Tag Archives: BBC

The Voice of the Nation’s Gardeners

Posted on 08/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

We’re all used to seeing gardening programmes on the TV these days, hosted by an array of “celebrity” TV gardeners like Alan Titchmarsh. However earlier this year it was a much earlier celebrity gardener who was Titchmarsh’s subject when he … Continue reading →

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Percy gets the boot…

Posted on 11/04/2015 by The Garden History Blog

Percy Thrower was the country’s best known gardener for the three decades after the early 1950s. Not only did he write books and columns for newspapers and magazines but he also fronted the leading TV programme about gardening. Unlike its predecessor Gardening … Continue reading →

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Capability Fred

Posted on 05/09/2014 by The Garden History Blog

The recent posts about Mr Middleton proved very popular, so I thought I’d follow them up with one about his successor at the BBC – Fred Streeter – a man who was full of gardening wisdom & impossible to dislike, and … Continue reading →

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The first TV gardener…

Posted on 09/08/2014 by The Garden History Blog

THERE IS NOW AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST @ The Voice of the Nation’s Gardeners We’re all used to seeing gardening programmes on the TV these days, hosted by an array of “celebrity” TV gardeners but I bet most … Continue reading →