A 9 episode series of bite sized (10-15 minute long) Beechgrove episodes.
Ep01 Saughton Park.
Over a period of two years, using unique drone footage, we see Saughton Park transformed from being a neglected site into being a model educational facility with a physic garden with the longest flowering border in a public park in the UK.
Ep02 Flower Arranging.
Janie Gall shows Carole some easy-to-follow and bargain-basement ways of making flower arrangements that look like they have cost the earth.
Ep03 Chris Beardshaw Garden Makeover.
Chelsea Gold Medal-winning garden designer Chris Beardshaw makes over Susan and Brian Duthie's new-build garden in Cove, Aberdeenshire. Together they transform their tiny 10 x 10 site from the nightmare of rough builder's rubble to their dream garden in just one season.
Ep04 Garden on a Budget.
Gardeners are said to be generous people who love a bargain - none more so than Mairi Reid in Ardersier. This is the story of how Mairi gardens for pleasure and to feed her family for almost no cost.
Ep05 Garden Art.
In this episode, we visit gardens and the people who see the garden as an artist's palette - from a topiary zoo to the woman who makes her art out of other people's rubbish.
Ep0 6Gardens on the Edge.
Gardeners in Orkney, Shetland and the Black Isle show how they have created the most stunning sites right on the very edges of Scotland.
Ep07 Community Allotments.
Growing your own fresh produce is one of life’s great pleasures, but many don’t have the space at home and turn to taking on an allotment. In this episode we visit two unique allotment initiatives that take growing together to a whole different level. Moncrieff Allotments, in the middle of Perth, is also in the middle of the River Tay on a 100-acre island. This multicultural allotment brings a diverse group of people together togarden in the middle of the sometimes-flooding Tay. Tillicoultry Allotments, in the shadow of the beautiful Ochil hills, looks like a series of beautifully interlinked back gardens. Here we discover that community connectivity can move mountains.
Ep08 Garden Therapy.
Most gardeners know that gardening is good for us, from appreciating our surroundings to growing our own produce. Gardening increases both physical and mental well-being in so many ways.In this episode, we take a look at some extraordinary projects that have taken this to a whole new level. From unique community growing projects in Dundee combating poverty and giving escape from addiction to the very stylish, but profoundly moving, Horatio’s Garden in the Scottish spinal injuries unit we discover the healing power of gardening.
Ep09 Garden For Wildlife.
In this episode, we celebrate those gardens and gardeners who encourage and work alongside wildlife. With some unique wildlife footage from badgers to butterflies, we learn more about gardening with wildlife and see that you don’t have to have a wilderness to be wild about wildlife.
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