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May 14, 2016 Tino plants broad beans and snow peas and saves seed of liquorice and scarlett runner beans, Sophie profiles the iochroma plant and Angus explores a colourful English style garden in the hills district of north-west Sydney. Then Jerry deals with root-knot nematodes that are affecting his rosella plants and Costa helps ABC radio presenter, Simon Marnie, overhaul his vegetable garden. Also, John shows off his favourite gardening tool - a very special tape measure!
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May 7, 2016 Monty Don visits the RHS Malvern Spring Festival, where he is joined by Carol Klein and Chelsea gold medal winner Adam Frost. With over 70 floral displays on show, Monty is on the lookout for scented plants to take back to Longmeadow, Carol advises on plants to buy for problem places in the garden, and Adam Frost takes a tour of the show gardens to find the best take-home design tips.
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May 6, 2016 TG4 Ireland 5 Apr 2016 - Irish with embedded English subtitles
Crainn na hÉireann (The Trees of Ireland) is a ten part series about Irish trees and forests, presented by tree-lover Manchán Magan. It's a journey through the woods of Ireland to see some of our most spectacular trees - from the ancient yews of Florencecourt and Muckross to Ireland's tallest tree, the mighty Douglas fir of Powerscourt in Wicklow. Shot using the latest drone and stabilised camera technology, Crainn na hÉireann is a feast for the senses, the televisual equivalent of a walk in the woods. In this programme we tell the story of the Scots pine and how it died out in this country, only to make a triumphant comeback.
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May 4, 2016 Costa explores a large Queensland hillside garden with stunning ornamental and productive areas, Josh explains the importance of washing organic vegies, Jane discusses how to improve pelargonium flowering and Tino tells us how to get the best out of autumn leaves. Theres also Sophie giving the low-down on three easy soil tests for the home gardener, and John Patrick explores a small, historical garden at Melbourne University that's still used as a living laboratory by students today, and Tino shows us a clever way to trap water on sloping ground.
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May 3, 2016 okto Singapore 21 May 2014
This series will feature four core stories of real people revisiting the past, living their present, and envisioning their future. Their rich life experiences, connected in one way or another with the Singapore Botanic Gardens, have not only impacted their lives, changed their surroundings, but also touched those around them.
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April 28, 2016 The Garden Gurus presenters have an extensive background in horticulture and now they are very excited to share their knowledge with viewers through factsheets and video streaming.
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April 27, 2016 Jane visits Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance and explores four new courtyard gardens inspired by the environments in which soldiers fought, Costa meets a passionate Sydney farmer who's been growing figs and prickly pears for 40 years, and meet expert bromeliad grower and keen collector Viktor Przetocki whose garden is overflowing with thousands of these plants. Also, Sophie gives a tip on propagating your own liliums from bulbils, while Josh visits a gorgeous contemporary courtyard garden in South Fremantle and meets owner and landscaper Linda Green.
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April 23, 2016 Monty gets his new vegetable garden underway by making raised beds. He also offers advice on how to cut back herbs. Nick Bailey marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare when he investigates the fact and the fiction behind the bard's potions and poisons at the Chelsea Physic Garden, and we visit Pashley Manor in east Sussex to unearth the story behind the planting of over 25,000 tulips.
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April 23, 2016 Jerry travels to Buderim in Queensland to explore a classic cottage garden containing a number of unusual plants, Jane explains how to make your hydrangeas blue or pink, and Tino shows how to prune berries and currants to ensure a bumper crop next season. Also, John visits the refurbished Fern Gully at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne and meets the landscape architect behind the project, while Sophie gets creative and makes sculptural succulent spheres.
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April 16, 2016 Monty starts a new project, a cutting garden, and gives advice on what to grow to provide plenty of cut flowers for gorgeous summer bouquets. Visit Cumbria to meet Jack Gott, who has been passionate about that most flamboyant of flowers, the dahlia, for more than 40 years and has over a thousand plants in his garden, and James Alexander-Sinclair celebrates a harbinger of spring, the ephemeral cherry blossom, at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.
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