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April 22, 2023 Jane walks with a gardener devoted to cultivating and celebrating the diversity of Australian native plants through creative garden design at home, Sophie shares her tips on how to pick the perfect pots for a variety of different plants, and Costa gets involved in melon madness at the Chinchilla Watermelon Festival.
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April 22, 2023 Frances Tophill finally has her own garden and can't wait to share her plans and get to grips with bringing this compact space to life. Toby Buckland meets a man who's planted his plot with a wonderful array of fruit and nut trees. And cameras focus on a gardener in Gloucestershire who discusses the 500 pot plants she's designed especially to produce a floral firework display.
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April 22, 2023 With the build complete, the garden finally opened its gates to the public in May 2021. With unique access, this is a behind-the-scenes look at the garden with the team responsible for the 154-acre site, one of the biggest attractions in the north west of England. The gardeners, arborists and horticultural apprentices, along with the army of volunteers who keep the garden on top form, all share their experiences, and Carol Klein, who was born and brought up just down the road, also pays a special visit and meets the team.
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April 22, 2023 Nestled within the cool oasis of the Fern Gully, the RBG has created three spaces designed for meditation and for “contemplating your connection with nature or connection to life” says Andrew. As visitors follow the often-busy Fern Gully boardwalk, the Wellbeing Gardens give the opportunity to leave the main path, stop, pause and reflect. Costa visits a school where the garden is at the heart of the curriculum, cultivating skills to restore landscapes and grow community, Hannah demonstrates how to maximise a small space propagation station using left-over plastic pots, and Clarence dives into the world of niche native water plants and shows us how to build a mini wetland.
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April 22, 2023 Lizzie and Calum provide some top tips for making the garden as productive as possible, and there is another selection of Handy Hints.
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April 22, 2023 Self-watering pots have a few pros and cons that are worth understanding. The roots draw up water from a reservoir below the pot as the roots grow down towards it. Costa visits a bowls club that has become a centre for family, friends, and gatherings, with its community garden, tool library, and of course, perfect turf, and Clarence meets Geoffrey Doret, an ecologist working with the local council to grow corridors for native plants and animals. Geoffrey’s innovative program, Greenweb, has identified key habitat areas and interconnected wildlife corridors to understand the flora and fauna of the area and the long-term sustainability of the environment.
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April 15, 2023 Carole Baxter and Calum Clunie provide more gardening tips and advice from Beechgrove Garden. It’s a busy time in the garden, with sowing and planting taking place for the approaching summer. The year’s first early potatoes get started, and there is a trial of tomato plants suited to windowsill growing. Calum checks on the progress of the variety of supermarket bulbs he bought last year, and Kirsty Wilson starts the first in her series by looking at the selection, care and display of houseplants. And George Anderson provides the first update from his allotment in Joppa.
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April 15, 2023 Monty Don prepares for late spring and summer, sowing poppies and planting cornflowers for colour and interest in the Paradise Garden. Toby Buckland revels in some fabulous spring planting on a visit to the magnificent, landscaped gardens of Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire. Rachel de Thame meets a passionate dahlia grower who was once a florist working at the White House for President Obama and the First Lady.
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April 14, 2023 Rejoin the team at RHS Bridgewater responsible for creating one of the most ambitious and challenging garden projects the UK has ever seen. With unique access, we go behind the scenes and meet the top team of designers, engineers and gardeners all tasked with taking on this colossal project on the site of a former grand Victorian estate in Greater Manchester. With the major construction work well under way, what impact will a global pandemic have on the build, and will the garden be ready in time for its grand opening?
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