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March 4, 2016 Seasoned stomper Julia Bradbury dons her walking boots once again and this time she is exploring her own British backyard, travelling along the country's network of canals and their accompanying tow-path trails. This sees her navigating Highland glens, rolling countryside and river valleys, as well as our industrial heartlands, following these magical waterways as they cut a sedate path through some of the country's finest scenery.
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March 3, 2016 Steve Taylor and Bettina Waller embark on a journey that scales this great land of Australia to discover what is Australia's best garden. They visit cosmopolitan Melbourne to reveal a stunning garden makeover, which will show viewers that a small space doesn’t mean you have to skimp on style. Steve will also show viewers how three simple steps will help you to design your own garden.
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March 2, 2016 BBC Two 7 Jan 2009
Dick Strawbridge and son James team up with Lauren Laverne to find out more about living the green life. Eco guest Phil Tufnell proves he is about as green as a fire engine, Dick gets to grips with his photovoltaic panels, and Lauren makes a splash with an eco-friendly swimming pool.
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March 1, 2016 Great Dixter lays claim to being the most innovative, spectacular and provocative garden of the 20th century. Made famous by the much-loved eccentric plantsman and writer Christopher Lloyd, who used the garden as a living laboratory and documented his experiments in a weekly column in Country Life, Great Dixter began life as a Gertrude Jeykll-inspired Arts and Crafts garden surrounding a house designed by Edwin Lutyens. The Lloyd family created Dixter just before the outbreak of the First World War with the intention of establishing a rural idyll for Christo and his five siblings. Dixter was to be both Christo's horticultural nursery and the setting for his rebellion in late middle age as he finally threw off the shackles of his intense bond with his mother to make the garden and his life his own.
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February 29, 2016 In celebration of his 50 years as an horticulturist, Alan Titchmarsh has spent the past 12 months appealing to the public to nominate their gardens, and he has now chosen his 30 favourites. In this series, they are divided into three categories and he visits each, discovering people from all walks of life doing remarkable things with their outdoor spaces. The first programme reveals his top 10 challenging plots, created despite restrictions in size, location or circumstances, including the tiniest pub garden.
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February 29, 2016 What makes plants grow is a simple enough question. The answer turns out to be one of the most complicated and fascinating stories in science and took over 300 years to unravel.
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February 29, 2016 Breathing new life into well-trodden territory, Bloom is a visually bombarding exploration of the love affair gardeners have with their blooms. Featuring characters as fragrant as their flowers, Bloom presents some committed and eccentric gardeners. Tackling a different family of flowers in each episode, presenters Anne Swithinbank and Bill Chudziak visit gardens, allotments, wild meadows and nurseries in search of top tips from the experts.
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February 29, 2016 Breathing new life into well-trodden territory, Bloom is a visually bombarding exploration of the love affair gardeners have with their blooms. Featuring characters as fragrant as their flowers, Bloom presents some committed and eccentric gardeners. Tackling a different family of flowers in each episode, presenters Anne Swithinbank and Bill Chudziak visit gardens, allotments, wild meadows and nurseries in search of top tips from the experts.
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February 28, 2016 Did you know the Grampian Mountains were once taller than Everest and Devon was once a burning hot desert? Lions and rhinos once roamed the banks of the Thames? And the world's purest gold is produced in Wales?
Join Tony Robinson as he travels around Britain's spectacular primal landscapes to investigate just how the land came to be the place we live in today, finds evidence of lava blasts in the heart of Edinburgh, learns the origins of our very own bling at Britain's only working gold mine and investigates evidence of Britain's deep freezes that left the land locked under ice sheets over a mile thick.
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February 27, 2016 Writer, broadcaster and gardener Sarah Raven is on a mission to halt the rapid decline in Britain's essential bees, butterflies and pollinating insects by bringing flower power to towns, cities and the countryside. The world's bees and other pollinating insects are in crisis. It is a complex problem that scientists the world over are trying to fathom, but the prognosis is grim - without healthy populations of insect pollinators across the world, our future food security is under threat. She takes her mission out into the Great British countryside to encourage farmers and village communities to help recreate a network of crucial habitats for struggling bees, butterflies and pollinating insects.
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