We all know Bridgerton as this fantastical world of Regency pomp and floral splendour. Many of its key scenes – from lovers’ trysts to moments of self-discovery – take place in moonlit glades and romantic rose gardens. What was it like filming in some of the most beautiful and iconic stately home gardens? We caught up with star of the show Adjoa Andoh to find out.
Adjoa plays the wise, inscrutable, and occasionally mischievous Lady Danbury. She is also a keen gardener herself – describing finding ‘solace in the soil’. She told us about the joy she gets from gardening, and about how she went about transforming her own South London garden into the Cotswold cottage garden of her childhood.
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I don’t have a favourite. I know that sounds lazy. I don’t, because I really love stately home gardens. I grew up in the Cotswolds in the 1960s and 70s. And, I lived in a tiny cow and sheep village, everybody was about their garden. And, there were also very posh people who lived in our village. And once a year they would open their palatial gardens for the summer fate. And, the hoi polloi we would all marvel at their topiary and floral beds.
We’d get a cream tea, go on the tombola, and then we’d be sent on our way. So, I’ve grown up loving stately home gardens. Now I get to do a show where I’m basically living in my love a great deal of the year.
We have amazing gardeners. There was a scene, in Queen Charlotte where Lady Vi and Lady Agatha are tramping around a garden with aviaries and topiary and floral beds. And I saw the transformation that the
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