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Geoff Hamilton was the longest serving presenter of
Gardeners' World from 1979 to 1996. His
horticultural career began as a landscape gardener,
before becoming a journalist with Garden News and
Practical Gardening. |
| He was one
of the first gardeners to advocate organic methods
of gardening, long before it became part of the
mainstream. |
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TV's Geoff Hamilton has been voted the nation's
all-time favourite gardener. Readers of Amateur
Gardening magazine nominated the legendary
presenter, who died in 1996, Gardener of the
Millennium. |
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Despite
having had what he described as a 'very bad
interview', Geoff got his first TV job presenting
Gardening Diary on Anglia TV in the early 1970s.
This was followed by regular appearances on
Gardeners' World. In 1984, he found a Victorian
farmhouse in Rutland called Barnsdale with more than
five acres of pastureland. Geoff joined Gardeners'
World permanently, and Barnsdale became the
programme's new home. He was on a charity bike ride
in 1996 when he collapsed and died of a heart
attack. A gardener to the end, he was buried in his
jeans and boots.
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Geoff
was devoted to gardening, and is best remembered for
his enthusiasm for plants and his practical,
down-to-earth advice. He inspired confidence in a
generation of gardeners and was perhaps best known
for his hands-on, 'anyone-can-do-it' approach.
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"Geoff
Hamilton, though sadly not with us anymore, still
has a great influence over so many gardeners."
says Adrian Bishop (Editor - Amateur Gardening
Magazine).
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| Links... |
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| Barnsdale
Gardens
- The garden of the late great Geoff
Hamilton. |
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