subscribe our channel to get daily Entertainment News Roger cook long time This Old House landscaper dies at 70 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 Roger was our much-loved colleague treasured by the entire This Old House Community for his softspoken but noons 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 cook shared with viewers in 2018 that he was stepping away from a full-time role on the show because of several health issues that have made performing on television more difficult showrunners say Cook's Legacy will live on in the Landscapes he created and the knowledge he shared I remember every lesson from Roger said Chris Wolf the executive producer of This Old House more importantly there are millions of people whose lives have been enriched by everything Roger taught them an obituary for cook said he grew up in wurn and Burlington Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in wildlife management and conservation management he founded k&r landscape in wurn with his wife Kathy in 1982 visiting hours for cook will be held on August 27th from 400 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Edward V Sullivan Funeral Home in Burlington instead of flowers Cooks obituary requested MERS to please plant a tree in your local community to honor Rogers lifelong environmental efforts