Monty Don will be joined by Toby & Lisa Buckland, Pippa Greenwood and Joe Swift at this year's Canary Wharf Garden Show taking place over the Easter weekend. These personalities from screen and radio will advise visitors on what kind of garden design would suit them best.
The celebrity garden designers will give tips on how to transform your outdoor space into an urban paradise whether you have a garden, patio or balcony. This popular event makes a welcome return to Canary Wharf after its success last year.
The unique programme of daily presentations and advice centres given by high-profile gardeners will take place in the East Wintergarden and will be free. Places should be reserved though by calling the Customer Information Desk on 020 7001 3029 or
ordering on line at www.mycanarywharf.com from Monday 7th March or by asking at the Customer Information Desk in Jubilee Place mall on the day.
Appearances:
Thursday 24th March: Toby Buckland
Friday 25th March: Pippa Greenwood
Saturday 26th March: Lisa Buckland
Sunday 27th March: Joe Swift
Monday 28th March: Monty Don
As well as daily celebrity presentations, exhibitors with interactive stands, displays and show gardens will fill the
three shopping malls between 12.00 – 6.00pm. A huge selection of unique garden products, accessories, furniture,
ornaments and tools will be on sale and visitors will be able to view the latest fashions and artistry in urban gardening.
Not forgetting the rest of the family there will be a 'Kids' Zone' offering a programme of Easter garden activities
including arts & craft workshops, entertainment, storytelling, puppet shows, face painting, magic shows and gardening games.
A traditional English lawn garden will be created in Jubilee Place creating a focal point for the holiday weekend's entertainment as well
as the children's activities.
For further information visit www.mycanarywharf.com
TOBY BUCKLAND BIOGRAPHY
Toby's love for gardening is evident in all his work, whether it's
writing, TV or barrowing down the lane between his large Cambridge garden and
his allotment. He has a first class degree in landscape management but Toby is
known for a light-hearted, hands-on approach to growing and landscaping, and
for his artistic garden features created from plants and unlikely materials.
Toby is currently training up eager assistants to help with the legwork - his
two young sons.
TELEVISION
New in 2002 Guest presenter for Good Food Live for BBC's satellite,
UK TV
New in 2001 Designer for Real Wrecks, BBC 1
Guest presenter for RHS Garden Challenge for BBC's satellite, UK TV
Presenter on Cook's Garden for Granada TV satellite, Breeze
Guest presenter and designer on Grass Roots for Meridian TV
Presenter for Garden Magic, BBC 1
Guest designer for Better Gardens, Granada TV
Guest presenter, This Morning, Granada TV
Guest presenter, Party of a Lifetime, Granada TV
Guest presenter, BBC Gardener's World Live, BBC 2
Guest presenter, Home Front in the Garden, BBC2
Presenter, The Close Guide, Discovery Channel
Guest expert, BBC Radio 2, 4 and 5
GARDENS AND DESIGN
Garden designer for Dragonstone's 8-acre show garden in Hampshire. Willow-sculptor
for Flora for Fauna garden at Chelsea Flower Show in 1998, sponsored by Christie's
Fine Art Auctioneers. Designed competition garden for Sainsbury's Magazine.
Built garden for poet laureate, Andrew Motion; was briefly gardener to novelist
Tom Sharpe.
PUBLISHING
DIY Boundaries, Murdoch Books
The Garden Makeover Book, published 2001 (paperback 2002) Cassell
Project designer for The Times Small Garden Book 2001, Hamlyn
Newspapers and Magazines - Allotment expert for Garden Answers (emap)
PIPPA GREENWOOD BIOGRAPHY
Pippa Greenwood trained as a botanist at Durham University (BSc hons) and then
gained an MSc in Crop Protection at Reading University. In 1985 she joined
the staff of The Royal Horticultural Society at their garden in Wisley, Surrey.
In 1988 Pippa commenced working for the BBC. Initially she appeared in “Reflections
of Gold” on BBC, transmitted during the Chelsea Flower Show week and
following this programme she was invited to appear on BBC1's Daytime
Live with Alan Titchmarsh presenting the Friday gardening spot.
Since 1989, Pippa has been one of the regular presenters on BBC2's Gardeners' World – presenting
items on a wide range of subjects including plant problems, pests and diseases,
mini-trials of gardening techniques/products and regularly presenting items
from her own Organic Kitchen Garden in Hampshire.
Pippa is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question
Time and in 2000 presented a series called Growing Science along with her own
mini series of radio programmes called Pippa's Pests and has now embarked
on her own series Top Soil With Pippa Greenwood, a live week-end programme
for BBC Radio Solent.
Pippa has also guested on a number of television programmes including This
Morning, GMTV, Call my Bluff, Grass Roots, Tomorrow's World, You and
Yours, Breakaway and Woman's Hour.
Regular writing commitments keep Pippa very busy. She writes for the BBC Gardeners' World
and Amateur Gardening Magazine and is Gardening Correspondent for The Mirror
newspaper. Up until 2000 Pippa was the Gardening Editor/writer for Ideal Home
Magazine and columnist for BeMe.com - the women's lifestyle website.
In the little spare time that Pippa has, she hosts conferences all over the
country giving gardening advice and she also travels the world hosting gardening
cruises.
Pippa actively supports many charities but most of her time is spent assisting
HART Wildlife Rescue Centre, Toxoplasmosis Trust, Child Line and League Against
Cruel Sports with their fundraising events.
PUBLISHING
In Autumn 2000, Orion published Gardeners' Question Time of which Pippa
was co-author. Later this year Pippa's latest book, Garden Problem Solver,
will be published by Dorling Kindersley. Her other books include:
The New Gardener
Gardening Hints and Tips
Pests and Diseases - which won the 1997 Garden Writers
Guild Award for Best Reference book
Pippa Greenwoods' Flower Gardener - awarded the Gardening Reference
book of the year in the 1988 Garden Writers Guild Awards
101 Gardening Hints and Tips
Pippa's Organic Kitchen Garden
LISA BUCKLAND BIOGRAPHY
Lisa is a respected writer and gardener, known for having her ear to the ground
and fingers in the soil! She divides her time between writing a regular column
for Garden Answers magazine and running a garden design business with her
husband Toby. As mother of two young boys, she's expert at providing
female-friendly advice on design and planting.
TELEVISION
New in 2004 Presenter, Front of House, ITV 1
Guest designer, Style File, UK Style
Guest presenter, Muck and Jeff, Granada TV
Guest designer, Grass Roots, Meridian TV
Presenter, Garden Magic, BBC 1
Presenter, Real Gardens, Channel 4
Panelist, How Does Your Garden Grow? BBC2
Presenter, Gorgeous Gardens, Granada Breeze
PUBLISHING
New in 2004 How to Make Your Garden Grow, Cassell
Magazines - Gardening editor, House Beautiful (National Magazines) (1998-2003)
Gardening Which? (Consumers' Association)
Books - Hamlyn Garden Terms 1998
GARDENS AND DESIGN
Designer of competition winner's garden for Sainsbury's Magazine.
JOE SWIFT BIOGRAPHY
When Joe is not running his garden retail and design shop in Islington he can
be found on our screens presenting Gardeners World and BBC's Gardener
of the Year. Joe has a vast knowledge of gardening and garden design making
him a popular choice for both national and local gardening societies and
festivals. He has also been called upon to design many gardens throughout
the UK, including the water garden at Kings Heath, Bournville Garden and
the Gardeners World Live show garden.
Joe's book “The Plant Room” was published in March 2001 but
he also manages to split his time writing articles for Gardeners World and
Garden Inspirations magazines as well as Greenfingers.com.
When Joe's missing from the garden, he can be found amusing both of his
children – he's even been known to treat them to his rendition
of “Green Sleeves” on his base guitar!
TELEVISION
2003 Presenter, Chelsea Flower Show for BBC
2002 Competition judge, Garden Challenge for UK Style
2002 Presenter/designer in Take 3 Guys for UK Style
1999 – present Regular presenter and designer on BBC Gardeners
World
Design judge on BBC's Gardener of the Year
Co-presenter on Chelsea Flower Show, Gardeners World Live and Tatton Park Flower
Show
Live TV garden makeover on City Hospital (BBC1)
PUBLISHING
1998 – present Monthly column for the Independent on Saturday –
“
The Urban Jungle”
Various articles in Gardeners World and Garden Inspirations Magazines, along
with the Greenfingers.com website
MONTY DON BIOGRAPHY
Monty Don was born in Germany in 1955. After graduating from Cambridge in 1979
he worked at various jobs including being a dustman, a labourer and a waiter.
In 1981 he founded the jewellery company 'Monty Don Ltd' with
his future wife Sarah making and designing his own jewellery, which sold
all over the world. In 1988 he moved to Herefordshire and started his first
large garden and embarked on a career in television and newspaper journalism.
Journalism
1988 –1990 Monthly column for Mail on Sunday 'You' magazine
1990 –1993 Freelanced as journalist for most British newspapers
1993 Wrote commissioned film script for LA producer
Jan 1994 Became gardening correspondent/editor for The Observer. Has supplied
a weekly column ever since
June 2000 Began weekly column for Amateur Gardening
2000 Monthly column for Handbag.com.
PUBLISHING
The Prickotty Bush (Macmillan)
1995 The Weekend Gardener (Bloomsbury)
1997 The Sensuous Garden (Conran Octopus)
1997 Gardening Mad (Bloomsbury)
Urban Jungle (Headline)
Fork to Fork (Conran).
The Complete Gardener (Dorling Kindersley)
The Jewel Garden (Hodder and Stoughton)
Gardening from Berryfields (BBC)
2005 Collection of gardening columns (Observer)
TELEVISION
1989 -1993 This Morning (Granada)
1994 –1998 Holiday, Summer Holiday and Holidays Out (BBC)
1994 -1995 Presenter, Tomorrow's World (BBC)
1998 Presenter, Real Gardens (ARK productions for Channel 4)
1998, 1999, 2000 Presented live and recorded coverage of RHS shows at Chelsea,
Hampton Court and Tatton Park (Channel 4)
1998 - 2000 2 year exclusive contract with Channel 4.
1999 Presenter, Fork to Fork, Real Gardens, Lost Gardens
2000 Second series of Lost Gardens, Real Gardens
2000 - 2001 Wrote, produced and filmed Don Roaming (Flashback for Channel 4)
2002 – present Lead presenter, Gardeners' World (BBC2 flagship
programme)
Presenter, Painting Flowers (BBC4)
2004 Contestant, University Challenge Celebrity Christmas
2005 Special (BBC)
RADIO
Feb - April 2000 Series of interviews with gardeners on BBC Radio 4.
2000 - 2002 Weekly gardening slot on Classic FM.
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