"Actor: Peter Thoday and Harry Dodson"

• The Victorian Garden Series | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Presented by Peter Thoday and Harry Dodson The Victorian Kitchen Garden goes behind the high redbrick walls of Chilton Foliat in Berkshire to follow the restoration of a traditional kitchen garden. Retired head gardener Harry Dodson painstakingly transformed the weed-choked ground into an efficient and productive plot cultivated with the use of Victorian tools and techniques and planted with 19th century varieties of flowers fruit and vegetables. In the Victorian Flower Garden Harry re-creates horticultural history to demonstrate how simple and exotic flowers were cultivated. He also finds time to create the wonderful floral decorations ar a Victorian wedding and a grand musical. In the Victorian Kitchen Harry is joined by Ruth Mott to revive the relationship between head gardener and cook of a large country house to show how meals were prepared in Victorian times.