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Gardeners' World
I'm beginning to get worried that my news provider is losing stuff as,
apart from one more or less casual mention within a post about something else, I haven't seen any real talk about the new Gardeners' World series and we're now just past episode 2. So (assuming I haven't missed anything and apologies if I have), my thoughts to, maybe, start a discussion: I didn't like Monty the first time he presented but I'm enjoying his style this time round. I didn't realise just how many different topics he'd covered until I watched a second time. I think that presenting from his own garden makes a real difference. The single presenter for the bulk of the programme works for me, particularly as the topics are what he'd be doing in his garden now anyway. The balance between veg and non-veg is about right (I was worried about a bombardment of organic veg growing!). I'm a Carol Klein fan and the "interlude" of her visiting a garden purely for the purpose of visiting it works well and the occasional tip thrown into the segment is good. The Joe/Rachel segment in episode 1 and the Rachel segment in episode 2 left me totally cold. I admit to some bias as when I heard that they were going to be two of the presenters this series I was wishing that the Beeb had kept Alys and lost Joe and wondering whether Rachel was there because cookery had Nigella! The idea of a visit to undertake some clearup job is contrived and I didn't actually see much in the way of advice on how to clear up. Visiting a garden because it used to belong to Enid Blyton is fine; we all like (I hope) to visit others' gardens to get ideas or simply to see them. But leave it at that; if they want a segment about cleanups then reduce the walkaround and concentrate on the cleanups. As it stands, if they want this second non-Monty segment then I think they could do better by getting someone like Roy Lancaster in to talk "in depth" about a particular plant. Or, dare I say, Toby Buckland doing the same thing? FWIW, I think that there does need to be a double "interruption" - three segments of Monty with two interludes in between - ten minutes of one person is enough for one go and there are only so many jumps from topic to topic that can be made without the main thrust of the programme seeming disjointed. Thinking about the wider audience, I've been getting deliveries of bare root plants and some plug plants for a couple of weeks. The latter have always been straightforward for me but it took me some years to successfully learn how to deal with bare roots. I know of people who struggle with the titchy little plugs. So for some it must be a topical subject. And advice for those without a greenhouse would be useful (remembering that there are downsides to the windowsill approach). So some of the stuff for "learners" (of which I was one once) wouldn't go amiss I think. But overall, I think the two episodes so far look very promising. So that's my half-penny's worth. What do others think? Jake |
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