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September 8, 2018 Monty Don catches up on his vegetable garden and harvests potatoes as well as dividing perennials. Frances Tophill is on her shared allotment making the most of the year's fruit harvest, Joe Swift visits a classically designed garden with a contemporary edge in Northamptonshire, and Juliet Sargeant goes to Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex to see how the hot summer has caused a rare tree to flower for the first time in 30 years. Travel to Wales to meet a seed guardian whose passion is growing all kinds of vegetables and collecting their seed, and we meet a woman who has been successfully growing melons and pineapples in her garden in Lancashire.
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September 1, 2018 Millie demonstrates a simple way to make your own seed-growing blocks, Sophie explores a ‘Garden of Health’ to see the extraordinary role plants play in medicine, and the Gardening Australia presenters answer commonly asked gardening questions along with seasonal advice on jobs to do in the garden this weekend.
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September 1, 2018 The Beechgrove Garden has been a perennial fixture on the mantlepiece of Scottish life since 1978. To celebrate, we have dusted off old tapes and unearthed treasures from the past 40 years to create a one-hour special programme that takes you down the garden path of Beechgrove's growth. In this special programme, return to Beechgrove's humble beginnings in the back garden of BBC Aberdeen, when the garden was a small, difficult to manage patch of land. This reflected a familiar scenario faced by many first-time gardeners in 70s when they moved out of multistorey tenements and flats.
There are embarrassing audition tapes and stories of presenters past and present, all mixed with a good dose of Beechgrove's gentle, good-natured humour. This special programme is introduced and narrated by Elaine C Smith, who also visits the garden at Beechgrove and meets today's presenters.
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September 1, 2018 With the prospect of a long bank holiday weekend ahead for some of us, Monty has plenty of advice - from pruning blackcurrants and taking cuttings to planting bulbs for flowering this autumn. Carol Klein finds a collection of plants that are at their peak right now, and gives her advice on how to grow one of the late summer garden stunners, the monarda, while Adam Frost makes the finishing touches to the Leicestershire couple's garden, which he helped them start from scratch earlier this year. Joe Swift meets Peter Moore, who has spent his working life breeding plants for our gardens, and Nick Bailey shows us how we can use colour to the best effect in pots and borders. We also meet Kelvin Archer, who grows world record-breaking gooseberries in his back garden in Cheshire.
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August 24, 2018 Jane explores Lord Howe Island, a unique example of nature evolving in isolation, and discovers some fascinating plants and animals, Costa meets some of the gardeners and landscapers of the future as he joins a horticulture class at TAFE, and with a keen eye and some expert deduction, Sophie contemplates solutions for problems in her garden.
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August 24, 2018 As part of the BBC's Big British Asian Summer, the Gardeners' World team set out on a horticultural adventure to celebrate the south Asian influences on British gardens. Monty Don visits a Hindu temple in Neasden, London, to learn more about the melding of two cultures - the traditional Hindu mandir and its suburban London location. Frances Tophill and Nick Bailey pick up growing advice from allotmenteers in Bradford and Birmingham. Joe Swift meets passionate gardeners in Middlesex who have created a garden celebrating their Indian roots. We meet Bala Kompalli, a botanical horticulturist who runs the orchid unit at Kew Gardens. Carol visits Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to discover the Asian plants and trees that have become commonplace in our gardens, and Arit Anderson visits the Aga Khan building in London to get a first look at a collection of newly designed Islamic gardens.
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August 12, 2018 Costa follows the trail of plastic garden pots that are being recycled to grow new plants, Chef Blayne Bertoncello shows Jane how to make a tasty soup utilising all parts of an artichoke, and Tino revisits the Potted Patch he and Millie planted in recycled containers, and plants some new crops. Then there's seasonal advice on jobs to do in the garden this weekend.
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August 12, 2018 The vegetable garden is at its peak and Monty takes a look at his harvesting and sees how his autumn crops are faring. He also gives tips on how to keep the garden looking its best. Adam Frost returns to Leicester where he has been helping to create a garden from scratch on a new-build estate. Frances Tophill celebrates the summer harvest on her shared allotment and Mark Lane takes a close look at the Mediterranean planting in the hottest garden in the UK - Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of Wight. The programme also meets an extraordinary gardener in Wales and travels to an immaculate and tiny garden packed with colour in Burton-on-Trent.
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August 12, 2018 Tino Carnevale shows how to make a propagation unit to get a head start on germinating summer crops. Sophie Thomson calls in father-and-son master gardeners to show how to prune wisteria, and guest presenter Rebecca Sullivan shares her recipe for home-made rose balm.
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August 12, 2018 Bonsai and Ikebana master Megumi Bennett introduces us to her son Alex who is following in her footsteps, Tino gets some grafting tips from a surgeon who is as skilled with a grafting knife as he is with a scalpel, and Jane explores the winter-flowering magnolias that put on such a dramatic show in the Dandenong Ranges, and gets some tips on growing them.
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