BBC Gardeners' World

The Full Monty

When not filming Gardeners’ World I have spent the past few months travelling around the country filming gardens for my latest series, on British gardens. Having spent much of the past 20 years filming gardens in every other corner of the globe, it has been an eye-opener to take a look at our own gardens.

There is, of course, a whole series of ironies and oddities about this. When I travel, and this was especially true of the last series, , it is as much a

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