Magnificent garden... but then you would expect no less from Shropshire's most illustrious gardener Percy Thrower.
And we can take a nostalgic peek at Percy's showpiece thanks to a gentleman who has been digitising some old 35mm colour slides which have included photographic memories of his own trip to see Percy's handiwork over 50 years ago."He opened the grounds to the public at times. The Magnolias was a modern substantial bungalow with beautiful gardens in a glorious setting that I saw in the early 1970s and now it’s all gone. Fortunately, I took a couple of photos on 35mm colour slides.
It was also to play a starring role in his television story as the advent of colour television in the 1960s mean that the BBC's Gardeners' World needed to find something more convincing than a studio garden, and it was not long before the Outside Broadcast Unit, complete with crew of around 30 people, was descending on The Magnolias.
He was famously dropped from the BBC because of the Beeb's strict rules about commercial activities, but continued to record programmes from the garden until shortly before his death. His broadcasting break came in about 1947 with a 10-minute spot on a radio programme called Country Calendar and his first appearance on television was in 1951.
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