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Discovering Gardens

factual television-based documentary

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ138008923 ↗
Source-derived summary

Discovering Gardens is a British documentary television series commissioned by Television South West. It is presented by Gyles Brandreth and his wife Michèle Brown, who explore public gardens across South West England while speaking to the people that created and maintain them. It was produced by Peter Watson-Wood.

Episodes

Comprising thirteen episodes it originally aired from 1988 to 1989. It was repeated in the UK during 2025 on Rewind TV.

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Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Discovering Gardens” as factual television-based documentary. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Discovering, Gardens and factual.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1989, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Discovering, Gardens and factual providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q138008923. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988, 1989 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Discovering Gardens” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.