Nationality British Name David Domoney Website daviddomoney.com | Partner(s) Adele Holdsworth Occupation Broadcaster, gardener Role Gardener | |
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Full Name David Martin Domoney Television The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2011–2012)Love Your Garden (2012—) | ||
David Domoney's Guide To Spring Flowers | This Morning
David Martin Domoney, C Hort. FCI Hort (born 26 March 1963)[1] is an English celebrity gardener and broadcaster, best known for co-presenting Love Your Garden and for being a resident gardening expert on ITV's This Morning.[3]
Contents
- David Domoneys Guide To Spring Flowers This Morning
- Cultivation street 2015 david domoney meets winners bedford road
- Early career
- Television
- Garden designs
- Achievements
- Industry Achievements
- Other projects
- Personal life
- Charity work
- References
Domoney founded 'Cultivation Street', the national campaign to promote Community Gardening and School Gardens now in its 5th year. Domoney founded Young Gardeners of the Year competition (in association with the Princes Foundation) now in its 7th year showcasing new British talent in garden design and construction. David also writes weekly for the national Sunday British newspaper, the Sunday Mirror and for every issue of Grow Your Own magazine[5][6]
Cultivation street 2015 david domoney meets winners bedford road
Early career
David Domoney was born in Devizes, Wiltshire, the son of Raymond, a British Telecoms senior executive. Jean Domoney, David's mother, born in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, had three children and a career in sales. After leaving Moseley School, Birmingham, in 1979 aged 16, he studied at Warwickshire College of Agriculture, gaining a Pre Cert. Horticulture qualification.[7]
In 1980, he enrolled in one of the last of the industry's old style comprehensive three-year apprenticeships with Notcutts Nursery & Garden Centre Group (which at the time were the Harrods of Horticulture) during which he studied at Hadlow College of Horticulture. In 1983, David left Notcutts to study full-time at Pershore College of Horticulture, receiving an Advanced Certificate in Horticulture (ANCH).[8] He had a successful business career in horticulture, with Notcutts predominantly, as a plant adviser/manager on the front line answering visitors gardening questions. David joined the biggest UK growing group Anglia Nursries as Sales & Marketing Manager, before joining Seasons Garden Centre Group PLC as Horticulture Director.
Domoney then spent a decade heading up the garden buying teams for super store giants Texas Homecare and Do It All.[9] David began his broadcasting career at Texas Homecare—presenting gardening features on the satellite TV station the company ran at its 20,000 staff.
In 1999, Domoney formed his own garden design company. He raised finance for his own garden designs at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) shows including the Chelsea Flower Show, Hampton Court Palace, BBC Gardener's World Live and the Tatton Flower Show. To date, he has won 28 Royal Horticultural Society medals.[10]
David has designed and built spectacular show gardens and events to promote some of the nation’s favourite brands. His clients have been John Lewis, Harley Davidson, the Ritz Piccadilly, Lexus, Croft Sherry, Laura Ashley, Manchester Children’s Hospital, British Trust of Ornithology and Levive Diamonds, to name but a few.
Amongst David's celebrity clients he has landscaped gardens for Phillip Schofield, at his home in 2010, and England striker Michael Owen for his 'Hello' magazine wedding shoot.[24]
Television
Domoney's passionate and enthusiastic approach shows that gardening should be about getting stuck in and learning as you go.[22]
He is an expert who can demystify gardening in a warm and inspiring way.
Garden designs
His approach is to attract people not normally interested in gardening by enticing them with innovative design and inspiring ideas. He created a Piranha-infested underwater garden with five tanks containing plant biotopes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2009.[27] His show shocked the nation and stopped the Queen in her tracks. It also won him a Gold Medal.[28] The following year he created the Ace of Diamonds garden – the most expensive show garden ever seen at the Chelsea Flower Show with £20m worth of diamonds.[29]
For Harley Davidson he built a garden for a Hells Angel which even had a sculpture Ace of Spades made from Spades. He built the 2010 World Cup football garden at BBC Gardeners World Live and he created a garden in 2015 with the biggest tree house ever seen at a garden event for Quiet Mark, John Lewis & Lexus at RHS Hampton Court Palace.
For 2017 at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, he designed a garden for The Commonwealth War Graves Commission as part of their celebration on the Commissions centenary.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Centenary Garden
He was delighted to be approached by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) to design a garden for the Chelsea Flower Show 2017.
The Commission, works to ensure that the 1.7 million people who died in the two world wars will never be forgotten, and they do this by caring for cemeteries and memorials at and incredible 23,000 locations, in 154 countries. The commission’s purpose is to encourage contemplation, remembrance and respect for all that was sacrificed.
Achievements
Industry Achievements
Other projects
David sits on the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Commercial Board. David is a Governor at the London Colleges of Horticulture at Capel Manor. David is also the face of community gardening with his national campaign ‘Cultivation Street’, now in its 5th year supporting hundreds of community gardening projects and school gardens up and down the country. David pioneered the ‘Young Gardeners of the Year’ annual competition at Olympia London, which is now in its 7th year. It is run through his association with HRH The Prince of Wales and The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community.
Personal life
David has 2 daughters with Adele. Alice-Rose Domoney born in August 2014 & Abigail Violet Domoney Born in March 2016. He is a keen biker and has a V800 Vulcan motorbike. He is a master scuba diver with over 200 logged dives. His Specialist PADI Diving Qualifications include: Wreck Diving, Diver Propulsion Vehicles, Maldivian Shark Diver, Deep Diving and Dry Suit Diver.[36]
Domoney lives near Stratford-upon-Avon.
Charity work
He is the Gardening Ambassador for THRIVE, one of the largest garden charities in Britain, which aims to enable positive change in the lives of disabled and disadvantaged people through the use of gardening and social horticultural therapy.
Davis is an ambassador with The Myfanwy Townsend Melanoma Research Fund who raise awareness of melanoma through the Watch Your Back! campaign. As well as prevention, they fund research to help find a cure, lobby in Government for greater awareness and connect with patients to ensure their journey is shared
For over 15 years David has hosted the charity auctions/lotto for Euro plants open days. Since childhood Domoney has collected for the Methodist charity, JMA, and continues to do so.