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October 4, 2015 RTÉ Ireland 2011
Super Garden features five up and coming garden designers who are competing to showcase their garden design talent at Dublin's 2011 Bloom Festival.
Each garden designer works on a garden and to the homeowner's brief. Mindful of their budget, the designer must design a garden with the homeowners in mind and to a level befitting the Bloom Festival. All five designers have different location and homeowner challenges to overcome on their road to Bloom.
Ep01 - Kevin McCormack is given the task of creating a garden for dental student Caroline Byrne who is from Palmerstown. Caroline really wanted a garden that she can enjoy, rather than a full-time gardening project. Is Kevin up to the task of creating the garden that Caroline is looking for?
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October 3, 2015 In the second of her films about botany, Carol Klein goes underground to unravel the mysteries of roots and why they are so important to the health of our plants. Joe Swift meets fashion icon Dame Zandra Rhodes to explore how the flowers she likes to grow have influenced her designs over the years.
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September 28, 2015 BBC One Scotland 27 September 2015
Jim McColl has been part of Scottish culture and family life for over 40 years, providing sage gardening advice on the Beechgrove Garden since the 70s. We have all seen Jim gardening on telly, but what about the man behind the trowel? Musician, friend and fellow squeezebox player Phil Cunningham takes Jim on a wee dander down the garden path of Jim's life to dig around in the passions that have shaped him as they share a few reminiscences and tunes together wrapped in some choice archive from the last 40 years. In this special programme, as Jim reaches his 80th birthday, we have the chance to examine the life and times of the horticultural broadcasting legend that is Jim McColl and find, for Jim, that every day is still a school day.
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September 28, 2015 Costa finally meets the gardener behind a plot he has admired for years - a vibrant and creative verge garden in the heart of Bondi Junction, Tino is planting a range of easily grown edible tubers; from the humble potato to an exotic sunflower and a South American yam suited to the even poorest soils, and John looks at a fantastic example of microclimates, and explains how to use them to grow a wider range of plants in your garden. Meanwhile Angus looks at the diversity of Australia's most prolific genus, the wattles, and explains why he thinks every Aussie garden should have one!
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September 26, 2015 Charge your glasses as Joe Swift visits a drinkable allotment in London where much of the produce is grown to make beer, wine and cider. And in the first of a five-part series about botany, Carol Klein looks at the capsules of potential that herald the start and end of most plants' lives - seeds.
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September 26, 2015 Arte France 27 August 2015
A behind-the-scenes tour of the Grand Gardens of Versailles with head gardener Alain Baraton.
French with embedded English subtitles.
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September 20, 2015 Jane visits a nursery specialising in espalier and shows how training plants into patterns is underpinned by simple principals that anyone can apply at home, Sophie profiles the Mexican fruit - the tomatillo, and Angus visits a nursery to show how to avoid some of the common pitfalls gardeners make when buying plants. Also, Jane takes a look at an evergreen hydrangea, and a recent holiday in Vietnam has inspired Jerry to plant some unusual herbs that will thrive in his subtropical garden, while John shows us some terrific native species that lend themselves to both formal and informal hedging.
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September 20, 2015 Charlie Albone is entering the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show in 2015. Follow his journey in this exclusive two-part special which has been filmed over 18 months.
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September 19, 2015 As autumn unfolds in the garden, Monty Don has plenty to be getting on with at Longmeadow. And in his quest to track down some of the nation's most remarkable allotments, Joe Swift visits a tropical paradise in Runcorn.
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September 14, 2015 Sophie is in Renmark in the South Australian Riverland, visiting the country's foremost citrus grower, Ian Tolley, to find out how to select, plant, prune and grow thriving backyard citrus. Josh meets Alex George, a renowned expert on the flora of WA, to explore his garden of stunning and unique native plants that he's collected throughout his long and fascinating career, and Costa has some great tips on how to keep conditions in your worm farm perfect for productive worms. Tino is planting a range of spring fruit and vegetables at The Patch, including strawberries, beans and leafy greens.
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