. It's all smoke and mirrors. ;-)
Geoff Hamilton was superb and I like Anne Swithinbank and Sarah Raven. To
be honest, I think I might like rather more if they were allowed just to
talk about gardening and plants and didn't have to go off into drifts of
rapture over blurry grasses and irritating un-labelled shots of plants of
which I'd really like to know the names.
And while I'm having a grump, why, oh WHY, do TV programme directors find it
interesting/desirable/ necessary, to play music over the speech soundtrack?
If I want to listen to music, I'll listen to music. But when I want to
listen to someone talking about hens or plants or old houses or space
rockets, I don't need muzak in the background. Humph.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)

"Sacha" wrote
snip
And while I'm having a grump, why, oh WHY, do TV programme directors
find it interesting/desirable/ necessary, to play music over the
speech soundtrack?
If I want to listen to music, I'll listen to music. But when I want
to listen to someone talking about hens or plants or old houses or
space rockets, I don't need muzak in the background. Humph.

In this interactive tv age you'd think there'd be a "press the purple
button to mute the background music" option by now.

--
Sue

On 27 Feb, 17:21, "JennyC" wrote:
Geoff and Percy for sure - harry was before my time (I think!)

Geoff took me through the jardin anglais first and if it hadn't been
for him I think I wouldn't have got so bitten by it all )

Monty Don
Carol Klein
? not sure

Chris Beardshaw, Carol and Pippa. Sarah Raven and Monty on stand by.

Oh, and Rachel... goes without saying
Oh, I wish she would......... I dislike her enormously

God me too. I also dislike very much Joe Swift (something to do with
his voice, accent, body, lack of hair ... everything really ;o)

On 28/2/07 10:33, in article
, "Sue"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote
snip
And while I'm having a grump, why, oh WHY, do TV programme directors
find it interesting/desirable/ necessary, to play music over the
speech soundtrack?
If I want to listen to music, I'll listen to music. But when I want
to listen to someone talking about hens or plants or old houses or
space rockets, I don't need muzak in the background. Humph.

In this interactive tv age you'd think there'd be a "press the purple
button to mute the background music" option by now.

An excellent idea - I think you should patent it!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)

Sacha wrote:
: On 28/2/07 10:33, in article
: , "Sue"
: wrote:
:
::
:: "Sacha" wrote
:: snip
::: And while I'm having a grump, why, oh WHY, do TV programme directors
::: find it interesting/desirable/ necessary, to play music over the
::: speech soundtrack?
::: If I want to listen to music, I'll listen to music. But when I want
::: to listen to someone talking about hens or plants or old houses or
::: space rockets, I don't need muzak in the background. Humph.
::
:: In this interactive tv age you'd think there'd be a "press the purple
:: button to mute the background music" option by now.
:
: An excellent idea - I think you should patent it!

There was a big moan about this very subject on the Friday 1.30 feedback
radio 4 show but this was relating to the wireless of course. Same complaint
though

On 28/2/07 15:55, in article ,
"Robert (Plymouth)" wrote:

Sacha wrote:
: On 28/2/07 10:33, in article
: , "Sue"
: wrote:
:
::
:: "Sacha" wrote
:: snip
::: And while I'm having a grump, why, oh WHY, do TV programme directors
::: find it interesting/desirable/ necessary, to play music over the
::: speech soundtrack?
::: If I want to listen to music, I'll listen to music. But when I want
::: to listen to someone talking about hens or plants or old houses or
::: space rockets, I don't need muzak in the background. Humph.
::
:: In this interactive tv age you'd think there'd be a "press the purple
:: button to mute the background music" option by now.
:
: An excellent idea - I think you should patent it!

There was a big moan about this very subject on the Friday 1.30 feedback
radio 4 show but this was relating to the wireless of course. Same complaint
though

It's the most maddening thing and I can't think why it's considered
necessary and I really do mean that - I can't think why! I can just about
understand 'mood music' when no dialogue is being spoken.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)