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March 22, 2019 Jerry Coleby-Williams shows how to make your own soil wetting agent, Millie shows you how to bring the worms to your yard – by demonstrating three different styles of worm farm, and Jane keeps some tips on propagating salvias and then gets to sample some delicious Sage Teacake!
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March 22, 2019 History of Gardening Shows on ABC TV: Costa takes a look at the history of gardening shows on ABC TV – from the black and white In Your Garden show from 1957 through to the early beginnings of Gardening Australia. Jane Edmanson meets one of the most influential garden designers to discuss the Aussie backyard, what has shaped them and how they have shaped us, and Tino Carnevale looks back at where it all began, with his friend and mentor, the one and only Peter ‘Kale’ Cundall.
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March 22, 2019 Costa clambers, scrambles and balances his way around a Sydney garden that is purpose-built to encourage children to take risks and go wild! If you missed the spring planting season for tomatoes, don’t worry – Josh shows how you can plant a quick-growing second crop now, and the summer harvest is still in full swing but Tino is already looking ahead and planting out a mixture of slow-growing and fast-harvest winter crops.
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March 22, 2019 Meet an amateur topiarist whose creative hobby has taken over his garden – and now attracts bus-loads of visitors. Costa visits a school garden where the whole community gets on board with composting their food scraps – and the chickens and worms think it’s great! Josh adds to the edible plants growing on and around his deck by planting out a range of warm-climate herbs and greens.
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March 16, 2019 As spring approaches, it is time to get going with sowing seeds and Monty recommends varieties to sow now for months of summer colour. With conifers enjoying a revival, he also plants up a pot to give interest all year round. Adam Frost is inspired by a visit to York Gate in Leeds. Famed for the use and manipulation of plants to give structure to the garden, Adam shows us how we can replicate parts of its design for our own gardens. Annual climbing plants are an easy and inexpensive way to fill our gardens with colour and the head gardener at Parham House in Sussex shows us what varieties have proved to be a success in his trial at the gardens there.
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March 16, 2019 Finally the gardening season has begun and it’s back to Longmeadow to join Monty, Nigel and Nellie for the first programme of the series. This week there’s advice on how to plant spring flowering perennials for instant impact and recommendations for planting bare root roses full of fragrance in borders and pots. Monty will also begin planning the vegetable garden for the year ahead. Carol Klein visits Norfolk and the stunning Winter garden at Bressingham where she celebrates the beauty of conifers and discovers their perfect planting partners.
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February 17, 2019 Ep01 - Monty Don travels to Japan in spring. Amidst the cherry blossoms, he begins his journey through the iconic gardens of Japan. He visits one of 'the three great gardens of Japan' and the earliest surviving boating garden of the Heian period. He looks at the rolling green moss of a Buddhist garden and learns the secrets of creating a Zen landscape before visiting an unconventional garden created by a modern garden design legend.
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January 26, 2019 The team assess climate change by nurturing dry gardens and growing exotic vegetables.
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January 24, 2019 Joe visits an award winning allotment site at Stoke on Trent.
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January 10, 2019 A look at the way in which we garden and how it is changing. We visit a radical project in London, which provides people without any garden at all with a place to cultivate plants. Carol and Joe are back at Berryfields and starting a project that embraces the fact that the average size of a British back garden is decreasing.
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