Devon and Cornwall

At Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan, the head gardener is sowing the seeds of a wildflower revolution. He is using a crop of meadow flowers to distribute the seeds, hoping the rest of the county will blossom in colour throughout the summer.

The broadcast is an episode titled “Episode One Cutdown”. It is presented as a programme and falls within the episode genre, offering a concise glimpse into a specific storyline. In this installment, the chief gardener at Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan takes a handful of meadow‑flower seeds and plants them with a clear purpose. By sowing these seeds, he hopes to ignite what he describes as a wild‑flower revolution, using the modest crop as the catalyst. The action is centred on the Lost Gardens of Heligan, a historic site in Cornwall, and the gardener’s effort is aimed at extending the bloom beyond the garden’s borders. His intention is to see the surrounding county benefit from the spread of the newly introduced wildflowers, allowing the whole area to come into flower. Through this simple yet purposeful act, the episode suggests that a small, focused planting can have a ripple effect across a larger landscape. The gardener’s plan is to let the meadow flowers take root and gradually encourage the rest of the county to blossom in kind, turning a local initiative into a broader horticultural movement.