Have you visited any famous gardens in your country?

Any that you especially loved?

Also, have you met any of your gardening celebrities?

Thanks for sharing!

I haven't met any gardening celebrities but I think I saw Monty Don in Kew Gardens a couple of months ago. Not sure though.
I wouldn't really know what to say to them.

I was thinking more along the lines of Penelope Hobhouse, Ireland's Helen Dillon and perhaps the late Christopher Lloyd or Rosemary Verey. I bought some of their books early on in my gardening experience and learned a lot. I especially like Lloyd's writing style.

Monty Don and Alan Titchmarch don't do much for me, either! I simply enjoy watching the gardens they visit on Youtube.

I have never met any celebrities either....and am hard pressed to think of any I might like a chat with... (possibly Chris Beardsmore with the help of a stiff drink to compensate for an overdose of beige and bland....but he, at least. appears to know of what he speaks) but many of them seem to be won over by media fame and fortune and generally spend more time in make-up and auto-cue practice than actually gardening and go off the boil very quickly....and I reserve a particular loathing for Don who I regard as a ligger and band-wagon jumper without an innovative thought in his head.... a few years ago, he was a very vocal opponent of a few strawberry growers polytunnels which he considered a blight on the landscape and the ruination of his ridiculously gentrified ideas of rural idyll.
On the other hand, there are many plantspeople I would dearly like to spend an afternoon with - Roy Lancaster for one and the amazing Wynn-Jones at Crug farm for another.