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March 21, 2013 Costa meets a retired teacher collecting food waste bound for landfill and redistributing it to local gardeners who put it to use in their gardens and then visits an inner city garden packed full of productive plants where food waste is used to fuel the compost, chickens and abundant garden growth. Sophie's teaching her kids about growing plants from seed in fun and interesting ways, and Jane explores a garden in regional Victoria created with experimentation and creativit.
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March 20, 2013 Rachel de Thame studies the history of the classic country garden, examining the adaptations needed if they are to survive climate change. As She plans a contemporary version for her own Cotswold home, the presenter journeys around the country to find the best examples of the quintessentialy English horticultural design.
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March 20, 2013 26th September 2009.
Tino Carnevale is busy preparing for spring in The Veggie Patch, and planting crops including asparagus from crowns and seed, and two varieties of beetroot. Stephen shows the secret ingredient to add to potted conifers to ensure successful propagation and Leonie meets a champion grower of tropical orchids in Darwin. Her collection, which was started after the devastation of Cyclone Tracy, grew quickly into an obsession and now fills every available space in her back yard. Also, Josh Byrne shows a multi bed vegetable and poultry system and explains how it works and how it can be adapted to any back yard and Angus Stewart visits 'Everglades' in the Blue Mountains, a stunning garden of 5 hectares, which successfully juxtaposes a formal garden full of European plants with the beauty of the nearby National Park.
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March 19, 2013 29th July 2005.
Carol Klein hunts down a selection of sweet-smelling plants, and discusses which are the best combinations to use for a fragrant garden. She discovers the ideal conditions for flowers to release their scent into the air, and learns how perfume-makers bottle their essence.
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March 17, 2013 20th November 2010.
Carol Klein invites us into her garden to unearth the science beneath the muck and magic of gardening. She asks the questions to which many gardeners want answers: Why don't my seeds germinate? How does compost work? What is photosynthesis and why is it important? What happens when we prune a plant? How do insects see flowers? And how can I work out which plants should go where in my garden?
Carol shows that by understanding the science behind gardening, we can all become better gardeners and grow more beautiful and more bountiful gardens.
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March 16, 2013 March 15th 2013.
Monty Don revels in his passion for roses as he sets about planting some bare root varieties in the Jewel Garden at Longmeadow in readiness for a colourful spring and summer. Continuing the rose theme, there is an inspirational visit to the magnificent formal rose garden of Hever Castle in Kent, home to a breathtaking collection of hybrid teas. carol Klein is in her Devon garden at Glebe Cottage, where she is delighting in the seasonal scent of her mahonias, while Joe Swift continues his planting design series by sharing ideas and top tips on the different types of plants to choose when creating a contemporary garden.
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March 14, 2013 October 21st 2005.
Its well into October and now's the time to start your garlic planting, while Sarah has bulbs of a different variety - lilies. Joe and Monty start to establish a new conifer garden.
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March 10, 2013 Britain has a unique heritage of wild flowers and yet many have been lost or are under threat as our woodlands and natural meadows shrink to all time lows. The repercussion means a constant threat to many species of wildlife. So can we stop the decline? Presenter Sarah Raven, daughter of acclaimed British botanist John Raven, believes that we can. She embarks on a journey to persuade us all to play our part in preserving our botanical heritage - by creating a river of wild flowers that link the current number of protected meadows and woodlands - thus ensuring the wildlife that thrives in these habitats have a chance to survive.
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March 9, 2013 March 8th 2013.
The first signs of spring herald the start of the new gardening year and the start of a new series of Gardeners' World. Monty Don reveals the changes he has made to his garden over the winter, tackles timely pruning tasks and shows the best way to lay a new path. Snowdrops are lighting up the winter garden and Carol Klein is out and about in Oxfordshire celebrating their staggering diversity and the length to which some gardeners will go in order to get their hands on the latest varieties. Rachel de Thame visits Cambridge Botanic Garden, which has one of the country's most celebrated winter gardens, to find inspiring plants and planting combinations that not only look fabulous now but that can also provide year round interest. Joe Swift has a simple planting design for a cottage garden.
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March 6, 2013 October 14th 2005.
Monty harvests the pumpkins and gives advice on how to store them, and also reveals the results of the public pumpkin trials. Joe field tests a range of wheel barrows while Carol plants some alpine bulbs and shows how to take some root cuttings.
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