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Previous ABC presenter as well as celebrity gardener Peter Cundall passes away

Previous ABC presenter, as well as celebrity gardener Peter Cundall, passes away

Vale: Peter Cundall


A retired television speaker best understood for Gardening Australia has died.

Retired television presenter Peter Cundall, best understood for Gardening Australia, has actually died aged 94.


  • He passed away in harmony after a brief ailment, bordered by his enjoyed ones.

  • " On Sunday 5th of December 2021, Peter Cundall passed away quietly after a short ailment, surrounded by his family members," his household said in a declaration.


  • " Peter's privacy, as well as the personal privacy of his household, is to be valued during this very sad time.

  • " Peter's family does not wish to be spoken to.


  • " While he was loved by lots of, as per Peter's wishes, there will be a private cremation and no memorial services will certainly be held."

    Cundall started operating in television in 1969. Before that he organized a gardening talkback program on a Launceston radio terminal, addressing gardening inquiries on radio talkback from the late 1960s up until 2018.

Cundall invested 39 years at ABC, organizing Horticulture Australia from 1990 to 2008.


An energetic environmentalist, in 2009 he was jailed outside Tasmania's Parliament Residence during an objection over the Gunns pulp mill. He was named Tasmania's Australian of the Year victor in the very same year.


The family requested no pictures of Mr. Cundall be released with the news of his fatality.

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