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October 18, 2018 Monty tackles three seasons of gardening this week when he makes additions to his spring garden, gives advice on how to dry and preserve herbs for winter and plants up a container to give interest from now until spring. Carol celebrates one of the plant successes of an extraordinary summer - the canna - while Frances Tophill tackles a viewer's garden and suggests plants which will perform throughout the winter. Toby Buckland visits a garden in Devon with Japanese influences, and Nick Bailey visits a garden where nature has taken over and produced the conditions where a proliferation of different types mushrooms are thriving.
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October 5, 2018 Jerry visits a passion fruit expert to discover the ideal growing conditions for this ever-popular plant, starting from the ground up, Costa is so excited to be exploring the million bulbs and annuals at Canberra’s Floriade that he even agrees to get his beard decorated! See behind the scenes with the head gardener, who explains how the whole amazing display is planned to flower every day for a month, and Tino travels to Bruny Island to meet a woman who has created a 5-acre garden of Gondwana plants and helped boost the population of a rare local bird.
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October 3, 2018 After an extraordinary season, Monty's orchard has produced a bountiful harvest of apples and he gives advice on how to pick and store them. Frances Tophill makes a final visit to her shared allotment and joins in with the festivities at their annual show. Adam Frost visits the RHS garden Wisley, where he meets the curator to find out which plants have fared well and which plants have suffered during the hot, dry summer. Nick Bailey investigates Japanese knotweed, one of the most pernicious weeds in the UK, Arit Anderson provides inspiration for colourful late season containers, and the programme travels to Northamptonshire to meet a gardener who extracts natural dyes from the plants she grows in her garden.
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September 29, 2018 Growing vegetables all starts with good soil, and Tino shares his recipe for creating the healthiest, crop-growing soil you can. Millie shows you don’t have to go out and spend a fortune on seeds for the garden – she looks through her pantry and finds a stack of supplies, and Costa visits an ingenious gardener who has lots of tricks to make gardening easier.
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September 28, 2018 At Longmeadow Monty is planting bulbs in pots and around the garden for an explosion of spring colour. Carol Klein travels to Yorkshire where she takes a close look at the enormous colour range and form of a late season perennial, the salvia. Mark Lane is in Oxfordshire looking at how ornamental grasses can be used in planting design to create exciting combinations. Arit Anderson gets to grips with growing concerns about the use of plastics in the horticultural industry, and we find out from environment minister Michael Gove about any future plans for controlling its use and improving recycling.
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September 22, 2018 Not all gum trees are enormous! Josh introduces us to some pint-sized beauties that would fit right into a small suburban garden, Jane explores the fascinating new world of native Australian bonsai and Clarence explores some of his favourite native herbs for use in the kitchen or as medicine. Lots of native plants are very tasty, and Tino has chosen a range of local plants to kick-start a new edible bed at the Patch in the Royal Hobart Botanical Gardens.
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September 18, 2018 Monty is planning for a colourful spring when he plants bulbs and nectar-rich wildflowers for an early and welcome feast for insects. Frances Tophill travels to a Birmingham allotment to meet an enthusiast who has filled his allotment with dahlias which he grows for competitions, Nick Bailey is at Powis Castle in Wales to find out just what it takes to trim their centuries-old, 14-metre-tall yew hedges, Adam Frost visits Sezincote garden in Gloucestershire to find out about its history, and Toby Buckland takes a close look at a garden in Cheshire where different sections of the garden have been designed with small gardens in mind. And we meet a Chichester man whose passion is one of the most exotic flowers of the late summer border - the ginger lily.
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September 15, 2018 Josh visits Araluen Botanic Park, tucked away in Perth’s Darling Ranges, where the cool climate is marked by an extravaganza of tulips, Palisa Anderson from Boonluck Farm shares some of her favourite Thai recipes with Costa, and Jerry meets a malacologist who studies Australian snails and can offer a completely different view of this much-maligned gastropod. Tino shows how you can get kitchen waste to work directly on your garden soil by cutting out the middle man – the compost heap.
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September 15, 2018 Monty gives advice on how to deal with overcrowded clumps of summer flowering bulbs and plants yew to make a start on creating a topiary Nellie. Frances Tophill travels to Somerset to the garden of a woman who grows a huge collection of unusual vegetables used in Thai cooking, Carol is in Devon celebrating one of the brightest additions to the late summer border - the rudbekia - and Mark Lane gives design tips on the main elements of a formal garden. Adam Frost puts the finishing touches to the new build garden in Leicester he started earlier in the year and we meet Luigi Valducci, who, for over 30 years, has had an abiding love for the highly perfumed, summer flowering and tender Brugmansia.
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September 8, 2018 Tino Carnevale is making the most of a small space at The Patch, in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, demonstrating his 3D planting method that allows you to pack loads of summer produce into a single garden bed, Jerry Coleby-Williams travels to the Norman Park train station in Brisbane, to meet the station master and explore the colourful garden he has created, purely for the enjoyment of commuters, and Spring is cool in Victoria’s Central Highlands, but Millie is already looking forward to summer by creating a relaxing shady haven, filled with native ferns and foliage in creative containers.
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