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June 6, 2011 Sat 4th June 2011.
After the hottest summer on record, Josh is taking stock of his native front garden by looking at what has thrived and replacing those plants that haven't, Leonie Norrington plants cool season crops in her layered vegie bed including cabbage, broccoli and beetroot, and Sophie Thomson shows how to create a colourful and fragrant hedge from roses and explains which varieties are best to use.
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June 5, 2011 Kate Humble, Bill Oddie, Bill Bryson, John Craven and Clarissa Dickson Wright discuss television's changing relationship - and current obsession - with the countryside. What explains the huge appeal of shows like Countryfile and Lambing Live to an urban audience? Is television helping to bring town and country together, or is the gap getting larger?
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June 3, 2011 Friday 3rd June 2011.
By the first week of June, plants are growing with such speed that some have a tendency to flop. Staking is the answer. As well as sharing his tips, Monty Don shows how to make stakes that can be used for many years to come. Now the nights are guaranteed to be frost free, Monty plants out the tender annuals he's raised from seed. Carol Klein visits a Wiltshire gardeneR and Bee keeper who wants to make the most of a shady area by planting nectar rich plants. Carol helps by choosing plants with flowers which will not only attract her honey bees but will give much needed colour. Rachel De Thame discovers the benefits of The Chelsea Chop from the experts at RHS Wisley. Here some flowering perennial plants are cut back to trick them into flowering later. Back at Longmeadow, Monty turns his attention to his citrus trees and shows how, with a bit of TLC, they will spend the summer in tip top condition.
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June 2, 2011 This series follows Rory McGrath during the summer of 2010 in the Lake District as he meets the many people who work in this beautiful part of Britain - from hoteliers to farmers and tour guides to mountain rescue volunteers. As the series progresses, we see how the summer unfolds for all of them.
This is a repack of previously published individual articles.
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May 31, 2011 Originally aired in 2003.
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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May 29, 2011 Sat 28th May 2011.
Josh Byrne visits an unusual house in Fremantle, where the garden has been designed to provide shelter, shade and security. Jerry Coleby-Williams plants a range of onions and their relatives suited to the subtropics and Jane Edmanson shows what will grow under the competition of trees and how to get them to thrive. Also in this programme, Leonie Norrington shows a simple way to grow leafy greens in a small garden and John Patrick visits a garden where the owner has filled a difficult sloped block with an amazing collection of rare plants.
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May 28, 2011 Originally aired in 2002.
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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May 26, 2011 Air date Friday 19th May 2006.
Monty and Joe continue the development of their new gardens at Berryfields. This week, Monty and Joe are continuing with the development of their brand new gardens at Berryfields, the shady garden, and the modern family garden, and Carol is giving the small town fruit garden a new twist and changing the planting to make a beautiful herb potager. Sarah visits a plants-man obsessed with collecting botanical gems.
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May 26, 2011 Beautifully simple, beautifully defined and providing a complete spectrum of northern England. Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk is 190 miles that have become one of the classic long-distance challenges of the British Isles - a challenge that now faces Julia Bradbury.
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May 23, 2011 Monty Don takes a grand tour around Italy's magnificent gardens, from the luxurious retreats of the moneyed North to the lavish hideaways of the romantic South. Monty begins his journey in Rome, powerbase of emperors and popes, to explore gardens that are among some of the most extravagant and flamboyant ever created.
This is a repack of previously posted individual articles.
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