Product Description

Vol 1 - Carefully managed to reflect the beauty and spectacle of the originals in all their natural splendour, the gardens featured in this DVD are impressive examples of the history of horticulture and a vital aspect of our heritage. Featured gardens include Killerton, Barrington Court, Peckover House, Dunham Massey, Crayside and Sheffield Park. Vol 2 - The gardens featured in this DVD are impressive examples of the history of horticulture and a vital aspect of our heritage. Featured gardens include Mount Stewart, Knighthayes, Biddulph Grange, Hardwick Hall, Anglesey Abbey and Studley Royal. Vol 3 - A journey through some of the finest and most inspiring of the National Trust's huge collection of gardens. Each of them with a different story to tell, and each of them reflecting the flair and determination of gardeners past and present who make Britain's gardens the best in the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3841 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-06-09
• Rating: Exempt
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 162 minutes

Synopsis
This collection includes all three volumes of the GARDENS OF THE NATIONAL TRUST series presented by Alan Titchmarsh; VOL.1 features the rhododendron displays at Killerton in Devon, Gertrude Jekyll's Barrington Court garden in Somerset, the informal Dunham Massey with Elizabethan moat, and much more, VOL.2 features six more National Trust gardens including Anglesey Abbey with statuary and tree-lined avenues, Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, the mild climate garden of Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland and Knightshayes in Devon which boasts topiary and unusual trees, and VOL.3 includes Powis Castle's hanging terraces, rhododendrons of Stourhead, the rare specimens at Rowallane in County Down and the spectacular views of Stowe Landscape Gardens.

Customer Reviews

An Enchanting Visit to the Gardens of the National Trust
Alan Titshmarsh is our guide in this wonderful box set of three 50 minute programmes looking at the beautiful stately home gardens owned and maintained by the National Trust. With interviews with head gardeners and forestry workers, every flower, tree and shrub illustrated is named and the narration by Alan is accompanied by a relaxing classical sound track.

We get to roam round kichen gardens and orangeries, ornamental ponds and follys and each season is illustrated in the 6 gardens featured. The charming pet graveyards in two of the properties show the fondness for family pets even as far back as 1702!

A must for all lovers of plant life, this box set brings colour and beauty into your home - and makes you yearn to get out into your own patch and have a go!

Film seems old
These dvd's offer an attractive view on several typical English grand gardens ( for me, foreigner, but passionate gardener) but the actual filmmaterial seems at least 15 years old, and does not meet the standard of up-to-date HD quality. If ever producer will make modern footage, I might be interested in buying more.