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September 6, 2020 Ep01 Bristol.
Joe and Jess got married in Greece and want to bring some Greek planting to their garden in Bristol, fused with a classic English country cottage look. They also want it to be stylish,great for socialising and to provide son Noah with loads of places to play. It is a big ask, but they have a big budget too - £8,000 - so Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are under pressure to create a top-quality job.
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August 30, 2020 Millie repurposes a timber pallet into a seedling tray for propagating plants, Tino explores the world of plant fossils - including the living ones you can grow in your own garden. and Sophie experiments with a new way of making her own pots and gets some great results. Costa visits a small but perfectly formed Sydney garden that punches above its weight when it comes to growing food for the family.
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August 30, 2020 From giant gooseberries and growing the perfect sweet pea to flamboyant dahlias and plants pollinated by a single human hair, Monty Don celebrates the plant passions of some of the extraordinary people that the programme has met over the last few years. He also has plenty of hints and tips of his own to keep enthusiastic gardeners busy over the weekend ahead.
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August 30, 2020 Sophie gets some essential pruning advice from a young rose pruner, Jerry visits a passionfruit expert to discover the ideal growing conditions for this ever-popular plant, starting from the ground up, and Tino shows how to keep plants healthy and thriving by applying the right fertilisers at the right time.
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August 30, 2020 Tino springs into action in The Patch, explaining his secret to summer crop success including Australia's favourite, the tomato! Millie Ross shows a simple way to build a temporary garden seat, guest presenter Steven Wells visits a sensory garden where the owner regularly welcomes children from a nearby specialist school to come for a play, and Costa meets a woman whose life changed just days after her 30th birthday, with the simple act of gardening.
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August 23, 2020 At Longmeadow, Monty Don makes plans for next spring by planting some early flowering wildflowers. He also gives his recipes for the different compost mixes he employs to take successful cuttings. Nick Bailey continues his quest for the South African origins of much-loved summer bulbs, while in the heart of London the programme meets a keen gardener who has filled her houseboat with ornamental and edible plants. Plus, a trip to Preston to visit a woman passionate about propagation and, in particular, pineapples.
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August 23, 2020 Featuring a man in Margate who has come up with a unique way of using a shed roof to grow vegetables, and inspirational gardener Sue Kent in Swansea, who shows how she has designed her plot to enable her to garden successfully despite her upper limb difference. Last year, Joe Swift went to Devon to visit a garden where the planting combinations have been inspired by world travel and in Hampshire a sea captain explains how he has created a low maintenance garden using foliage and structural plants.
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August 15, 2020 Monty Don shows how to stake dahlias, sows seeds of perennials and celebrates an abundant vegetable harvest. The programme catches up with a landscape designer in Cornwall who creates gardens that are not only sustainable but also beautiful and edible, and travels to Wales to meet a woman whose garden reflects memories of her childhood home in Jamaica. Plus, memories of 2019, when Carol Klein visited Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire to look at their stunning collection of summer flowering thalictrum and Mark Lane revealed the adaptive tools he uses for planting and weeding.
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August 8, 2020 Monty Don refreshes a container of overgrown herbs, plants alpines in a pot and revisits the shrub and perennial cuttings he took a few weeks ago. Arit Anderson travels to Kent to meet a designer who is placing sustainability and the environment at the heart of the gardens she designs. Plus, a garden in Dorset that has been laid out specifically with scent in mind and an archive report by Frances Tophill who last year visited an allotment on the Isle of Man to meet a grower who uses plants to make cosmetics and there's a second chance to meet an enthusiast on the Isle of Wight who has filled his garden with daylilies.
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August 2, 2020 Monty Don reveals the progress of his tomatoes and gives advice on the summer maintenance of ponds. Nick Bailey travels to South Africa to search for the wild cousins of vibrant summer flower the crocosmia, while garden historian Advolly Richmond heads to Alton Towers in Staffordshire to take a close look at the Victorian trend of creating theme parks in their gardens. Plus, a second chance to meet a couple in Staffordshire who are very particular about the colours of the plants they use in the borders of their cottage garden.
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