title: Nigel Colborn
text: # Nigel Colborn
  
  Nigel Colborn VMH is a British TV presenter and gardening expert/writer. He is a former presenter of the long running BBC Gardeners World. He is often a panelist on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners Question Time and is a regular presenter of Granada TV's Gorgeous Gardens.
  
  His mother was the nursery woman Pamela Underwood and he attended King's Ely.
  
  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 he has written about gardening, travel and the countryside for The Daily Mail, The Times, Sunday Times and also on his own blog, Silver Tree Daze.
  
  He is a trustee & Vice Chair of The Royal Horticultural Society and has judged at the Chelsea Flower Show.
  
  