Lost Gardens (Channel 4 - 1999 - Complete Series)

Lost Gardens - Gatton (16 Sep 2010)

Originally produced in 1999 by Flashback Television for Channel Four.



Monty Don introduces a team of gardening experts,
historians, landscape gardeners and designers who
literally dig up and reconstruct the gardens and
return them to their former glory.

Their first project in a neglected corner of a
Capability Brown landscape, is the Japanese garden
at Gatton Park, Surrey. It was created in 1910 by
orchid grower Sir Jeremiah Colman, of the mustard family.

Gatton Park is a 250-acre estate near Reigate, Surrey.
The park was landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
in the 1760s and comprises woodlands, grasslands, ponds
and a large lake. The beautiful formal gardens were
added by Sir Jeremiah Colman of mustard fame during the
time he lived there. Following the Edwardian trend in
all things Japanese, Sir Jeremiah employed Edward White
to create a Japanese garden beside the Engine Pond in
1910. Channel 4 Television in 1999 restored the
Japanese Garden for the first programme in its ΓΓé¼╦£Lost
GardensΓΓé¼Γäó series.

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Lost Gardens - Shelley Hall Suffolk (23 Sep 2010)

Originally produced in 1999 by Flashback Television for Channel Four.


This week they unearth the oldest garden in the series,
at Shelley Hall, Suffolk. It is a moated Tudor garden
created in 1519 by Sir Philip Tilney. He was a member
of an ancient knightly family and he became by marriage,
a first cousin of Elizabeth I.

Shelley Hall, was a large brick house built in the
1520s by Sir Philip Tilney (d. 1533).
He was a member of an ancient knightly family
who gained additional status by the marriage of first
his cousin, and then his sister, to Thomas Howard,
Duke of Norfolk. By the first marriage he became a
cousin of the future Elizabeth I. Only a part of TilneyΓΓé¼Γäós
house has survived, but the layout suggests a court-yard
plan house that had an axial relationship to a
square moated site to the east. This moated site had
been postulated as the site of an earlier house, but the
fortunate existence of a manorial survey dated 1519-33
clarified the set-up by describing a ΓΓé¼╦£gardeynΓΓé¼Γäó on the
east side of the manor buildings that was ΓΓé¼╦£motyd on
every sydeΓΓé¼Γäó. Analysis of the survey and the present
topography suggest that the moated site adjoined an
area of marshland and that the approach to the house
was contrived to present views of the garden to visitors,
but that actual access to it was limited to a favoured few.

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Lost Gardens - Warwick (30 Sep 2010)

Originally produced in 1999 by Flashback Television for Channel Four.


This week:

The gardening team work on uncovering the lost world of a
19th-century Warwick grocer's detached pleasure garden in Warwick.

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Lost Gardens - Ambleside (07 Oct 2010)

Originally produced in 1999 by Flashback Television for Channel Four.


This week: Ambleside - Lake District

When Frances and Jim Philbrook moved into their Victorian
country house in the heart of the Lake District, they never
suspected the plot they'd inherited was once a much admired
and extraordinary garden.

Why would they? Apart from some neatly trimmed lawns, most
of their grounds were hidden beneath decades' worth of
bramble and rhododendrons, which had knitted together so
densely that they allowed little light to penetrate the space.

Soon after arriving, the team discovered the outline of
stone and concrete structures. After several days of
digging, steps were revealed that led down to a network
of underground tunnels and chambers held up by stone
pillars.

A deed map of 1889 and old Ordnance Survey maps of the
area showed that a glass structure had once covered
part of the hollow and the team believed this shady
spot would have been used as a fernery, a popular
feature in Victorian times.

'I was amazed at this discovery and have felt a
tremendous responsibility for it ever since - there's
only a couple of similar ferneries left in the
country,' says Jim proudly. Eller How dates from 1841
and among the early owners was Anne Jemima Clough,
sister of poet Arthur Hugh Clough. A key figure in the
suffragette movement, she opened the house as a school
for young ladies in 1852 and ran this for ten years
before becoming the first principal of Newnham College,
Cambridge. In 1862 it was bought by keen horticulturist
Henry Boyle, whose work in the garden can still be seen
today.

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Lost Gardens - Perthshire (14 Oct 2010)

Originally produced in 1999 by Flashback Television for Channel Four.


This week:
The lost garden on the estate of Dunira, Near Comrie, Perthshire was owned by
a wealthy laird, and the decayed estate now holds a tragic family secret.
The team makes a start on restoring this 1920s Thomas Mawson-designed garden.

The Dunira Estate, about 3 miles from Comrie and 3 miles from lovely Loch
Earn in Perthshire, is a place of great beauty and tranquillity. It also
has a most interesting history. The father of William Macbeth bought it
in 1919 as a wedding present for his son.
Macbeth's father had made his fortune as a ship building magnate on the
Clyde during the First World War, and in the period of high unemployment
during the 1920s he arranged for a train load of unemployed shipyard
workers to be decanted at the local station every day to transform the
Estate. The 9-hole golf course, putting green and a cricket pitch which
they created have all gone now, but the Lost Gardens and the magnificent
Arboretum remain, just a couple of minutes walk from East Turret.

Amongst numerous other staff, 22 full-time gardeners were employed by the
estate.

Macbeth became morosely depressed and neglected the gardens after his only
son and heir was still-born.

The main house was all but totally destroyed by fire in 1947 when it burned
for 1 week.

The eastern annex / wing of the house remained occupied but in very poor
and decaying state until early 21st century when it was finally demolished
as neglect made recovery unfeasible.

NB: The estate is now in separate ownership. The gardens are overgrown but
can be rejuvenated. The site has detailed planning consent for a large
detached dwelling plus coach-house / garage block.

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Lost Gardens - Sutton Stop (21 Oct 2010)

Originally produced in 2001 by Flashback Television for Channel Four.


This week: Sutton Stop, Coventry

A lock-keeper's garden blooms as Monty Don and his channel 4 team
recreate a scene from the forgotten past of Coventry's waterways.

Excavation of a garden near Coventry draws a frustrating blank, but
a lucky find in a record office plunges the team right into the heart
of the life, and garden, of lock keeper Richard Sutton's residence in
1807-1876.

Sutton became famous in the area for selling his produce to passing
barges and the road leading to the lock was named Sutton Stop in his
honour. Richard's garden was well-known to 19th-century travellers,
but over the years became neglected and overgrown.

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Lost Gardens - Chatham (28th Oct 2010)

Research and restoration on a Georgian officer's terrace
in Chatham Historical Dockyard.

By piecing together evidence from the ground, archives and from a detailed model
of the Chatham Historical Dockyard dated 1774, the team is able to attempt one
of the only accurate Georgian town garden restorations.

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Lost Gardens - Penjerrick (4th Nov 2010)

Sadly the final episode.

Lost Gardens - Presenter Monty Don, garden historian Dr Toby Musgrave and landscaper
Ann-Marie Powell discover a tropical paradise near Falmouth in Cornwall.

The lower garden at Penjerrick was created at a time when intrepid botanists were
bringing home exotic flora from around the world.

Besides the explosions of rhododendrons, there are minor forests of bamboo and
rhubarb overgrown to resemble a series of Seventies parasols.

Somewhere amid the kitsch chaos is an impressive line of tree ferns, long since
threatened by asphyxiation.

The tangled mass must be hacked aside, sensitively, in a bid to recreate the odd
splendour of the original Penjerrick.


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Enjoy and Seed!!