BURLINGTON – Roger Cook, the longtime landscape contractor on the PBS home improvement series “This Old House,” has died. He was 70 years old.
Cook died Wednesday “after a long battle with illness,” the show said.
The landscaping and gardening expert was involved with “This Old House” for more than 40 years, starting in 1982 when the show was produced by WGBH-TV in Boston. He first joined the program full-time in 1988 as a landscape contractor for a renovation of a bed and breakfast in Lexington.
“Soft-spoken but no-nonsense approach”
“Roger was our much-loved colleague, treasured by the entire ‘This Old House community’ for his soft-spoken but no-nonsense approach to every aspect of landscape contracting,” an article on the “This Old House” website stated. “He was always there with the answers we needed.”…