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If you had to pick, who would be your
Top Three TV Gardeners ?   :)

1. Monty Don
2. No-one else comes close
3. Anyone apart from that Dimmock hussy

Monty's a legend  ;D

1 Geoff Hamilton
2 Geoff Hamilton
3 Geoff Hamilton

geoff hamilton
geoff hamilton
titchmarsh

1.  The late great and much missed Geoff Hamilton
2.  Bob Flowerdew
3.  Alan Titchmarsh

Well I'll tell you who it ain't.  Carol Effing Bag lady Klien....!

Quote from: ACE on February 20, 2008, 11:37:13
Well I'll tell you who it ain't.  Carol Effing Bag lady Klien....!

lol - along with Jamie O, I have to watch them on mute! And I'll put Titmarsh & that dappy cow with the saggy baps on the rubbish list too!

Jekka - her herb book got me into this gardening business

Quote from: Trevor_D on February 20, 2008, 11:18:15
1 Geoff Hamilton
2 Geoff Hamilton
3 Geoff Hamilton

Absolutely.

Do not really remember G Hamilton from the box  but I quite like Christine Thingy.

Percy Thrower
Harry Dodson
Geoff Hamilton
;D
Showing my age or what!
:-\

Carol everytime,She did a live walkabout at Chelsea a few years ago and her knowledge was stunning.Show the lady respect.

I always had a soft spot for Geoffrey Smith, tho he was/is a bit rude and charmless  a la B. Oddie.

Jekka offered me a job once, but I couldn't take it. (insert big frowny Smiley)

1, Monty Don
2, Carol Klein  (I love watching her on Open gardens)
3, Charlie Dimmock ....Sorry lol.  But shes a godsend to us younger women!!!.

;D ;D ;D

QuoteQuote from: Trevor_D on Today at 11:18:15
1 Geoff Hamilton
2 Geoff Hamilton
3 Geoff Hamilton


Absolutely.

I have to agree. He was a really practical gardener. I love the way that, even if he did a 'posh' garden, he always did a poor man's version alongside it. Much better than Titchmarsh.......'Go buy yourself £100 of pots and a few mature plants to put in them. Oh, dont forget some nice expensive pebbles. And while you are  at it, why not go into overdraught to get some pottery feet for your pots.'

I'm sure he has shares in B and Q!

I think Rachel de Thame was put there to make me feel old , fat and ugly >:( ;D

cj :)

Geoff Hamilton
Goffrey Smith
Carol Klein.

Quote from: springbokgirlie on February 20, 2008, 13:06:21

3, Charlie Dimmock ....Sorry lol.  But shes a godsend to us younger women!!!.

And this old man.

1. Geoff Hamilton - our family viewing & he has a lot to answer for.
2. Alan Titchmarsh - whatever the weather, enjoy your garden.  Thank  you Alan, I shall
3. Carol Klein - I used to see her in the early days of the big shows and always impressed me with her real practical knowledge.

3.5 Hendry next door to my grannie 'cos he grew great cabbages ( ok, he was never on telly but I'm not into rules)

My neighbours call me charlie dimmock lol.. as I dress similar, however I always wear a bra!!!!! :o... Oh and flipflops..(but thats the south african in me).. lol

1. Geoff Hamilton.

Met him at a Barnsdale plant sale when I had just bought my first house and was revamping the garden, he inspired me to try and create a kitchen garden and set me on the path to being a veggy gardener for which I am eternally grateful. The way he kept costs down by making things like cloches himself appealed to me, made it appear very accessable.

2. Harry Dodson.

I never get fed up of watching the various series he was involved with, and I love to listen to his tales of the way gardening evolved during his lifetime.

3. Bob Flowerdew

The only choice that is still alive, that says something! A bit bonkers, (pot calling kettle.....!) but I like his recycling and organic minded approach.

Don't moan, at least you have gardeners to chose from!
As there is only one gardener on Dutch television, and he stinks, I have to borrow yours.
Mind you, I only know four of them, so this is not so much as a top-3 as an assessment.

Carol Klein - for her enthusiasm
Monty Don - for his calm authority
Charlie Dimmock - just because

Alan Titchmarch is very knowledgable, but I don't like his way of presenting: comically cute doesn't become a man over 50.
Also I like my gardeners hands on, and I have the impression that Titchmarsh has every hole dug for him by machines.

Quote from: springbokgirlie on February 20, 2008, 13:35:40
My neighbours call me charlie dimmock lol.. as I dress similar, however I always wear a bra!!!!! :o... Oh and flipflops..(but thats the south african in me).. lol

I'm a welly man myself ;D ;D ;D

Quote from: saddad on February 20, 2008, 12:45:12
Percy Thrower
Harry Dodson
Geoff Hamilton
;D
Showing my age or what!
:-\

Now that's more like it, except I have a different order

1. Harry Dodson.  
Softly spoken, such a knowledgeable man. I would have liked to have met him and would have worked in his Victorian Kitchen Gardens and Greenhouses for nothing.
2. Geoff Hamilton.  
On the side of the economic gardener, grew everything from either seeds or cuttings. Unlike Titchmarsh who buys everything in by the millions  ::))
3. Percy Thrower.
I believe one of the first TV gardeners (?)

1, Alan Titchmarch

2, Christine Walkden (nobody else picked her?)

3, Geoff Hamilton

1.  Geoff Hamilton
2.  Alan Titchmarsh
3.  Christine Walkden

MickW I think Markfield Rover was also naming Christine Walkden but couldn't remember her last name. I think she is fun.  Used to like Charlie but I wish she'd either tie her hair back or cut it off (glad she's a gardener and not a chef!).
Twinkletoes

    Geoff Hamilton
   Percy Thrower
   Monty Don                                                                                   

Bob Flowerdew
Geoff Hamilton
Monty Don

I like Alan Titchmarsh and Geoff Hamilton the best.

I can't stand Monty Don at all he just irritates me.

1. Geoff Hamilton
2. Monty Don
3. Carol Klein

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Chris Beardshaw- definitely best eye-candy! ;)

That Christine Walkden is so immature she drives me crazy. Storming into Reg's all the time shouting t the poor guy, bet he wishes she never moved in next to him  >:(

As I  know  absolutely nothing about any of them mentioned already I think I will  just settle for Trixies Ahmed!!

XX Jeannine

Quote from: twinkletoes on February 20, 2008, 14:41:33
1.  Geoff Hamilton
2.  Alan Titchmarsh
3.  Christine Walkden

I echo that exactly although Geoff Hamilton is by far the greatest ever. :)

Alan Titchmarsh
Percy Thrower
Geoff Hamilton
Monty Don
I reckon it's a tie between these four. I've only seen glimpses of Percy and Geoff on the box, but, i've read a lot of what they've all written. To me they are all class acts and have a lot of knowledge to share. They all knew/know their fruit, veg and flowers. :)

Quote from: OllieC on February 20, 2008, 11:43:54

...  & that dappy cow with the saggy baps on the rubbish list too!

Do you mean Diarmuid Gavin ?

 ;D ;D ;D

I loved the fact that Percy Thrower always gardened in a suit and wellies! Autres temps autres moeurs.

Quote from: grawrc on February 21, 2008, 07:13:36
I loved the fact that Percy Thrower always gardened in a suit and wellies!

Quote from: grawrc on February 21, 2008, 07:13:36
I loved the fact that Percy Thrower always gardened in a suit and wellies!

Ha Ha.. oh yes he did too, I forgot that.
I also remember him from his days on Blue Peter. And when the vandals got into the Blue Peter Garden and destroyed it I cried :'( 1983

Quote from: Lauren S on February 20, 2008, 18:20:43
That Christine Walkden is so immature she drives me crazy. Storming into Reg's all the time shouting t the poor guy, bet he wishes she never moved in next to him  >:(

Iink Reg enjoys the banter, the show wouldn't be half as good without old Reg.

who is Christine Walkden? Am I missing something?

RT she is a bit like Margaret Rutherford and full of beans!

Quote from: Rhubarb Thrasher on February 21, 2008, 10:18:19
who is Christine Walkden? Am I missing something?

This is her.....

(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/10/walkden101006_700x457.jpg)


She has a show called Christine's Garden.

Link to her website...

http://www.christinewalkden.com/

Funny, I imagined she would have a much more professional looking website.

cj :)

No, you haven't missed anything- yes, she knows her stuff, but I think she's like Marmite, and I'm on the "can't stand her" side!

For laughs on Gardeners Question Time, I like John Cushnie! Bob Flowerdew is good but have gone off his books (printed on other side of world), and I also like Pippa Greenwood.

can't tell what she's like by looking - but Marmite and beans isn't the best combination I can think of

by the way, didn't someone well known (sportsman??) own up for trashing the Blue Peter garden ?

I'm a big fan of GQT.

1. Roy Lancaster     - Wonderful presenter and supreme designer/gardener/plant hunter
2. Bob Flowerdew   - Big respect for his down to earth gardening and recycling.
3. John Cushnie      - Quite funny
4. Bunny Guinness  - Nice arse

Perhaps Christine does come over as immature but I like her for her expressions of excitement and fun. I feel she is more of a knowledgeable enthusiastic amateur rather than a stuffy know-all (although she is not an amateur at all).  Least favourte would be Monty Don.  I still really miss Geoff Hamilton though.
Twinkletoes

Quote from: Rhubarb Thrasher on February 21, 2008, 13:24:55
can't tell what she's like by looking - but Marmite and beans isn't the best combination I can think of

by the way, didn't someone well known (sportsman??) own up for trashing the Blue Peter garden ?

Les Ferdinand...?

Quote from: Lauren S on February 21, 2008, 15:56:29

Quote from: Rhubarb Thrasher on February 21, 2008, 13:24:55by the way, didn't someone well known (sportsman??) own up for trashing the Blue Peter garden ?

Les Ferdinand...?

is that right, or did you just pick a charmless twerp who looks like he might have? Just checked - he said he had, then he said he hadn't

Quote from: Pesky Wabbit on February 21, 2008, 15:40:00

4. Bunny Guinness  - Nice arse

You can see that on the radio ??? ???   

Thats the joy of radio. One can see many things.  ;)

Quote from: Pesky Wabbit on February 21, 2008, 15:40:00
4. Bunny Guinness  - Nice arse

Well I've googled until I'm blue in the face but I can't for the life of me find a picture of Bunny Guiness's arse!

Back on topic...

1. I think Titchmarsh is great.
2. Harry Dobson I could watch all day and not get bored.
3. Geoff Hamilton.
4. Bunny Guiness, because apparently she has a nice arse... Oh, also she  lives just a few miles up the road from me :)

I watched one of Christine's progs and thought ... What did I actually learn about growing stuff from that pseudo psychological programme? When I decided that I'd learnt nothing and wasn't interested in the relationships stuff I stopped watching.

I find most gardening progs like that. They don't tell me what i want to know. Only Geoff Hamilton, and percy Thrower when i was a child, helped me to be a better gardener. I think Monty is a proper gent but he hasn't taught me anything i didn't know already. Alan is a sweetie but same thing. As for the under 40's!  :o :o :oBetter unsaid. :P

Quote from: Plot69 on February 21, 2008, 19:19:59

4. Bunny Guiness, because apparently she has a nice arse... Oh, also she  lives just a few miles up the road from me :)

Well, if your passing, and have a camera to hand, could you post them in the Gallery.

This thread started off with the top 3 but has graduated to the top 4 favourites, so here are mine:

Stefan Buczacki

Alan Titchmarsh

Geoffrey Hamilton   

Roy Lancaster

OK Number 4:
Rachel de Thame cos she has far more than just a nice arse.  She nearly got into the top 3 on these grounds but I have never seen her grow veggies so unfortunately she got pipped by the woman whose arse (or owt else for that matter) ain't so great. ;D

Kylie's got a great arse- but what does she know about parsnips??

Roy Lancaster's Search For The Wild Asparagus was very good, and the Victorian Garden thing was good too

Quote from: Pesky Wabbit on February 21, 2008, 19:35:37
Well, if your passing, and have a camera to hand, could you post them in the Gallery.

According to this site... http://www.hotfroguk.co.uk/Companies/Bunny-Guinness

(http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/gallery/6711_21_02_08_8_03_50.jpg)

She lives about a mile and a half from where we have our boat and caravan. I must pass directly past her house on the way to the chip shop every week. I've probably stood behind her many times at Morrisons checkout in Stamord.

Thing is, I'd never heard of her until you mentioned her.

Quote from: redclanger on February 21, 2008, 19:50:47
OK Number 4:
Rachel de Thame cos she has far more than just a nice arse.

She looks too much like Kirsty Gallagherr for me, someone I don't have a great deal of time for.

QuoteKylie's got a great arse- but what does she know about parsnips??

;D ;D ;D at RT

cj :)

My number 4 is Pippa Greenwood, not seen her arse so cannot comment. :-\

hmmm...not so hard to answer..and as it's gone to four, my answers are:

my grandad
geoff hamilton
bob flowerdew
jack hargreaves ~ not so much a gardener, but taught me alot about country ways.

Quote from: Rhubarb Thrasher on February 21, 2008, 19:55:43
Kylie's got a great arse- but what does she know about parsnips??

I read that Kylie can clench so hard, she can turn a parsnip into a smoothie!
Saw it on the tinternet, so it must be true.

I remember watching Jack Hargreaves back when i was a lad, and like you Tilts taught me a love for country ways.And who can remember Cyril Fletcher.

Quote from: froglegs on February 21, 2008, 23:54:56
I remember watching Jack Hargreaves back when i was a lad, and like you Tilts taught me a love for country ways.And who can remember Cyril Fletcher.

I remember Jack as well, went fishing with him. Hunting, shooting, fishing, He must have killed millions of animals. As for Cyril and his 'odd odes' wasn't he a smug barsteward, Didn't he give Ester one?

Percy Thrower
Geofrey Smith
Geofrey Hamilton

But the best gardener for growing veg was my grandfather

Quote from: froglegs on February 21, 2008, 23:08:25
My number 4 is Pippa Greenwood, not seen her arse so cannot comment. :-\

It's more Pat Butcher than Kylie, I know that much!

Quote from: froglegs on February 21, 2008, 23:54:56
I remember watching Jack Hargreaves back when i was a lad, and like you Tilts taught me a love for country ways.And who can remember Cyril Fletcher.

Ohhh now I'm having brain ache - anyone who grew up in Scotland in the 60's help me out here.  There was an old chap on the telly with a posh Scottish accent & a deerstalker hat who was our version of Jack H  I think.  I think he had a teuchter-ish name like Findlay or Hamish   & he was often parodied on other programs with the phrase  " I'm standing here......."

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnggggggggg.

Ooh, tilts, is your grandad a tv gardener? Or have we just gone off-thread? ;D

Quote from: froglets on February 22, 2008, 08:23:01
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Ohhh now I'm having brain ache - anyone who grew up in Scotland in the 60's help me out here.  There was an old chap on the telly with a posh Scottish accent & a deerstalker hat who was our version of Jack H  I think.  I think he had a teuchter-ish name like Findlay or Hamish   & he was often parodied on other programs with the phrase  " I'm standing here......."

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnggggggggg.

Fyfe or Fife Robertson?

I bet if Jack Hargreaves was on the telly now, he'd say things that a lot of us would completely disagree with

Quote from: froglegs on February 21, 2008, 23:54:56
I remember watching Jack Hargreaves back when i was a lad

http://www.jacksback.org.uk/

Thanks RT

Fyfe Robertson - I was allowed to watch all that outdoor stuff on telly but not go any further than the end of the close.  Have since done odd stuff all over the world but hardly any of the places he talked about in Scotland - must sort that one day.  Off to Google :)

You might find this link brings back a few memories of Jack Hargreaves. You can even listen to the theme tune  :)

http://www.steveh.me.uk/jacksback/outoftown.htm

Fyfe Robertson was the one comedians "did" when they couldn't "do" an Alan Whicker

was Jack H the one on HOW I remember him showing us 'how ' not to cut your hand with a knife! he claimed that if you went against the grain(?) it did not cut !!!! Iwonder if they named a A&E wing after him?

Quote from: Rhubarb Thrasher on February 22, 2008, 08:42:50

I bet if Jack Hargreaves was on the telly now, he'd say things that a lot of us would completely disagree with

Well not me.

Quote from: ACE on February 22, 2008, 05:40:30

Quote from: froglegs on February 21, 2008, 23:54:56
I remember watching Jack Hargreaves back when i was a lad, and like you Tilts taught me a love for country ways.And who can remember Cyril Fletcher.

I remember Jack as well, went fishing with him. Hunting, shooting, fishing, He must have killed millions of animals. As for Cyril and his 'odd odes' wasn't he a smug barsteward, Didn't he give Ester one?

:-[I thinking more along the lines of his gardening today programme. :o

Quote from: Plot69 on February 22, 2008, 08:10:43

Quote from: froglegs on February 21, 2008, 23:08:25
My number 4 is Pippa Greenwood, not seen her arse so cannot comment. :-\

It's more Pat Butcher than Kylie, I know that much!

;D ;D ;D

Oh well back to.......my.....gardening pin up ;)

i can see (just) that she's still a peanut smuggler

A good job we don't pick male presenters based on their physical attributes, or  lists may look a bit different....... :-X ;D

Ya telling me :o

EEK!

eeewww  :-X  ;D ;D

There should be a law against that!
Horti-porn at its worst.

they got confused about "pricking out"  :D

 :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D

NOT the ones I would have chosen to see naked! :o