A LANDSCAPE gardener from Hatherleigh will have his work showcased in a forthcoming film starring two of Britain?s best known film actors. Colin Firth and Emma Thompson head the cast in the new Working Title produced film Nanny McPhee, which Tim Gladstone worked on last year. He spent six months and more than £70,000 in plants creating a purpose-grown garden outside Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. Tim said: ?Our task was to create a village and surrounding country lanes. We were given a blank canvas in this big dairy field. There was a cottage which had to look completely ramshackle and they wanted the garden to be overgrown. ?We spent a long time getting it right using a lot of big mature specimens but once filming was finished we had to take everything out and put it back the way it was.? Tim added: ?The film-makers were looking for an Edwardian feel, but it is not right to say it is a ?period piece?, its more of a fantasy tale.? Tim said there was incredible pressure to have the garden ready in time for the start of the shooting. ?We started with three of us and then went up to five and steadily grew from there. As the filming got nearer there was a team of about twelve people working with me,? he said. Tim said he had enjoyed the six months between February and August last year creating the garden and getting to meet famous actors. ?The cast and crew were fantastic and we were so well looked after. I never in a million years dreamed I would be sat having lunch with Emma Thompson and Colin Firth and working on such a huge film.? Tim?s only previous experience of working in film was doing some consultancy work on a recent adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightly, but this was the first time he had worked on a project of this scale. But he said if the opportunity came up again he would be delighted to work on another film. ?It was hard work but it was fantastic fun,? he said. Tim has not had the chance to see the film yet: ?We could have seen it as it was filmed; they had the rushes each evening. We were invited to come back and look at them but I was always too busy?. However, he said he will be invited to a crew screening in London closer to the film?s release. Those wanting to see the film at the cinema, will have to wait until its release later this year.