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April 12, 2023 The RHS has been at the forefront of British gardening for more than 200 years. Best known for staging the world’s most famous and prestigious flower show, Chelsea, it has four showcase gardens up and down the country. In 2017, it embarked on a fifth garden, RHS Bridgewater. This series charts the story of one of the most ambitious and challenging gardening projects the UK has ever seen. With unique access, we go behind the scenes and meet the top team of designers, engineers and gardeners tasked with taking on this colossal construction project on the site of a former grand Victorian estate in Greater Manchester. We witness the huge challenges they face creating one of the biggest gardens in Europe, in a constant battle with the British climate, and how they coped with a global pandemic six months before the garden’s grand opening.
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April 9, 2023 Monty Don adds some interest to the spring garden. He also sows peas and shallots, has some thrifty tips for petunias, and plants lilies in pots. Carol Klein visits Mothecombe Gardens in Devon, which has been designed specifically for pollinators. Arit Anderson joins a group of young carers at a community garden in West Sussex, where they go for respite, friendship and fun.
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April 7, 2023 Beechgrove Garden is back and ready to guide you through a season of great growing.
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April 1, 2023 Adam Frost gets to work on his veg plot and plants his first lot of potatoes. Joe Swift meets a garden designer who faced the challenge of two awkward, adjoining plots and transformed them into wonderful, cohesive spaces. Plus, Rekha Mistry demonstrates how to grow the perfect onion from seed, and has a go at growing cotton.
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April 1, 2023 A common problem with compost is finding half-decomposed lumps that still resemble a vegetable instead of soft crumbly chocolate cake. Costa has a great tip for helping your compost breakdown better. The first thing to do is congratulate yourself – you're building compost! Tammy highlights a creative way to harmoniously grow a combination of indoor plants in containers, perfect for the smallest of home spaces, and Jane visits the home of a devoted gardener who has intentionally made his house small and garden as big as possible, so he can fill it with all his favourite plants.
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March 25, 2023 As plants begin to show their early growth, Monty Don gets plenty of plants for free when he demonstrates how to make the most of herbaceous perennials. Nick Bailey shares plans for his new garden in Cambridgeshire and reveals how to create a container garden ideal for those on the move. And Frances Tophill discovers more ways to use cut flowers as she visits a florist in Dorset.
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March 25, 2023 Over the years Josh has put in effort to accommodate biodiversity into his garden, creating many projects such as nesting boxes, bird baths, native plantings, frog ponds, insect hotels and more. Sophie visits a small but perfectly designed tree-filled urban garden belonging to two veterinarians who are devoted to maples, Jane explores an exhibition of botanical art to learn about how talented artists create highly detailed works while representing botanically accurate specimens, and Tammy explains which indoor plants you should avoid watering with tap water.
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