Gardeners Unearthed: 2021

Love Your Garden Series 11 Episode 2 A Cool Garden

Alan Titchmarsh is back for this episode of Love Your Garden, Series 11.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens as well as sharing tips and tricks for your own garden.

But series 11 is different they are transforming not one but two gardens with the help of new Love Your Garden Team member Danny Clarke.

Alan is in Manchester to surprise the Narayan-Nicholas family who is made up of Mum Eve, Dad Steve and the children Billy and Emmie.

This first episode of Filthy Garden SOS was first shown on 11 November 2021 on 5 Star.

Award winning Garden Designer Diarmuid Gavin starts by telling us our gardens are our sanctuaries, private, plant filled, peaceful and green corners of this green covered land.

He goes on to tell us not all gardens are like that and the homeowners have not got the gardening bug and their gardens are shocking!

He actually calls them 'crimes against nature itself'.

Diarmuid tells us for as long as he been gardening he never seen gardens so bad.

Gardeners' World Winter Specials 2021/22

Gardeners' World 2021 returns with Monty Don, Nell and Patti welcoming us to the first of the Winter Specials 2021/22.

This 3 part series first aired on Friday 10 December 2021 on BBC2.

Each episode will celebrate the seasons and sees Monty introducing the programme from his own garden at Long Meadow and sharing snippets of the garden as well as jobs to do around it.

The second programme will be hosted by Adam Frost from his garden in Lincolnshire.

Love Your Garden Series 11 Episode 6 A Green Garden

Alan Titchmarsh is back for this episode of Love Your Garden, Series 11.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens as well as sharing tips and tricks for your own garden.

But series 11 is different they are transforming not one but two gardens with the help of new Love Your Garden Team member Danny Clarke.

Alan is in Salford to surprise Margaret Mary who has turned around the lives of others as well as her own.

Colin Stafford-Johnson

Colin Stafford-Johnson is a Wildlife Cameraman, Television Presenter, Film maker and now a TV Gardener on his series The Wild Gardener.

He was born in 1964 in Cabinteely near Dublin in Ireland to parents Barney and Dorothy Johnson and had 5 brothers and sisters.

His father was the first Television Gardener Barney Johnson presenter of RTE Television's (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) gardening programme The Garden.

It was first broadcast in 1977 in The Republic of Ireland.

The family owned a Garden Centre so he was brought up surrounded by plants and the outdoors but his real passion was for wildlife.

At the age of 4 Colin was fascinated by birds and catching butterflies and this early fascination has lead to a life time of wildlife watching.

His father sadly died when he was just 15 years old.

Branching out

Colin left Ireland and travelled before doing a degree in biological imaging in Derby, England.

It was a biology degree mixed with training to be a cameraman and wildlife film producer.

A career for this Emmy award winning Cameraman started in India filming Tigers, and Tigers have been a passion ever since.

He won his Emmy in 2006 for cinematography on the film Mississippi — Tales of the Last River Rat.

Countless awards have followed like the Grand Teton award and the WWF Golden Panda award with filming taken place in the UK as well as all over the world.

Colin Wildlife programmes spanning 30 years are too many to mention with many in his native Ireland from the Secret Life of the Shannon; Wild Ireland, Edge of the World; Living the Wildlife, Wild Ireland, Wild Cuba: A Caribbean Journey and Animal Babies: First Year on Earth.

In 2021 Colin's outstanding programme The Wild Gardener saw him take to the screen as a 'TV Gardener' as well as including his amazing footage of wildlife.

Colin returned to his childhood home to turn some land into a wildlife haven, as we follow him over 2 years and the ups and downs of creating this.

Colin visits other wildlife enthusiasts all across Ireland and Great Britain to see what they are doing to preserve and encourage wildlife into their gardens.

He also visits the historic former home of the original wild gardener William Robinson at Gravetye Manor in Sussex to see the garden he created in 1885.

Whether you have a whole garden or just a patch of wilderness Colin inspires us all to help attract as much wildlife as we can to our gardens with this beautifully filmed series and a touching insight into the story behind the camera.

Colin Stafford-Johnson now has a section on his Website dedicated to his garden called My Garden.

He has also ran workshops to visit his Garden which includes a walk through the woods near to the garden, followed by a walk around the garden and then refreshments in his garden at home.

Colin Stafford-Johnson also runs wildlife tours to such places as Botswana, India, Guyana and Brazil to spot the very wildlife he is famous for filming.

Colin Stafford-Johnson has 4 children.

Colin Stafford-Johnson TV Programmes

2021

The Wild Gardener

The Wild Gardener

Colin Stafford-Johnson Instagram | Facebook

Love Your Garden Series 10 Episode 8 A Yoga Retreat

Alan Titchmarsh is back for the last episode of Love Your Garden Series 10, this series was shown in 2 parts because of the Covid-19 lockdowns.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens.

Alan is in Waltham Abbey in Essex to surprise 53 year old Venessa who has battled through Leukaemia and now helps other people with the same disease.

Love Your Garden Series 11 Episode 1 A Stately Garden

Alan Titchmarsh is back for this episode which is the first of Love Your Garden, Series 11 although they were not shown in number order.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens as well as sharing tips and tricks for your own garden.

But series 11 is different they are transforming not one but two gardens with the help of new Love Your Garden Team member Danny Clarke.

Alan is in a village near Taunton in Somerset to surprise Mel who works as a Manager at a Royal British Legion Care Home.

The Wild Gardener

The Wild Gardener was first shown on 19 November 2021 on BBC 2 and on BBC NI on 24 November 2021.

It is being shown as 2 x 1 hour long programmes on BBC2 but on BBC NI it is 4 x 30 minutes programmes.

The series has been repeated multiple times and is just as popular as when it was first shown.

The programme sees Colin Stafford-Johnson return to his childhood home in County Wicklow, Ireland to create his own Wildlife paradise.

Colin is an award-winning cameraman, director and broadcaster .

Colin is the son of the first Television Gardener Barney Johnson presenter of RTE Television's (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) gardening programme The Garden.

The show was first broadcast in 1977 in The Republic of Ireland

Growing up the family ran their own Garden Centre.

Colin Stafford-Johnson

In the first episode (Or episode 1 and 2 on BBC NI) that takes us through his first year.

Colin starts the hard landscaping, clearing the garden as well as digging a pond.

The programme not only features the ups and downs of creating his own wildlife haven but we are also shown the wildlife that is attracted to the garden along the way.

Colin visits other wildlife enthusiasts all across Ireland and Great Britain to see what they are doing to preserve and encourage wildlife into their gardens.

He also visits the historic former home of the original wild gardener William Robinsonat Gravetye Manor in Sussex to see the garden he created in 1885.

In the second episode (or episode 3 and 4 on BBC NI) we follow Colin through his second year and a hard Winter of work in the garden before an abundant Spring and Summer of wildlife.

Some of the wildlife he attracts are not so welcome and have to be discouraged like a herd of deer!

He meets with Bumblebee expert Professor Dave Goulson at his own wild patch in East Sussex.

Whether you want to make your whole garden into a wildlife habitat or just make some small changes to areas of the garden this programme shows you how to do this as well as showing you just what you can attract to your garden.

Presenter

Colin Stafford-Johnson

Special Guests

Mark Bryson - EcoSeeds Wildflowers

Mark Smyth

Mammy Johnson

Katy Bell - Ulster Wildlife Trust

Dan Donoher - Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland

Stuart Dunlop - Hedgehog Ambassador

John Ross - Mac Mathuna

Donna Rainey

Episodes of The Wild Gardener

On BBC2 it was shown over 2 episodes lasting 1 hour but on BBC NI over 4 episodes of 30 minutes each.

All photographs are copyright of BBC.com

Love Your Garden Series 11 Episode 5

Alan Titchmarsh is back for this episode of Love Your Garden, Series 11.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens as well as sharing tips and tricks for your own garden.

But series 11 is different they are transforming not one but two gardens with the help of new Love Your Garden Team member Danny Clarke.

Penny Lamb is a Scottish Garden Designer, Bespoke Furniture Designer and the new Presenter of Filthy Garden SOS.

She comes from Glasgow and from a family of keen gardeners where she gained a love for the outdoors.

Penny has her own Landscape Design, Gardening and Bespoke Furniture business called

Wild Bee.

She tries to use natural resources where possible and puts a percentage of her profits towards planting wildlife friendly plants and trees.

Filthy Garden SOS is a new and unique garden makeover programme that was first shown on 5Star on 11 November 2021.

The programme is scheduled to be repeated on Channel 5 in the Spring of 2022.

This 6 part series features gardens that are shockingly overgrown, out of control or just dumpsites and the owners have no idea what to do with them.

The difference with this show is the homeowners do not go away and come back for the big reveal but have to do the hard work themselves before revealing to their family the new garden.

The homeowners will not only help create their own garden learning along the way, as well as how to look after the garden in the future, so it will never again become a Filthy Garden!

Love Your Garden Series 11 Episode 4 Woodland Wonders

Alan Titchmarsh is back for this episode of Love Your Garden, Series 11.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens as well as sharing tips and tricks for your own garden.

But series 11 is different they are transforming not one but two gardens with the help of new Love Your Garden Team member Danny Clarke.

Alan is in Macclesfield, Cheshire to surprise local legend and dad of 3, Carl Lamptey, who looks a little shocked opening the door.

Love Your Garden Series 10 Episode 5 A Wild Family Garden

Alan Titchmarsh is back for the another episode of Love Your Garden Series 10.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens.

Alan is in Middlesbrough on the River Tees to surprise a young woman who is a Community Champion, as well as having health challenges herself.

Love Your Garden Series 11 Episode 3 A Dog & Thai Paradise

Alan Titchmarsh is back for the third episode of Love Your Garden Series 11 but this is the first one shown of the new series that was aired on 07 September 2021 after mixing them in with the delayed rest of Series 10.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens as well as sharing tips and tricks for your own garden.

But series 11 is different they are transforming not one but two gardens with the help of new Love Your Garden Team member Danny Clarke.

Love Your Garden Series 10 Episode 7 A little Bit Of Malta

Alan Titchmarsh is back for the another episode of Love Your Garden Series 10.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens.

Alan is in Netherton, near Dudley in the West Midlands to surprise a special family.

Love Your Cottage Garden is a one off special of Love Your Garden for the second series of Love Your Garden Themed Specials 2021.

The programme features not the usual one but two garden makeovers so the team needs to split into two to complete the gardens.

Alan Titchmarsh guides us through the makeovers with one team of David Domoney and Francis Tophill and the other team made up of Katie Rushworth and Danny Clarke.

Alan says the best gardens are ones you cannot wait to get into like the one he is at the gate of, the archetypal British Cottage Garden.

The cottage Garden is Britain's favourite garden style and when people think of a British garden it is always this style.

The Love Your Garden Team are going to share how to get a Cottage Garden into any sized plot by creating 2 very different gardens for 2 inspirational Nurses.

In this Episode 2 of Your Garden Made Perfect Angela Scanlon introduces us to the spin off programme of Your House Made Perfect.

'We all love being in the great outdoors' Angela goes on to say 'we all have an idea how we want our homes to look but we are clueless when it comes to our gardens'.

In this series they are helping homeowners transform their gardens and the magic happens at their own secret Garden Headquarters.

This is where the Team of Designers, plan and design the gardens, before taking the homeowners on a 3D tour of their designs.

They will turn their gardens into amazing spaces whatever the budget and using the latest technologies to let them choose between the 2 designs that they can see in their gardens before the work commences.

Toby Neale Buckland was born in Exeter, Devon on 11 October 1969 and is a Gardener, Presenter, Author and Radio Presenter.

Toby Buckland is best known as a Gardeners' World presenter.

His Grandfather was a Gardener and his Father was a builder so working outdoors was in the family and early memories include collecting seaweed at the beach with his Uncle for fertilizer for the potatoes.

As a young child he would earn pocket money doing garden work.

In the first Episode of Your Garden Made Perfect which was first aired on 04 February, Angela Scanlon introduces us to the spin off programme of Your House Made Perfect.

'We all love being in the great outdoors' Angela goes on to say 'we all have an idea how we want out homes to look but we are clueless when it comes to our gardens'.

In this series they are helping homeowners transform their gardens and the magic happens at their own secret Garden Headquarters.

This is where the Team of Designers, plan and design the gardens, before taking the homeowners on a 3D tour of their designs.

They will turn their gardens into amazing spaces whatever the budget and using the latest technologies to let them choose between the 2 designs that they can see in their gardens before the work commences.

Love Your Garden Series 10 Episode 6 A Policeman's Plot

In this Episode of Love Your Garden Series 10, the series restarts after a break due to Covid-19 on 20 July 2021,and Alan Titchmarsh is in Chippenham, Wiltshire.

He starts the programme by saying 'this year Britain has fallen head over heels for gardening'.

So Alan is back and shocking our unsung heroes on their doorsteps and transforming their gardens.

Alan is surprising 74 year old Richard Warren MBE who has is a Voluntary Community Constable and he is the country oldest Policeman after volunteering for over 50 years!

Love Your Small Garden is a one off special of Love Your Garden and the first of a second series of Love Your Garden Themed Specials 2021 first shown on 13 July 2021.

The programme features not the usual one but two garden makeovers so the team needs to split into two to complete the gardens.

Alan Titchmarsh guides us through the makeovers with one team of David Domoney and Francis Tophill and the other team made up of Katie Rushworth and making his debut in the team Danny Clarke.

Love Your Garden returns for the second series of Love Your Garden Themed Specials on Tuesday 13 July 2021 on ITV.

The first series of Love Your Garden Themed Specials 2020 was shown in 2020 after filming had to stop on Love Your Garden Series 10 after just 4 episodes.

In each episode Alan Titchmarsh introduced us to and showed us 3 previous garden makeovers to fit the weekly theme.

It was good to see gardens they had previously done and it was good to have something to fill the gap that the Covid-19 lockdowns had caused to the programmes recording schedule.

The second series starts with Love Your Small Garden Special and this time it has 2 new garden makeovers.

Lee Burkhill AKA the Garden Ninja is a Garden Designer, TV Presenter, Blogger and Youtuber.

From Garden Rescue Series 7 onwards, he is the new Presenter full time of Garden Rescue which was shown in 2022.

Although Lee is making some appearances in Series 6 of Garden Rescue in 2021.

Lee was born on 15 February 1983 and grew up in Lancashire.

Lee early career was in IT where he spent 10 years before giving it all up for a complete change of career, gardening.

Carol Klein introduces us to Gardening with Carol Klein filmed at her home of over 40 years, Glebe Cottage in Chittlehamholt near Umberleigh Devon.

When Carol is not writing about gardening or presenting, she is in the garden.

Whatever sort or size of garden you have or even if you just have a patio or window box she is going to show us how, from the basics to more advanced techniques.

She wants to share the excitement and satisfaction of creating a garden whether you’re a novice or experienced, she wants to share the skills.

Carol is ‘ready are you’?

Garden Rescue 2021 Series 6

Garden Rescue returned to our screens for the sixth series on 24 May 2021.

This series was filmed during the Covid restrictions and sees the designers pitching their designs remotely to the home owners before they decide on which one to go with.

Charlie Dimmock who has been in the programme since it started in 2016 returns along side The Rich Brothers Harry & David Rich who have also has been in it from the start.

Arit Anderson who joined the programme in 2019 for Series 4 also returns.

Sadly this is to be the last series for Harry & David Rich as well as Arit Anderson.

One of the new Designers who will be appearing in series 7 appears in this series Lee Burkhill AKA Garden Ninja, makes his debut in Episode 5 on 28 May 2021.

Also returning for this series is Narrator Lucinda Lawrence and the regular team of contractors.

This series follows the format of the previous ones, the pitch, design chosen, contractors start work, designers arrive to add their flair, and the grand reveal.

With Series 7 set to screen in 2022 and already promising 3 new designers, Lee Burkhill, Flo Headlam and Chris Hull I wonder if a revamp of the show will also happen?

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