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March 17, 2015 In this hour long episode, Joe Swift prepares his allotment for when he is on holiday, and ethnobotanist James Wong demonstrates garden plants that are endangered in the wild. Sweet peas are scrutinised by the RHS at Wisley, while society members at Harlow Carr and Rosemoor advise on looking after tomatoes. Plus, Carol Klein shows off some of her favourite plants at Berryfields.
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March 17, 2015 Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc, together with Kate Humble, has been given the unique opportunity to spend a year at the most famous botanical gardens at Kew to re-establish the long-lost kitchen gardens that once provided produce for the royal table from George II to Queen Victoria.
Ep01 - Spring
It's spring at Kew and after a long, dark winter, nature is coming back to life. Raymond learns about the infamous rhubarb triangle before harvesting his own at Kew to make his sublime version of rhubarb and custard! What better to compliment this dessert than the exotic spice vanilla? Kate finds out how a 12-year-old slave enabled vanilla to become the world's most popular flavour. Nothing heralds the arrival of spring more than the first fresh asparagus, and Raymond plants some crowns at Kew. Domestic historian Ruth Goodman shows Kate an old Roman asparagus recipe and Raymond makes a light spring dish - grilled asparagus tips. And as the season draws to a close, Kate takes a ride on the Watercress Line where she hears the rags-to-riches story of Eliza James, the Covent Garden 'watercress queen'. Back at Kew, Raymond and Kate sample some micro watercress to use as a garnish for Raymond's delicious pea risotto.
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March 15, 2015 Sophie drops in on an old friend, renowned garden designer Steve Hailstone, to explore his beautiful garden and find out about the philosophy behind it, Jerry shares one of his grandmother's companion planting tips that keep Cabbage White Butterflies and Moths at bay, and Costa drops in on the Gordons to help them find out if their soil is safe for growing vegetables and feeding the family, and looks at ways to improve it. Also, Tino shows how to build a simple and attractive pathway that will also build up your soil.
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March 14, 2015 Hellebores, the jewels of the early spring border, come under the spotlight on this show - Monty shares his top tips on how to get the best from them. Carol visits a couple who have just moved into a bungalow with a badly neglected garden. With her help over the coming year, they're hoping to create the garden of their dreams.
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March 8, 2015 Costa meets a family who is transforming their typical suburban backyard into a productive oasis over the following year, starting off with some vegie beds. Tino is back in The Patch, planting out a bevy of winter veg that's easy to grow and highly productive, no matter how cold it gets, and Josh shows some pruning techniques to encourage flowering. Also, Jane pays a visit to former Gardener of the Year, Steven Wells, to explore his small home garden that's bursting with ideas and creativity, and Jerry shares a tip on how to organically eradicate snails and slugs from the garden.
Job for the weekend! Sophie demonstrates how to divide chives and replant them to ensure a bumper crop next spring.
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March 7, 2015 With spring just around the corner, Gardeners' World is back for a new series. As usual, Monty will be at Longmeadow sharing a wealth of tips and ideas on how to keep your garden looking good all year long. In this episode, he tackles some urgent pruning and reveals some of the projects he's got in store over the coming months. This year, Carol Klein will be visiting some of the nation's greatest gardens to find out why their beautiful borders work so well. Her tour starts at RHS Wisley in Surrey where she takes a closer look at their glorious winter garden. Joe Swift has the first of his three design masterclasses on how to make the most of a small town garden. And we travel to the Cape in South Africa to learn more about the geraniums we love to grow in our pots and hanging baskets.
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February 22, 2015 Countdown.
On 20 May 2014 the horticultural highlight of the year opened with the 101st Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show. As last minute preparations were being made by Britain's best growers and green-fingered designers, the team behind the BBC's coverage was able to show exclusive access from the showground, and to witness the highs and lows of preparing for this national celebration of British gardening.
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February 15, 2015 How to transform a steeply sloping site into an attractive garden. Former Dad's Army star Bill Pertwee spots the prettiest station gardens on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.
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February 10, 2015 A visit to Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset which is a shining example of the partnership between architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll
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January 21, 2015 For billions of years our planet was devoid of life, but something transformed it into a vibrant, living planet. That something was soil. It's a much-misunderstood substance, often dismissed as 'dirt', something to be avoided. Yet the crops we eat, the animals we rely on, the very oxygen we breathe, all depend on the existence of the plant life that bursts from the soil every year.
In this film, gardening expert Chris Beardshaw explores where soil comes from, what it's made of and what makes it so essential to life. Using specialist micro-photography, he reveals it as we've never seen it before - an intricate microscopic landscape, teeming with strange and wonderful life-forms.
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