Harry Dodson Victorian Kitchen Garden

Harry Dodson was an English gardener who became famous for his TV series on Victorian kitchen gardening. He ran a walled garden at Chilton Foliat, where he grew vegetables and flowers using traditional methods. The Victorian Kitchen Garden is a 13-part BBC series, in which Harry Dodson recreated a working kitchen garden of the Victorian era in the Chilton Walled Gardens.

For many people the walled. Harry James Dodson (11 September 1919 - 25 July 2005) was an English gardener who became a celebrity as a result of the BBC television documentary series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, which. The Victorian Kitchen Garden: With Harry Dodson, Peter Thoday, Alison McKensie, Dennis Hopkins.

Television series following the restoration of a largely derelict walled garden at Chilton Lodge, Berkshire. The aim was to work the garden as it would have been in the Victorian era, using plants and practices from this period. Each episode follows a month of the year, and shows the tasks undertaken.

It follows a master gardener, Harry Dodson, through his yearlong attempt to revive the long-fallow walled garden of Chilton Lodge, a country estate in Berkshire, using entirely Victorian. Harry Dodson is a lifelong estate gardener who has nurtured and cultivated a walled Victorian kitchen garden in Berkshire for over 40 years. He shares his knowledge and experience with BBC viewers and visitors, and preserves the traditions and methods of Victorian flower and vegetable gardening.

Gardener on 'The Victorian Kitchen Garden'Harry Dodson, born in 1919, could not claim to have been a Victorian gardener himself. But he had learnt his trade from men whose lives had been spent. Harry Dodson was a famous gardener and TV presenter who hosted The Victorian Kitchen Garden series.

He died in 2005 and his ashes remained with the undertaker until now, when they will be interred in his mother's grave at St Matthew's Church, Blackmoor. The Victorian Kitchen Garden was a 13-part television series produced in 1987 for BBC Two (Must see. Mike).

It recreated a kitchen garden of the Victorian era at Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire. The presenter was the horticultural lecturer, Peter Thoday, the master gardener was Harry Dodson. Harry James Dodson was an English gardener who became a celebrity as a result of the British Broadcasting Corporation television documentary series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, which featured his professional expertise and his reminiscences.