Joe Swift
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Joseph Samuel Swift (born 25 May 1965) is an English garden designer, and television presenter.[1]
Television career
Swift is a regular presenter and designer on the BBC's Gardeners' World, co-presenter on the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show, Gardeners' World Live, Hampton Court, RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, BBC's Small Town Gardens, and design judge on BBC's Gardener of the Year. He has been a presenter/designer on Take 3 Gardeners (with Cleve West and Ann-Marie Powell).
He is a garden designer, and has been involved in BBC2's Gardeners' World since 1998. He is co-founder and Design Director of Modular Garden – a garden design and build company. Swift has designed many gardens on TV, including one for Comic Relief, many for Gardeners' World, including the Bournville Garden, The 40-year garden, and for Alan Titchmarsh's How to be a Gardener series.
In 2009 Swift presented coverage of the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show for the BBC.[2] He was also one of the main presenters of the BBC coverage of the 2010 Chelsea Flower Show.[3] In 2013, he presented two episodes of Great British Garden Revival.
Writing
Swift has written for such newspapers as The Independent, The Evening Standard, and The Sunday Times, on the subject of landscaping and home gardening. He has written three books – The Plant Room, Joe's Urban Garden Handbook, and Joe’s Allotment, published in April 2009.
Personal life
Swift's father was the actor Clive Swift, and he is the nephew of David Swift. His mother is novelist Margaret Drabble, and his brother is academic Adam Swift. His sister Rebecca Swift (died April 2017) was a poet and founder of The Literary Consultancy.[4] He is married with two children.[5]
He is the design director of Modular Garden.[6]
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Swift, Joe (2001). The Plant Room. A Contemporary Guide to Urban Gardening. BBC Books. ISBN 0563551895.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Swift, Joe (2008). Joe's Urban Garden Handbook. Quadrille. ISBN 9781844008377.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Swift, Joe (2 April 2009). Joe's Allotment. BBC Books. ISBN 978-1-84607-672-5.
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Joseph Samuel SWIFT - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)".
- ^ TV coverage BBC - Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2009
- ^ Presenter Details BBC - Chelsea Flower Show 2010
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Silgardo, Melanie (25 April 2017). "Rebecca Swift obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BBC Two - Gardeners' World - Joe Swift". BBC. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Home". Modular. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
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- Joe Swift at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Presenter biographies - Joe Swift BBC - Gardening
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