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March 24, 2018 At Longmeadow, Monty Don is making plans for the summer, so he starts dahlias and other tender perennials into growth and sows annual climbing plants to light up his borders with colour. Frances Tophill visits The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to meet an expert on the most exotic plant of the tropical border, ginger. Plus the team explore one of the most colourful perennials of the summer in the Isle of Wight, visiting a garden which is filled with daylilies.
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March 24, 2018 Tino Carnevale shows how to plant a garden salad. In Geelong there's a garden that has been tended by the same family for decades. Costa Georgiadis meets the four generations currently caring for the land - and each other, and Millie Ross returns to a garden she helped create for a friend to check on its progress and pitch in with some ongoing maintenance. Guest presenter Steven Wells visits a sensory garden where the owner regularly welcomes children from a nearby specialist school to come for a play, and meet ceramic artist, Dr Cathy Franzi who uses plants as the inspiration for her work.
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March 17, 2018 It is the prime time for bare-root plants and Monty makes plans for a bumper harvest of fruit when he adds raspberries to his fruit garden and gives advice on how to plant bare-root trees. He also gives tips on what we should be doing now to get our gardens ready for spring. Carol Klein travels to Bodnant Garden in Conwy to celebrate the delights of the late winter border. If you are yearning for warmer weather and your garden currently lacks interest, Joe Swift has designs on brightening up dull and uninteresting spaces with pots full of colour that can be planted now.
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March 17, 2018 The green-fingered team returns with more surprise garden makeovers for deserving people across the nation. Darren and Lesley Chan's youngest daughter Amelie was born with Charge syndrome - a debilitating genetic condition that has left her deaf, partially sighted and in need of constant care. Alan Titchmarsh sets out to transform the Manchester family's neglected outdoor space, calling in David Domoney, Frances Tophill and Katie Rushworth to introduce sensory planting for the 10-year-old, a shade-loving border and a multifunction pathway made from areas of decking, artificial turf and paving.
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March 17, 2018 Costa Georgiadis goes foraging for edible seaweed, Sophie Thomson visits an artist's garden, Tino Carnevale revels in autumn colour and Josh Byrne shows Millie Ross around his garden.
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March 10, 2018 A new gardening year begins at Longmeadow and Monty reveals his new plans for the year as well as taking stock of any winter damage. As well as seasonal hints and tips he is embarking on a mission to reduce the use of plastic in his garden and starts by exploring alternative containers to use for seed sowing. Adam Frost brings his design expertise to a tiny back yard to demonstrate that no matter how small, with a bit of ingenuity, every space can count when it comes to gardening and we meet a Wolverhampton couple who have created an inspirational garden packed to bursting with surprises.
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March 10, 2018 The Gardening Australia team prepare for summer in the garden. Costa visits a miniature garden; herbs to take on holiday; what to plant in January; we revisit the Karen refugee vegetable garden.
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March 10, 2018 Amid the bare concrete of inner-city Sydney, Costa Georgiadis meets a generous footpath gardener who is supplying the neighbourhood with herbs, as well as being a community garden dynamo, Sophie Thomson travels to Melbourne to meet one of her heroes, Diggers Garden Club founder Clive Blazey, and sees the new garden he has created at his inner-city home, and Coleby-Williams turns up the heat on his marauding possums. Also Josh Byrne puts the finishing touches to his greenhouse project by enclosing the frame with high-tech cladding and shade cloth, Tino Carnevale shows how to build a home-made sieve and Jane looks at a range of plants that add perfume to the garden with their fragrant foliage.
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February 24, 2018 Tino Carnevale and Millie Ross get creative as they experiment with some unusual vegie-growing containers to spruce up an unloved corner of Hobart’s Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Costa discovers what delights can happen when a garden designer spends nearly 30 years experimenting with plants and ideas in his home garden, Josh gives advice on when to re-pot fruit trees and Jane explains why compost may begin to smell bad and Jerry offers advice on growing a chilli hedge. Josh Byrne visits a stormwater reservoir that has been transformed from a weed-ridden, fenced off eyesore to a native plant haven where neighbours can play and walk and Jane Edmanson demonstrates how to make manure tea for your plants.
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February 11, 2018 Costa and Jane meet an enterprising group of asylum seekers who share their stories and traditions as they prepare a delicious Tamil feast, and visit the organic farm that provides much of the produce for the meal, Tino shows how you can zhuzh up a garden quickly and simply as he helps a family race against time to prepare their home for a big party, and Sophie Thomson visits an organic farm in the Adelaide Hills and discovers the botanicals used to make beauty products. Guest presenter Steven Wells shows one of his earliest garden designs, where he first combined his work as a nurse and gardener to become a horticultural therapist while Josh is planting two dwarf variety red flowering gums in his garden and gives tips on how to give these natives the best start in life.
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