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I can’t help but believe that the cause for good biodiversity, and the provision of habitats, in the nation’s gardens is hampered by the Brown Bin! (At least, they’re brown, here.) I observe my tidy-minded neighbours putting all their prunings and rakings, etc. into their bins and leaving them out for the council to take away. One neighbour even has two! (Habitat piles are untidy!) This may make for a sound composting scheme, but I think it often leaves gardens almost devoid of material that would otherwise benefit wildlife.
Nettles, especially of the stinging variety, are just not welcome; I wish it were otherwise.

I enjoyed the first edition of new season of Gardener's World. Nice to see Monty Don back, and of course my favourite presenter Carol Klein!
However, I hope we have not lost Alys Fowler from our screen, as she had become an important part of the show since emerging from the background.It looks as if we can say goodbye to the Dig-In programme, too, which is disappointing

Are we likely to see the gardens at Berryfields again? The new Gardener's World format seems more an Alan Titchmarsh style than a Geoff Hamilton!

We were delighted to see Monty Don back at Gardeners' World last night and thoroughly enjoyed the programme. It was full of information, presented in way which was ideal for established gardeners yet also has the potential to tackle some of the gardening problems of individual viewers. This format has obviously been very carefully thought out and is set in a real garden too. I'll be looking forward to the programme every Friday evening now, which is just what I need after a busy week - and helps inspire me for the weekend's gardening. All good wishes to Monty Don. Thank you.

AT LAST

Proper Gardeners World is back, I had to stop watching the last series as it was more like childrens television. I would like to see about
20/25mins in Montys garden and just one other slot not two.

It was good to be treated as adults and not preached at once about green issues. Just keep to the gardening.Montys is a proper garden with proper garden sheds and the like its real.Thank you.and please no more gimicks.

Very dissappointed to see Monty back. His wooly new age thinking ruins it for me and I am a hippy at heart so think about that! Don't suspect he will be at it for long though so I will just stop watching for a while.

I really don't like the new format for the program. I have so enjoyed watching Gardener's World for the past two years. A great part of that appeal was the shift towards making gardening seem more accessible to all and highlighting practical gardening tips and advice for those of us who don't have an acre of space and endless capital to spare. Toby Buckland and Alys Fowler were both cheerful and down-to-earth style gardeners, presenting a program that would encourage new growers, while still appreciating the beautiful and diverse gardens available for viewing around the country.

I loved watching Greenacre develop and following all of the test gardens and vegetable trials. What is happening to Greenacre now? Where are Toby and Alys? And why, in a country so saturated with gardening history, do we only have room for *one* garden program on the 91Èȱ¬ and only *one* type of presenter?

I enjoyed seeing Monty Don return as a gardening presenter as I like to listen to his take on gardens and life. Equally I am disappointed that Toby Buckland and Alys Fowler don't seem to be around now - they were certainly a breath of fresh air. I enjoy watching them all - and I'm not leaving out Carol, Joe or Rachel as they too are excellent and together all of them address a gardening need for someone.

As someone else has commented, why only one programme, why only one set of presenters? Considering the (renewed) interest in gardening nationwide and the number of gardeners and would-be gardeners there are in the country, I think it's a disservice to be given one half hour per week.

I love seeing Monty Don back, he is fantastic, he has all the integrity and passion that Geoff Hamilton used to have and is very practical & wise. I did love Alys and to a lesser extent Toby, and also Carol is super. But I find Rachel de Thame very bland and artificial, she is very disrespectful to the environment too as she wears man made clothes which do not rot back into the soil when needing to be recycled.
I think what helped Monty & Carol to become so beloved is their integrity and consideration for the environment, which in this case is also their subject and I love to see particularly gardening presenters wearing natural fabrics.

I am fairly new to gardening and really enjoyed getting new ideas for projects and different styles from Toby, Joe and Alys. I was gutted to hear Toby, Alys and Berryfields had been ditched and still hope to see them back in the future.

While I also like Monty Don, I feel this new series is a little, oddly enough, outdated. For me Joe's talents are wasted, I could go and clean a pond, let the poor man do some design.

I agree with a couple of other posters, surely there is room on our screens for 2 half hour gardening programmes. At the very least the new series could try to sit comfortably between the old and new.