World’s best-selling gardening expert leaves family £4.7m fortune | UK | News
David Hessayon, the world’s best -selling garden writer who died in January at the age of 96, left his family a 4.7 million pounds. Hessayon was known for its expert guides for green -fingers who sell 67 million copies globally. Half of all British houses are estimated to have at least one of the guides.
The probe details revealed that the property was worth 4,907.926, but after the costs were paid, this was reduced to £ 4,740.925. Dr Hessayon said Will would be divided between the daughters of Money between Angelina and Jacqueline, and that his four grandchildren would be divided by £ 70,000 cash gifts. With his will in 2019, his long -term assistant Gillian Jackson left £ 250,000 and £ 70,000 to his father -in -law. Hallstead had a 25 -room Georgian mansion in Essex, and there were 27 acres of land with 10,000 plants he wrote.
Dr Hessayon continued to direct his roses and shrubs to his 90s, which believed that his friends kept him healthy until he would live up to 100.
Dr Hessayon grew up in Greater Manchester Salford, the youngest of seven children. The Cypriot watchmaker is said to help develop several colorful reminders of the country he left behind. His mother Lena died at the age of four. He studied at Salford Grammar School and studied botany and chemistry at the University of Leeds at the University of Land Science at Manchester University.
The illustrated guides he designed himself received expert advice to gardeners. The first was published in 1959. For the next 60 years, he wrote more than 50 guides to grow and maintain vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs and made it the world’s best -selling garden series.
He once described the book series as “for the housewife who wasn’t really interested in horticulture but should keep the garden beautiful or think that the neighbors would talk.” He explained: “In the end, I want to feel that they have broken their backs by hardworking people with dirty hands.”
Talking about the horticulture shows on TV, he did not withdraw his views by claiming that “people just arranged to see if the presentation was wearing a bra.”
After he met his US -born wife Joan in 1949, he moved to Missouri to work for his father’s newspaper. Later, Baby Bio fertilizer producers Pan Britannica became the general manager of Industries. Joan Hessayon, who wrote romantic novels, died in 2001. He founded the Joan Hessayon Award for new writers of this type.
