Which BBC gardener died suddenly of a heart attack in 1996
"comes at a later stage in our education, if it comes at all."" Lloyd rapidly felt the need to share his gardening discoveries and published ""The Mixed Border"" in 1957, which was followed by ""Clematis"" in 1965 and ""The Well-Tempered Garden"" in 1970. Lloyd had begun a book on the use of exotic plants in British gardens when he died, his gardening friends and colleagues completed the book, ""Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners"", in 2007. Christopher Lloyd (gardener) Christopher Hamilton Lloyd, OBE (2 March 1921 – 27 January 2006) was a British gardener and author. He was the 20th-century chronicler"
"Geoff Hamilton Geoffrey Stephen Hamilton(15 August 1936 – 4 August 1996) was an English gardener, broadcaster and author, best known as presenter of BBC television's ""Gardeners' World"" in the 1980s and '90s. Hamilton was born just a few minutes before his twin brother Tony, in Stepney, London. His family moved to Broxbourne in Hertfordshire when he was two, and his interest in horticulture was nurtured initially by working on the family's back garden. He expanded his knowledge still further by helping out at local nurseries during the school holidays – mainly at the Van Hage Nursery at the end of"
"Foliat on 25 July 2005, aged 85. His ashes were interred alongside his mother's remains at St Matthew's Church, Blackmoor, on 19 June 2017. Harry Dodson Harry James Dodson (11 September 1919 – 25 July 2005) was an English gardener who became a celebrity as a result of the BBC television documentary series ""The Victorian Kitchen Garden"", which featured his professional expertise and his reminiscences. Horticulture was in his family. Born in Byfleet, his father was a gardener and his uncle was head gardener to the Earl of Selborne. He left school at 14, and over the next six years"
"Harry Dodson Harry James Dodson (11 September 1919 – 25 July 2005) was an English gardener who became a celebrity as a result of the BBC television documentary series ""The Victorian Kitchen Garden"", which featured his professional expertise and his reminiscences. Horticulture was in his family. Born in Byfleet, his father was a gardener and his uncle was head gardener to the Earl of Selborne. He left school at 14, and over the next six years worked his way up from garden boy to journeyman. In 1937 he started work at Stansted Park as a 'young improver journeyman' in the"
"studying practical horticulture at Writtle College. This award is funded by donations and sales of gardening DVDs. Geoff Hamilton Geoffrey Stephen Hamilton(15 August 1936 – 4 August 1996) was an English gardener, broadcaster and author, best known as presenter of BBC television's ""Gardeners' World"" in the 1980s and '90s. Hamilton was born just a few minutes before his twin brother Tony, in Stepney, London. His family moved to Broxbourne in Hertfordshire when he was two, and his interest in horticulture was nurtured initially by working on the family's back garden. He expanded his knowledge still further by helping out at"
"she was left to run the estate alone. Her sister, Dame Gillian Brown, a retired diplomat, and the UK's ambassador to Norway, 1981 to 1983, moved to Bowberhead to help, but died unexpectedly in 1999. Frankland suffered severe depression, and moved into Stobars Hall, a care home in Kirkby Stephen, where she died on 9 June 2013 from dementia and cardiovascular disease. Juliet Frankland Juliet Camilla Frankland (née Brown, 30 January 1929 – 9 June 2013), was a British botanist and mycologist, and ""a world expert on fungi"". She was born Juliet Camilla Brown on 30 January 1929 at High"
"served on the society's judging panel. He was a committee member of the Leeds Horticultural Society. Alongside the long-standing BBC Radio Leeds presenter Tim Crowther, Maiden regularly presented to Sunday morning audiences to the station's weekly peak audience. He died on 17 September 2015 of prostate cancer. Joe Maiden Joe Maiden (1941 – 17 September 2015) was a gardener, horticulturist, author and BBC Radio presenter based in Huby, Yorkshire, England. Maiden was brought up in Penrith, Cumbria, and was educated at Askham Bryan College. A professional horticulturist over a period spanning 40 years, he appeared on numerous gardening programmes for"
"Park in 2010. Nutkins died on 6 September 2012, aged 66. He had been receiving treatment for nine months for acute leukaemia. He died at his home in Glenelg, Scotland, and was survived by his wife and eight children. Terry Nutkins Terence ""Terry"" Paul Nutkins (12 August 1946 – 6 September 2012) was an English naturalist, television presenter and author. He was best known for his television appearances, notably in the UK children's programmes ""Animal Magic"", ""The Really Wild Show"", ""Brilliant Creatures"" and ""Growing Up Wild"". Terry Nutkins was born in Marylebone, London and spent most of his childhood there."
"Toby Buckland Toby Neale Buckland (born 11 October 1969) is an English gardener, TV presenter and author, best known for being the main presenter from 2008-10 of BBC's long running flagship gardening programme ""Gardeners' World"". In 2008 Buckland won RHS Gold and Best in show for his Ethical Garden at Gardeners' World Live. In 2009 he won the Environmental Award from the Garden Media Guild for a Gardeners' World Special on peat in gardening. In October 2011, Buckland launched an online plant nursery, Toby Buckland Nurseries, based at Powderham Castle in Devon. Born in Exeter, Devon, Buckland was brought up"
"Wheatcroft's niece, Anna Wheatcroft, was married to future ""Doctor Who"" star Tom Baker from 1961 to 1966. They had two children, Daniel and Piers. In his book, ""Who on Earth is Tom Baker?"", Baker revealed that the rest of the Wheatcroft family treated him very cruelly during his marriage to Anna. Having suffered a stroke, Wheatcroft died in Nottingham General Hospital on 8 January 1977. Wheatcroft Garden Centre, in Edwalton in Nottingham, is now operated by Notcutts Ltd. Harry Wheatcroft Harry Wheatcroft (1898–1977) was a famous English rose grower. He did a great deal to popularise roses among British gardeners."
"Geoffrey Smith (gardener) Geoffrey Denis Smith (23 March 1928 – 27 February 2009) was a professional gardener, broadcaster, writer and lecturer. He was the presenter of ""Gardeners World"" from 1980 to 1982 and a number of other BBC series in the early 80s including ""Geoffrey Smith's World of Flowers"", ""Mr Smith’s Flower Garden"", ""Mr Smith's Favourite Garden"" and ""Mr Smith’s Indoor Garden"" all of which were accompanied by books. Smith was born at Barningham Park, Barningham, North Riding of Yorkshire, where his father was head gardener. He was sent to board at Barnard Castle School but hated the restrictive life"
"heart attack outside his house at Princes Villa, Surbiton on 18 September 1945. Warm tributes were paid to him and flowers were sent to his funeral from all over Britain, although an obituary in the ""Daily Express"" noted that, ironically, his own front garden was noticeably unkempt. Middleton is remembered in the allotment gates of the Weston and Lois Weedon Horticultural Society, Northants, where he was a founder member in 1940. This Society still remembers him at their annual horticultural shows, as he did much to promote the horticultural shows and societies continuing in wartime. Middleton was the first in"
"work quickly changed the garden into an allotment and national showpiece. Arthur Billitt Arthur Billitt is a former lead presenter of the long running BBC television programme ""Gardeners' World"". He took over from the first presenter Percy Thrower who in 1976 invoked the wrath of the BBC by falling foul of their 'no advertising' policy and was fired for endorsing fertilisers on TV. Billitt was the co-presenter and took over the lead role at his own home, Clack's Farm, in Worcestershire, fronting the programme until 1979 when Geoff Hamilton took over. Billitt is regarded as having a very practical style"
"to two million. Tameside Council have put up a Blue Plaque in his honour on the Broadoak Hotel which, because of his gardening skills, is green. Bill Sowerbutts William Edmund Sowerbutts (4 January 1911 - 28 May 1990), better known as Bill Sowerbutts, was a panellist on the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme Gardeners Question Time. Born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, the son of a market gardener, Sowerbutts wanted to become a journalist on leaving school, but his father died when he was 16 and he started work on the family's smallholding. The family first opened a stall on Oldham's Victoria"
"Joe Maiden Joe Maiden (1941 – 17 September 2015) was a gardener, horticulturist, author and BBC Radio presenter based in Huby, Yorkshire, England. Maiden was brought up in Penrith, Cumbria, and was educated at Askham Bryan College. A professional horticulturist over a period spanning 40 years, he appeared on numerous gardening programmes for the BBC and Yorkshire Television and was awarded the Harlow Carr medal by The Royal Horticultural Society for his growing, lecturing and exhibitions of vegetables. Maiden's work has been published in a number of audio visual presentations He was a Fellow of the National Vegetable Society, and"
"a long line of British ""celebrity"" gardeners, from Percy Thrower to Geoff Hamilton and Alan Titchmarsh, who became famous through radio or television. He received much fan mail and letters relating to gardening, and listeners and readers contributed by public subscription towards a set of memorial gates to his radio garden allotment in London near the Old Langham Hotel in London. These have since been moved to BBC Written Archives Centre at Caversham, near Reading. Describing Middleton as ""the Gert and Daisy of the gardening world"", historian Philip Ziegler cited the immense popularity of his wartime broadcasts which ""did as"
"Carleton had a weak pulse when taken by ambulance to the Launceston General Hospital and that he had been puffing and gasping not long before he collapsed. Carleton died at 2:12 p.m, in the ambulance on the way to hospital. His last words were: In the telemovie about the incident, ""Beaconsfield"", Carleton was played by Steve Vizard. In 2017 his garden was featured on the television program ""Gardening Australia"" and was introduced by his wife Sharon. Richard Carleton Richard George Carleton (11 July 19437 May 2006) was a multi-Logie Award winning Australian television journalist. Carleton was born in Bowral, New"
"Percy Thrower Percy John Thrower (30 January 1913 – 18 March 1988) was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer born at Horwood House in the village of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire. He became nationally known through presenting gardening programmes, starting in 1956 with the BBC's ""Gardening Club"", then the BBC's ""Gardeners' World"" from 1969 until 1976. The surname Thrower is peculiar to East Anglia, where Percy’s father worked as a gardener at Bawdsey Manor, Suffolk, before moving to Horwood House near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, as head gardener. Percy Thrower was determined from an early age to be a head gardener like"
"Chelsea"" and ""RHS Tatton Flower shows"" and ""Tree of the Year"" for Channel 4 in 2016. Danny Clarke Dannahue ""Danny"" Clarke is a British horticulturist who co-hosts the BBC series ""The Instant Gardener"" with Helen Skelton. Clarke was born in Oxford to immigrants from Jamaica. He changed careers from sales and founded his own garden design company in Bromley in 1997, and called himself The Black Gardener after noting that another businessman calling himself the Black Farmer was having success. The name led to him being noticed and invited to screen test for ""The Instant Gardener"", a daytime BBC programme"
"Farm Park; his son, Adam Henson, runs the park and is a TV presenter. Nicky's sons with ex-wife Una Stubbs are composers Christian and Joseph, and another son with wife Marguerite Porter is Keaton, an artist. Henson died at his home in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, in 1957, aged 66. His body was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. On 23 July 1956, while in Dublin performing, Henson heard that his close friend Bobby Hullett had died in Eastbourne. Henson was suspicious because Hullett's husband had died just four months earlier and that Dr John Bodkin Adams had treated both of them."
"Except Christmas"" (1957), a record of a day in the old Covent Garden market, for his top 10 classics from the history of documentary.[3] Gavin Lambert's memoir, ""Mainly About Lindsay Anderson"", in which he wrote that Anderson repressed his homosexuality, was seen as a betrayal by his other friends. In November 2006 Malcolm McDowell told ""The Independent"": Anderson died from a heart attack on 30 August 1994 at the age of 71. All Royal Court, London, unless otherwise indicated: Lindsay Anderson Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature film, theatre and documentary director,"
"centre floral display, Heart of England in Bloom and gardening shows such the Chelsea Flower Show and since 1996, BBC Gardeners’ World Live. During his visit to the United Kingdom, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated mass and presided over the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman, with a crowd of 51,626 people present at the 80,000-capacity Cofton Park near Longbridge, Birmingham, on Sunday 19 September 2010. Prior to the mass, music and prayer ceremonies were held at the park and were broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 as part of their weekly programme ""Sunday Worship"". At the end of the mass,"
"much as anything to convince doubters that running an allotment was a pleasant and profitable pursuit"". Indeed, such was his contemporaneous fame that, in 2008, author Byron Rogers observed that Middleton was ""the first English national working class hero, apart from footballers and hangmen"". C. H. Middleton Cecil Henry Middleton (22 February 1886 – 18 September 1945), widely known simply as ""Mr. Middleton"", was a gardener, writer and one of the earliest radio and television broadcasters on gardening for the BBC. Middleton broadcast in Britain during the 1930s and 40s, especially in relation to the ""Dig for Victory"" campaign during"
"1973 version, ""Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all,"" were adapted to ""Goodbye England's rose, may you ever grow in our hearts."" Most of the lyrics were adapted to suit the circumstances of Diana's life and death. On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in Paris, France. The news shocked Elton John, as he and the Princess had been very good friends. Earlier in the summer, he had also lost another good friend, fashion designer Gianni Versace. Pictures depicting Diana appearing to console a distraught John at Versace's funeral were featured"
"Arthur Billitt Arthur Billitt is a former lead presenter of the long running BBC television programme ""Gardeners' World"". He took over from the first presenter Percy Thrower who in 1976 invoked the wrath of the BBC by falling foul of their 'no advertising' policy and was fired for endorsing fertilisers on TV. Billitt was the co-presenter and took over the lead role at his own home, Clack's Farm, in Worcestershire, fronting the programme until 1979 when Geoff Hamilton took over. Billitt is regarded as having a very practical style of gardening with large beds and straight rows of vegetables. His"
"C. H. Middleton Cecil Henry Middleton (22 February 1886 – 18 September 1945), widely known simply as ""Mr. Middleton"", was a gardener, writer and one of the earliest radio and television broadcasters on gardening for the BBC. Middleton broadcast in Britain during the 1930s and 40s, especially in relation to the ""Dig for Victory"" campaign during the Second World War. Many of his wartime talks appeared also in print. Middleton was born in Weston by Weedon, Northamptonshire on 22 February 1886. Gardening was the family trade. Middleton was the son of John Robert Middleton, who was employed as head gardener"
"BBC Radio Ulster's gardening programmes. In addition to his radio work and the running of his company he was gardening editor of Ireland's ""Homes Interior and Living"" magazine and was a contributor to the ""Daily Telegraph"". He lived in Killyleagh, County Down and studied horticulture at Greenmount College of Agriculture and Horticulture in Antrim. He was married with two sons and a daughter. Although he was brought up as a Presbyterian, after he married he followed his wife's denomination (the Church of Ireland). Cushnie died on 31 December 2009 from a heart attack, aged 66, less than a week after"
"garden at Chilton Foliat, and its head gardener, Harry Dodson. He did not claim to be a Victorian gardener himself, but he had learned his trade from men who had been, and he understood the techniques they had developed. The series was screened in 1987, when he was 68, and its popularity spawned three other BBC series — ""The Victorian Kitchen"", ""The Victorian Flower Garden"" and ""The Wartime Kitchen and Garden"". The accompanying books were best-sellers. Dodson became a popular personality and in 1992 wrote his own book about growing vegetables, ""Harry Dodson's Practical Kitchen Garden"". He died at Chilton"
"three daughters: Margaret, born 1944, Susan, born 1948, and Ann, born 1952. They were all involved with the Percy Thrower Garden Centre. Percy had a succession of black Labrador, after duck shooting with his maternal grandfather, who had one as a gun dog. He was a fan of West Bromwich Albion Football Club He died in the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton, on 18 March 1988, aged 75, and his ashes were buried in the churchyard at Leaton, near Bomere Heath, Shropshire, where he had lived. Percy Thrower Percy John Thrower (30 January 1913 – 18 March 1988) was a British gardener,"
"the death of his eight-year-old daughter Kim in 1974, an open day, attended by 50,000 people, was held at his garden to raise money for cancer research. He and his wife Jill eventually raised over half a million dollars for cancer research. He later became patron of the Kevin Heinze Garden Centre in Doncaster which provides gardening activities for people with disabilities. Following a heart attack, Heinze died on 1 September 2008, aged 80. Most of his garden was donated to the local shire council to enable the public to visit in the future. Kevin Heinze Kevin Carl Heinze (1"
"Flower Garden"", ""Gardening (Sure & Simple)"", ""A Passion for Plants"", ""The Book of Primroses"", ""Shrubs and Small Trees for Your Garden and The Joy of Wildlife Gardening"". Geoffrey Smith lived in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales and his hobbies included fell-walking, photography, fly fishing and a passionate interest in all things pertaining to the countryside. Smith was a Baptist. Geoffrey Smith (gardener) Geoffrey Denis Smith (23 March 1928 – 27 February 2009) was a professional gardener, broadcaster, writer and lecturer. He was the presenter of ""Gardeners World"" from 1980 to 1982 and a number of other BBC series in"
"the garden. Don was the main presenter on BBC Two's ""Gardeners' World"" from 2003 to 2008 succeeding Alan Titchmarsh. He was the first self-taught horticulturist presenter in the show's 36-year history, stepping down only after suffering a minor stroke. After viewing figures for ""Gardeners' World"" fell below two million for the first time in 2009, in January 2010, changes were announced to the programme in an attempt to entice viewers back. In December 2010, it was announced that Don would be returning to the programme as lead presenter for the 2011 series, replacing Toby Buckland. Reaction to the announcement was"
"Watch Your Back! campaign. As well as prevention, they fund research to help find a cure, lobby in Government for greater awareness and connect with patients to ensure their journey is shared For over 15 years David has hosted the charity auctions/lotto for Euro plants open days. Since childhood Domoney has collected for the Methodist charity, JMA, and continues to do so. David Domoney David Martin Domoney, C Hort. FCI Hort (born 26 March 1963) is an English celebrity gardener and broadcaster, best known for co-presenting ""Love Your Garden"" and for being a resident gardening expert on ITV's ""This Morning""."