Milnthorpe gardener grows 350 dahlia flowers in his garden

Meet Jack Gott who has grown an impressive 350 colourful dahlia flowers in his garden.

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00:00 I used to work six or seven days a week as an electrician, as a paper mill, a breathing paper

00:06 mill, and doing this for 53 years as a hobby and now it just seemed to have got out of hand.

00:13 There are all different varieties of dahlias, we grow about 6,000 all together,

00:19 and all of these are grown from cuttings which are making me tubers, because we sell tubers all

00:26 over the UK now. It was my dad's hen pen, we moved to this house, what, 54 years ago, he let me have

00:37 the hen pen, it was full of nettles, and we've cleaned it all up and it's a really good garden,

00:42 now it grows well. Everybody comes here and they say it's dahlia heaven.