The Front Garden - Candida Lycett Green

Our front gardens show what we can do - they even reveal what sort of people we are. An old miner builds 13 cathedrals in his front garden. A sailor cuts his hedge into a replica of his wartime destroyer. There are old gardens; formal flower-patterned gardens, gardens inhabited by gnomes; gardens made with shells; even a garden without any plants...
I realise that this program has already been uploaded but in in several parts. This upload it is one part (with a slight tape glitch about two minutes in).

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  • @Nenlothiel
    @Nenlothiel2 ай бұрын

    Beautiful video. I love how so many of the gardeners are retired and refused to just sit on their butts. They kept working. They created something, most or all of which is probably gone now, but they did it. They brought beauty into the world, if only for a moment.

  • @stephenspence1192

    @stephenspence1192

    2 ай бұрын

    Nice comment.

  • @samcad-ho3ze
    @samcad-ho3ze2 ай бұрын

    I miss beautiful people like these. Just shining souls. 🥹

  • @gladyssmith9084
    @gladyssmith9084Ай бұрын

    What a beautiful old programme. I love it when people grow flowers in their front gardens for all to enjoy. Thank you.

  • @markwardel6751
    @markwardel67512 ай бұрын

    Mrs. Barnes climbing over walls and gardening in a skirt and those heels! Fabulous

  • @leeannmansfield5254
    @leeannmansfield52542 ай бұрын

    Great Britain was made by great people with great attitudes...so if we want this again it's up to us.

  • @elizabethmilligan7173
    @elizabethmilligan7173Ай бұрын

    This was so delightful to watch-thank you for sharing!

  • @goleylla
    @goleylla3 ай бұрын

    What a lovely documentary! I managed to find some of these homes on Google maps but sadly the gardens are now bare. The gatehouse property looks like someone lives there but it’s all just grass and no plants 🙁 The house with the garden that the lady extended to the pavement is no longer as in the video; the plants at the front have disappeared and it’s looking slightly unkempt now. I adore cottage gardens and I always try to keep my garden looking pretty with perennial flowers and roses too🌹

  • @justinthegardener

    @justinthegardener

    3 ай бұрын

    I have been looking too, I remember watching this a long time ago and loved it. The house with the Shell Garden looks like a bombsite, the shells all gone and packed with cars, Mr Buxton-Deans castle garden has all gone, just the middle wall still exisits. I noticed there are still some plants there which the lady who climbed over the church wall planted, the conifers are much bigger now. It is good there are still a few of us keeping up the gardening tradition! 🙂

  • @elizabethdarley8646
    @elizabethdarley8646 Жыл бұрын

    Notice how adults in this video don't look like children!

  • @Anderzander
    @Anderzander2 ай бұрын

    Mrs Barnes @15:26 ❤

  • @sararichardson737
    @sararichardson7372 ай бұрын

    Love this. Thanks for posting. The Gatehouse couple: enchanting. Then the Peat lovers! What a treasure this is

  • @sararichardson737
    @sararichardson7372 ай бұрын

    I loved how the judges brusquely ignored the now in vogue unkempt- wild garden in favour of his neighbours manicured to a fault front garden. How tastes change

  • @valeriematter7826
    @valeriematter78262 ай бұрын

    Mrs Barnes❤✨

  • @DJ_Dutchess
    @DJ_Dutchess2 ай бұрын

    The figures in the shell garden would be of value in the vintage/antique maket. That was hard to watch 😕

  • @stephenhaitako4665
    @stephenhaitako46652 ай бұрын

    What a gem.

  • @anyonecandiy
    @anyonecandiyАй бұрын

    Anyone have any info on Mrs. Barnes? Who she was? Just a lovely lovely soul

  • @elizabethdarley8646
    @elizabethdarley8646 Жыл бұрын

    Just think how much the prices of these houses are now in 2023!!!!!

  • @saffron200

    @saffron200

    Жыл бұрын

    Just a bit.....

  • @julieblackstock8650
    @julieblackstock86502 ай бұрын

    Cottage gardens are lovely, some of the others look so dated now with the marigolds and white allysum. And only red roses. Lovely to watch though

  • @leeannmansfield5254
    @leeannmansfield52542 ай бұрын

    I have a beautiful garden and I'm a singke mum.however I don't have all these flowers.That is alot of money.