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August 9, 2014 Monty's garden at Longmeadow is thriving in the summer sunshine and is looking more beautiful by the day. But the warm, wet weather has meant the hedges are growing like crazy and are in need of a good haircut - he has tips on how to best tackle this annual task. Carol returns to first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique in Gloucestershire where there's work to be done. There are borders to weed and plants to propagate so they have more of their favourites, for free, next year, and Rachel de Thame visits Coleton Fishacre in Devon, a beautiful seaside garden that has become a haven for all sorts of unusual plants
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August 6, 2014 Sophie visits the Desert Park in Alice Springs to see some of the plants that thrive in the continent's harsh interior, Tino gives some tips on planting and training caneberries for an abundant and easy summer harvest, and Costa looks at some plants in the Desert Park that are significant to local aboriginal people. Also, Josh shows how he keeps his plants thriving with the right nutrition while John profiles a couple of his favourite climbing plants for winter colour.
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August 2, 2014 Carol is in Hampshire with the horticulturist Roy Lancaster, appreciating the virtues of the often overlooked St John's wort. Joe is out and about and visits a very unusual allotment in Tottenham, north London, and Monty is at Longmeadow where he reveals the secrets of his success when making homemade compost.
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July 28, 2014 Costa visits Tino to have a look at the recently renovated Patch to find out how it's going, Sophie plants some of her favourite climbing, shrub and miniature bare rooted roses for colour and fragrance, and the team continue to celebrate 25 years on air as Jane introduces one of her favourite stories from the GA archives. Also, Costa and Tino talk about the do's and don'ts of repotting and caring for large fruit trees in containers and Josh visits an old friend who is working with nature to create a large productive garden that's also low on maintenance.
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July 26, 2014 Longmeadow is now under full sail but needs a gentle steer to keep it looking beautiful all summer long. In this episode, Monty cuts back his delphiniums and adds a touch of the exotic to his Jewel Garden, Carol is in Kent meeting lavender expert and breeder, Dr Simon Charlesworth, whose stunning walled garden is packed with many varieties of this beautifully scented plant, and Joe visits the founder of the Mulberry fashion label, whose Somerset garden is a design classic.
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July 25, 2014 Pt1
Monty hosts the first of two visits to the RHS Flower Show, Tatton Park in Cheshire with Carol Klein and Joe Swift. There's a carnival theme across the show ground and the team explore the show gardens, the famous flower bed displays and take a closer look at the plants and flowers in the Floral Pavilion wowing the crowds.
Pt2
Monty and the team are joined by gold medal winning Chelsea flower show designer Adam Frost to celebrate the joys of growing your own fruit and vegetables. Monty takes a look at the gardens based on the elements; earth, wind, fire and water and we meet the gardeners competing to be crowned Young Designer of the Year before the RHS judges make the big announcement.
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July 24, 2014 Jane shows how to give dahlias all the winter care they need, including lifting, dividing, storing and propagating, Jerry finds out what it takes to get a garden into the Open Gardens Australia calendar by talking to Queensland selector, Di McCrae, and John plants up some pleasing pots for both sunny and shaded areas and outlines the design ideas behind them. Also, Sophie's got all the tips to make sure sumptuous summer strawberries thrive while Tino visits a stunning garden whose owner loves flowers of all colours, shapes and sizes.
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July 20, 2014 Costa gets some ideas in Fagan Park, a large park filled with examples of many different garden styles in Sydney's northwest, Tino shows how to grow a range of perennial vegetables that will keep on giving for years to come, and Jane visits her home town of Mildura to meet a gardener whose award-winning passion for everything horticultural is reflected in her sprawling country garden. Also, Josh profiles some WA groundcovers that are both beautiful and adaptable to a wide range of conditions, while the team pay tribute to the late, great Colin Campbell by revisiting one of his favourite stories from the Gardening Australia archives.
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July 13, 2014 This week, Gardeners' World is all about pots. Monty takes a look at the use of pots and containers and revels in their versatility, practicality and potential, and shows how best to use them in the garden. Carol returns to Stroud to see how the new gardeners are progressing and helps them select the perfect plant combinations for containers on their shady patio, and meet blogger and writer Niki Preston, who reveals how gardening using containers changed her life.
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July 8, 2014 Tino visits a family of market gardeners outside Hobart who grow unusual varieties of vegies, Costa finds out about a group of local residents who came together to clean up and revegetate a historic local waterway behind Manly Beach in Sydney and Jerry shows some of his favourite old-fashioned gardening techniques, and talks about some plants that have stood the test of time. Also, Sophie meets a local gardener who grows plants for material for weaving, furniture, fences and baskets while Josh visits fellow eco-friendly gardener, Chris Ferreira, to explore his 50s house and garden that is retrofitted for sustainable living.
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