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May 25, 2024 (Originally broadcast: 2013)
Ep01.
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back over 500 years to run a farm at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex exactly as it would have been in 1500, during the reign of the first Tudor King, Henry VII. The first episode finds the farm team arriving at Weald & Downland in West Sussex. There are domestic tasks to tackle, from lighting fires with flint, making meals with depleted crops during the Hunger Gap and using a tread wheel to fetch water from the well. Peter and Tom set about building a pig house - without nails - and try to master a new skill; ploughing with Oxen.

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May 25, 2024 Kirsty and Lizzie are in Beechgrove’s own bog garden looking at plants that are specifically suited to extremely wet conditions.

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May 25, 2024 Costa meets a tenacious Goulburn gardener who transformed a barren yard into a flourishing, productive space, Millie sets about planting autumn crops to ensure a continuous harvest through the cold of winter, and Hannah is treated to a tour of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Garden’s extensive collection of iconic and versatile Tasmanian plants. Jerry shows how to score a bargain at the nursery clearance rack.

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May 25, 2024 All episodes from the 2024 Chelsea Flower Show.
Preview (19-05-24).
Join Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift for an exclusive first look at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show 2024. They are joined by Adam Frost, Rachel de Thame, Arit Anderson, Toby Buckland and JJ Chalmers, who will be delving into some of the most eagerly anticipated show gardens and revealing this season’s best blooms in the Great Pavilion.

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May 24, 2024 Complete re-pack of s40, including previously unposted episodes and incorrectly labelled episodes now fixed.
E01 16-02-07.
The first of three specials that kick off the new season of Gardeners World 2007. In this episode Joe Swift takes on a brand new project, working with residents near his north London home to create a community garden from scratch. With over a quarter of all city dwellers having no garden at all, personal 'green space' is at a premium.

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May 21, 2024 Monty is busy moving his tender succulents outdoors and makes a start on planting up his new cut flower beds. He’s also on a mission to grow Himalayan poppies in a shady border, which have a reputation of being difficult to grow. Adam Frost travels to Leicestershire to meet a couple who have created a garden boasting a year-round display of bulbs, tubers and corms. And there’s a passionate gardener who gave up a busy city life to create the garden of her dreams from scratch, and in North Yorkshire, Frances Tophill visits the gardens at Newby Hall to marvel at their display of candelabra primulas. Plus a visit to a mother-and-daughter team just south of Glasgow as they prepare to make their début at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with a dazzling display of spring flowers.

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May 21, 2024 Jerry meets a fern lover with an impressive collection of staghorn and elkhorn ferns, including some rare and unique forms, Jane demonstrates a range of simple, effective ways to grow fruits in tight spaces – from edible hedges to espaliered trees, and Sophie tours the dryland garden of a collaborative couple who combined their different skill-sets to create a spectacular landscape.

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May 21, 2024 Camilla Bassett-Smith goes on a tour of Kew Gardens and Tayshan Hayden-Smith highlights an inspiring school community garden.

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May 21, 2024 Ideas on what to plant in a shaded area of woodland, and there’s a visit to a thriving community garden.

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May 11, 2024 In a special programme, Gardeners’ World comes from the first big flower show of the season, the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Arit Anderson and Joe Swift explore show gardens packed full of ideas and discover the newest varieties of plants and flowers that are hot off the potting bench. Meet the nursery owners from Devon making their Malvern début, hoping to inspire others with their pollinator-friendly display of peat-free perennials, and visit a house-plant specialist from Hertfordshire who has tips on how to revive, rather than replace, ailing plants. Rachel de Thame celebrates spring colour at Morton Hall in Worcestershire, a garden that has spent years perfecting the art of planting tulips to best effect.

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