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May 20, 2012 19th May 2012.
Jane visits a passionate gardener who has filled her garden with palms from all over the world, and what's more remarkable is that she's done this in cool climate Melbourne. Colin plants small fruit trees in containers for easy access and low maintenance, so no matter how small a garden, fruit is still possible, and Angus checks out a Sydney house and garden designed to be energy efficient and sustainable and which makes brilliant use of local plants to reduce the energy demands of the house. Finally, John visits a spectacular Italian style villa on the Victorian coast whose formal design incorporates the production of fruit, vegetables and herbs.
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May 19, 2012 18th May 2012.
Monty Don returns to Longmeadow with inspirational ideas and plants gathered at the Malvern Spring Show. He has tips and advice for planting ferns for dry places and then turns his attention to the pond where he shares ideas on different types of water lilies and how to plant them. Carol Klein delves into the quirky world of moisture-loving ferns, discovering them in the wild and admiring their variety when she visits a restored Victorian grotto in Wales. There is also a catch-up on the novice gardeners at Didcot army barracks, as they continue to develop their cut-flower garden.
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May 17, 2012 National Trust Gardens takes you on an epic journey around the country and across the centuries to discover the most beautiful and vivid landscapes and pleasure gardens in Britain. With unprecedented access to the Trust's properties, as well as exclusive access to archives of original designs and plans, each episode tells the story of each remarkable garden and the inspired owners and designers who built them. Narrated by Penelope Keith
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May 16, 2012 Geoff Lawton presents simple solutions to complex problems -- low tech solutions you can do yourself like how to harvest rainwater and feed it to a series of cascading water features that collect your grey water and help feed productive fruit trees and animals.
This film shows how nutrient flows can be directed creatively to feed a small backyard food hedge. Those interconnections are not very apparent to many people and Geoff spells out those micro-connections that many people just do not understand.
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May 14, 2012 12th May 2012.
Costa heads down the street to help a few families get started on their very own verge garden full of vegies, herbs and Australian natives, Josh drops in on his mum to show us her stunning courtyard garden and home sanctuary that has been artfully designed for the seaside climate of Fremantle and Costa visits Sophie to take a tour of her new garden to see how it's going and find out what her plans are. Also, Tino plants some of the toughest, most productive and flavoursome winter vegies: the onions and the cabbages.
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May 12, 2012 11th May 2012.
The programme comes from the Malvern Spring show where Monty Don, Carol Klein and James Alexander Sinclair bring the very best that the show has to offer. From planting and design in the show gardens to new and exciting varieties in the floral marquee, they search out beautiful and innovative ideas to draw inspiration from.
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May 10, 2012 13 June 2009
Stephen Ryan is in his Mt Macedon garden to do some essential winter maintenance in his perennial border, to prepare for a stunning spring show. Tino Carnevale gets stuck into fruit tree pruning in The Veggie Patch, and prepares the newly planted lady finger banana for a Tasmanian winter, Jane Edmanson visits an innovative community project in Melbourne to learn how to grow exotic shiitake mushrooms at home and John Patrick visits a fire ravaged Victorian property to demonstrate how to successfully plant and care for an advanced tree.
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May 8, 2012 Watching this DVD is the fastest way to learn how to grow food in your backyard or small farm. This video will save you many years of effort and its loaded with quality information to get you up to speed as quickly as possible.
Not long ago humans fed themselves, provided for their on needs and were largely self sufficient. They knew how to feed themselves, how to take care of animals, what to plant and what to do when something went wrong. This video collection “Food Production Systems for a Backyard or Small Farm” is your guide to recapturing that lost knowledge.
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May 6, 2012 5th May 2012.
Jerry plants a range of species to attract predator insects to help keep pests under control. Costa visits a passionate recycler to find out how to turn household scraps into food for plants and soil, and Colin shows how to plant productive and colourful hanging baskets to attract pollinating insects into any space, no matter the size. Also in this episode Josh meets a carpenter who has turned his skills to building habitat and housing for a diverse range of animals and Sophie plants a dramatic and drought tolerant new entrance to her house garden.
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May 4, 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.
From the garden retreats in the Italian hillsides, to gigantic biodomes regarded as the eighth wonder of the world, to the private country gardens only we are allowed to see, each unique episode of Recreating Eden features a gardener who takes the viewer on a tour of his or her personal garden paradise.
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