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December 29, 2020 PBS USA 16 May 2013
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San Diego is one of our nation’s top cut flower producers. These crops generate almost 78 million dollars a year. The cost of land and water has put pressure on local growers. Host Nan Sterman visits a hardy few who are helping San Diego’s floriculture industry to survive and thrive.
This is a re-package of articles that originally appeared here as single episodes. Originally Posted 2016
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December 1, 2020 Tino visits an iris grower with a colourful backyard and learns propagation tips to keep the obsession growing, Millie meets an inspiring Dja Dja Wurrung elder and the Murnong Mammas team, whose love of growing native food plants has connected an entire community, Jane suggests some plants that are both deliciously edible and fabulously ornamental, and Jerry hunts for plant identification answers with the experts at the Queensland Herbarium.
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December 1, 2020 Millie shares thrifty tips to create a beautiful and productive garden on a shoestring, Clarence introduces us to the great diversity of Myrtles - one of the most useful plant families on the planet! Guest presenter Craig Miller-Randle explains the art of watering indoor plants in the 3rd of his series on indoor plant care, and Sophie joins citizen scientists using the newest smart phone technology to track native orchids for conservation research.
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November 13, 2020 Monty Don harvests his pumpkins at Longmeadow, plants bulbs in a pot and has plenty of jobs for everyone to be getting on with over the coming weeks. Frances Tophill travels to Winkworth Arboretum in Surrey to celebrate the season and to explain the science behind the golden and red tones of autumn leaves. The team take inspiration from RHS Harlow Carr and take a look at their winter borders and the plants which will add interest and drama to gardens over the coming months.
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November 13, 2020 At Longmeadow,Monty Don shares his tips on how to feed the birds over the coming months, plants raspberries both in the ground and in a pot, and makes a start on lifting his tender salvias. Joe Swift visits a nurseryman in Essex who loves to experiment with ornamental grasses, and Arit Anderson meets Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter, to discover how the planting and garden management have increased biodiversity. The programme also features a Staffordshire couple with a fondness for Japanese maples and a man whose love of dahlias has taken over his back garden in Stockport.
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November 5, 2020 Millie shows how to get tomatoes started in paper pots, Tino will have gardeners on the edge of their seats with cheap and cheerful ways to create garden bed edges, and then head to Cairns in North Queensland and meet Matt Mitchley, a prehistoric plant enthusiast whose collection ranges from classic to Jurassic!
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November 5, 2020 Costa visits a Sydney gardener who has devised some smart solutions to growing vegies, despite being limited to her apartment balcony, Sophie visits a native-plant enthusiast whose huge wild bush garden is dedicated to Australia’s standout flowering plants, and in the second in our series on indoor gardening, guest presenter Craig Miller-Randle shows how important location is for your indoor plants, and how to understand light and temperature from a plant’s point of view. Millie builds a bird bath for her local flock and shows some simple ways to create a safe garden space for birds.
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October 24, 2020 At Longmeadow, Monty Don prepares his pond for the season ahead and prunes a climbing rose. Adam Frost offers ideas for a winter display of containers and the programme catches up with Frances Tophill on her allotment in Kent, to find out about her growing year. Plus, another chance to see Carol Klein's autumnal visit to Hidcote Gardens in Gloucestershire, and a couple whose garden has been inspired by the Far East.
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October 24, 2020 Costa meets two garden stalwarts who welcome thousands of people to their home each year, when they sell plants for cancer research, Millie designs and builds a wire-mesh basket that is perfect for harvesting and washing crops from her garden, and Sophie discovers the story of a historic glass house and how it has finally been teamed up with a perfectly suited set of plants all the way from Madagascar. To celebrate book week, we meet illustrator and author Trace Balla, who paints delicately detailed pictures of plants and wildlife in her storybooks for children.
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October 17, 2020 As autumn gets underway, Monty Don gives advice on what plants need to be taken under cover now, what can stay out until after the first frosts and others that just need an extra layer of protection. Joe Swift visits broadcaster Kate Garraway in her London garden, who discusses how it has been a sanctuary over recent months. Nick Bailey reveals the results of the design project he started in his own garden earlier in the year, while there's another chance to meet a woman who has filled her garden in Kent with exotic and tropical plants.
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