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July 14, 2015 As the summer gathers pace and the weather starts to warm up, drought-tolerant plants really hit their stride. Monty Don shares some of his favourites from Longmeadow, and garden designer Adam Frost shows us how to build a gravel garden from scratch.
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July 9, 2015 In Britain there are around 16 million sheds. It is an astonishing number. Recent research has revealed that Britain is a nation of shed fanatics, with 65% of adults owning a shed and the average shed owner spending over a year of their life in their prized shelter. As the competition to find Britain's best shed continues, the designs are proving to be a mix of ingenious and eccentric, with a host of elective uses. In this 3 part series George Clarke discovers what's really happening in the Great British shed and uncovers a world of glorious eccentricity when he presides over 2014's Shed of the Year competition.
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July 8, 2015 Costa visits a vibrant and colourful garden that's bringing people together from all walks of life to grow vegetables, teach kids and inspire creativity, Sophie visits a stunning country garden bursting with colour despite experiencing searing heat in summer and hard frost in winter, and Jane profiles an old fashioned plant making a comeback - the Aster. Also, Jerry plants out crops that are perfectly suited to the subtropical winter, including watercress, chervil and climbing beans while John explores the basic elements of formal garden design.
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July 4, 2015 Plants that have a head for heights come under the spotlight this week. At Craigieburn Garden in the Scottish Borders, Gardeners' World discovers a unique collection of Himalayan plants and visits a nurseryman in Hebden Bridge who has been growing alpines since he was a teenager.
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June 30, 2015 Monty Don, Rachel de Thame and Joe Swift preview the 25th Royal Horticultural Society's Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which this year is celebrating its silver anniversary. In the first of four programmes, Monty Don and Joe Swift look back to the show's beginnings back in 1990 and talk to the exhibitors who have been at the show since the start. Rachel de Thame talks to the Historic Rose Group, and chief curator of the Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley explores Hampton's famous maze.
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June 28, 2015 Costa visits green wall and roof garden expert Mark Paul's home to find a cleverly constructed garden bursting with ideas for growing plants in unlikely spots. Sophie enlists the help of an insect expert to find out how most creepy crawlies are welcome garden allies rather than something to be feared, and Tino shows what to do with fireplace ash and charcoal.
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June 27, 2015 This edition of the programme is bursting with colour and packed with information. At Longmeadow, Monty Don celebrates the arrival of summer by making a start on his new scented border and offers a few suggestions for what to be getting on with for the weekend ahead.
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June 25, 2015 Diarmuid Gavin and Helen Dillon visit three very different secret hideaways around a particular part of Northern Ireland.In this episode, Diarmuid and Helen are in Counties Down and Antrim. They cast their expert eyes over a stunning compartmentalised paradise behind a Georgian terrace house in Hillsborough, a reclaimed quarry in Carrowdore and an ambitious river landscape in the shadow of a stunning modern house in rural Antrim. Which will Diarmuid and Helen like the best?
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June 25, 2015 Alan Titchmarsh and his team return for fifth series of the makeover show in which they transform unloved spaces into dream gardens for some very special people. In the first episode, Alan and the gang travel to Walsall, where they plan to surprise a young widow.
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June 23, 2015 Bees are dying in their millions. It is an ecological crisis that threatens to bring global agriculture to a standstill. Introduced by Martha Kearney, this documentary explores the reasons behind the decline of bee colonies across the globe, investigating what might be at the root of this devastation.
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