Roger Cook, known to viewers of PBS’ long-running series This Old House as the landscaper with a solution to every problem and an answer to every question, died August 21 following a lengthy illness.

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts -- Roger Cook, a garden and landscape contractor on the PBS home renovation series This Old House, died Aug. 21. He was 70. Cook died after a “long battle with illness,” ...

SACCHETTI WCVB NEWSCENTER FIVE. SHARMAN. THANK YOU. A FAMILIAR FACE ON NEW ENGLAND TELEVISION HAS DIED. ROGER COOK WAS THE SOFT SPOKEN, NO NONSENSE LANDSCAPING AND GARDENING EXPERT ON THIS OLD HOUSE.

The show paid tribute to Cook on its website. The show’s executive producer Chris Wolfe said, “I remember every lesson from Roger. More importantly, there are millions of people whose lives have been ...

Roger Cook, who was a garden and landscape contractor on the veteran PBS home renovation series This Old House, died on August 21 after an extended illness. He was 70. Born in 1954 in Biddeford, Maine ...