About this season
Horticulture lecturer Peter Thoday and Harry Dodson present this series demonstrating how simple and exotic flowers were cultivated in the Victorian era. Re-enactments are used to explain how the head gardener would supply the lady of the house with the blooms she required, in addition to decorating the dining and mansion rooms and sometimes conservatories with suitable flowers. Harry also recreates the displays which would have been used for decorating Victorian weddings, musicals and funerals.
Episodes (8)
1. Flowers and Decorative Plants
Aired 3 June 1991
Flowers and Decorative Plants
2. Exotic Plants
Aired 10 June 1991
Exotic Plants
3. Cut Flowers
Aired 17 June 1991
Cut Flowers
4. Wedding Flowers
Aired 24 June 1991
Wedding Flowers
5. Victorian Technology
Aired 1 July 1991
Victorian Technology
6. Flower Arranging
Aired 8 July 1991
Flower Arranging
7. Autumn Colour
Aired 15 July 1991
Autumn Colour
8. A Grand Musical Evening
Aired 22 July 1991
A Grand Musical Evening