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Percy Thrower's work for the BBC was not restricted to gardening Thrower, Percy. My Lifetime of Gardening.

Percy Thrower's work for the BBC was not restricted to gardening  . He wrote for the magazine Amateur Gardening and also wrote many books, which were published by Collingbridge and later Hamlyn. The BBC dropped Thrower in 1975 when he agreed a contract with Plant Protection, a subsidiary of ICI, for a series of commercials. He did this in the full knowledge of what the repercussions would be with the BBC, and later said it was the best contract he ever signed.

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Percy John Thrower was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer known publically as "Britain's first celebrity gardener. Thrower was born January 30, 1913 at Horwood House in the village of Little Horwood, England

Percy John Thrower was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer known publically as "Britain's first celebrity gardener. Thrower was born January 30, 1913 at Horwood House in the village of Little Horwood, England. His father worked as a gardener at Bawdsey Manor in Suffolk before moving to Horwood House near Bletchley (now part of Milton Keynes) in Buckinghamshire to work as head gardener.

Percy John Thrower MBE (January 30, 1913 March 18, 1988) was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer

Percy John Thrower MBE (January 30, 1913 March 18, 1988) was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer. He became nationally known through presenting various gardening programmes, starting in 1956 on the BBC s Gardening Club then. Percy John Thrower MBE (January 30, 1913 - March 18, 1988) was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer. He became nationally known through presenting various gardening programmes, starting in 1956 on the BBC's Gardening Club then later on the BBC's "Gardeners' World" from 1969 until 1976.

In 1951 Percy Thrower was asked to design a garden in Berlin on the lines of an English garden on behalf of the Shropshire Horticultural Society, and he did this with the Berlin Superintendent of Parks, Herr Witte. Anthony Eden opened the garden in May 1952. Thrower made his first TV appearance in 1951 in a programme, Picture Page about this garden. Broadcasting and business ventures. For many years Percy Thrower was the leading face and voice of British gardening on television and radio.

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Percy Thrower was determined from an early age to be a head gardener like his father, and worked under him at Horwood House for four years after leaving school. He then became a journeyman gardener in 1931, at the age of 18, at the Royal Gardens at Windsor Castle, on £1 a week. He lived in the bothy at Windsor, along with twenty other improver gardeners and disabled ex-servicemen who were employed on full wages. He spent five years there under the head gardener, Charles Cook, who was subsequently to become his father-in-law Thrower, Percy. Percy Thrower: a biography.