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October 3, 2012 Jimmy Doherty returns with a third series of Jimmy’s Farm and for once money is coming in and the farm is making hay. Though not everything is smooth sailing as Jimmy still has his hands full with over heating pigs and fly stricken sheep, naughty sheepdog puppies and the latest moneymaking scheme, a guinea pig village. And an experiment to release 20 free-range turkeys in the woods ends in shocking results. Underneath this farming tranquillity the long-term future of the business is in doubt. Jimmy faces tough decisions about sticking with the existing farm, or buying a new property. But everything is shelved when suddenly a mystery killer disease threatens the farm. Can Jimmy save the farm one last time?
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October 1, 2012 Costa and Clarence are in Katherine to help a local pre-school build a sensory garden for the kids to explore, then visit a productive farm on the outskirts of Katherine that is growing fresh food, jobs, skills, and a future for the local community. Finally they travel to King Valley where women Elders have planted a garden to pass on knowledge and culture and strengthen their community. Meanwhile Josh visits a school in the remote Kimberley town of Looma that has integrated gardening into the canteen and the classroom.
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September 29, 2012 Monty Don is at Longmeadow, preparing for the seasons to come. He demonstrates a quick and easy way to prune shrub roses and then plants up pots that will flower in time for Christmas. Grasses look their best at the end of summer and Carol Klein visits a garden in Somerset where they have been used to maximum effect on a sloping site with a range of soil conditions. Meanwhile, Monty meets a self-sufficient vegan gardener, finding out how he grows vegetables for maximum nutrition and flavour and picks up some tips on bottling and storing surplus crops.
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September 28, 2012 Colin meets a market gardener who has joined up with the local primary school to help connect the kids with the garden and the food on their plate, Jerry visits a newly established community garden to find out how it got started and give his top tips for getting one going from scratch and Costa's meets a street of gardeners who have transformed their concrete nature strips into lush and playful gardens growing food, flowers and the community. Meanwhile Sophie enlists the help of an herb expert to plant a community of beneficial plant species throughout her productive patch and Jane visits one of Australia's oldest horticultural societies to explore their extensive display gardens and meet some members.
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September 26, 2012 June 24th 2005.
Its midsummer, a point at when there is more light than any other time of the year - its also a point to stop and enjoy the colour and the growth in the garden, something that makes all the wind, rain, mud and hard work worthwhile. In this episode Monty spends time tending to the fruit garden, Carol is pottering in the formal garden, and Joe is building a climbing structure in the viewers garden.
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September 22, 2012 Monty Don visits the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in Surrey whilst Carol Klein visits Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire as part of a special programme from the RHS grounds. At Wisley, Monty finds out how the vegetable gardens have fared over a difficult year for gardening and discovers just what the RHS gardeners have been growing, as well as top tips on growing grapes in the UK. At Harlow Carr, the northernmost garden of the RHS, Carol discovers which plants grow well in the harsher climate and along with the RHS experts, answers dilemmas from viewers in the north on which plants will thrive in exposed conditions, as well as what lawns need now to ensure a great sward in spring and advice on propagating a favourite magnolia.
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September 21, 2012 The National Parks are Britain's most treasured landscapes, but they are increasingly becoming battlefields. They were designated 60 years ago as places for everyone, but is that still the case? In this series the award-winning filmmaker Richard Macer spent a year amid conflicts in three different parks, on a journey to discover who they are really for.
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September 18, 2012 15th September 2012
Angus meets a young nurseryman whose passion for propagating and protecting native plants is restoring bushland in Sydney's West. Costa brings a bit of colour to the street by helping his neighbours plant their verge with Australian native flowers, and with the help of a bush food expert, Tino is planting vegies native to Tasmania in The Vegie Patch. Also, Josh meets a couple with a native garden and a bush block who are doing their bit to protect Australia's biodiversity in Mandurah and Jane Edmanson visits the Napoleon Exhibition at the NGV, to explore Napoleon and Josephine's extraordinary fascination with Australia and its plants.
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September 18, 2012 High up in a spectacular tree house, Jimmy Doherty develops an intimate understanding of the inner workings of a British forest.
Ep1: Spring.
Spring is in the air and Jimmy delights in exploring his wood and showing us how the forest is coming to life. He finds out how to get a drink straight from a tree, gets to grips with a woodpecker, squabbles with squirrels and makes himself roadkill badger ham. He even creates his own 'hands-on' experiments to help him reveal what blue tits and butter icing have in common...
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September 15, 2012 Julia Bradbury presents a series of walks in the footsteps of the great British fell walker and author Alfred Wainwright. Every serious fell-walker, and many a less-energetic Lake District fan, knows about the famous Wainwright Walks and the ubiquitous little handbooks with their reverent commentaries and sparse route-maps. For such folk, and many more who simply love dramatic countryside, this series encapsulates all the rugged beauty of the region and the effort needed to reach the most advantageous viewpoints, admirably transformed into something that can be enjoyed, over and over, from the comfort of an armchair.
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