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June 26, 2011 A Family Backyard Part 2: After helping with the initial layout, Josh Byrne re-visits a young family to help them with the next step building their dream back yard by defining paths and garden beds, preparing for irrigation and starting the trellis for the fruit trees. Clarence Slockee looks a spectacular group of local plants, Gymea and Spear Lilies, while Leonie Norrington visits Waldo Bayley, a Vietnam veteran and poet, to explore his large rural block filled with tropical trees, flowers and individuality.
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June 24, 2011 My Dream Farm follows Monty Don as he helps six different families to try to realise their dream of making a go of it by working the land. They're all determined to leave the rat race behind and transform their lives, but with few skills and no previous experience, it's going to be far from easy.
The stories range from a family of five raising sheep on the Devon moors to a lone female farmer, breeding alpacas in Warwickshire. Two young cousins try to start a British flower farm in Kent and a family with three young children try their hand at self-sufficiency and chicken-keeping in Cornwall.
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June 23, 2011 Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins celebrates the humble and sometimes hated plants we call weeds. He discovers that there is no such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, and that in fact what we call a weed has changed again and again over the last three hundred years.
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June 21, 2011 Originally aired in 2004.
Television series in which a group of professional landscapers/hardscapers creates or transforms a garden in two days as a surprise for one of the owners. Household names Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh head the hard working crew.
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June 21, 2011 Air date Friday 23rd June 2006.
The team prepare for a possible drought-affected summer at Berryfields. Monty returns to the dry garden to plant out more hardy Mediterranean shrubs; Joe turns his attention to the wildflower meadow to see how the area and nearby nectar bar are attracting wildlife; and Carol is adding more plants to her garden grown from seeds and cuttings. There's also a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Harlow Carr to see their Candelabra Primulas.
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June 19, 2011 Traveling the length of the UK by journeying across the rooftops of Britain, Griff Rhys Jones explores some of the most arduous and roughest mountain landscapes. It is a journey that takes him from the remotest areas of Northern Scotland to the wilds of Dartmoor in the South West, including some of Britain's most beautiful, rugged and fascinating locations. Along the way, he also reveals how these dramatic terrains came into existence.
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June 18, 2011 Sat 18th June 2011.
Stephen Ryan visits the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne to explore their collection of unusual plants and mature trees, Sophie Thomson visits a young garden where the owners dug-up, moved and replanted everything from their former home and Jerry Coleby-Williams looks at the Pandanus and shows why he likes to grow it and how to propagate them.
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June 18, 2011 Griff Rhys Jones embarks on phase two of the restoration of his farm in Pembrokeshire. Having restored the main farmhouse, Griff now turns his attention to two outbuildings - the water mill and the miller's cottage. Both were built at the same time as the farmhouse - around 1820 - and both will be turned into accommodation.
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June 18, 2011 Friday 17th June 2011.
Special hour-long episode of the gardening programme. Now that the threat of frost has disappeared and the ground is warm, Monty Don plants out his dahlias, tends his roses and offers tips on extending the life of the vegetable garden at Longmeadow. He then teams up with Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame at Gardeners' World Live, where they view some spectacular show gardens and top class plants, and take part in a bring and buy plant sale.
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June 17, 2011 Horticulturist Chris Beardshaw uncovers the British contribution to the history of our most iconic fruit. He reveals the 'golden age', when the passion and dedication of Victorian gardeners gave us more varieties than anywhere else in the world. Chris also finds out how the remarkable ingenuity of a small group of 20th century British scientists helped create the modern mass market apple.
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