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February 26, 2022 Costa meets a researcher looking at reducing urban heat and the role trees can play in keeping our suburbs cool, Millie shares a few lessons she’s picked up on her gardening journey that would have been helpful to know from the start! Tino meets a family of self-confessed ‘seed freaks’ whose commitment to sustainability and food security has grown into a seed saving enterprise and Jane visits the garden created by landscape painter Arthur Streeton for his wife, that has remained a beautiful illustration of their love and of horticultural history.
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February 26, 2022 Angela Scanlon meets Agata and David, who live in Benfleet, Essex. They were initially attracted to their family home because of its massive garden, and thought it would be an ideal space for their autistic son Franik to enjoy being outside. However, they soon found that the size and the awkward L-shape was a problem because it was difficult to keep an eye on him, and they are constantly concerned that Franik could hurt himself.
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February 26, 2022 Tino works through some essential tasks to keep fruit trees powering along through the warm weather, Josh teases out some root questions, Costa has discovered a plant-swapping scheme and calls in with a crate full of cuttings to see how it works, and Jerry shows how to grow, harvest and roast your own coffee for a perfect brew that truly takes you from bean to cup.
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February 20, 2022 Debi and Des live in Enfield, London. Their beautiful family home has a generous urban plot, but it sits on a massive slope that is currently only used as an outdoor exercise space for Des, whose studio gym sits at the end of the garden. Debi would like a space she can relax in after a hard day's work, but the real dream would be transforming the plot into a family space for everyone to enjoy. Having stared out at their uninspiring plot for years, Debi and Des are desperate for a solution.
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February 20, 2022 Andrew and Paolo live in a new-build house in Liverpool. They have spent the past few years lovingly decorating their two-bedroom home into somewhere which reflects their quirky and retro design style. But outside, it’s a different story. The small bland plot is dominated by a massive retaining wall that overwhelms the space. They’ve been searching for a design solution to transform their garden, but they simply cannot see beyond the overbearing wall. The dream is to extend their beautiful living space into the garden, but is it possible to do anything that masks the giant, oppressive wall?
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February 20, 2022 Steph and her two children live in St Annes near Blackpool. Recently divorced, Steph is excited about making a fresh start by transforming her garden. It’s currently a dilapidated outside space, mostly enveloped by shade. The only place that does get the sun is where she keeps the bins. Steph’s dream is to have a garden that offers her calm spaces to practise her yoga, but also one that gives her enough space to have a party. She’s chosen her lifelong friend Nicola to support her, but will it be possible to create a garden that can help kickstart the next chapter of her life?
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January 29, 2022 Monty begins the last leg of his journey in Corfu, a Greek island with strong links to Venice, including olive trees planted by the Venetians that are still grown today. Here, Monty visits a spectacular garden made by an Englishman with Greek connections, as well as meeting up with English writer Gerald Durrell's widow, who takes Monty up into the mountains on a wildflower trail. Next, Monty travels to Greece’s capital, Athens, the place where the study of botany first began. As well as the Royal Gardens, which act as a green lung through the city and provide much needed shade from the Mediterranean summers, Monty visits a reforestation project on Mount Hymettus and two modern gardens in and around the city. Finally, he rolls up his sleeves and gets to work on a garden he has helped to create on another Greek island.
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January 16, 2022 Monty begins in the city of Trieste, close to Italy’s border with Croatia, to visit a public garden first created by an obsessive royal plantsman more than 150 years ago, which is now being carefully restored. He then heads down the Adriatic coast through Croatia to pick up the trail that the Venetians followed, ending his journey on the beautiful island of Lopud, near Dubrovnik. Along the way, he discovers spectacular natural lakes and wildflowers, is given a tour of ancient olive groves, discovers a nursery where over 200 varieties of Iris – the national flower of Croatia – can be found, and is allowed into one of only two monastic gardens in the whole country.
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January 9, 2022 Monty travels to Europe and explores the influence of the Venetians on gardening, starting in their home city at the top of the Adriatic coast and travelling on through Croatia and Greece. Visiting a range of public and private gardens, Monty learns about the impact that history, climate change and culture have had on the people who live there.
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January 3, 2022 Monty Don creates a winter interest container filled with seasonal favourites including hellebores, cyclamens, violas, crocus and ferns. Carol Klein meets comedian Joe Lycett at his home in Birmingham and talks to him about his new found love of gardening. Plus, florist and gardener Arthur Parkinson joins Rachel de Thame to inject some floral fabulousness into Christmas.
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