I have been gardening for 50+ years. I have watched the personality of those who garden both living now, and those passed on. I cannot escape the thought that the garden reveals the soul of the person within. A beautiful soul craves and creates beautiful surroundings, beautiful sights, beautiful sounds, beautiful fragrances. Thank you all for sharing with the world. Ralph in Ohio

People who desire and aim for beauty and a relaxed lifestyle while allowing 'nature' to flourish....Just wonderful!! Thank you from New Zealand in awe..xx October 2021.

All the people interviewed were so lovely. Mr. Townsend had such a sweet spirit about him, encouraging young people to garden. As this was filmed in 1995, it makes me sad to think most of these people are probably gone from this earth and their beloved gardens 😞. Hoping they have a celestial plot or two somewhere 😇

I love British cottage and little village.so fresh so charming. Like live in a fairytale

I have created my cottage and garden in the English style, right in the USA. It is peaceful: filled with Clematis, Columbine, many many roses (17) penstemon and wisteria at the windows...it is lovely and peaceful*

I love being old enough to have seen gardens of the 80s & 90s. I loved these diary of gardens shows growing up. Thank you for this. Lovely.

I live in Brisbane Australia which has wonderful flora and fauna . It is quite loud in comparison to England's softer sounds and colours. Most birds here are extremely noisy. I do miss the sounds and scents of fresh mown grass and the seasonal changes .Watching these sorts of videos still makes me homesick , even after almost fifty years.

There's nothing like country living and eating fresh vegetables from the garden and watching beautiful flowers growing and listening to the birds singing.

Nothing more beautiful than an English cottage garden ... very inspiring!

I'm so glad that this charming documentary has been preserved and is available for viewing on youtube. Its such a precious documentary for me and brings me great joy!

All gardens are precious but especially those that have been tended with sweat and blood. Only those who have been pricked by thorns, stung by insects would understand the love of a garden. 😍😍😢😍😍

Growing a naturalistic garden like this, full of delicate flowers and poisonous plants tucked here and there that goes on for miles around a tiny cottage is a dream of mine ever since they made us read the secret garden in elementary school :)

Nothing as beautiful as the English Rose. English gardens, and country sides are beautiful.

Toss everything in and see what comes out at the end. That’s what gardening is all about for me.

I love this. My mother send me a lot of card with photos like this. It is a pleasure to see all that beautiful cottages and English gardens. 😍

Simply.... marvellous. Thank you.

The beauty made me a little envious of these tasteful gardens. Being for almost fifty years away, living in South Africa, My memories serve my English roots for ever!

Beautiful Gardens. I have 12 Clematis, IN MY FIRST YEAR! LOL .I plan to grow thousands! The smallest plan is never large enough. Creating a beautiful environment is never a waste of time.

Thanks for sharing your beautiful English cottage garden with us it was such a beautiful country garden hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie

Such a lovely, quaint documentary on one of my favourite garden styles...the cottage garden. I could live in those places easily. Such a relaxing documentary and well written!

Beautiful gardens - I wish I had a green thumb!

My admiration for such a lovely collection of my all time favorite English countryside portraying beautiful cottages for which English can be rightly proud of.

I am a nice lady and I love to garden. My husband of 30 years is an old grump, but he helps me anyway!

Oh how i love the English cottage garden ! I love Cottage Garden more than Formal Garden,really i do.

Just wonderful! I have an English Garden in Nova Scotia. I am at my most peaceful self, puttering around. A labor of love.

Beautiful. By the grace of God i am creating my own cottage garden in Aus. When spring comes and the flowers start blooming all the hard work is so very worth the results. Also the honeyeater birds just love the native plants. Thankyou for a lovely programme.

I love all of the gardeners too! They are as charming as their gardens!

That line is fascinating, "all the things that die gracefully" :) i feel it's how she wants to be defined one day:)

Oh! Yes! The cottages are pure imagination 😍😍

Absolute heaven. My infant organic cottage garden is only 3 yrs old and I am loving every minute of it.

oh my gosh I would drop everything and go live there right now

Lovely gardens, lovely people...thank you!

Really amazing Cottage and Country Gardens

I absolutely loved this! It's so inspiring seeing people their ages so healthy and active. My mom's 64, retired, and loves to garden. We have a vegetable garden and a flower garden, and she's helping me learn how to garden. I'm planning a butterfly garden for my section. We already have a healthy variety, but I want to see if I can attract more since we live in a great environment for them.

The narrator has a beautiful way with words. Appropriate for such beautiful gardens.

Echoes of winter and promise of summer. What a beautiful thing..well said sir...

I love the paintings she does !!!!!

I just love gardening.

It reminds me of my mom's garden. How wonderful to see what diligent hands could make.

This film truly inspiring , thank you for preserving this film🤗😍😍😍👏🏻👍🏽😇

me: look at this wonderful, wonderful cottage, this is definitely my favourite some time later... also me: oh my goodness! this is even better, it must be my absolute favourite next one comes along... me again: well, what about this one...

I loved this beautiful documentary. The historic stills were amazing! Thank you.

Beautiful garden. A sudden change in the last cottage with garden. This will have to be my favorite pastime in my downtown time. Can't see enough of Cottage homes with beautiful gardens.

wonderful just awesome gardens and love the voice of the person who presents the programme ,and love the wild flower gardens,and all the wonderful inspiring Gardeners ,thank you to all ,

The English garden is beautiful thanks

Mr Townsend - love your vegie garden & yes I certainly be an appreciative neighbor.

Oh my this was just lovely, thank you. It is almost January on the Canadian prairies and I am just obsessed with watching english gardening videos. After a while the frozen white landscape makes you crave for green and growing things. I would love to have a beautiful english cottage garden. Thank you again.

...... Remember a floral designer ...... in NYC ...... many years ago ..... who did gorgeous English Country baskets & Wedding's! The church arrangements were heavenly! ......

Absolutely stunning!

Selin, very nice , I liked very much.

Enjoyed this prpgramme very much and am inspired by it. Thanks

This is one of the lovely videos I've ever seen. Thank you for sharing.

Beautifully done! Thank you for sharing these incredible gardens!

I loved this. This is inspiring to say the least.

Thank you so much for sharing these gardens

I like interesting gardens ❤️

Perfectly lovely!

Instructive, yet beautifully done.

I love the way he says veg-i-ta-bul , I love him

Stunning love the old cottage flowers. Wild flowers I love their beauty.

Very homely pretty gardens😍😍

wow just wow...I see all the love you both put into this breathtaking masterpiece.

Beautiful cottage and the garden LOOKS LOVELY. THIS IS AMAZING AND RELAXING!

Totally cool and inspiring. Thanks so much!

Extraordinary. Very beautiful gardens n places 😍

I am Montagnard indigenous I love the garden.

There’s never enough time to do all the gardening you want.

To Angela Winfield of Snape Cottage Garden just love what you are growing in your gorgeous authentic plant garden.

Thanks for entertaining us! Very impressive!

Спасибо!!! Очень красиво!!!Замечательно!!!Сказка на яву!!

I love the vast free wild open spaces and unique Australian trees, flowers etc. But, as you I could live in an English country cottage with a lot of spacious gardens around it.

Wow nice wendarful garden friend

Beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing. Lots of ideas for when I move back to the country next year and have a garden again.

very inspiring...thank you very much...love the combination of flowering plants and vegetables too in a garden...greetings from the Philippines ☺ ...

thank for the video of cottage garden it is beautiful indeed like in the story book drawn by some artis

Nice people tend to garden, I suppose.... Well, I don't have a large garden because I don't have enough land, that's for sure. I am overwhelmed with such beauty! Thank you for uploading. Greetings from Portugal

Gorgeous gardens.

I hope these gardens still exist 21 years after this was filmed in 1995.

This is WONDERFUL!

Brilliant film and so helpful. Thank you for providing names of commonly used plants inn English cottage garden in the midsection of this film. Useful information and I enjoyed the history. Inspiring. I promised the fellow I bought my home from that I'd keep the peonies planted by his wife in the 1060s. They are proud bloomers to this day (2020) and I've built up around them, using them as a focal point. Thank you.

English are so lucky they have variety of flowers grow in their gardens.

I'm watching Great British Garden Revival, Cottage Gardens and House Plants, Ep 3, and there's Angela Winfield of Snape Cottage in a segment on saving and exchanging seeds. Not a face you're likely to forget once you've seen it...

wonderful gardens !!!!!!

Very interesting. Thanks for putting it on youtube

Its sad to think that most, if not all of these gardeners are no longer with us, considering when this documentary was made. I wonder what has become of their gardens, and what they look like nowadays.

Nice! What a refreshening segment! Thank you ;->

Beautiful!

So beautiful. Thank you💕

Fantastic!!!!! I LOVE COUNTRY LIVING!!!!! x

Perfect Antika👍💙🌷🌹♥️

Wonderful view of gardening 🌳🌳 Thank you very much for nice sharing👍👍👍 Take care my dear friend 💕🌷

The English Country Gardens that I have worked in during the past 20+ years involve unremitting labour too!

Wunderbar ❤❤❤❤

thank for the video of the garden it is beautiful and give us some ideas to createown garden even in the hot climate like malaysia

Congratulations the book looks beautiful I hope we can get it here in New Zealand ❤

Wow that street at 0:55 has San Francisco beat 😎

The MORE Flowers_the BETTER.*

AWESOME.. THANK YOU SO MUCH FORE SHOWING IT. I AM WORKING ON MY GARDEN FOR FALL

Beautiful thanks.

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