Gardeners who have achieved fame through their pioneering innovations, writing or, more often, their television personas, may be classed as Celebrity Gardeners. A gardener is any person involved in the growing and maintenance of plants notably in a Garden. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic
The writing of C. Z. Guest, Esther Dean and Stirling Macoboy brought them enough fame for them to be considered celebrity gardeners. Lucille Douglas Cochrane ( February 19, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts &ndash November 8, 2003 in Old Westbury Esther Dean
In England, the Royal Horticultural Society has described both Alan Titchmarsh and Monty Don as celebrity gardeners. The Royal Horticultural Society ( RHS) was founded in 1804 in London, England as the Horticultural Society of London, and gained its present Alan Fred Titchmarsh, MBE DL (born 2 May 1949 is an English broadcaster particularly famous in the field of Gardening programmes on UK Montagu 'Monty' Denis Wyatt Don (born 8 July 1955) is a German -born British BBC Television presenter writer and speaker [1] [2]
Notable Gardeners on TV
- Don Burke, host of Burke's Backyard and producer of Backyard Blitz
- Peter Cundall, host of Gardening Australia on (Australian) ABC TV
- Jamie Durie, host of axed show Backyard Blitz on channel Nine, now host of Australia's Best Backyard's on channel Seven. Don Burke (born July 16, 1947) is an Australian Television personality and author Burke's Backyard is an Australian gardening and lifestyle program broadcast on both Radio and Television. Backyard Blitz is a Logie Award winning Australian Lifestyle and DIY Television program that aired on the Nine Peter Cundall AM (born 1 April 1927 in Manchester, England) is a Horticulturalist and television personality in Australia. Gardening Australia is a weekly gardening program screened on ABC1 and ABC2. Jamie Durie (born 3 June 1970) is an Australian Landscaper and television personality
- Brian Welch, noted freelance celebrity gardener
- Percy Thrower, Britain's first celebrity gardener
- Charlie Dimmock
- Harry Dodson, head gardener for the BBC television show The Victorian Kitchen Garden. Brian Phillip Welch (born June 19, 1970) better known as Head, is an American Musician best known as the former one of two guitarists Percy John Thrower MBE ( January 30, 1913 - March 18, 1988) was a British Gardener, Horticulturist, broadcaster Charlie Dimmock (born Charlotte Elouise Dimmock on 10 August 1966 in Southampton and brought up in Romsey, Hampshire Harry James Dodson ( 11 September 1919 &ndash 25 July 2005) was an English Gardener who became a celebrity as a result The Victorian Kitchen Garden was a 13-part television series produced in 1987 by Jennifer Davies for BBC Two.
- Alan Titchmarsh, writer for Gardeners World magazine, celebrity television gardener
- Monty Don, host of BBC2's Gardener's World
- Joe Swift,BBC2's Gardener's World
- Carol Klein,BBC2's Gardener's World
- Sarah Raven,BBC2's Gardener's World
- Roy Lancaster,
- Chris Beardshaw,
- Pippa Greenwood,Gardeners Question Time
- Diarmuid Gavin,Garden Designer, host TV's Homefront in the Garden
- Bob Flowerdew,Gardeners Question Time
- Anne Swithenbank,Gardeners Question Time
- James Underwood Crockett, original host of "The Victory Garden"
- Craig Allison, Host of "The Carefree Gardener"
- Art Drysdale, Canadian gardener with various broadcasts
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