Great Gardens of England
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2014
- the Gardens at Hidcote Manor, Mottisfont Abbey, Sissinghurst Castle
With a cameo appearance by Nigel Nicolson
Why did American-born Major Lawrence Johnston spend much of his lifetime creating a storied garden in a remote part of the Cotswolds? What is Graham Stuart Thomas's glorious collection of antique roses doing in a medieval English Abbey? What persuaded author, poet and plantswoman Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson to buy a derelict ruin on the edge of the Kentish Weald to create their fabled garden? Their son, Nigel Nicolson, reminisces about this most beloved of gardens and his now legendary parents.
An extensive tour of each garden examines design, plantings, close-up details, and observations by gardeners. An hour of sheer enjoyment, beauty, and an excellent source of inspiration for those with a love for gardens.
2024 and I’m still mesmerized by this gem so lovingly put together and narrated
I've been watching this documentary now for a few years, I have accumulated many books on the garden and the lives of Vita, Harold and Nigel. I would like to commend Nigel for propagating the memory of this famous garden created by his parents all those many years ago. We owe him a deep credit that thanks to his books and these interviews, Sissinghurst lives on!
Breathtakingly beautiful. Our UK cities & towns look & feel soulless without plants & trees, negatively framing people's minds. All Councils should encourage community public planting.🌼💚
So lovely Exquisite gardens.🌹🐝🌲
Just looking at these beautiful and wondrous gardens allows one’s eyes and soul savor their essence and inspire the beholder to create gardens of their own albeit in a miniature replica.
Margie from usa. SO majestic and well maintained.
The music was delightful right from the beginning along with the birdseye view of gardens. The narrators soothing voice also sets the stage.
Hello how are you doing today?
@@ericsteven6632 Hi Eric, I am looking forward to a break in our unseasonably HOT 🥵 90 degree weather. I am responding to you on Friday 5/28/21 by Monday it is suppose to drop to 60 degrees with much needed rain. We are under a dry weather warning. I am slowly getting my small garden planted. This is always a joy.
How are things going for you?
@@capecod50s Can we talk privately on hangout Or email me Ericsteven797@gmail.com
Are you guys married ?
I love everything about this documentary as well, including the music, the narration and script. So quaint and beautiful, highbrow without appearing stuffy.
I love absolutely everything about this lovely, quaint documentary. Thanks for sharing!
This was incredible and a gentle massage for my mind after a long week!
For My Mind 2
Gardening is a method of meditation 😍😍
I am Montagnard jarai tribe live in USA 🇺🇸 love visit England to see this garden
The love for life and Nature is in this Garden, God bless them, such a beautiful place for people to visit, greetings from U.S.A. 🇺🇸🙏🇨🇴❤
narrator was very pleasant to listen to. enjoyed this much, watched more than once👍
A lovely introduction to the gardens we hope to see on our May/June visit to England from the States - cannot wait, now knowing just which gardens to explore.
Wishing you a special visit to England. I was at Sissinghurst yesterday....you simply must visit there; the cottage garden is simply breathtaking at the moment, even if the summer-flowering areas are not yet in bloom.
There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Glorious, glorious, glorious!
Hello Patricia
Nigel's stories and recollections were very good to hear. Enjoyable film. Thank you.
Wonderful! Thank you!
A good garden is God's Grace😍😍
Beautiful thanks.
Lovely nice beautiful gardens . Thank you. 🌻
Very beautiful, reverent presentation of three incredible English gardens.
Absolutely divine!
¡Qué belleza de jardines!
Thank you!
I wish I could be there to witness this amazing beautiful English garden, love from Australia 😀👍
Perfect combination of beautiful visual, and information :-)
Well the visual is quite distorted, however, I like the language :)
Beautiful gardens and the presenter has a very pleasant voice, well done.
And a lovely accent.
The white garden is amazing for moonlight. Once I designed a champagne pink garden with blue green foliage plants and grey foliage like artemis and dusty miller and lambs ears, only the palest pink florals allowed, for a similarly magical effect in the starlight and daylight alike. These gardens show what I think is the right use of money and time. I hope there are gardens in heaven. We have in any garden the picture of revival and continuance of beauty and peace we hope to inhabit in eternity.
How lovely, you have a great way with words. You should write a gardening book.
@@MDkid1 why, thank you. I hope to deserve your compliment. Many of my poems involve gardening and our healthy interactions with growing things. Waiting for a printer to get them into circulation.
Hello pretty
@@ericsteven6632 Hey Eric. Nice of you to say that. Thanks.
You're very welcome.
Where are you from if I may ask?
We just started our channel.
We can all learn something new.
Thank you to everyone for fresh ideas and great information.
Everyone should grow their own.
Join our Garden Journey.
13:52 I completely agree. Roses are my favourite flower.
Thank you.
Hey Rita, how are you doing today and your family merry Christmas to you my special new friend. I'm from china but I base in Texas.. where are you celebrate your special celebrate..
Sublime!
Very beautiful
Can't wait to see this in the autumn
Hello how are you doing today?
I met you woman under bridge you look like huda i don't know you you are wearing clothes like hader
Really informative programme. Thank you so much.
I met you woman under bridge you look like huda i don't know you you are wearing clothes like hader
love this
Thanks! I find Sissinghurst very inspiring.
It's a wonderful garden.
I want to go there ^^
감사합니다~♡
Beautiful
Loved this!
Hello
I met you woman under bridge you look like huda i don't know you you are wearing clothes like hader
Wow, Hello my friend.. All the best to your channel and hope you have a wonderful day !!!
I am new to your channel I just love English gardens thank you so much for all this awesome content on your channel
Ces jardins sont splendides !
Magnificient! Thank you so kindly for sharing this wonderful tour. But the ads are a misery.
Hello how are you doing today?
Hey Helen, it's amazing sound, I only enjoy the sound, remember when am play piano at home. I base in Texas.but I come from china.... Merry Christmas to you Helen
Wow! Lovely
Hi Barbara
@@ericsteven6632 Hi, who are you?
I met you woman under bridge you look like huda i don't know you you are wearing clothes like hader
Nice to hear a pleasant, attractive English accent on one of these programmes. So many British programmes nowadays have hosts with absolutely appalling accents and grammar.
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+Blah Blaah He has a very strange accent, he's not English !
According to his website, he emigrated to Texas several decades ago from the UK, which accounts for the transatlantic colour in his otherwise clear, educated English accent.
A home counties accent.
He doesn't sound English at all to me. I thought he was Canadian.
Wish to be back sooon..Gwen from Africa 🌸🌸
Hello pretty
Being in the US, I REALLY appreciated the maps.
i used to set the tv to play Monty Don's gardening shows to sleep to his voice.
OMG, used to do the same! His voice is so calming, and sweet!
Norah Lindsay had great effect on Hidcote make up
wow...............
Hi
I wish I had an imagination. I have a garden, and I have plants, but lack the vision.
Wow nice garden friend
Great Garden prescription..England..the brothers Grimm..🧙...🧵📌
I met you woman under bridge you look like huda i don't know you you are wearing clothes like hader
What kind of hedge is that at 9 minutes in? And perhaps he says what it is at some point. If so I’ve missed it or couldn’t make it out. English is not my mother language so appreciate it if someone can help. Thanks
A small pity the film was in a more square aspect ratio than the widescreen upload, which appears have been artificially stretched. My eye is attune to this kind of stuff, for me it takes from the viewing experience. Quick example: i.imgur.com/16xNPYQ.png (notice the image of the gardener on the left appears much more natural)
Big pitty!, I tried to watch it on my TV but I got dizzy and nauseous. Had to turn it off.
If Nigel isn't the most classic Englishman character then I don't know anything....
Do you show the gardens when they are flowering? I love fuschia - however, none were flowering - just wondering
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Garden are deautyful but I’m soo dizzy watching 😊
Hello how are you doing
Nice 👌 👌 👌
Green gardens of england
7:11 Did he say 'to support hayricks'?
人類離不開大自然，善待大自然，大自然會給我們甜美的果實！
I think he has a beautiful speaking voice no matter where he comes from, I can understand it a little better than the english voice!!!
He IS English
Hello Janice
Hi beauty
I met you woman under bridge you look like huda i don't know you you are wearing clothes like hader
@@ericsteven6632 Hi Eric, good to see that you're still around though I gather that you have one or two health problems.
A bit plummy but I love the gardens
I absolutely love plummy English accents. Unfortunately it’s dying out in favour of the common chavvy accent.
I met you woman under bridge you look like huda i don't know you you are wearing clothes like hader
And what's wrong with "plummy" accents? No doubt yours sounds a bit off-putting to some.
@@convinth Gigi saw him without teeth
Nigel Nicolson died in 2004, I’m guessing this was filmed in the 1980s.
Have you noticed how overworked the adjective " great " is?? There are others in our language:: i.e., marvelous, fine, magnificent.
kestrelmuse huh???
kestrelmuse ....or in the case of the Americans absolutely everything is “awesome”.
Hello how are you doing
it is a shame that the picture is of such poor quality....?
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The appearance by Nigel Nicolson is at 46:10 and lasts about three minutes
Hello how are you doing?
This is the most english thing ever created.
I'm so high right now.
E pe qe vajti zemra note ne pune
I had planned to change the way I pronounce penstemon but after hearing the way you pronounce foliage I shall not.
Johnston was born in Paris France
Ah, a documentary so crusty and old-fashioned you can set your pocket watch to it. LOL. It can be annoying at the times, but it has its charms as well.
I'm first forever
from all the LOOT from India and other kingdoms
Eh??
At least it was put to good to use. The peacock throne didn't end up at the bottom of the ocean after all thankfully.
"unpretentious". 🤣
V$#
Hello
I want to rip all of these gardens with my drone 🤗
Steven Doyle Fuchsia is pronounced "fooksia" not "fyewschia". If you are going to use latin please do it correctly.
Steven Doyle We pronounce it fyewshia. To each his own.
There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad the Messenger of Allah and Subhan Allah and Allah Is The Greatest and Glory be to Allah and Subhan Allah
Not in England, Mate !
@@marvinc9994 well said
Nice gardens and narration but lose the background music. It's annoying and distracting
I met you woman under bridge you look like huda i don't know you you are wearing clothes like hader
That is a disguised accent, quite unnatural and not native British, trying too hard to sound authentic. The music also tries too hard. Handel is very formal, buttoned up music of the courts, while gardens are outdoors, free and easy and essentially romantic. Delius, or Vaughan Williams, even Butterworth would have been a better choice. Another sign of imposters, trying to be as British as possible and garner large quantities of US views.
yes he did not speak very well and clear enough
There is no such thing as a British accent.
Wow, how snobbish you sound.
Mandy Miles I have a British accent, it’s not a regional one thank god, but it’s one spoken in southern England and the Home Counties (not Essex of course as that is full of ex-East Enders).
I have an aunt who speaks exactly the same. I can assure you she is native English.
The definition of a National Trust:. When THEY can't pay their bills, their gov't buddies let them continue to live there while the taxpayers foot all the bills.
This is a total misunderstanding of what the The National Trust is! It's a registered charity; it has nothing to do with government.
And therefore 'taxpayers' aren't paying anything.
@@clairenoon4070 You think there's no upkeep to those mansions? The taxpayers are the tourist's fees that the bum house sitting families have to let in seasonally.
@@lesliekendall5668 What a bizarre definition of 'taxpayer'!
If people choose to become members of the National Trust, or pay entrance fees to visit properties or gardens, or eat and drink in one of the cafes or restaurants whilst on a visit, or buy things in one of the shops (physical and online), or stay in one of their holiday cottages, or stay in one of their hotels, or go on any of their courses etc etc, the list goes on, that is entirely that; a choice. Nobody has to spend a single penny with the NT if they don't wish to.
Your daft claim is like saying you buying a brand of shower gel is 'you as a taxpayer being forced to pay for something'.
Also, in the earlier days of the NT, when some of these agreements were made, it was actually the reverse; families were expected to provide a massive lump-sum to the NT to provide an 'endowment' from which the interest would help towards the upkeep. The NT regularly walked away from properties that were offered to it by families if they felt the proposed endowment was insufficient.
Further; many people who visit these properties like the idea that they are still family homes, albeit that the family will now live in a limited suite of rooms or separate apartment within the house, to enable the rest of the property to be shown.
Further, given that the demographic most likely to be NT members or visitors are retired people, they are not taxpayers anyway!
@@lesliekendall5668 Oh, and the vast majority of NT properties DON'T have family living there.
Frankly, I'm not that impressed. The glowing build-up exceeds the reality too much. It all depends on the particular season, and light. I don't know when this was filmed, but it seems over exposed, and the colours weak. I saw this Garden some years ago on TV, it was far crisper and defined than here.
Thank you!