Autographs of Percy Thrower
Percy John Thrower MBE (30 January 1913 – 18 March 1988) was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer born at Horwood House in the village of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire.
Thrower became nationally known through presenting gardening programmes, starting in 1956 with the BBC's Gardening Club, then the BBC's Gardeners' World from 1969 until 1976.
The surname Thrower is peculiar to East Anglia, where Percy's father worked as a gardener at Bawdsey Manor, Suffolk, before moving to Horwood House near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, as head gardener. Percy Thrower was determined from an early age to be a head gardener like his father, and worked under him at Horwood House for four years after leaving school. He then became a journeyman gardener in 1931, at the age of 18, at the Royal Gardens at Windsor Castle, on £1 a week. He lived in the bothy at Windsor, along with twenty other improver gardeners and disabled ex-servicemen who were employed on full wages. He spent five years there under the supervision of the head gardener, Charles Cook, who was subsequently to become his father-in-law.
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Traded items with a signature of Percy Thrower
The most expensive item with a signature of Percy Thrower (My Lifetime of Gardening by Percy Thrower (Hardcover, 1977) SIGNED 1st Edition) was sold in April 2025 for £46.57 while the cheapest item (PERCY THROWER (1913-1988) British Horticulturist & Broadcaster Signed) found a new owner for £0.98 in December 2015. The month with the most items sold (2) was March 2018 with an average selling price of £2.00 for an autographed item of Percy Thrower. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2026 with £21.49 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was December 2012. In average, an autographed item from Percy Thrower is worth £4.20.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Percy Thrower were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Autograph Percy Thrower the original TV Gardener | £2.19 |  |
| HAND SIGNED 5 x 3 AUTOGRAPH BOOK PAGE - PERCY THROWER - TV GARDENER | £6.99 | |
| HAND SIGNED 5 x 3 AUTOGRAPH BOOK PAGE - PERCY THROWER - TV GARDENER | £6.99 | |
| PERCY THROWER autograph gardening expert | £3.99 | |
| PERCY THROWER autograph gardening expert | £3.99 | |
| Percy THROWER Gardner Horticultural Signed Autographed First Day Cover FDC + COA | £21.49 | |
| Percy THROWER Gardner Horticultural Signed Autographed First Day Cover FDC + COA | £21.49 | |
| Percy Thrower MBE (Gardening Club - Gardener's World) Signed Photo | £5.00 | |
| Percy Thrower MBE (Gardening Club - Gardener's World) Signed Photo | £5.00 | |
| Percy Thrower vintage signed page AFTAL#145 | £20.89 | |
| Percy Thrower vintage signed page AFTAL#145 | £20.89 | |
| PERCY THROWER'S Gardening Calendar 1988 SIGNED | £7.91 | |
| PERCY THROWER'S Gardening Calendar 1988 SIGNED | £7.91 | |
| Signed Percy Thrower Calendar 1985 | £2.00 | |
| Signed Percy Thrower Calendar 1985 | £2.00 | |
