Gardening, the national pastime. From the institutionalised Sunday lawn mowing to landscaping your entire plot.
Many hours of British TV are devoted to gardening programmes, and some channels such as UKTV Gardens and Discovery Home and Health provide an almost endless stream of hints and tips.
Percy Thrower, the BBC gardening expert, was probably the best known gardening celebrity in the UK, but with his passing modern experts Alan Titchmarsh, Monty Don and Diarmuid Gavin have clearly established themselves as household names.
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