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Joseph Samuel Swift (born 25 May 1965) is an English
garden designer
A garden designer is someone who designs the plan and features of gardens, either as an amateur or professional. The compositional elements of garden design and landscape design are: terrain, water, planting, constructed elements and buildings, ...
,
journalist
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and
television presenter.
Television career
Swift is a regular presenter and designer on the
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Gardeners' World
''Gardeners' World'' is a long-running British gardening programme, first broadcast on 5 January 1968. The 2022 series is the 53rd. Its first series was presented by Ken Burras and came from Oxford Botanical Gardens. Up until 2020 most of its e ...
'', co-presenter on the
Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.
The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr (Nor ...
Chelsea Flower Show, ''Gardeners' World Live'',
Hampton Court
Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames. The building of the palace began in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chie ...
, RHS
Tatton Park Flower Show
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park held at Tatton Park, near Knutsford, Cheshire, first began in 1999 by the Royal Horticultural Society. The show houses the RHS National Flower Bed Competition, Young Designer of the Year Award and a wide range of ins ...
, BBC's ''Small Town Gardens'', and design judge on BBC's ''Gardener of the Year''. He has been a presenter/designer on ''Take 3 Gardeners'' (with Cleve West and Ann-Marie Powell).
He is a garden designer, and has been involved in BBC2's ''Gardeners' World'' since 1998. He is co-founder and Design Director of Modular Garden – a garden design and build company.
Swift has designed many gardens on TV, including one for ''
Comic Relief
Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character, scene, or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension.
Definition
Comic relief usually means a releasing of emotional or other tension resulting from a comic epis ...
'', many for ''Gardeners' World'', including the Bournville Garden, The 40-year garden, and for
Alan Titchmarsh's ''How to be a Gardener'' series.
In 2009, Swift presented coverage of the
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
The Hampton Court Garden Festival (formerly The Hampton Court Flower Show) is an annual British flower show, held in early July. The show is run by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) at Hampton Court Palace in the London Borough of Richmond u ...
for the BBC. He was also one of the main presenters of the BBC coverage of the 2010
Chelsea Flower Show. In 2013, he presented two episodes of ''
Great British Garden Revival
''Great British Garden Revival'' is a British documentary television series that was first broadcast on BBC Two on 9 December 2013. The series was presented by Monty Don, Carol Klein, Joe Swift, Rachel De Thame, James Wong, Tom Hart Dyke, C ...
''.
Writing
Swift has written for such newspapers as ''
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publish ...
'', ''
The Evening Standard
The ''Evening Standard'', formerly ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), also known as the ''London Evening Standard'', is a local free daily newspaper in London, England, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format.
In October 2009, after bei ...
'', and ''
The Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, w ...
'', on the subject of landscaping and home gardening.
His writing also includes ''Gardeners' World Magazine'', ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...
'', and various magazine and newspaper articles. He has written three books – ''The Plant Room'', ''Joe's Urban Garden Handbook'', and ''Joe’s Allotment'', published in April 2009.
Personal life
Swift's father was the actor
Clive Swift
Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. A classically trained actor, his stage work included performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, but he was best known to television viewers for h ...
, and he was the nephew of
David Swift. His mother is novelist
Margaret Drabble, and his brother is academic
Adam Swift. His sister
Rebecca Swift
Rebecca Swift (10 January 1964 – 18 April 2017) was a British poet and essayist. She was co-founder in 1996 of The Literary Consultancy.
Biography
Rebecca Margaret Swift was born in Highbury, north London, the daughter of Clive Swift and Marg ...
(died April 2017) was a poet and founder of
The Literary Consultancy
The Literary Consultancy (TLC) is a UK-based editorial consultancy service that was founded in 1996, becoming the first service of its kind to offer "professional, in-depth editorial advice and assessment to anyone writing in the English languag ...
. He is married with two teenage children.
He is the design director of Modular Garden.
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1965 births
Living people
British television presenters
Designers from London
English gardeners
English Jews
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