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ACE:
Adam Frost will be presenting it soon, and not before time, Monty does my head in, depressing bugger. Adam was under the wing of  Geoff Hamilton  where he learned his stuff, I went on one of his courses and worked along side of some of Adam's show gardens  in the past  they were always good fun with a great crew.

gray1720:
Interesting - sadly he died two decades before I got a garden of my own, but I always thought that Geoff was very much an Everyman's gardener, and did an awful lot of donkey work to get there. I hope that Adam continues in that vein!

Every now and then, I sow a few things into a spare foil takeaway tray, and I always think of GH when I do.

Obelixx:
That is excellent news ACE.  Where did you see it?

Must admit I was highly relieved when Monty finally gave up on those bloody blighted box hedges and loved the way the garden somehow seemed lighter, brighter, less claustrophobic and hemmed in.   Utterly aghast when he then announced he was putting in yew hedges.   As for those grasses in the paradise garden and yet another re-invention of the mound...........   

I still watch every week tho cos some of it is good/interesting/useful.

Love the idea of Adam picking it up in the practical way that GH did it and have always enjoyed the way he looks at and explains things.

Having googled, it seems Monty is just taking a break, not leaving permanently.  Oh well.

Nora42:
Very interesting i agree with Obeilixx that Monty can be  bit meh sometimes, those grasses where never right and as my garden is surounded by privet i can never imagine planting a lower one i have to look after, my biggest gripe on the show this week was the box moth, where i live its rife and unless everybody treats the moth then noone is ever ggoing to get any further forward.
 i can never imagine GH buying all those citrus plants and everthing else that spends the winter months in a several expensive green houses. And why didnt they revisit some of Geoffs old content during lockdown? The one where he made a flower garden from direct sown seeds was inspiring . 
Nora

Obelixx:
Copyright issues I expect.  The GH series was made by a specialist outside broadcasting company who knew what they were doing and Barnsdale was designed with camera access in mind and also viewers' garden sizes and ambitions.

As I understand it, GW is now made in house by BBC staff who, clearly, felt the need to show how clever they are with camera angles, fuzzy "atmospheric" shots etc so they can advance their career and a producer who cut and pasted in the wrong place cos not a gardener.   Lockdowns and Covid restrictions mean it's filmed by family now and we get all these inspirational home made films from viewers.

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