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April 18, 2015 Magnolias are the showstoppers of the tree world right now; to celebrate them in all their glory, James Alexander-Sinclair visits Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex, with its collection of magnificent champion trees. Monty Don is busy at Longmeadow too, giving his borders a bit of a boost and pricking out seedlings by the hundred.
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April 14, 2015 Costa visits a roof garden in a central and picturesque Sydney location that's helping to tell people's stories and feed the wider community, Jerry checks out a hippeastrum farm to find out how new and exciting varieties of these easy-to-grow flowers are bred and propagated, and with the garlic planting season underway, Jane talks to garlic expert and author, Penny Woodward, about garlic varieties and the secret to growing great garlic. Meanwhile Josh gets stuck into some essential maintenance on bamboo, and shows how to keep succulents looking their best.
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April 11, 2015 As the weather begins to warm up, there's plenty to be getting on with in the garden. Monty Don welcomes us to Longmeadow and cracks on with some timely tasks, including planting up the wildlife pond.
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April 7, 2015 Costa helps the Gordon family build compost bays out of recycled materials, Tino shows how to prune productive trees to encourage next year's fruit, and Sophie visits an inspirational gardener who is helping hospital patients on their road to recovery by engaging all their senses in the garden. Also this week Angus busts some of the biggest myths about native plants and how to care for them, including pruning, watering and fertilising while Josh shows how to make seed bombs at home. Sophie recommends plants for creating sensory gardens.
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April 4, 2015 With the long Easter weekend ahead, the time is ripe for tackling some major projects in the garden. At Longmeadow, Monty Don breaks ground for his new pond, and Carol Klein pays Geoff and Sally Davis another visit in their Somerset garden. Their overgrown shrubs are in need of a jolly good haircut, but they haven't a clue where to begin.
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April 3, 2015 Presenter Rachel de Thame fulfils a lifelong ambition by creating a 20-metre border from scratch using planting combinations she could previously only dream about.
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March 31, 2015 Sophie unveils her new pizza oven and celebrates by planting out a new pizza herb garden and shares her favourite recipes for garden-inspired pizza, Angus shows how easy it is to divide rhizomatous perennials, and Costa visits a community garden that's turning a derelict industrial site with a rich history into a vibrant and productive hub. Also Tino has a recipe for soil improvement that will build both structure and fertility, keeping winter greens fed and thriving.
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March 28, 2015 The clocks spring forward this weekend, so it's time to get down to business in the garden. Monty plants up a new bed of asparagus and shows us how to lift and divide hostas, and on our second visit to South Africa, we explore the conditions that allow agapanthus to thrive in the wild.
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March 23, 2015 Jane visits an organic flower farmer whose passion has taken her from a backyard hobby to a burgeoning and beautiful farm, the GA Team answer some common gardening questions and Costa gets creative sprucing up recycled containers with easy and productive herbs. Meanwhile Jerry profiles the most treasured fruit trees for Australian backyards, including lemons, limes, mandarins and mulberries and shows how to propagate and grow pineapples in your garden.
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March 21, 2015 If there's one flower that's fallen foul of fashion in recent times, it's the once-popular chrysanthemum. Monty Don thinks that they're well worth revisiting and shows us how to get them off to a flying start. And if you're thinking of giving your garden a bit of a spring revamp, Joe Swift has some helpful suggestions to get things going.
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