Former RHS curator gets own gardening show

A new Channel 4 television series which will document the grandiose designs of many gardens is to be presented by Matthew Wilson, a man who knows his way around a garden shed.

Wilson was curator of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and spent almost a decade at the organisation.

He has also worked for the Landscape Agency, a landscape gardening consultancy.

The TV show – which has drawn comparisons to Grand Designs presented by Kevin McCloud – has been filmed over much of the past year.

The first episode of the series, entitled the Landscape Man, will air on 22nd April at 20:00.

Speaking to the Times, the gardening expert said that similarities to Grand Designs came in the scale and nature of the projects the series explores.

"The scale of ambition and duration are similar," he told the news provider.

"They are real, long-term projects. These people are not making a garden because we've turned up. They were always going to do it; the fact that we are there is incidental."

Channel 4 will be hoping the programme can replicate Grand Design's success as well as its ambition.