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July 24, 2012 It is show time in Cheshire - as the RHS hosts its annual flower show from Tatton Park. Presenters Monty Don, Carol Klein and Joe Swift soak up the celebrations by looking at the northern show gardens causing a stir, including the ever-popular back-to-back garden category. Monty talks to nursery folk and designers before the show opens to get an insider view of this year's best exhibits. And after a marathon year in which he has designed a garden at each of the RHS shows, Chris Beardshaw unveils his latest creation.
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July 21, 2012 20th July 2012.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don reveals how the garden has changed over the last four weeks and gets to grips with a variety of jobs in the walled garden. Carol Klein celebrates the hardy geranium and visits East Lambrook Manor, a beautiful garden that is host to a stunning array of this cottage garden stalwart. Rachel de Thame returns to the army barracks in Didcot where the community garden she's helping to create is beginning to bloom.
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July 19, 2012 Ever wondered what the country’s top garden designers get up to in their own backyard? This series takes a peek over the garden fence to find out what happens when the professional gardeners get home. Each week two famous gardeners and designers reveal the secrets and inspirations behind their own gardens.
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July 16, 2012 14th July 2012.
Costa helps a local school make productive use of small sunny space by helping to install an aquaponics system, Tino shows us how to select nursery stock that will perform best in the garden and Sophie meets Tori Moreton who started an inspiring project for new gardeners to grow their own vegies. Also in this episode Costa lists the requirements for getting a verge garden started and Josh builds a multi-purpose gabion rock seat in the garden, while John meets a gardener with a passion for salvias, one of the easiest colourful plants to grow in the garden.
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July 14, 2012 Julia Bradbury has her backpack on to explore the great outdoors. Julia's walks follow the old tracks, overgrown cuttings and ancient viaducts of Britain's lost rail empire, visiting disused lines across England, Scotland and Wales. Through stunning landscapes and urban backstreets, each contrasting walk has a unique story to tell, offering Julia a window into industrial Britain and how the rise and fall of the railways has altered lives and localities across the country.
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July 14, 2012 Recreating Eden is an award winning international lifestyle/documentary series that travels around the world to feature some of the world’s greatest private and public gardens and reveal the fascinating stories behind the gardeners who created them.
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July 10, 2012 4th July 2009.
Sophie Thomson explains what to look for when choosing bare rooted plants, and shows how to plant them, Josh Byrne shows how to repair and maintain the most common garden tools to get the best out of them, and Angus Stewart visits Canberra to explore the Australian National Botanic Gardens, which has an extraordinary range of plants from all around the country, and one of the largest collections of native seed in Australia.
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July 10, 2012 Recreating Eden is an award winning international lifestyle/documentary series that travels around the world to feature some of the world’s greatest private and public gardens and reveal the fascinating stories behind the gardeners who created them.
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July 10, 2012 This week Monty and Joe present the Malvern Show from the Three Counties Showground, the first big gardening event of the year. Started 20 years ago it now attracts over one hundred thousand visitors annually. Monty takes to the floral marque to find out the latest trends and newest plants, while Joe meets the garden designers of the future and finds out what it takes to make an award winning show garden. Back at Berryfields Carol and Sarah extend the spring garden by adding some late colour.
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July 9, 2012 Hugh Dennis and Julia Bradbury's adventures in four stunning British landscapes. No matter where we are, the rocky upheavals of Britain's epic past are still with us, and still drive how we live. Hugh and Julia are a pair well met. Hugh's been obsessed by the shape of the landscape, and how it formed, since he was a child - and he went onto study it as part of his Cambridge degree, and Julia's loved walking the British countryside since she could toddle.
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