TV show puts Weymouth garden centre in the limelight
2:00pm Friday 10th August 2012 in News
By Emily Stott
STOPPING BY: Jonathan Bennett, Carol Klein from Gardeners World and Angela Bennett
BENNETTS water garden found stardom for the day when BBC’s Gardeners’ World came to Weymouth.
The presenter and gardening expert, Carol Klein visited the gardens to talk about the history of water lily hybridisation.
Each week the programme visits different gardens around the country to interview the gardeners and give gardening tips.
Angela Bennett, of Bennetts water garden, said: “Carol waded right into the pond with my husband and they interviewed him in our little boat.
“It’s lovely that they enjoyed it too and she was so friendly, what you see on TV is what she’s like, she’s just a really lovely person.”
Angela said Carol Klein loved the gardens.
She added: “It’s so nice for somebody like her to say that, it makes it all worthwhile.”
This isn’t the first time Bennetts water garden, on Putton Road, Chickerell , has been featured on Gardeners’ World. They were interviewed 11 years ago and
visitors today can still remember seeing the programme.
Jonathan Bennett is the owner of Bennetts water gardens.
He landscaped the lakes in the mid seventies and also came up with the idea to have the Monet style bridge in 1999.
The bridge proved to a huge tourist attraction which led to the tea room and fully licensed wedding gazebo.
The gardens can also boast to have thousands of exotic lilies on display which were originally planted by Jonathan’s father in 1959.
They hold the National Plant Collection of water lilies which means that they aim to document and preserve water lilies to help protect them in the future.
This scheme is part of the conservation charity Plant Heritage.
Gardeners’ World featuring Jonathan Bennett is due to air next Friday at 8.30pm on BBC2.
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