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September 15, 2012 The last days of summer are when gardeners start planning for spring colour and Monty Don is at Longmeadow with recommendations for which bulbs to choose and plant. In Devon, Carol Klein demonstrates how to propagate favourite plants during a house move. From taking cuttings to saving seeds, she shows how to make a new garden feel like home. Joe Swift visits Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset to take a close look at how design and colour can evoke mood in a garden.
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September 11, 2012 August 1st 2009.
John Patrick checks in on his community veggie plot after a month away and plants winter staples potato, parsnip and radish. Jerry Coleby-Williams explains the common safety issues in the garden, and shows some simple ways to avoid the hidden dangers and Stephen Ryan shows how to prune an ornamental grape in winter to encourage dense summer shade. Also, Angus Stewart explores the popular family of plants, the legumes, and explains why they are so easy to grow and how they can be used in the garden while Josh Byrne visits a spectacular sustainable garden in Perth designed to thrive in the harsh coastal climate, and lends a hand planting some advanced trees on the rooftop.
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September 10, 2012 Visually lush, richly informative, Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn serves up a veritable treatise on our most illustrious gardens and cultivated environs.
Each episode sets forth a different garden theme – informed by broader concepts of aesthetic, historical or environmental importance, from masterful archetypes of the Italian Renaissance and 17th Century France, in Formal Gardens, to the world’s first great story of urban renewal, “The Greening of Paris,” in Public Gardens & Trees.
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September 10, 2012 For many gardeners, the beginning of September is the start of a new gardening season and, with this in mind, Monty Don recommends vegetables to sow now for winter cropping. He also plants out the rose cuttings he took last year and takes more from another of his favourite roses. Carol Klein takes a look at one of our most common wild plants, the daisy, and finds out from nurseryman Graham Gough how bereft of colour our September gardens would be without the bright colours of late-flowering daisies. In a sheltered valley in west Cornwall a new garden is taking shape with exotic plants and contemporary art installations at the heart of its design. James Alexander-Sinclair finds out more and gives his view on this new destination for garden visitors. And back at Longmeadow, Monty shows how to propagate ferns from the thousands of tiny spores they produce.
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September 6, 2012 10th June 2005.
Monty and the crew spend a large proportion of this hour long Gardeners' World tending to the ponds, bog and meadow areas. He spends time planting marginals around the bare side of the pond while Carol undertakes some 'wave' planting in the long borders. Sarah is in the cottage garden, looking particularly at lupins, and Joe uses his time to maintain and improve the formal pond.
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September 5, 2012 Griff Rhys Jones sets out upon an epic adventure to uncover the lost routes of Britain.
Britain was once a difficult country to cross, with roads few and paths obscure. Yet for faith, fortune, pleasure and necessity our ancestors travelled from one end of the country to the other along a vast network of routes spread throughout the nation. In a bid to uncover the forgotten pathways that shaped Britain, Griff re-traces the routes these people took, the experiences they encountered along the way, the people they met and the methods of travel they used.
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September 4, 2012 Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi.
Visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans go on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi. The oldest and largest living organisms recorded on Earth are both fungi, and their use by a new, maverick breed of scientists and thinkers has proven vital in the cleansing of sites despoiled by toxins and as a "clean" pesticide, among many other environmentally friendly applications. Combines material filmed at the Telluride Mushroom Fest with animation and archival footage, along with a no-psychedelic soundtrack by The Flaming Lips.
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September 2, 2012 By the end of August, some perennial plants will be setting seed and, for gardeners on a budget, this is the time to collect, store and sow them to stock gardens for free. Monty demystifies the process by showing which seeds to sow now, which to save for later and which ones respond better to a bit of time spent in the fridge. Carol extols the virtues of the cow parsley family and shows how versatile and hardy this plant's relatives can be when she meets a gardener who uses many different varieties in his Surrey garden.Gardener Geoff Hoyle gave up growing vegetables in favour of flowers and became so obsessed with dahlias that he now fills his small back garden with hundreds of bright and colourful varieties Also, Monty responds to the many viewers who have written in to the programme about their box plants which are, like his, showing symptoms of blight.
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August 26, 2012 25th August 2012.
Jane visits a gardener who has great success with all manner of fruit and vegies in a small plot, save for one - potatoes. Jane gives her some tips to help. Tino's in his own garden planting a range of ornamental and fruiting plants using espaliering and plaiting techniques to achieve different effects and John Patrick demonstrates how to propagate perennials from cuttings to create bold and beautiful plantings.
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August 25, 2012 24th August 2012.
Monty Don shows how to plan late summer colour in the flowerbed, shares viewers' tips on how to overcome the onslaught of slugs and snails, and demonstrates how to successfully re-seed bare patches in the lawn. Carol Klein is in Yorkshire in search of the harebell, one of her favourite wild flowers. She also visits an historic garden to appreciate the harebell's cultivated cousin, the campanula. And Rachel de Thame celebrates the success of her project with a group of army wives at a Didcot military base, as they harvest the blooms from their cut flower garden.
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