[4][6][2][7] James hosted The City Gardener on Channel 4 between 2002[4] and 2005, followed by an American version called Urban Outsiders on HGTV.
[citation needed] He subsequently hosted UKTV's Matt James' Eco Eden[8] and was gardening expert on Selling Houses.
[9][4] In 2011, James joined the Gardenline panel on BBC and guested on Gardeners' Question Time.
[1][6][10] He later created[citation needed] the landscape design programme at the Eden Project, where he taught between 2014 and 2021.
[citation needed] James was chosen as Londoner-of-the-Year in the Environment and Regeneration category in 2000 after helping establish a farmers' market in South London.