 The garden was designed by Samuel Curtis |
A team restoring a Jersey garden says a BBC programme about the project could provide a boost for the island's tourism trade. The Rozel gardens at Chateau La Chaire are the subject of BBC2 programme 'Hidden Gardens' on Friday evening.
The gardens were created in the 19th Century by Victorian plant enthusiast Samuel Curtis.
Jersey Tourism is giving the restoration project �83,000 to form a business plan and set up a trust to run it.
'Favourable eyes'
Tony Russell, the project's horticultural director, claimed UK gardening groups were already booking to visit the island.
"The programme will be watched by around six million people across the UK, looking in at Jersey through favourable eyes and admiring this part of the island's heritage.
"If just 1% of those people decide to visit Jersey during the next 18 months, that would be 60,000 people coming to the island.
"We already have groups ready to come."
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