Peter Seabrook
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Peter John Seabrook MBE (born 2 November 1935)[1][2] is a retired British gardening writer and television broadcaster. He is known for his column in Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloid The Sun.
Early life
Seabrook began working at a local market garden while still in primary school. When he was 16, he was able to pay for a visit to the Netherlands to tour nurseries with money he had raised selling flowers from his back garden to a local florist.[3]
Training and career
After working for two years on seed trial grounds, Seabrook studied horticulture at Writtle College, earning a diploma in 1956. During vacations he worked at fruit orchards and bedding plant and tomato nurseries. During his national service, the British Army paid for him to train to be a florist. He then worked for Cramphorn, a seed and garden company, where he became nursery director, and then for Bord na Mona as a technical representative, before becoming a consultant and director of two garden centre companies.[3]
His broadcasting career began in 1965 on radio, with the BBC Home Service; he appeared on In Your Garden and Gardeners' Question Time. On BBC television, beginning in 1975, he presented programmes including Gardeners' World, Pebble Mill at One and coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show. In America he hosted The Victory Garden on PBS for over 20 years.[3]
Controversy
Peter Seabrook defends his use of peat <ref>The Garden Communication & Media Company, GTN Extra, 23 February 2013 http://tgcmc.newsweaver.co.uk/gtnxtra/1rb21582eooCite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page). in contrast to envionmental groups who want Peat removed from compost <ref> RSPB Peat-free Gardening advice, 13 June 2013 http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/gardening/planting/peatfree.aspx Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).
References
- ^ ‘SEABROOK, Peter John’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 8 Aug 2013
- ^ http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/s/7598/Peter+John.aspx
- ^ a b c Peter Seabrook biography, Sun Gardening.
External links
- Seabrook recalls a visit to the Harrisons'garden and walks the Chelsea tribute garden with Olivia Harrison.
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