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September 8, 2019 With Monty away, this week's episode returns to Adam Frost’s garden where he gives advice on how to prune overgrown evergreen shrubs and adds plants for height to his borders. Rachel de Thame shows how to maintain containers and refresh with plants that will extend the display into autumn, and the team meet a gardener whose frequent absences from home has influenced the design and planting of his garden.
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September 8, 2019 Josh meets a 16-year-old bee keeper who is so passionate about keeping honey bees, he’s teaching other young people, Millie makes a modern letterbox with room for plants, excess produce and the daily post, and Sophie visits the garden of an enthusiastic native plant collector to explore her fascinating flower filled collection.
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September 3, 2019 At Longmeadow, Monty Don adds some ornamental grasses to his borders for late summer impact and gives advice on how to look after pumpkins for a bountiful autumn harvest. Adam Frost discovers a colourful garden in Gloucestershire where hardy, tender and tropical plants jostle for space in both borders and containers and Frances Tophill visits an allotment in north London where the main harvest is flowers for floral displays.
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September 3, 2019 Sophie meets a fruit pruning expert to discover how to easily create her own espaliered fruit trees, Tino visits a Begonia expert at the Royal Botanic Gardens to learn all about how to care for and propagate this colourful and diverse group of plants. and Jerry Coleby-Williams explains that when it comes to mulch, you can have too much of a good thing.
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August 25, 2019 Millie visits a green woodsmith who shuns power tools and makes his own sustainable gardening utensils by hand, Sophie demonstrates how to make your own seed tape, and Josh gets a lesson from a physiotherapist on how to avoid injury in the garden.
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August 25, 2019 For the bank holiday weekend, Monty Don has plenty of inspiration for gardeners from planting for late summer colour to tidying up herbs and pruning soft fruit. Nick Bailey concludes his journey into the clematis world by looking at the late summer flowering varieties, and we travel to Devon to meet a retired biology teacher with a passion for houseleeks.
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August 21, 2019 As Longmeadow radiates colour in the height of summer, Monty takes a range of cuttings to get plants for free and also shows how best to prune your lavender. Carol Klein visits a garden in Devon to revel in the hues of blues in the summer border. We meet a passionate gardener in Wiltshire and his partner who uses their garden as inspiration for art.
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August 21, 2019 Costa visits a glittering and gruesome display of carnivorous plants from around the world at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Jerry kicks off science week meeting a researcher who is studying plants that accumulate heavy metals in their tissue to explore how they can be used to farm metal and rehabilitate contaminated sites, and Sophie visits a botanist’s plant filled garden that is designed with both his love of plants and his dogs in mind.
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August 10, 2019 Monty advises on essential summer pruning and adds French beans to the vegetable garden. We meet a gardener in Hertfordshire who combines her love of cottage garden plants with tropical plants, and we visit a garden in Kent where pots are the stars of the summer show.
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August 4, 2019 Ep01.
Petworth House
Alan returns to visit a house in West Sussex known as `the house of art". Set in beautiful Capability Brown-designed grounds, Petworth House was home to the third Earl of Egremont, whose passion for British art saw the abode become an art school for the nation's talents. Plus, Jennie Bond discovers a Grand Tour with a difference, and Peter Purves navigates the Chichester Canal to reveal it wasn't just the art world which benefitted from the Earl's investment.
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