The Quiet American Gardener 

A beautiful documentary. Love the story of Johnston and his two gardens.

So beautiful.. 😍😍😊🤗 Thanks! for sharing, l like the garden and flowers, love nature!

This is what every gardener secretly or not so secretly aspires to create in their own gardens. I absolutely love this & have gotten inspired! I’ve been into topiaries & wanting to create topiary forms this year.

A gem of a documentary. Thank you for uploading.. keep it on!

Really enjoyed this video. Thanks so much for sharing...💖💝

Love the piano, beautiful garden, lovely narrative, nz

I just loved both programmes. Thanks for uploading them together. Major Lawrence Waterbury Johnston (1871-1958) was a British garden designer and plantsman. He was the owner and designer of two influential gardens - Hidcote Manor Garden in Britain and Jardin Serre de la Madone in France. Both gardens are beautifully described here.

B E A U T I F U L !!! Quite entertaining and so interesting. Thanks for sharing. Will watch it again.

Oh my goodness. Even though he was American....lol

Thank you ... Brilliant !

What??? Why the dislikes.... im frustrated rather saddened to know this irony that some hardly can understand the talent who interests that left a heaven for us to rejoice and live in harmony..i salute this gentleman for everything he was..

Thank You for Such High Quality Display in Horticulture.

Garden, a 3D artwork that lives on rain and sun, and flutters in the wind.

Music much too loud for the soft voice. Had to keep muting it. Lovely garden, though.

I really appreciate the schematics that let us understand the layout and sheer size and grandeur of the garden and its various rooms. Enchanted and inspired ... love this.

I love all: the piano, the flowers... Thank you!

I so want to dedicate my later years to my garden. I just can’t afford not to work. I’m trying to establish what I can. Recently bought a house built in 1905. There’s already many things that come up every year. I just need time to maintain and care for it more. No servants or money here to indulge my dreams.

Wish they would list the plants they specifically showed.

Thank You, very enjoyable. :-)

Beautiful narrative/biography of such a quiet man achieving greatly his passion.

So so interesting Johnston and Hidcote complimented each other

I absolutely loved this! Thank you for uploading!

Too formal for my wild wooded holler mentality. But nice anyway, fun to look at.

What beautiful gardens. Thank you.

The gardens look so beautiful - New friend Ruthie

Great garden, really a living masterpiece! Unluckily, too loud and dramatic music. Why don‘t you trust the pictures?

Just ran across the two videos and love both. Hidcote is my wife's favorite English garden which we have visited several times on our trips to the UK. We normally visit National Trust gardens. We joined the Royal Oak Foundation (which is reciprocal with the NT) so we are able to visit all the properties of the NT free of charge.

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I visited Hidcote some years ago, but to see the garden sans the masses, albeit in a video, is something very special and enhanced by useful commentary, information from gardeners and peaceful music is truly lovely.

Beautiful. National trust do a wonderful job.💚

Ugh...the music ruins it

I’ve been there , you have captured it well ! You do not need the heavy piano music ! Sad found it hard to hear the story !

WONDERFUL video! I recently googled 'Lawrence Johnston', wondering about his namesake rose (shown in the video, with Blackspot, of course - even in England). And here's a video about him! Does anyone know how about the heat tolerance of Mahonia Lomariifolia? And what's with, "Many of these plants NOW go back to ones Lawrence Johnston would have chosen?" Why was there ever deviation from his plant choices?

Thank you so much for this. A very well produced , filmed and narrated series. Very enjoyable viewing.

Beautiful garden! Interesting documentary...if he was shy and introverted..he spoke beautifully and quite articulate to humanity through his passion and gift of gardening.

What a beautiful story to share! Thank you for sharing.

so his mother gave him his lands. brilliant. some people have all the luck.

I wish I had enough room to make a beautiful garden like this making the most of my Yard. Beautiful 😍

THE BEST FOR OVER THE WORLD

Thank you so much for sharing this awesome video with us love all the beautiful gardens and all the history

Beautiful program.

Simply Stunning!😍

The “Red Garden” as installed by the National Trust is just a mess. Perhaps now with the examples of Piet Oudolf’s borders and gardens it can be properly restored to its original design, one of texture, winter perennials and grasses.

The silent gardener 😉

thank you for this wonderful story

A Garden of Great Varieties Lovely A great Legacy. Hard Work is involved Here

I too share a burning desire to express my own inner beauty through gardening.....🤣😂

I can't stop watching this wonderful show. Thank you so much for sharing!

This is perfection.💕🥰💕

Absolutely great videos. Major L. Johnston was an amazing and beautiful person, thank you so much for sharing these video’s ♥️

Not a single mention of Gertrude Jeykel?

If Freud had been a woman, she would have many things to say that some readers might not want to read here. So I will skip that. Tree ferns. God, how beautiful. A little bit in from the beginning was my first thought of the “futuristic” death scene in the film, “Soylent Green.” Now, I see it through out the entire film! I cannot grasp what kind of privilege these folks must have felt they were entitled to. Anyway, thank you. Without this, I will never see it. and will try to “imagine” their amazing fragrances.

This is so beautiful. Thank you.

Derek Jarman hated these formal rigid regimented gardens and called them Hideouscote.

great video, i enjoyed the piano too

Could someone tell me the name of the narrater please thanks

Bliss and joyful

Can you turn the music off,it overshadows the commentary, can't hear it properly..............

Organic painting Media Olmsted landscape Soil grew canvas #haiku #nationaltrust #artist #johnston

Еслибы видео были в переводе на русский? Это возможно или нет! А все что показываете прекрасно!

Gardening is a work of art !

Beautiful ! Had a hard time with reading the subtitles and looking at the gardens and houses at the same time . Maybe that's just me... I had to click on subscribe . Thank you.

Wonderful pair of programmes, great to view back to back like this. I've been to Hidcote many times; my old dad grew Hidcote Yellow roses, as I recall. Now I must see the garden at Mentonne...

As a gardener/landscape designer looking at the end of my creation, Cypress Hill Garden Venue, I wonder how what I have created will evolve with its new owner? This was a wonderful, beautiful film and thank you so much for uploading!

So beautiful! I totally enjoyed watching this, BEST time spent on RU-vid ever! I totally believe the spirit remains, he put everything he had into his creation, heart and soul. Heaven ❤

Was Winthrop related to the Signer of theUS Declaration of Independence?

Splendid photography of beautiful flowers. Feel sorry for the narrator who had to read a repetitive and disorganized script.

BEAUTIFUL!

he never lived in the US, just born to an American in France

Not sure if I have already commented but really enjoyed this and after watching this tracked down the book Norah Lindsay; wonderful!

Outstanding documentary, thank you🙏❤️

Many blessings for You . With my little garden today I pray my children follow my foot steps

They can make a movie, because he sounds like someone with a secret live that's hidden in the gardens.

A delight. Thank you ever so much.

If this is on a DVD I would purchase it immediately. Please someone tell me truthfully it is..

this is an extraordinary well done documentary. So excellent! Thank you.

BREATHTAKING

Almost two hours of wonderful insight and inspiration. Thanks.

I wish they would've named more of the plants shown and in text.

This is right down my ally. So many ideas. So much garden to look at. Its so pretty.

It’s great to see you all just hanging out and fanning each other’s flames 🔥

Find the piano a complete distraction from the narration and the visuals, ruins it for me unfortunately because I’d love to watch it but can’t stand it.

His Hidcote manor gardens was far better

So beautiful. Thank you for taking us here. 🩷🩷🩷

Was he an American, born a Frenchman ,craved English live and served three times in Englands defense in war.

Fantastic!

to be rich is to have such a garden! wowo

The music perfectly complements the documentary!

What an unexpected delight!

Was the village of Hidcote in South Africa named by Johnstone?

Thank you Guys For These Beautiful Displays

8:30 for myself to continue watching later

Thank You for those Books you read that inspires you to do such Great Designs

What is the orange blooming bush on 34:40 ? It' beautiful

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good cinema

A great film on a great man, who created two gardens in two nations! Bravo!

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Hate the introduction of inappropriate frenzied symphony music. Whatever for? Otherwise enjoying the story. Skip the faux drama until the soldiers arrive.