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Gardeners’ World Golden Anniversary

Gardeners’ World is celebrating its golden anniversary this year. Tonight on Midlands Today, there was an item presented by Kay Alexander from Gardeners’ World Live show at the NEC, showing some of the programme’s history.

The link below is to the Midlands Today 6pm show, and will work until the evening of 17th June 2017.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08tkz1f/midlands-today-evening-news-16062017

Below are some grabs from the Midlands Today item.

Mary Rhodes introduces Gardeners’ World’s 50th anniversary

Percy Thrower presenting on Gardeners’ World

Peter Seabrook presenting on Gardeners World

Geoff Hamilton presenting Gardeners’ World at Barnsdale, cameraman Steve Saunderson, director Denis Gartside (red jacket), PA Gail Herbert

Alan Titchmarsh presenting on Gardeners World

Monty Don presenting on Gardeners World

Outside broadcast truck setting up for Gardeners World

Outside broadcast truck interior

50 years of Gardeners’ World

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The 50yr anniversary of Gardeners’ World, was celebrated by the RHS magazine, The Garden, in the April 2017 edition: https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/publications/magazines/the-garden/2017-issues/April/a-world-of-gardening-in-50-years.pdf

Gardeners’ World was a BBC Birmingham production until it was moved to BBC Bristol in 2012.

The article gives a timeline of the presenters of the UK’s favourite gardening show:

1968-76 – Percy Thrower

1976-79 – Arthur Billit

1979-96 – Geoff Hamilton

1980-2 – Geoffrey Smith

1996-2002 – Alan Titchmarsh

2003-8 – Monty Don

2008-10 – Toby Buckland

2011-present – Monty Don

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Small Town Gardens article

Garden Design Journal, Feb 2005

Copryright resides with the original holders, no reproduction without permission.

This article appeared in the Garden Design Journal in February 2005, and considers the question of whether television gardening has trivialised garden design. Bella D’Arcy argues ‘yes’, I argue ‘no’, and Matt James sits on the fence, with a ‘maybe’.

There was a spate of garden design related programmes in the late 1990s and early 2000s, led by Ground Force and HomeFront in the Garden. I was lucky enough to be the series producer of two series of Small Town Gardens, a design show which was a delight to work on!