BBC - Gardening - How to be a gardener

BBC Home

7 November 2009
Accessibility help
Text only

how to be a gardener - The complete online guide

BBC Homepage
Lifestyle
Gardening
Part One
Part Two

Are you signed in?
Go here for more information

Know your plot

Understand plants

Planting schemes and themes

Practical planting

Caring for your garden

Problem solving

The productive garden

The gardening year

Go further

Plant lists

Interactives

Glossary

Credits

Programme information

Help with plugins

Gardening newsletter

Site map

home

Module 1

Credits

Print page

Copyright

All content on the BBC How to be a gardener website is protected by copyright. Any image that is not BBC copyright has a © link in its caption. Click this link to see contact information for the appropriate copyright holder.
Non-BBC copyright images have been reproduced by courtesy of the following:
Photographs

© Jonathan Buckley 2002. Images taken from How to be a gardener - Book One. The book to accompany the series is available at all major retailers and at the (External) BBC Shop

Video clips, stills and time-lapse photography

Taken from the BBC 2 series, How to be a gardener

Find out more information about the series here.

Contributors

With thanks to:

Alan Titchmarsh
Kath Moore and the How to be a gardener programme team
Toby Musgrave
Nick Rigden
BBC Books, for the use of material from How to be a gardener - Book One
(External) Lee Probert – interface and Flash design/coding
Simon White – Flash design on 'Light levels challenge'
(External) Royal Horticultural Society
Arlington Enterprises

Toby Musgrave (Horticultural Consultant)
Dr Toby Musgrave is a freelance designer, lecturer, author, journalist and television presenter. In additional to his work on this course, he acted as horticultural consultant on How to be a gardener for the television series.
Toby lectures on garden history to audiences across Britain including Oxford University, Oxford University Botanic Gardens, Bristol University and the Royal Horticultural Society.
Nick Rigden (Horticultural Consultant)
Nick Rigden has been actively involved in horticultural education since 1969 as a practical instructor, lecturer and for seventeen years Head of Horticulture, initially at Plumpton Agricultural College, Sussex and latterly Cannington College, Somerset.
He has a broad knowledge and experience of horticulture and gardening as a practitioner, lecturer, exhibitor and judge, regularly exhibiting with Cannington College at major shows including Chelsea, where he also judges in the science and education section.
He is Vice Chairman of the Royal Horticultural Society's Examination Board and currently Senior Examiner for their Diploma examinations. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Horticulture in 1994.
The BBC is not responsible for content on external websites.

About the BBC | Help | Terms of Use | Privacy & Cookies Policy

Explore the BBC

Change Text Only Settings

Graphic version of this page