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Ade Sellars - The Good Life Gardener
United Kingdom
Приєднався 10 лип 2023
I’m Ade Sellars and I’m a professional gardener, presenter, writer and filmmaker with a passion for growing my own food in my kitchen garden, but it hasn’t always been like this.
Life has taken me on quite an adventure. After working on building sites in my youth, I retrained as an actor and spent many years treading the boards and working in TV and film. I eventually moved behind the camera where I spent fifteen years working as a Director and Editor on everything from National Geographic documentaries to primetime American dramas, alongside talent such as Sir Roger Moore and M. Night Shyamalan. So, how is it I’m now leading The Good Life?
In 2018, my wife and I decided to quit the rat race and leave London behind us, moving to rural Suffolk to lead ‘The Good Life’. The plan? To build a kitchen garden, focus on our wellbeing, and lead a more sustainable lifestyle.
Join me as I share my gardening journey, offer tips and advice, and shine a spotlight on inspirational gardeners.
Life has taken me on quite an adventure. After working on building sites in my youth, I retrained as an actor and spent many years treading the boards and working in TV and film. I eventually moved behind the camera where I spent fifteen years working as a Director and Editor on everything from National Geographic documentaries to primetime American dramas, alongside talent such as Sir Roger Moore and M. Night Shyamalan. So, how is it I’m now leading The Good Life?
In 2018, my wife and I decided to quit the rat race and leave London behind us, moving to rural Suffolk to lead ‘The Good Life’. The plan? To build a kitchen garden, focus on our wellbeing, and lead a more sustainable lifestyle.
Join me as I share my gardening journey, offer tips and advice, and shine a spotlight on inspirational gardeners.
Down the Garden Path with Jekka McVicar, Season 2
An organic grower of herbs and horticultural author, designer, consultant, RHS judge, @jekkasherbs.
With over sixty RHS Gold medals for her Herb Exhibits, which includes fourteen gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. Jekka has created herb gardens for both @TheRaymondBlanc and @JamieOliver.
Jekka’s Farm is home to the largest collection of culinary herbs in the UK, over 400+ varieties, based on the outskirts of Bristol. Jekka aims to educate and inspire gardeners and cooks of all ages.
I had such fun visiting Jekka at her herb farm, which both her and her family have lovingly built over the last twenty years. It was a real pleasure to get to know and spend the day with her.
So, sit-back, watch and learn from this amazing woman!
With over sixty RHS Gold medals for her Herb Exhibits, which includes fourteen gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. Jekka has created herb gardens for both @TheRaymondBlanc and @JamieOliver.
Jekka’s Farm is home to the largest collection of culinary herbs in the UK, over 400+ varieties, based on the outskirts of Bristol. Jekka aims to educate and inspire gardeners and cooks of all ages.
I had such fun visiting Jekka at her herb farm, which both her and her family have lovingly built over the last twenty years. It was a real pleasure to get to know and spend the day with her.
So, sit-back, watch and learn from this amazing woman!
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Down the Garden Path with Anna Greenland, Season 2
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Anna Greenland has been on an incredible gardening journey. Growing vegetables for @JamieOliver Anna then went on to spend three years running Double Michelin starred chef @TheRaymondBlanc vegetable garden at @Belmond Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons. Moving to Suffolk several years ago, she has created a beautiful and inspiring market garden. Anna is without a doubt a vegetable gardener and ...
Down the Garden Path with Charles Dowding
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This is a gentleman who needs no introduction. With forty years of vegetable growing and no dig experiments under his belt, @charles_dowding is world renowned for his passion and expertise in the no dig method and soil management, and he inspires gardeners from every generation. With over a dozen books to his name, 504K Instagram followers, and 698K followers on his UA-cam channel @CharlesDowdi...
Down the Garden Path with The Laundry Garden, Season 2
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The Laundry Garden is a very unique walled garden in North Wales. Avid gardeners, both Jenny and Tom have been creating, building and developing this beautiful space since 2008. Once The Laundry and Dairy to Llanrhaeadr Hall, this grade II listed property is built in true Georgian style. Built in the 1770s, Tom’s family have owned the house and surrounding land for over 140 years. Since taking ...
Down the Garden Path with Rob Smith, Season 2
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Down the Garden Path with Beth Chatto Gardens, Season 2
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Beth Chatto is one of the most renowned and inspiring figures in horticulture. An award-winning plantswoman, author and lecturer, both her and her husband Andrew had a vision to create something unique on challenging terrain. Beth believed working with nature is as important today as it was then. ‘The right plant in the right place’. Although Beth Chatto sadly passed away in 2018, she would spe...
Down the Garden Path, Season 2 - TRAILER
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🎬EXCITING NEWS... IT'S HERE!! The official trailer for Down the Garden Path Season 2🎬 I'm incredibly excited to be sharing this with you. Several months of coordinating, travelling, filming, interviewing and editing has resulted in a new season of six episodes I'm incredibly proud of. There is no media agency or production team behind this project. Just myself and my years of film and televisio...
Spring in the Kitchen Garden
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In recent days, Mother Nature has been rewarding us with brief moments of sunshine and the feeling of warmth on our faces. Sown seeds slowly start to stir, as new life returns to the kitchen garden. This is a busy time for gardeners as we sow, plant and grow. But it’s also a magical time, that seems to come and go in the blink of an eye. If you've got a couple of minutes, come with me, as I tak...
Who Is Ade Sellars?
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I’m Ade Sellars The Good Life Gardener. I’m an award-winning writer, presenter, professional gardener and content producer, with a passion for growing my own food in my kitchen garden. But it hasn’t always been like this. Having spent a large period of my life living in London working in television. In 2018, after gaining my RHS qualifications, my wife and I made the decision to set up home in ...
Winter Pruning
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From November to March is the dormant season, so it's a good time to prune apple and pear trees. In this short video, I show you it doesn't have to be complicated. Just a few simple tips to get you going.
Down the Garden Path with Stacy
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Meet Stacy, owner and head beekeeper at Sunnyfields Apiaries. What started out as a hobby quickly became a beekeeping obsession, and in 2018 she gave up a successful media career in London, to set up a new home and beekeeping career in the Waveney Valley. Now with a thriving beekeeping business, Stacy is on a mission 'to educate and inspire those interested in making a positive difference to th...
Down the Garden Path with Barbara Segall
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Barbara Segall is a garden author, gardener and herb expert. With a successful and extensive career in horticulture, there isn't a plant that escapes her trained eye. If you want an example of Barbara's love for plants, then her garden speaks volumes. Packed with colour, scent and variety, it's a growing area that has been lovingly nurtured over many years. Barbara is always keen to take on new...
Down the Garden Path with Martin Towsey
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Martin Towsey is the Estates Gardens Manager at Woburn Abbey, overseeing its beautiful historic gardens, along with those of the other Bedford Estate properties. If there's one person who lives and breathes horticulture, it's Martin; he's a man who loves what he does, and his enthusiasm quickly rubs off on you. Martin prides himself on guiding the next generation of horticulturalists at Woburn ...
Down the Garden Path with Ellen Mary
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Ellen Mary is a gardener, broadcaster, author, speaker, and (in Ellen's words) a 'tree hugger'. Ellen does what she can to 'promote the wellbeing benefits of gardening, plants and the natural world'. In the few years I've known her, it's been wonderful to see how her career has flourished. You go to most gardening events, and Ellen will be there in the hub of it. Always busy, always smiling and...
Down the Garden Path with Lucy Chamberlain
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Lucy Chamberlain is a writer, podcaster, Head Gardener at East Donyland Hall and a leading garden expert at BBC Gardeners' World Live. Along with her husband Ian, they have created a beautiful, productive kitchen garden in their home. Her knowledge and passion for all things growing, is something I greatly admire. I first met Lucy way back in 2016 at the Garden Media Guild Awards, where we quic...
Down the Garden Path with Andrew Timothy O'Brien
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Down the Garden Path with Andrew Timothy O'Brien
Beautiful garden of a wonderful human being. Thank you both for this lovely tour!
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I've just received his book to stand and stare and have started reading. Already very inspired ❤
What a beautiful and colourful garden.
This garden is paradise, I would love to visit someday! Beautiful work filming and editing! Subscribed
The videos are beautiful, thank you fore creating them. The sound is a litle silent compared to the music... if you could make the sound litle lauder and the music more silent it would be sooooo grate. Thank you!
A beautiful garden and a beautiful film.
What a lovely philosophy and a beautiful garden. Nicely photographed too.
Always been a favorite of mine. Thank you for sharing:)
What an amazing garden. You filmed/showcased it beautifully. Just subscribed.
Many thanks Ian appreciate your comments. And good to meet you.
@@TheGoodLifeGardener No worries, I'm looking forward to your videos. There is a lot of work that goes into these things.
So glad I found your channel (or it found me !) wonderful filming and interesting stories.
Thank you, and thank you for watching.
What a shame about the loud music. I would have loved to hear the lady speak.
What a stunning nursery 🧡
Great video! The shots are stunning and really fun to watch, as always! Thank you for sharing, my dear friend! Many greetings from Germany! 🌍💜💜💜👍
Lovely! Thank you for sharing
What a lovely few minutes soothing voice that loves gardening 😊 LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE❤
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it
Seeing an orb at 3:13. Your soul intention and energy are all!❤
What a lovely video. Very inspiring.
Thank you!
I had a sense of a life being wisely spent when watching Jekka talking about her gardening career
Love all the good life gardener videos, please keep bringing them!!!
Thank you, that's lovely to hear
Lovely but the music is too loud. Many times you can’t hear what she is saying. X
Beautiful!
Another wonderful video, Ade. What an abundant and beautiful garden. As we have said before, the common thread in all of these videos is the connection to our pasts and where our gardening journeys have rooted from and then the forward journey to passing on that knowledge to the next generation. 👏🏻🪴
I've just binge watched Series 2 whilst having my lunch. What a treat, so lovely to hear people talking about their gardens and how it makes them feel.
Many thanks Charles for a truly beautiful and elegant clip of gardening and it’s holistic joys.
I love the espaliered red currant bushes. I am going to try it. I live in Chicago but my aunt in Austria made a great cake with them (and would add them to vanilla pudding). I do wonder if it will make it easier for the birds to help themselves to the fruit.
No dig clearly works, but. You spend more time making compost than you do digging. Unless your gardening a very small area. Try no dig gardening a full sized allotment!!!!
Making compost is much easier than digging!
NoDig for the Win!
Oh Wow,absolutely stunning♥️
You are so right about the people who inspire you over a lifetime in your garden journey.
So beautiful and relaxing. I love your style of filming. 500th sub right here😊
Such a beautiful captured film Ade 👌 - this is exactly as it feels to wander around and stay in your beautiful roundhouses- i could watch this for ages 🙏 and Jenny i'm sure your dreams will come true you and your beautiful Laundry Garden so deserve it !
Stunning ❤
Wonderful!!! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching Eliska, thrilled you enjoyed it!
The soul and heart of your garden is clear 😍 Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I would love to visit. Ade, I love the common thread that is running through all of the videos in this series of a link with generations past, particularly grandparents. It really shows just how important the things we are doing now are for the future of gardening. The younger generations are always watching and I really hope that my two boys continue to see the magic of gardening as they grow.
Thank you Sarah! We're only garden tenants for a short period of time, so it's important there's an eager new generation coming in to take it forward. Thank you for watching, and yes, you need to visit these beautiful gardens..
@@TheGoodLifeGardener you are so right. I love the term “garden tenants” 😊 I feel so lucky to have been able to be the tenant and caretaker of my garden for the last 10 years and am so lucky that it was so beautifully built and cared for by the previous tenants before me! I will remember that analogy 😊
Rob, you have really described the magic and essence of gardening perfectly! And Ade you have captured it wonderfully. Absolutely love this! 😍💚
Thank you so much Sarah 🙂
Wow, wow, wow! Thank you so much for sharing this magical place with us. As someone relatively new to the gardening community, seeing what has been created here is truly inspirational. I will now seek to learn more about Beth and this wonderful place. Her work will live on 💚
What a beautiful video 😊👏 and an incredible garden. 😍
Thank you Violeta , I appreciate your kind comments.
@@TheGoodLifeGardener well deserved 👏 😊
Thank you so much for doing such a beautiful video Ade ❤
My pleasure Jenny! It's a beautiful garden people need to know about x
lovely relaxed start to the morning over coffee :D beautiful
Thank you Eli and Kate. Coffee.. sounds perfect!
Thank you Ade. This page popped up, as pages do within UA-cam. I have thoroughly enjoyed your posts. Marie from NZ 🌷
HI Marie, thank you so much for your kind comments. Really put a smile on my face. New video coming out on Tuesday. Ade
What a fabulous garden!!!! And what a beautifully made video! Well done 👏
Your garden is amazing💚
Stunning
¡Hermoso!
Thank you!
Such a wonderful and informative video. Thank you for creating and sharing it Ade.
Thank you Jenny, really appreciate you taking the time to watch it 🙂
A beautiful video, Ade, and I’m loving the drone footage! So interesting to hear Julia’s narrative, too - a real insight
Thank you Lucy, thrilled you enjoyed it 🙂
A privilege no doubt, for all of us, that the Beth Chatto Trust goes on, under Julia and her wonderful staff. I studied Beth's books and immediately adhered to her ideas, and had the joy of visiting the garden 4 times, two of which had a small chat with her. She was surprised that we came all the way from Argentina... A great gardener and a charming lady... In 2018 I could go to the First Symposium and enjoyed it immensely, and this year could be a virtual participant. Congratulations ALL of you for a great job very well done... Elsita Schulte
Lovely to see especially just a few days after the third Beth Chatto Symposium, which also emphatically honoured Beth’s legacy, as is clear from your Series 2, Episode 1, that Julia holds dear! Thank you and congratulations!
Thank You Barbara for your comments and taking the time to watch it 🙂
Can’t wait! 👏🏻👏🏻