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Matthew Biggs obituary

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By Matthew Appleby Verified
| Inkl
Matthew Biggs gave hundreds of talks to garden clubs on subjects ranging from great botanists and gardeners to growing fruit and veg. Photograph: BBC A mainstay of BBC Radio 4’s long-running panel show Gardeners’ Question Time for more than three decades, Matt Biggs, who has died aged 65, became one of Britain’s most trusted gardening authorities. He styled himself “the people’s gardener”, a nod to a horticultural career that began in the late 1970s in the parks department at Leicester council.
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You’re wrong, Monty Don - a beautiful garden is no place for a dog

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By Matthew Appleby Verified
| Yahoo Life Verified
Monty Don’s garden for Radio 2 at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show (May 20-24) is the first in the show’s 113-year history to be co-designed by a dog. The BBC television presenter and his other co-designer, Jamie Butterworth, hatched a plan at Butterworth’s Surrey nursery based on the movements of Monty’s golden retriever, Ned, who “randomly ran through pots and plants to create paths that will feature in the garden”.
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The traditional flowers that are disappearing from British gardens

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By Matthew Appleby Verified
| MSN Ireland Verified
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