# Nigel Colborn

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{{Short description|British television presenter}}
'''Nigel Colborn''' [VMH](/source/VMH) is a British TV presenter and gardening expert/writer. He is a former presenter of the long running [BBC](/source/BBC) [Gardeners World](/source/Gardeners_World). He has been a panelist on [BBC Radio 4](/source/BBC_Radio_4)’s [Gardeners Question Time](/source/Gardeners_Question_Time)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/facts/facts_9.shtml |title=BBC Online - Radio 4 - Gardeners' Question Time - GQT FAQs |website=www.bbc.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010913042817/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/facts/facts_9.shtml |archive-date=2001-09-13}}</ref> and is a regular presenter of Granada TV's Gorgeous Gardens.

His mother was the nursery woman [Pamela Underwood](/source/Pamela_Underwood){{citation needed|date=April 2021}} and he attended [King's Ely](/source/King's_Ely).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-08 |title=King's Ely |url=https://guidetoindependentschools.com/business-directory/kings-ely/ |access-date=2023-01-15 |website=Guide to Independent Schools |language=en-US}}</ref>

He wrote and presented BBC Radio 4's 'In a Monastery Garden'. He has written many gardening books, including 'Short Cuts to Great Gardens'; 'Great Plants for Small Gardens'; 'A Flower for Every Day'. As a [journalist](/source/journalist) he has written about gardening, travel and the countryside for [The Daily Mail](/source/The_Daily_Mail), [The Times](/source/The_Times), [Sunday Times](/source/Sunday_Times) and also on his own blog, Silver Tree Daze.
 
He is a trustee & Vice Chair of The [Royal Horticultural Society](/source/Royal_Horticultural_Society) and has judged at the [Chelsea Flower Show](/source/Chelsea_Flower_Show).

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://silvertreedaze.blogspot.com/ Silvertreedaze<!-- Bot generated title -->]: Colborn's blog

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