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December 12, 2013 October 31st 2009.
John Patrick plants out the heirloom vegetables he has raised from seed including red marbled onion, lettuce, perpetual spinach and Asian Greens, and harvests a crop of leeks. Josh Byrne visits a park built on a reclaimed quarry and tip site, which has been designed and constructed using sustainable resources and native species while Stephen Ryan plants tomato varieties in his cool climate garden. Also, Jane Edmanson explains how to train a climbing plant, to get the best cover and lots of flowers and Colin Campbell meets a bonsai expert to find out about the different styles of bonsai, and how it’s done.
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December 10, 2013 Monty Don is on the campaign trail for wild flowers. 98% of wild flower meadows have been lost since the first part of the twentieth century, a shocking statistic which he believes all gardeners can do something about. On his revival he tries his hand at making hay the old fashioned way in a coronation meadow, visits the largest biodiversity hotspot in the world - Kew's Millennium Seed Bank and shows how to grow wild flowers, even without a garden. Meanwhile, Joe Swift is determined to return the nation's front gardens to their former glory. He bases his campaign at the award-winning Rockcliffe Avenue in Whitley Bay and shares his tips on how to transform front gardens in a few simple steps. He also discovers that greener streets reduce pollution and hits the road to get the message across in his Great British Plant Giveaway.
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December 7, 2013 October 24th 2009.
Tino Carnevale prepares garden beds and plants 'Pink Eye' potatoes and root crops including carrots, parsnips and radishes. Stephen Ryan updates The Veggie Guide, a comprehensive outline of what to plant in the veggie garden, right around the country and Jerry Coleby-Williams explains the science behind soil, how it affects the plants we grow and what to do to improve it. Also, Angus Stewart looks at the amazing range of species in the daisy family and explains why they are some of our best loved plants as well as some of our worst weeds, while Jane Edmanson visits a development in the central Victorian town of Castlemaine that was designed and planted with local plants, to blend into the surrounding landscape.
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November 24, 2013 Tino shows how he uses onsite materials to help make his steep slope more accessible, as well as improve his soil, Jane visits the home garden of Phillip Johnson, which inspired the design that won Chelsea's Best in Show award earlier this year and Josh reflects on the construction of his new house and gets stuck into some summer garden preparation. Also Tino talks about selecting the right climber for the right job by looking at some examples while Sophie presents the coveted golden spade to the 2013 Gardener of the Year, and explores her winning garden.
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November 19, 2013 In Gardening Australia's final special for 2013, it visits some of the country's most spectacular, yet threatened landscapes, and look at the work being done to ensure their future. Jerry meets ecologist Professor David Lindenmayer to find out how the way we use land for food production affects biodiversity and natural ecosystems, Costa is on Montague Island off the south coast of NSW to see one of the biggest issues facing our native plants and animals - introduced weeds and Jane is in northwest Victoria to find out about the state's largest private conservation property, Neds Corner, and meets the current managers working to repair it. Also Josh is in southwest WA exploring a large scale re-vegetation project that aims to secure the future of the region's significant plants and animals.
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November 16, 2013 Season finale.
Monty starts to prepare the flowering borders in the Jewel Garden for winter and makes a big garden bonfire, Carol celebrates berry-laden hedgerows and shows how to grow them into new trees and Rachel brings memories of Noel Coward and of the summer just passed when she visits Julian Clary in his garden. Also Monty puts up bird boxes around the garden in the hope that robins and wrens will seek them out over the winter and that they will be nesting in them next spring.
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November 11, 2013 Tino shares some tips on successful seed propagation, including sowing techniques and making homemade seed raising mixes. Sophie catches up with an old friend who shows her how he has set up his garden for low maintenance and maximum effect, and Costa visits a garden whose owners have turned their backyard swimming pool into a freshwater oasis for plants and animals while Jerry shows how to make self-watering pots out of cheap and easy to source materials.
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November 11, 2013 Costa talks backyard tree selection and maintenance with a renowned arborist, Tino shows how to overcome zucchini problems and how to grow an unusual variety of perennial onion and Josh visits a retired couple who are actively involved in Kings Park volunteer groups as well as their own thriving native garden. Also, Sophie demonstrates how to tackle annual and perennial weeds efficiently and effectively and Tino shows how to maintain and divide raspberry canes for a bumper crop.
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November 11, 2013 Tino shows how to keep productive crops protected from common animal pests, Jerry demonstrates an interesting propagation technique on a giant of the fern family and Sophie visits a garden devoted to camellia species, run by a band of volunteers. Jerry visits a veterinarian and gardener to learn about poisonous plants and their toxicity to animals while Jane visits a native orchid grower to learn more about this special group of Australian plants and how to grow them.
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November 9, 2013 There's plenty to do to prepare for the season to come. Monty is clearing out spent crops and mulching his asparagus while Joe's been to visit keen gardeners, Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway, to see how they combine sustainability with their designer-style. Carol's exploring the history of the rose at Coughton Court, one of our best rose gardens and Monty plants a new rose of his own. What happens when you have to downsize and leave your much-loved garden? We catch-up with an Aberdeen couple, to see how they're making sure that some of their favourite plants can travel with them to their new life.
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