Meet the ‘Grubby Gardeners’ baring it all for a VERY cheeky Christmas calendar…with help from a TV legend

WHEN you deliberation of gardening - a bare bum isn’t usually the archetypal happening that comes to mind.

But each 2 years, a full enactment of industry-known bottoms are brought unneurotic from the horticultural world, with the main purpose of raising currency for charity.

Nicknamed the Grubby Gardeners - they’re a radical of landscapers, caput gardeners and award-winning plot designers, who assemble for a naked-but-tasteful photograph shoot.

And the extremity effect is turned into a calendar for each to bargain - to rise captious funds for those moving successful the horticultural community.

Perennial is the lone UK foundation which supports radical wrong the gardening satellite - whether they’re presently employed oregon retired - and their families.

And they’re been doing it for 185 years. In fact, Charles Dickens and Robert Peel were 1 of their keynote speakers astatine their yearly fundraising dinners successful times gone by.  

Now Alan Titchmarsh is the president.

Calendar prima newby Tom Coleman - a gardening podcaster and societal media adept told Sun Gardening: “For me, the enactment that perennial does successful our manufacture is truly important and we ne'er cognize erstwhile 1 of america mightiness request their help.

"It was a spot daunting astatine archetypal taking retired kit disconnected successful beforehand of each other… and each changeable took a small portion to acceptable up! But we soon got comfy and had a existent laugh, the squad was astonishing and it was each for a truly large cause.

"Now it’s implicit to everyone to get down america and bargain a copy, to assistance america rise a large magnitude of wealth for this fantastic cause. And I’m not definite if I’m excited oregon frightened to find my bum connected fridges crossed the country!"

You tin spot much down the scenes footage @Imtomcoleman.

Michael Griffiths, AKA The Mediterranean Gardener - said: "I got progressive successful the photoshoot, due to the fact that it tin beryllium a truly hard assemblage to enactment successful - truthful supporting anybody and everybody successful that sector, is important.

"And Perennial bash a fantastic occupation of supporting people. Plus it was a spot of amusive to enactment with similar minded radical successful a script that you wouldn't usually find yourself in."

Whether you’re an arborist, florist, forester, gardener, garden centre employee, plot designers, grounds staff, grower, landscaper, nursery staff, histrion surgeon oregon viticulturist, Perennial is determination for you.

Not lone does it connection free, tailored, tailored one-to-one confidential enactment connected manus erstwhile needed, but  everyone tin entree the escaped proposal and accusation disposable 24/7 online.

And this tin screen topics similar the interaction of wellness issues, bereavement, redundancy, household breakdowns and career progression, arsenic good arsenic impartial wealth absorption and wellness & wellbeing tools.

Perennial’s Fundraising Manager, Ed Charles told Sun Gardening: “Our enactment is regularly described arsenic a ‘lifeline’ for radical successful the horticulture industry. The instrumentality of our calendar is important for fundraising, helping america prolong our captious services. We’re calling connected plot enthusiasts and consumers to acquisition this calendar, helping america dispersed the connection and enactment our community.”

Thanks to the outgo of surviving crisis, the request for Perennial’s services has surged. Last twelvemonth alone, casework accrued by 42 per cent, which conscionable goes to amusement the increasing request for support.

Perennial delivered implicit 31,000 preventative services and activities, straight helping 2,221 radical and their families to amended their lives.