Does everyone have a decided view on Monty Don?.

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I remember not long after starting a job about 10 years ago my boss he was always a really really lovely man, for some reason we must have been talking about gardening, and he said he disliked Monty Don. I was shocked because for one thing that current boss was very laid back and didn't have any extreme views on anybody and secondly, because I have no extreme view on Monty Don.

Just seen another thread where someone dislikes him. What is there to dislike about Monty Don? He's just a gardener isn't he?

How can anyone have a strong view on him ?

One of many memorable work days was my boss in a business local to Longmeadow announcing loudly to the complete office that 'Monty cunting Don is at it again'
Monty had waded in about some dredging downstream which stopped the lower village flooding. The cunt, as he's known locally, is not particularly liked for his lack of thinking about others.

I’ve obviously never met him but that doesn’t surprise me. That undertone comes across underneath the mellifluous veneer. I can understand why people think he’s wonderful but I’ve met enough types like that to see through it.

Same here.
It's sort of sycophantic 'professional I'm nowt but a down-to-earth yorkshire lad' and it doesn't ring true.

He mentions Longmeadow flooding a lot on GW

...I do like his style, understated. It reminds me a little of a late uncle who's work clothes were almost all Margaret Howell- well made, relaxed fit and he never ironed either.
Yes.

He has a very nice garden thanksto his many minions. He has nice dogs too
My thoughts too.
I don't watch GW (I don't watch BBC but I sometimes read the GW magazine.) or have anything against him but I don't consider him a gardener. I sometimes read the GW magazine.

I get strangely annoyed by people using the term chef for tv cooks.

Mary Berry has been around for a very long time and was a respected cook decades ago. I don't think I've seen her on tv since the mid-1990s. We were in a bookshop when a friend who emigrated said about a cookbook 'She looks younger than she did in the 1980s'.

I wonder if the dredging was diverting the flooding to Longmeadow as he mentions getting flooded a lot.

I wonder what Monty Don's peach/pink tulips were at the beginning of GW. So beautiful against the blue flowers

No, Monty was moaning about a Farmer down stream from Longmeadow so actually by allowing the water to speed downstream Monty quietly benefited.
It looked awful because pioneering, which used to be carried out every year used to be expensive but cleared those fallen branches before they became a problem and kept the river navigable. By neglecting everything for decades the river completely changes it's behaviour and you get this flooding on old buildings that rarely flooded in centuries gone by.
The clearance and dredging looked brutal but got the river flowing, allowing it to spill into flood plain fields rather than backing up in the village.
Monty was just performance bleating for the sake of it when he knew nothing about the old ways of land management.

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I've heard he's really hard to work with which is a shame as he comes across as a nice guy.

I love a bit of Monty, he’s easy on the eye, lovely voice.
When he cried after losing Nigel his gorgeous doggy I cried too.
He inspired my love of gardening and I’ve learned a lot from him.
Monty over Alan Twitmarsh any day 😀

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I think he's great- love his presenting style. DH finds him a bit of a fraud- a lot of effort being put into styling etc aimed at making it look like he has put no effort in- but that doesn't bother me. He also has lovely dogs.

I love MD, but I suspect he isn't an easy person to get on with. I feel for him having SAD - I think I read somewhere that from midsummer onwards he begins to feel increasingly low and that must be hard for anyone (although his privilege's must cushion some of that).