• 2004
  • 22m
Britain's Best Back Gardens

Summary Columnist Stephen Anderton and garden designers Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers tour the UK to find the country's finest hidden horticultural havens, explaining why various styles and arrangements work so well, and attempting to sort out a range of problems. View more details

  • 2004
  • 22m

Britain's Best Back Gardens

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Stephen Anderton Janey Auchincloss

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 2025

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Granada Anglia

Summary Columnist Stephen Anderton and garden designers Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers tour the UK to find the country's finest hidden horticultural havens, explaining why various styles and arrangements work so well, and attempting to sort out a range of problems. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 2025

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Granada Anglia

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
Plot Size and Shape
Columnist Stephen Anderton and garden designers Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers tour the UK to find the country's finest hidden horticultural havens, explaining why various styles and arrangements work so well, and attempting to sort out a range of problems. This programme focuses on making the most of small or awkwardly shaped plots, using mirrors and imaginative planting to create an illusion of space.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Project: Plot Size and Shape
Columnist Stephen Anderton and garden designers Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers tour the UK to find the country's finest hidden horticultural havens, coming up with ideas to enhance a Bristol resident's small, walled plot.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Relationship to Surroundings
Stephen Anderton, Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers demonstrate how to harmonise a garden with its surroundings, viewing the efforts of horticulturists in Suffolk, Essex and Scotland.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
Project: Relationship to Surroundings
Stephen Anderton comes up with a design solution for a garden in Snowdonia, making the most of the surrounding mountainous scenery.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
Light
Stephen Anderton finds out how actor John Tordoff has exploited natural light in his East End plot, while designers Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers visit gardens in Muswell Hill and York that come to life as night falls.
Episode 6 • Dec 31, 1969
Water
Columnist Stephen Anderton visits a Suffolk garden where an architect has worked wonders with water, while garden designers Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers head for a wildlife pond in Warwick and a water feature in Raynes Park that's anything but run-of-the-mill.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
Project: Water
Designers Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers continue their fact-finding horticultural tour of the UK, visiting a Wickham garden where damp conditions are creating a problem.
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
Dividing Your Garden
Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers discover the delights of gardens in Edinburgh and Oxfordshire, while Stephen Anderton sets off for Winchester to explore a horticultural haven conceived in the deserts of Oman and divided up with military precision.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
Project: Dividing Your Garden
Stephen Anderton helps Crewe couple John and Olive bring order to their large garden by dividing up the open space into smaller areas.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
Planting
Columnist Stephen Anderton meets master plantsman Simon Huggin in Dorset while garden designers Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers visit horticultural havens in Manchester and Lincolnshire in the search for the country's best planned and cared-for plot.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
Seating
A look at garden seating, as columnist Stephen Anderton visits a small Worcester garden where owner Alastair Davidson has made the most of the space, while garden designers Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers make themselves comfortable in Reading and Aylesbury.
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
Project: Seating
Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers help Southampton Football Club fan Derek Caplen design a garden dedicated to his favourite team, incorporating some historic terrace seating bought from their former ground The Dell when they moved to the ultra-modern St Mary's Stadium.
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
Routes
Stephen Anderton, Janey Auchincloss and Lucy Summers tour gardens in north London, Birmingham and Worcestershire which are characterised by routes of interest.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1969
Project: Routes
Stephen Anderton helps Susan and Dominic Heath redesign their problematic garden near Goole, East Yorkshire.

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