Monty Don back on BBC's Gardeners' World

[Big Al]

I never liked monty don anyway but has anyone else thought thast it is now an old fashioned rich mans garden progrramme with out of touch posh presenters [ except carol who couldn't be posh in a month of sundays] who know it all and expect gardeners to know it all also?

[grahamhobbs]

I never liked monty don anyway but has anyone else thought thast it is now an old fashioned rich mans garden progrramme with out of touch posh presenters [ except carol who couldn't be posh in a month of sundays] who know it all and expect gardeners to know it all also?

I like Monty, he is not just a posh bloke, he is more complex than that having been a drug addict. But yes this series is in danger of becoming out of touch, such a shame because I think Monty can connect with people and transmit a real love and enthusiasm for gardening.

[Millymollymandy]

Joe Swift ain't posh!

[darkbrowneggs]

Joe Swift ain't posh!

But does he know anything much about gardening

[Millymollymandy]

Seems to know his stuff, after all he's been a co-presenter on GW for years and years! Wasn't he originally a designer though?

[Henwoman]

Yes, he and his wife, Sarah, had a jewellery business which went a... over t... in the 80s. I like him, not as much as I liked Geoff Hamilton, who I would have willingly slept with - but I like his approach and he seems a genuine bloke. I just bought his book The Jewel Garden in a charity shop when I was back in the UK before Easter. I have another of their books, written with his wife, Fork to Fork, which is growing and cooking what they've grown.

[Big Al]

Joe Swift ain't posh!

He's a tit all the same..........

And my babe was extremely sexy which trumps very, very, very sexy...!

[Henwoman]

Did you know that Joe Swift's mother is Margaret Drabble the author?

[oldjerry]

And his Dad is Clive Swift that well known actor,who spends most of his life on the wing.

[Green Aura]

And his Dad is Clive Swift that well known actor,who spends most of his life on the wing.

Hadn't realised that, yet when you look at him it's so obvious!

[Henwoman]

O - I didn't know that either. I've just googled Clive Swift and yes, you can certainly see the likeness.

[Millymollymandy]

OMG - ditto!

[President Bartlet]

Actually Monty Don wasn't a drug addict (as someone stated previously), but he did do a project with offenders and drug addicts - it was a telly series and later a book. I think he suffers with depression though.