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Perhaps the first celerity gardener, Percy Thrower inspired a generation of gardeners, including the famous Alan Titchmarsh. He was born on January 30th 1913, at Horwood House in Buckinghamshire, where his father was the head gardener. Holding his father in the greatest esteem, young Percys ambition was to become a great horticulturalist. Percy proclaimed his greatest influences [...]
Charlie Dimmock is arguably the nations best known female gardener and has enjoyed a fantastic career as both a celebrity and horticulturalist. Charlotte Elouise Dimmock, was born in Southampton General Hospital on August 10th 1966. She was born an only child but developed a half sister named Jessica later in life after her father remarried. [...]
Diarmuid, a forward thinking garden designer, has become famous through his work presenting television programs including Gardeners world, Gardens Through Time, and I Want A Garden. He also co-presented on the popular show Home Front with Laurence Lewellyn Bowen, which led to their collaboration on the book ‘’Home Front’’ Inside Out’, and later his own [...]
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- A Greenhouse from Hartley Botanic is on our gardening wish list this year!
