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England Made with Love: Meet More Artisans
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Meet more artisans from England Made with Love.
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England Made with Love: Meet More Artisans
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Meet more artisans from England Made with Love.
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♪ Narrator: No manor house is complete without its own English garden... a place to reflect and embrace the natural world.
♪ Darren Dickey: An English garden is really about a mixture, I guess, of formality and about order, mixing the gardens with the countryside and linking those two elements together.
Narrator: Darren is the head gardener here at the Trebah Garden Trust, a subtropical Cornish garden.
Darren: Trebah is very much about our connection with the coastline.
And it's that sort of maritime climate which makes Trebah so special.
We have a very unusual and exotic planting throughout the garden.
A lot of the planting in the Court Garden is about a sort of mixture of colors.
So, we've moved from the sort of hot borders behind me on the far wall to more sort of pinks.
And it's really about sort of a mixture of sort of foliage and height as well.
Narrator: This garden has more than 30 different types of flowers, some of which were imported here more than a century ago.
Darren: A lot of the sort of perennials and annuals would've originally come in from other parts, a lot of them from Europe, actually.
Narrator: The garden takes a new look with each passing season... and Darren works hard to help ease those transitions.
Darren: It's really all about keeping the flowers looking at their best.
It's all about looks, really.
The garden should never sort of stay the same.
It should always be changing and evolving.
I'm very fortunate.
I love, love what I do.
It's all about the sort of inspiration that I can give to other people who visit the garden and perhaps other gardeners as well and the garden team itself.
♪ My latest collection is called "My Favorite Things."
It is based on my favorite hats or pieces that I've done over the last 20 or so years.
So, they go from things like Kerplunk, which is a children's game.
I first bought Kerplunk, me and my brother, when I was about 5, and it has appeared in probably 20 or 30 of my hats over the years.
I love the crisscross idea of the way that the feathers sit and quills sit one on top of another.
It can be something like my favorite hat I've made for somebody else.
Also, the rose that I made.
And it was only in the shop window for about 3 days and a guy drove past and he stopped and said, "Would you mind if I just FaceTime my wife?
I think this would look great for her for Ascot."
And everyone at Ascot came up to me and was like, "I've seen your rose hat!
I've seen your rose hat!"
So, I loved that moment.
So, I thought, along with all my other favorite things, I would make that as a sort of revisit to pieces that I've loved.
♪ Narrator: Somerset's rolling fields are filled with apple orchards--making this the natural home of one of England's signature beverages...cider.
Somerset is a big area for cider.
We've got the best weather and climate for growing cider apples.
I've been making cider for about 20 years... and it's a hobby that's gone a little bit out of control... but yeah, it's still good fun.
So, it's always worked out.
It's always worked out all right.
Haven't done too badly after 24 years, have we?
No.
[Laughs] 24 years, we're still together, so.
Yes.
Yeah.
Works well.
Narrator: Here at the Bere Cider Company, they pulp, press, and ferment about 1,500 gallons of cider a year.
Still, that's just a drop in the barrel.
England consumes more cider per capita than any other country in the world.
All right, here we go.
Let's have a drink.
Narrator: The Romans first brought cider here in the 11th century.
300 years later, when the cooling climate made it hard to grow grapes, apples continued to thrive-- and cider took its place behind ale as the nation's drink of choice.
The history of it is wonderful, but there's nothing better than after all the labor of love to be able to pour yourself a drink that you think is absolutely gorgeous.
We work a lot of long hours, a lot of hard work, a lot of love and time goes into making the cider, producing what we have produced, and when somebody says, "That was a really good pint.
I've really enjoyed your cider," it's a lovely feeling, it's a really warm feeling.
♪ Narrator: In addition to studying watchmaking, Rebecca is also an expert in watch forgeries.
I found my first one while I was working at an auction house and then I looked up the name in the dictionary of makers that we used, and it just said Wilta, perhaps a fictitious name.
And that was all that was said about it.
And, yeah, that was a moment I thought, "Hang on a minute.
I need to find out who this guy was."
I ended up at the British Museum because you can go down and visit their basement, so, I spent a few years taking apart surviving examples of these watches and putting them through forensic analysis.
So, like microscopes, X-rays, XRS scanning, to try and find out who was really making them and where they were being made.
This is a Dutch forgery.
So, this is actually a kind of fake watch that's about 250 years old.
This one says it's signed by someone called Tarts in London, but there's no evidence that anyone by that name as a watchmaker existed at the time.
So, they were being made in Switzerland, of all places, imitating English watches.
And they're just beautiful things.
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