Sir Roderic (Roddy) Llewellyn, Bt
Sir Roddy Llewellyn has been fascinated by plants and gardening since he was given a packet of seeds and a tulip bulb aged three. In 1976/77 he gained the National Certificate of Horticulture and the Surrey County Certificate in Landscape Construction at Merrist Wood Agricultural College in Surrey. In 1977 he formed Roddy Llewellyn Landscapes and his commissions were mostly undertaken in the UK and the West Indies.
He had his first book, ‘Town Gardens’, published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in 1981, followed by six others - 1985 ‘Beautiful Backyards’,1987 ‘Water Gardens : The Connoisseur’s Choice’ (both Ward Lock); 1989 ‘Elegance & Eccentricity’, (Ward Lock/Cassell) ; 1991 ‘Growing Gifts’ (for children; Chapmans); 1993 ‘Grow It Yourself’ (for the elderly and disabled ; Cedar), and 1997 ‘Roddy Llewellyn’s Gardening Year’ (Metro), based on the creation of his garden in Oxfordshire.
In the ‘80’s he was also gardening correspondent for ‘The Star’ and the ‘Mail on Sunday’, gardening writer for ‘Oracle’, and Gardening Presenter for TVAM and designed an indoor gardening exhibition both at Selfridges in London and at Hertie in Munich. He also designed a garden at Chelsea Flower Show (Silver Gilt) and at Hampton Court Flower Show (also Silver Gilt). Plus he designed a range of furniture for Ashworth Leisure.
In the 90’s presented ‘The Home Show’ (Thames TV) with Molly Parkin, ‘The Gardening Roadshow’ (Thames TV), and was a Guest Presenter on ‘Grass Roots’ (Meridian/Bazal TV0. A Guest Panellist on ‘BBC Gardener’s Question Time’ he was elected an Associate Member of the Institute of Horticulture in 1995. He became a monthly series for ‘Country Homes & Interiors’ and appeared regularly on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ with Richard and Judy before becoming their resident Gardening Presenter for two years. He also presented nearly 200 ‘Roddy Llewellyn’s Garden Guide’ programmes with BSkyB (Granada Breeze).
In early noughties he contributed monthly articles for ‘Period Living & Traditional Homes’ on a variety of subjects and presented a series for HTV on famous Welsh Gardens. Roddy also wrote regularly the magazine ‘Country Illustrated’ for four years.
He has chaired a series of twenty garden lectures for Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, filmed Series 2 on famous Welsh Gardens for HTV, and has since written for ‘Saga’ magazine on the practicalities of gardening. Plus he has been a Patron of the Southport Flower Show since 1996.
More recent presenting includes co-presenting programmes for the series ‘Turf Wars’, also ‘Best of Britain’ (BBC) and last year he appeared in BBC Gardener’s World filmed at the garden at Charlbury Station which he has maintained on a purely voluntary basis, with friends, since 2000.
In 2003 Roddy launched the ‘Llewellyn Lectures’ near his home in Oxfordshire at the Burford Garden Company and other speakers speakers for what he calls Term One included Carol Klein, Alan Titchmarsh and Bunny Guinness. A second Term of the ‘Llewellyn Lectures’ which ran from January until April 2004, and speakers included Joanna Trollope, Roy Lancaster and the TV chef Brian Turner. The following year Term Three took place and Roddy hosted a further new series of lectures at the Cotswold Wildlife Park near Burford. Talkers include Chris Beardshaw, Robin Lane-Fox and James Alexander-Sinclair.
From 2006 until 2008 Roddy wrote a monthly page for ‘Country Life’ in In My Garden, and since 2007 has been actively involved with The Retirement Show at Olympia, Glasgow and Manchester chairing the Q & A there. Since 2008 he has written a monthly page for Cotswold Life.
His experience in horticulture has been wide and varied, and he has also lectured on gardening tours around the world including Australia and the United States of America. He lectures on a variety of horticulture-related subjects, and designs gardens from small urban to country estates.
Roddy is adamant that everyone can garden regardless of the space available and is currently giving a series of one day lectures called ‘Understand Your Garden (the basics of gardening explained in easy terms)’.
He inherited his title of 5th Baronet of Bwllfa from his late brother, Sir Dai Llewellyn who died on 2009.
He had his first book, ‘Town Gardens’, published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in 1981, followed by six others - 1985 ‘Beautiful Backyards’,1987 ‘Water Gardens : The Connoisseur’s Choice’ (both Ward Lock); 1989 ‘Elegance & Eccentricity’, (Ward Lock/Cassell) ; 1991 ‘Growing Gifts’ (for children; Chapmans); 1993 ‘Grow It Yourself’ (for the elderly and disabled ; Cedar), and 1997 ‘Roddy Llewellyn’s Gardening Year’ (Metro), based on the creation of his garden in Oxfordshire.
In the ‘80’s he was also gardening correspondent for ‘The Star’ and the ‘Mail on Sunday’, gardening writer for ‘Oracle’, and Gardening Presenter for TVAM and designed an indoor gardening exhibition both at Selfridges in London and at Hertie in Munich. He also designed a garden at Chelsea Flower Show (Silver Gilt) and at Hampton Court Flower Show (also Silver Gilt). Plus he designed a range of furniture for Ashworth Leisure.
In the 90’s presented ‘The Home Show’ (Thames TV) with Molly Parkin, ‘The Gardening Roadshow’ (Thames TV), and was a Guest Presenter on ‘Grass Roots’ (Meridian/Bazal TV0. A Guest Panellist on ‘BBC Gardener’s Question Time’ he was elected an Associate Member of the Institute of Horticulture in 1995. He became a monthly series for ‘Country Homes & Interiors’ and appeared regularly on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ with Richard and Judy before becoming their resident Gardening Presenter for two years. He also presented nearly 200 ‘Roddy Llewellyn’s Garden Guide’ programmes with BSkyB (Granada Breeze).
In early noughties he contributed monthly articles for ‘Period Living & Traditional Homes’ on a variety of subjects and presented a series for HTV on famous Welsh Gardens. Roddy also wrote regularly the magazine ‘Country Illustrated’ for four years.
He has chaired a series of twenty garden lectures for Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, filmed Series 2 on famous Welsh Gardens for HTV, and has since written for ‘Saga’ magazine on the practicalities of gardening. Plus he has been a Patron of the Southport Flower Show since 1996.
More recent presenting includes co-presenting programmes for the series ‘Turf Wars’, also ‘Best of Britain’ (BBC) and last year he appeared in BBC Gardener’s World filmed at the garden at Charlbury Station which he has maintained on a purely voluntary basis, with friends, since 2000.
In 2003 Roddy launched the ‘Llewellyn Lectures’ near his home in Oxfordshire at the Burford Garden Company and other speakers speakers for what he calls Term One included Carol Klein, Alan Titchmarsh and Bunny Guinness. A second Term of the ‘Llewellyn Lectures’ which ran from January until April 2004, and speakers included Joanna Trollope, Roy Lancaster and the TV chef Brian Turner. The following year Term Three took place and Roddy hosted a further new series of lectures at the Cotswold Wildlife Park near Burford. Talkers include Chris Beardshaw, Robin Lane-Fox and James Alexander-Sinclair.
From 2006 until 2008 Roddy wrote a monthly page for ‘Country Life’ in In My Garden, and since 2007 has been actively involved with The Retirement Show at Olympia, Glasgow and Manchester chairing the Q & A there. Since 2008 he has written a monthly page for Cotswold Life.
His experience in horticulture has been wide and varied, and he has also lectured on gardening tours around the world including Australia and the United States of America. He lectures on a variety of horticulture-related subjects, and designs gardens from small urban to country estates.
Roddy is adamant that everyone can garden regardless of the space available and is currently giving a series of one day lectures called ‘Understand Your Garden (the basics of gardening explained in easy terms)’.
He inherited his title of 5th Baronet of Bwllfa from his late brother, Sir Dai Llewellyn who died on 2009.
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