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June 18, 2019 The team are out and about this week in Birmingham at the annual Gardeners’ World Live show. Monty Don, Joe Swift and Adam Frost bring us design tips from the show gardens, Carol Klein seeks out the best plants in the floral marquee, Frances Tophill, Nick Bailey, Arit Anderson and Mark Lane look at inspirational planting ideas and the show helps visitors solve their gardening and planting problems.
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June 18, 2019 Tino is in The Patch exploring how to plant, divide and harvest some vegies that will keep you hot as the weather gets cool. Clarence explores some edible native plants that grow well in pots, and Millie builds a couple of simple frames for climbing plants.
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June 9, 2019 At Longmeadow this week Monty turns his attention to the tender annuals he has grown from seed, including climbers and sunflowers and plants out beans for a bountiful summer harvest. Nick Bailey celebrates the rhododendron, one of our most colourful spring flowering shrubs and, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, we meet a WWII veteran who has planted an orchard for peace to commemorate those who lost their lives during the war. Also in tonight’s programme Carol Klein, Frances Tophill and Joe Swift travel to Derbyshire to bring us the floral highlights from the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show
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June 2, 2019 Monty gets going on a new project this week when he starts planting a colour-themed, fragrant border, and he has tips on successional planting in the vegetable garden. Nick Bailey begins his ultimate guide to growing clematis and this week looks at spring-flowering clematis, while Arit Anderson visits a new, free, public roof garden in London, which soars above the city space below. Carol Klein travels to Arundel Castle in West Sussex, where alliums are taking centre stage, Joe Swift finds out about the restoration of one of our most historic woodland gardens, Leonardslee, and at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, we meet a gardener who grows most of the cut flowers for their floral displays.
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May 27, 2019 Tino demo's how to build quick and easy covers for frost sensitive vegetables at The Patch, Jerry visits an avid aroid collector to explore his fascinating and rare collection, and find out what's happening at your local gardens on Botanic Garden Day, 2019!
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May 21, 2019 May 19th.
Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift take an exclusive first look at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show 2019. They’ll be joined by Adam Frost, Carol Klein, Rachel de Thame, Arit Anderson and the rest of the team to reveal some of the most eagerly anticipated show gardens. Plus an exclusive walk through of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge’s feature garden and the latest plant trends in the Great Pavilion. Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood and his partner will also drop in to give their take on this year’s show.
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May 21, 2019 Josh visits a native bee expert to learn about how to make a garden more accessible for our native garden friends, Jerry shares some information on the safest ways to effectively control pests using organic sprays, and Costa visits the rooftop garden at the Qantas head office to find out how gardening is keeping the staff grounded.
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May 20, 2019 At Longmeadow it is time to get tender plants out into the garden and Monty plants out his dahlias as well as dividing ornamental grasses. Frances Tophill is in Anglesey in north Wales, getting tips and hints from a group of allotmenteers, Adam Frost finds design inspiration in a garden in Leicestershire, and Joe Swift and Flo Headlam travel to Darlington to help transform an unpromising space into a garden to benefit people whose lives have been changed by head injuries. We meet a gardener in Kent whose passion is foliage and visit Sussex, where innovative use of materials has transformed one woman’s garden.
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May 20, 2019 Sandi Toksvig and Adam Frost kick off the flower show season with a glimpse of what goes into making the the Chelsea Flower Show the most eagerly awaited event in the gardening calendar. The Road to Chelsea goes from Grenada to Yorkshire and from Brighton to Cardiff by way of a leisurely cruise down the Thames. Sandi, Adam and Gardeners’ World presenter Arit Anderson meet some of the passionate growers, florists and garden designers whose skill, dedication and desire to be the best make Chelsea the most prestigious flower show in the world.
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May 13, 2019 E01: Southampton.
After ten years at sea, working on cruise ships, Morgan has settled in Southampton and bought a house. After fixing up the house, he now needs help with the garden, and he has a healthy £5,000 budget. This sociable bachelor wants a party space where he can entertain his friends. But, while he wants to enjoy his garden, he is less keen to enjoy it with his neighbours, so he also needs some privacy from all the overlooking windows. In a nod to his years at sea, he also wants a water feature in his garden, and as a passionate and proud Welshman, he is determined that his garden has a feeling of his homeland in it. Charlie Dimmock and Harry and David Rich try to come up with a pair of impressive designs for him to choose from.
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