Who was the gentleman gardener who lived at Barnsdale?
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The gardens at Barnsdale in Rutland were built by Britain's best loved Television gardener Geoff Hamilton over several years for BBC TV Gardeners' World programme & various other BBC specials.
Geoff Hamilton from the BBC. He created them.
Geoffrey Hamilton
Geoff hamilton the best tv gardener ever its in rutland and now run by his son well worth a vist he never opened it to the public as he thought it wasn't right to make money out of tv work what a truly nice chap those who watch gardeners world still miss him enormously, see yesterday qestion what is the greatest garden of all time its that good
late Geoff Hamilton
He was Geoff Hamilton who in addition to being a terrific gardener was very concerned about how things could be affordable. so he did not expect people to buy expensive pieces of kit but gave really good information on how to make your cloches (including the famous orange crate and plastic), paths, features, cold frames etc. He was a socialist as well as being one of the first TV gardeners to really push organic gardening and other environmentally friendly issues eg like not using peat or peat based composts.
the garden is still open and has it's own website. Geoff Hamilton wrote several books on gardening which are well worth obtaining.
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