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Charlotte Elouise Dimmock (born 10 August 1966) is an English
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expert and
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. She was a member of the team on ''
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gardening makeover programme, airing from 1997 to 2005. Since then, Dimmock has presented numerous TV shows in the UK and US, including ''The Joy of Gardening, Charlie's Garden Army'' and most recently ''Garden Rescue''.


Early life and education

Dimmock attended Wellow Primary School and
the Mountbatten School The Mountbatten School is an 11–16 secondary school located on Whitenap Lane in Romsey, Hampshire, England. The school is an Academy, but opened in 1969 as a comprehensive. Specialist status and national awards The school became a Language C ...
in
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,
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. Her father Terry was a merchant seaman, and her mother Sue ran her own clothes shop. Dimmock's love of gardening began at an early age – she enjoyed spending time in the garden as a child (gravitating towards the family pond), and helping her grandfather in his vegetable patch. At junior school she had gardening lessons through the spring and summer terms. As a teenager, Dimmock had a weekend and holiday job at a local garden centre called Mill Water Gardens in Romsey. When she was at school, Dimmock initially planned to specialise in forensic science, but changed her mind and studied
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. Dimmock trained as an amenity horticulturalist at Winchester and in Somerset, graduating with a BTEC Diploma in Amenity Horticulture, attaining a distinction, and a National Technical Certificate in Turf Culture and Sporting Management. She spent a year of this training at the
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in London. After college, Dimmock joined Romsey Garden Centre. It was here that she met TV producer John Thornicroft, who later produced ''
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''.


Television career

Dimmock first came to the public's attention in 1997, when she joined the
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gardening series ''Ground Force'', five years after first meeting the producer/director of the series when she built a pond for the
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series, ''Grass Roots''. Dimmock co-presented ''Ground Force'' for the eight years it aired. Since then, she has presented such programmes as ''The Joy of Gardening'' and ''Charlie's Garden Army'', as well as presenting coverage of the
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. In 2004, she appeared in the
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show, '' The Games''. She has also appeared on American television, presenting a gardening slot on ''
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'' on
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. In September 2006, she appeared on the BBC's ''
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''. Dimmock made a cameo appearance as herself in the British
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''
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'' in August 2002, acting as a special guest booked by character
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to unveil the "Jubilee Gardens". During the mid-2000s, after ''Ground Force'' had ceased production, she presented a local ITV Meridian series entitled ''River Walks'', in which she walked along various rivers in Southern England, visiting landmarks and attractions along the way as well as meeting people who live and work on the rivers. Dimmock was President of the
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(TRIC) from 2003 to 2004 and presented their annual awards ceremony that year. In 2011, she joined the team of experts on ITV's ''Daybreak'' breakfast magazine show acting as gardening expert. In 2013, she presented an episode of '' The Great British Garden Revival''. In July 2016, Dimmock became a member of the team presenting ''Garden Rescue'', a series on garden transformations produced for the BBC by Spun Gold TV.


Other projects

Dimmock has written several gardening books, including the BBC Ground Force books ''Water Garden Workbook'' and ''Container Gardening'', as well as ''Enjoy Your Garden'', a book on general gardening published in 2000. Dimmock wrote a weekly gardening column in the ''
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'' for many years, until January 2008. Dimmock appeared in pantomime over Christmas 2011 at The Spa in
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playing the Organic Fairy in ''Jack and the Beanstalk'': she reprised the role in December 2012 at the Pomegranate Theatre in
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. Dimmock launched her ''In the Garden'' range of gardening equipment with the retail chain
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on 29 February 2016. She expanded her range in 2017. Multiple flowers have been named after Charlie Dimmock including the apricot orange ''Dahlia'' '''Charlie Dimmock and cherry red/silvery pink ''Charlie's Rose.''


Personal life

Dimmock's mother Sue Kennedy, 59, and her stepfather Rob, 58, both died in the 2004
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while holidaying in Thailand, caused by an
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.


Charity work

In 2003, Dimmock competed in the
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charity event, raising the profile of the event considerably, which has gone on to raise over £100,000 each year for
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. She has also been involved in many other charity works, such as ''Dreamflight'', a charity organisation backed by
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for children with serious illnesses, that takes them to
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, United States, for a "holiday of a lifetime".


Bibliography

* Charlie Dimmock, "Ground Force" Water Garden Workbook, 1999, () * * Charlie Dimmock, ''Water Garden Workbook'', 2000, () * *


References


External links

*
Profile in ''Hello!'' magazine

Charlie Dimmock on Twitter

Charlie Dimmock on Let's Fix It
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