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November 28, 2012 Luxuriate in the splendour of the Edwardian age with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he sets out on his mission to revive the best traditions of this opulent era and conjures up all the extravagance of the age.
Hugh demonstrates how to create some of the treats of the time including the joy of roses and lavender in the bath and linen cupboard; exotic fruits and entire flowers suspended in quivering champagne jellies; the taste of home-made pistachio ice cream and sweets; 'noisy' rhubarb and beauty remedies made from household ingredients.
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November 25, 2012 A presentation by the Gardening Australia team.
As evergreen gardener Peter Cundall tells us in the introduction to each show: "Being waterwise in the garden...it's the way of the future for Australian gardeners".
With our long periods of drought and water restrictions around the country many people think that creating and maintaining a beautiful garden while being waterwise is too hard. Water is too precious to waste, and we've all had to change the way we use water in the garden. But in fact, the garden is an easy place to be waterwise - it just requires the right information and advice.
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November 25, 2012 24th November 2012.
Sophie picks and plants some spectacular performers for the dry South Australian summer conditions, Angus demonstrates how to prepare plants to survive summer, and Costa hits the streets of Sydney to find out about the cooling effects of plants and trees. Also, Jerry shows us how he plants, prunes and protects his garden for the subtropical heat.
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November 20, 2012 3 episodes of Garden Invaders from 2004.
Garden Invaders is an exciting horticultural game show where a family must answer quiz questions correctly to earn each step of a garden makeover - against the clock. The more questions they get right, the more plants they earn for their new garden makeover. Meanwhile, the Invaders team, made up of some of your favourite TV gardeners, are in a race against time with only 12 hours to complete the makeover. The pressure is on.
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November 18, 2012 Tino meets a gardener growing rare and unusual plants from Tasmania's wilderness in her garden on Mount Wellington, Costa helps his neighbours plant a mini citrus orchard on their verge and Sophie explores a Japanese garden in Adelaide to see how it's designed to evoke the landscape of another place. Also in this episode, John Patrick explains the design principles that can be used to tackle a sloping site.
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November 16, 2012 12th August 2005. Britain's Gardening Heroes.
Monty Don looks back over the last 50 years to celebrate the work of some of the most passionate plantsmen, botanists, gardeners and writers who have influenced the way we garden today.
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November 12, 2012 Season Finale.
In the last programme of the year's series, Monty Don has plenty of advice on the jobs to do now and over the winter in the garden. He also reviews some of the plants which have thrived and those which have not during the extraordinary summer of 2012. On Walney Island in Cumbria, Carol Klein explores the diversity of wild plants which thrive in its maritime climate and discovers a very special hardy geranium which grows nowhere else in the world. Rachel de Thame travels to Swansea to meet passionate gardener Andrea Gordon, who, despite being blind from birth, has a garden overflowing with plants. And Joe Swift meets 92-year-old Walter Partridge, who not only produces an abundance of vegetables on his immaculate allotment in Grantham but is also the bee-keeper for the site.
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November 12, 2012 10th November 2012.
Jane visits the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre in Melbourne to meet a gardener who has created stunning sensory gardens for patients, staff and visitors to the Centre, Sophie visits a spectacular Australian plant garden about two hours from Adelaide that was cleverly designed and built to thrive in the local conditions and Tino meets a gardener who has styled her block in rural Victoria after the Mediterranean landscape she and her husband love and shares it with people from diverse backgrounds and abilities.
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November 10, 2012 Episodes 1-5
Hugh reveals his theory that three-ingredient dishes are ideal for simple but delicious cooking... and tests it by competing against other chefs.
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November 4, 2012 November 3rd, 2012.
John visits an inner city garden perched high above the streets of Melbourne, Costa meets a passionate gardener who's created her own sanctuary in the Western suburbs of Sydney and Sophie plants an area in her garden with frivolous pretties where she will be able to relax and take in the view. Also, Jane visits an aged care facility in Melbourne to meet a gardener who has created garden areas that are places for rejuvenation and reflection for the residents.
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