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.
1. Flowers and Decorative Plants
Next1991-06-03
2. Exotic Plants
1991-06-10
3. Cut Flowers
1991-06-17
4. Wedding Flowers
1991-06-24
5. Victorian Technology
1991-07-01
6. Flower Arranging
1991-07-08
7. Autumn Colour
1991-07-15
8. A Grand Musical Evening
1991-07-22
