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September 8, 2011 Air Date: Friday 18th August 2006.
Joe Swift goes on a journey looking at our relationship with public parks, finding out about these great Victorian creations and what they inspired around the world, including a visit to one of the world's most famous urban green spaces, Central Park. He discovers who is looking after and looking out for our parks as they struggle to recover from serious decline. He also meets the next generation of park apprentices and our most famous former parks apprentice of all, Alan Titchmarsh.
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September 4, 2011 Stephen Ryan drops in on a passionate gardener with a singular obsession - wattles. Jane Edmanson visits a young family to find out how they created their beautiful and productive garden in the middle of the desert, and Josh Byrne shows how to builds a homemade hot house to raise seed.
Also this week, Jerry Coleby-Williams shows how to control weeds organically and Josh Byrne plants fast growing spring crops lettuce and Asian greens while John Patrick visits the RBG Melbourne to see Guilfoyle's Volcano, a spectacular new project that has restored an original part of the garden, hidden from view for nearly a century.
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September 3, 2011 Monty Don shows what to do now to maximise next year's soft fruit crop by pruning his summer raspberries and planting on the strawberry runners he potted up a few weeks ago. As Monty harvests September's abundance in the vegetable garden he makes notes of the tastiest varieties he has grown this year which he would grow again next year, as well as sowing some quick growing crops to harvest in the autumn. At Glebe Cottage, some of the mainstays of the late summer garden are from South Africa and Carol Klein is propagating them by sowing agapanthus seeds and demonstrating an unusual method of increasing eucomis.
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September 1, 2011 The cottage garden is a form that became popular just over a century ago predominantly in the British Isles, and is gaining an increasing following in Australia. The video covers all aspects of growing a cottage garden eg, standard roses, a grassy path, foxgloves, an archway, candytuff, columbines, lupins and St Johns wort. Its a practical guide to growing your own cottage garden consisting of selected segments taken from the ABC flagship gardening programme "Gardening Australia". The Gardening Australia team, led by Peter Cundall and including Mary Moody, Malcolm Campbell, Jane Edmanson, Colin Campbell and Neville Passmore, demonstrates planting techniques and design ideas that will show you how to plan, plant and maintain a cottage garden.
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September 1, 2011 Air Date: Friday 11th August 2006.
Healing Plants.
Sarah Raven goes on a journey to discover the healing properties of a range of plants, from exotic species to common weeds. She shows how easy it is to grow a 'living first aid kit', and make a variety of therapeutic remedies. Visiting different locations, she discovers many ways in which plants are used and learns why folklore is such a valuable source of information. She unravels the history of how plants have been used medicinally through the ages and sees how they may help in the future.
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August 31, 2011 This is a repack of previously posted individual episodes.
Alan Titchmarsh presents a brand new series, which shows viewers how to get the most from their gardens no matter what the size.
In the first programme, he demonstrates how to create a perfect traditional British garden including a dream summerhouse, fabulous flower beds and a way of producing your own honey.
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August 28, 2011 Tino Carnevale shows how to make 'hot' compost to process all of the winter garden waste from The Vegie Patch. Colin Campbell visits some old friends to see the colourful garden they have created on Queensland's iconic Sunshine Coast, Jane Edmanson shows how to plant the ultimate low maintenance garden - a terrarium, while Sophie Thomson visits one of the oldest gardens in South Australia to explore its incredible plant collection.
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August 27, 2011 Monty Don unveils his plans for a wet meadow. He starts by planting herbaceous perennials that will thrive in heavy soils and also look good amidst the long grass. He also pots-on his salvia cuttings and explains the benefits of planting 'green manure' in the veg patch. Now that he has harvested his potatoes, that is exactly what he is doing to boost the fertility of the soil for next year.
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August 23, 2011 Jane Edmanson visits ABC 3 presenter and aspirational gardener Amberley Lobo, to check out her small plot and give her a hand to make it bloom, John Patrick explains how to pick the perfect feature tree to provide colour, shade, fruit or somewhere to hang a swing while Sophie Thomson meets a man with a passion for bonsai using Australian native plants.
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August 20, 2011 Monty Don is planning ahead and planting autumn-flowering crocus at Longmeadow. Also for autumn colour, he's adding cyclamen to the spring garden, and has tips on how to get a great show from them. Joe Swift visits Marks Hall, a surprising but inspiring modern garden created within the original walls of a Victorian kitchen garden. And Carol Klein is in Staffordshire with a couple who've created a garden for all seasons in their half-acre plot.
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