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April 29, 2018 Despite the slow awakening of the garden this year, there are still plenty of jobs to be getting on with and Monty begins to divide ornamental grasses and plant up a colourful alpine trough. He also gives advice on what to do with containers which are past their best and what to sow in the vegetable garden at this time of year. Nick Bailey travels to Shropshire to respond to a cry for help from a viewer whose border has become a tangle of shrubs. The show catches up with Frances Tophill's progress on her shared allotment in Bristol, as she begins to prepare the beds for sowing her first crops. Arit Anderson explores the future of gardening in our cities when she visits an extraordinary high-rise building in Milan which has been designed as a living forest.
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April 28, 2018 Meet Dan and Jenny Patience who own and run an intensive propagation nursery, and try making Ben Shewry's light pastry tart made with tomatoes you can grow at home! Gardening Australia presenters answer commonly asked gardening questions.
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April 28, 2018 There is a full hour of inspiration as Monty works in his vegetable garden sowing seeds for a bountiful summer, grows some more unusual vegetables and recommends varieties of summer bulbs to plant in the spring. Mark Lane creates a floral celebration in a container and shares his recommendations for great planting partners for seasonal colour. Flo Headlam joins the arborists at Westonbirt Arboretum to find out how they manage their incredible collection of trees from around the world. Adam Frost meets a couple who have recently moved into a new-build house to show them step by step how they can transform their awkwardly shaped garden on a very small budget. Nick Bailey is out and about enjoying that most seasonal of flowers, the daffodil. Plus Monty reveals the first of the finalists in the Every Space Counts competition.
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April 22, 2018 In the second of two special episodes exploring the Gardening Australia archives, the team aim to prove that you can garden absolutely anywhere. Millie shows how we can grow a luscious leafy lounge using upcycled materials and, of course, plants, while watching tattoo artist Amy Duncan at work as she creates a botanical work of art, and talks about her connection to plants and flowers.
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April 14, 2018 For the autumn holidays, Costa Georgiadis is checking out some cute native animals at Healesville Sanctuary and Gardening Australia has delved through its archives to find you some of its favourite stories about families in the garden.
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April 14, 2018 There is a full hour of gardening from Longmeadow this week and Monty gets to grips with a new project, beefs up his borders by dividing perennials and celebrates spring flowering shrubs. Frances Tophill is growing vegetables this year on an allotment and this week she begins to prepare her plot and, if your shed is chock full of out-of-date seeds, old compost, dirty pots and rusty tools, Nick Bailey has lots of hints and tips on how to get everything shipshape for the season ahead. Adam Frost explores a tropical garden in Dorset and meets a man who is passionate about growing unusual and exotic plants from seed, we travel to Suffolk to meet a woman who collects and grows a wide range of bellflowers and Carol Klein profiles the best of the season's flowers - this week it is the camellia.
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April 14, 2018 An Easter Basket: Sophie gets a lesson from a master weaver, learning to create an egg collecting basket from material grown in her garden, and Millie visits a ‘chicken whisperer’ to get tips on how to keep backyard chickens happy and healthy. Jane heads to a nursery specialising in perennial plants.
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April 7, 2018 Jerry Coleby-Williams makes the ultimate vertical garden - an aquaponic green wall! Costa meets a Canberra couple who have transformed a bare, rocky paddock into a shady wonderland of native plants, Jane meets a group of volunteers who collect the surplus harvest from neighbourhood fruit trees – then distribute the produce where it’s needed, and guest presenter Steven Wells visits a heritage-listed garden village where retired residents can grow new friendships as well as plants.
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March 31, 2018 It's the busiest gardening weekend of the year and Monty has plenty of ideas and inspiration, from planting summer bulbs to sowing perennials. New projects are on his mind as he begins to mark out a brand new area at Longmeadow. Carol Klein profiles the bravest and most colourful of spring flowering plants when she delves into the botany of the hellebore, and we travel to Sheffield to visit a garden crammed full of colour and new ideas.
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March 31, 2018 After helping Millie Ross build a temporary shed, Costa Georgiadis makes za'atar pizza; Sophie Thomson plants a citrus orchard, Josh Byrne tastes some Aussie plants and Tino Carnevale explores slime moulds, and as the autumn colours set into the high country, Jane Edmanson explores a Harrietville property where exotic trees blend into the surrounding bush. Josh is back in Melbourne to check in on a school garden he helped get started.
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