// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did Nigel Colborn go to the garden? To get to the root of things.
Nigel Colborn VMH is a British TV presenter and gardening expert/writer. He is a former presenter of the long running BBC Gardeners World. He has been a panelist on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners Question Time[1] and is a regular presenter of Granada TV's Gorgeous Gardens.
His mother was the nursery woman Pamela Underwood[citation needed] and he attended King's Ely.[2]
He wrote and presented BBC Radio 4's 'In a Monastery Garden'. He has written many gardening books, including 'Short Cuts to Great Gardens'; 'Great Plants for Small Gardens'; 'A Flower for Every Day'. As a journalist he has written about gardening, travel and the countryside for The Daily Mail, The Times, Sunday Times and also on his own blog, Silver Tree Daze.
He is a trustee & Vice Chair of The Royal Horticultural Society and has judged at the Chelsea Flower Show.
References
[edit]- ↑ "BBC Online - Radio 4 - Gardeners' Question Time - GQT FAQs". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2001-09-13.
- ↑ "King's Ely". Guide to Independent Schools. 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2023-01-15.
External links
[edit]- Silvertreedaze: Colborn's blog