Moving-Gardens

Featuring the Gardens at Hidcote Manor, Mottisfont Abbey, Sissinghurst Castle

Why did American-born Major Lawrence Johnston spend much of his lifetime creating a storied garden in a remote part of the Cotswolds? What is Graham Stuart Thomas’s glorious collection of antique roses doing in a medieval English Abbey? What persuaded author, poet and [...]

Behind the elegance of the stately gardens that now define the British landscape lies a story that combines exotic exploration, scientific innovation and revolutionary thought, not to mention an unexpected helping of sexual innuendo. Tony Robinson follows an ambitious two-year restoration of Prior Park garden near Bath, and also embarks on a journey [...]

Looking at the secret lives of the wildlife in one of Britain’s favourite gardens. This film follows various animals, from the family of foxes that play after hours in the pleasure gardens, to the toads in the Italian garden and the badgers that clear up the tea rooms at night. Set against the [...]

Are you tired of paying exorbitant prices for poor quality produce? Are you concerned about the heavy use of pesticides and fungicides in commercial food production, not to mention the frequent recalls due to bacterial contamination, but just can’t afford to shell out the extra money for organic? On the other hand, are [...]

For many years now companies have been marketing stackable strawberry gardens; you know the kind, for twenty or forty or fifty dollars, you buy a container that has a couple of pockets in the side and lets you grow a half-dozen plants. The idea is good, but who can afford to raise enough [...]