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April 9, 2010 Bed and borders are the heart and soul of many fine gardens, providing structure and height as well as a mass of spectacular colours across the seasons. This superbly filmed DVD demonstrates the best practices for creating a bed or border that is both beautiful and long-lasting - whether laying out and planning from scratch or maintaining one that has long been established.
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April 9, 2010 Steve Brookes presents and demonstrates gardening tips and advice on a wide variety of gardening problems.
Essential viewing of great ideas for banishing slugs, snails, aphids, ants, cats and squirrels etc. plus many fun, natural, money-saving and innovative tips for growing healthier plants in your garden.
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April 9, 2010 Alans back again, this time showing you the jobs that need doing every year in order to achieve a successful garden.
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April 9, 2010 This wonderful series goes behind the high redbrick walls of Chilton Foliat in Berkshire, where Harry Dodson carefully recreates a traditional Victorian kitchen garden. Using traditional tools Harry painstakingly transformed the weed-choked ground into a gardener's and cook's delight solving many horticultural mysteries along the way and showing how gardeners dealt with pests and how they grew exotic fruits and vegetables for the household all year round.
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April 9, 2010 Presented by Peter Thoday and Harry Dodson this series uncovers the secrets of a bygone era. In the Victorian Flower Garden Harry re-creates horticultural history to demonstrate how simple and exotic flowers were cultivated. He also finds time to create the wonderful floral decorations at a Victorian wedding and a grand musical.
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April 9, 2010 Peter Seabrooke, with the help of Anne Swithinbank, explores the beauty of Britain's favourite flower in all its types and colours.
Modern techniques are linked with age-old experience to show how you can produce more roses and better plants than ever before. They show in detail how to plant bare root and container grown bushes for long term flowering. Above all Peter shows that rose pruning is not to be feared, it is simple, logical and fun. He explains the right timing and shows the correct techniques for pruning bushes, ramblers and climbers, and shows how to handle neglected roses and suckers. The importance of fertilisers for plant growth and flowering is explained. You will find out how to select and use the products for pest and disease control and see how summer dead heading is more than just the removal of faded flowers.
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April 9, 2010 A Guide to their selection, planting & care. This two hour video is jam-packed with down-to-earth gardening information and advice based on the experience and expertise of Peter Seabrook and presented by him with the help and technical knowledge of Anne Swithinbank.
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April 9, 2010 Peter Seabrooke shares his knowledge on designing, preparing and planting a new garden and renovating a derelict garden.
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April 9, 2010
Marking the bi-centenary of The Royal Horticultural Society, this series features the design and creation of gardens from specific periods of time, from a Regency town house garden of 1915 through to a 'Green Room' of the 1970s - and beyond.
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April 9, 2010 Growing vegetables is a passion for vast numbers of people and this informative DVD is an essential accompaniment for the ever increasing number of gardeners who choose the edible garden as their passion.
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