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July 23, 2016 Earlier in the year, Monty put aside a patch of his garden to grow his own cut flowers, and this week he returns to assess the results and harvest his first crop of colourful blooms. We pay a visit to an organic flower farm to find out how, from seed to harvest, the process of growing plays a large part in improving wellbeing, and Joe Swift explores the Savill Garden in Windsor to see how the traditional rose garden has been reimagined into a contemporary design.
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July 18, 2016 BBC One 11 Jul 2016
Charlie Dimmock and Chelsea gold medal-winners Dave and Harry Rich transform gardens around the country within the owners' budgets.
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July 16, 2016 BBC Two 27 May 2016
This programme, presented by Cherry Healey and Simon Lycett, florist to the Royal Palaces, tells the miraculous story of how the flowers we buy in our florists and supermarkets travel across the globe to reach us every day in pristine condition. We follow three of Britain's favourite flowers, the rose, the tulip and the lily during the busiest time of year, Mother's Day, via Aalsmeer Flower Auction in Holland and its nearby sister markets, which together make up the biggest flower market on earth. Affectionately dubbed 'The Wall Street of Flowers', almost 30 million flowers and plants arrive every day to be bought and sold in its high paced auctions with over £3 million changing hands daily. And away from the market, Simon and Cherry continue to explore the cut flower industry. Simon visits Kenya to find out where his beloved rose starts life. And Cherry meets a conscientious tulip breeder who has dedicated a staggering 25 years of his life to breeding stunning new varieties of tulips.
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July 15, 2016 Monty demonstrates that it is not too late to start growing vegetables by showing which types to sow now, and he adds some summer colour to the Spring Garden by sinking plants in pots into the borders. Then a hosta National Collection holder shares the secrets of his propagating success, and Rachel de Thame pays a visit to the garden of theatre impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh.
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July 15, 2016 Sophie visits a couple who are harnessing the services of nature to grow bounteous, delicious organic apples, John shows us what to look for when selecting the perfect pots for our plants and Jane shows how to propagate cuttings. Also in this episode Costa visits Sydney University's community garden and meets students who use the garden as their laboratory while Jerry explores a botanical wonderland within Noosa National Park on the Sunshine Coast that is close to his heart.
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July 13, 2016 Season Three starts with a bang, when host and garden designer Steve Taylor takes us through one of his own garden designs located in Melbourne. Meanwhile, Bettina takes a tour of a tropical paradise on the Sunshine Coast, and viewers will also have an exclusive peek into a private serene native garden that has taken fifteen years to complete.
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July 10, 2016 BBC One 22 January 2013
Dishing the dirt on the battles being fought on plots across the UK. Filmed over seven months, during the planting, growing and harvesting seasons, Allotment Wars shows what happens when strangers are thrust together on the land with too much time on their hands and too many sharp tools.
Plotholders often face attacks from outsiders. In Kent, following a series of break-ins, two brave gardeners hunt a suspect in the local woods. However in Devon, there is a civil war brewing between the plotholders themselves. Prize vegetables are being snatched and sheds ransacked, and it looks like an inside job. What can the site committee do to combat the saboteurs?
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July 9, 2016 In the first of three programmes, Monty Don and Joe Swift take a first look at the show gardens. James Wong meets the head gardener at Canterbury Cathedral, who is bringing his Japanese grass collection to the show. Rachel De Thame explores the famous festival of roses and Carol Klein is in the floral marquee looking at some of the stand-out floral exhibits. Mark Lane shares innovative garden ideas he has spotted at Hampton.
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July 9, 2016 Monty is reaping the rewards of the summer when he begins to harvest crops from the vegetable garden and gives tips on extending the flower season in the borders. Carol takes a trip to the seaside to discover why some plants thrive despite being assaulted by salt-laden winds and we make a final visit to Sissinghurst to catch up with Troy Scott-Smith and see the changes that have been made to the garden.
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July 3, 2016 Alan Titchmarsh returns with a new series of the garden makeover show, transforming unloved areas into beautiful spaces for some very special people. The team head to Hull to spruce up the garden of a 90-year-old ballroom dancing devotee. Age and frailty have seen the twice-widowed great-grandmother lose the ability to tend her once-beautiful front and back gardens, which have fallen into neglect. Aided by the talents and expertise of Katie Rushworth, Francis Tophill and David Domoney, Alan creates two colourful and nostalgic havens full of memories, even including an outdoor ballroom where the former Land Girl enjoys a waltz with Alan.
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