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August 24, 2012 25th July 2009.
Jerry Coleby-Williams shows how to grow and care for citrus trees, and profiles some of the best varieties for the home garden, Leonie Norrington plants and harvests a range of leafy green vegetables from Asia that can be grown all year round in the Top End, Sophie Thomson demonstrates how to propagate roses from cuttings while Jane Edmanson demonstrates the techniques used to graft deciduous fruit trees in winter. Finally, Angus Stewart is in Canberra to visit the new International Arboretum, which is building a collection of rare, endangered and culturally significant plants from around the world.
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August 21, 2012 Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Starting with a 20 minute Permaculture Classroom, Geoff explains the patterns of a Food Forest and the essential principles of "time stacking" your garden with the right mix of support species that feed and protect your fledgling fruit trees into maturity. Then join Geoff in the field as he puts the theory into action, planting the seeds and watching the system grow. We end up at Tagari Farm -- established by Permaculture founding father, Bill Mollision -- which was abandoned years ago, but planted according to Permaculture design principles. Would this Food Foest survive on its own? You'll be surprised.
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August 19, 2012 Jerry shows Costa around his garden to talk about the ways he uses plants, John visits a street in the Melbourne suburb of Ringwood, redesigned to stop flooding, catch and clean water using native plants, and grow edible plants for the locals, and Josh visits a mate's place and shows how to collect, swap and propagate plants from cuttings. Also, Tino meets a couple near Hobart who have built their life around using plants for food, shelter and income.
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August 18, 2012 17th August 2012.
Our gardens offer so much at this time of year - after all our work earlier in the year it is now rewarding us with beds full of blooms, vegetables and berries. However, there is still plenty to be getting on with to ensure the beauty continues right through to the autumn and Monty Don has plenty of timely gardening techniques to ensure the garden stays in tip top condition throughout the summer months. Monty harvests his organic vegetables and finds out how viewers across the UK have got on with their own potato crops. He also gets to grips with his rambling rose by pruning it in the hope of getting an even better display next year. Carol Klein looks at water lilies in the wild and visits a garden to see how breeding has enabled gardeners to grow sensational varieties in any size of pond. Roses are in full abundance at a small garden in Richmond, North Yorkshire, where the owners show us how to create a superb display in a small space.
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August 16, 2012 This is a repack of previously published individual articles.
Complete 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show - 7 days+preview.
Preview.
Alan Titchmarsh, Carol Klein and James Wong take an exclusive peek at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show 2012 in this preview of the event. With show opening only hours away, they are joined by Nicki Chapman and Toby Buckland to see what gardening’s greenest fingers are exhibiting this year in the Great Pavilion and show gardens. Joe Swift reveals the inspiration behind his first ever Chelsea garden, and Diarmuid Gavin unveils his high-rise pyramid garden.
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August 15, 2012 11th August 2012.
Jane is at a heritage listed property on the outskirts of Melbourne that tells a story of the enduring legacy of Italian migration on Australia's food culture, Sophie visits a secondary school in Adelaide where students from diverse backgrounds learn English and share their experiences through gardening, and Josh Byrne meets Peter Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee, to find out how he came to be the curator of horticulture at the home of WA plants, Kings Park.
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August 13, 2012 3rd June 2005.
In this hour long program Monty takes a look at some of the effects of the exceptionally late frosts on the plants at Berryfields - especially in the formal garden, but the bulk of this episode concentrates on front gardens, and that's where Monty starts, in Berryfield's own front garden, the shrubbery, doing some planting. Joe goes out and about looking at different front gardens, and Carol spends some time in the long borders doing a little house keeping.
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August 11, 2012 10th August 2012.
As the garden reaches an abundance of growth in August, it is the pond, hedges and edges of the garden which are the focus of attention. In the pond, the growth of algae is at its height, so Monty recommends some plants which will eventually improve the quality of the water and help to prevent this unwelcome growth. He also gets going on cutting the hedges and mowing areas of the garden where the grass has been left to grow, so that the wildflowers can seed themselves ready for next year's display. Joe visits a garden on a Welsh mountainside and finds out how the owner has risen to the challenging topography, frequent torrential downpours and often waterlogged site, and made a lush, colourful and verdant garden. And at Glebe Cottage, Carol answers viewers' queries about the proliferation of slugs and snails in our gardens this year. She recommends some plants we can add to our gardens which molluscs will not be so keen to munch on.
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August 10, 2012 Chris Collins is on a mission - to search the country for gardens big and small, formal and informal, and private and public that are open to all to visit as part of the National Garden Scheme. The Scheme is a charitable event that opens over 3,500 gardens in England and Wales every year, all special and 'secret' in their own right. Every year NGS gardens across England and Wales welcome over half a million visitors. Most of the 3,500 gardens are privately owned and are only open for a short time, so joining Chris Collins on his journey is a great way to see more of these hidden gems.
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August 9, 2012 18th July 2009.
Tino Carnevale is in The Veggie Patch in Hobart's Botanic Gardens to demonstrate how to prune different types of fruit trees in winter, for a full and healthy summer crop. John Patrick visits historic Glen Harrow in Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges and discovers a significant collection of rare trees from around the world, the like of which is unique in Australia, and Angus Stewart drops in on Stephen Ryan in his own garden, where they discuss their shared passion for collecting plants, and the importance of creating gardens suitable to local climate and conditions.
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