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October 29, 2017 In the last programme of the series, Monty has ideas for pots which will remain colourful throughout winter, gives tips on how to protect tender banana plants and harvests pumpkins. Frances Tophill helps a viewer whose overgrown pond needs some renovation, Adam Frost visits a garden in Nottinghamshire where the season of winter highlights its design, and we celebrate one of the up-and-coming winter flowers, the snowdrop. We visit great grandmother Eunice Mcghie, who, at 83, still teaches gardening to young people in her back garden in Handsworth, Birmingham, while in Hampshire we meet twins Stuart and Ian Paton, who are hoping to break the world record this year with their giant pumpkin.
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October 27, 2017 As October progresses and nights become colder, Monty advises on what plants need protection and how to protect tender plants over the coming months. He also plants tulips and wallflowers for late spring colour. Carol Klein celebrates ornamental grasses as her plant of the month, Adam Frost travels to Peterborough to find out about the work of a Children in Need project for disadvantaged and vulnerable children and Nick Bailey gives a step-by-step guide on how to build a cold-frame for a budget price. We visit Mark Diacono in Devon, who shows us how to grow our own szechuan pepper, and we go to Surrey to talk to an enthusiast who grows thousands of South African succulents in his back garden in Surrey.
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October 27, 2017 Tino is visiting a spectacular vireya rhododendron garden, an unusual sight in cool-climate Tasmania, Jane shows how to prune a cardoon, and Josh visits a new playground that was built in harmony with the existing trees. Also Millie propagates plants from the contents of her kitchen cupboards and Tino shares some top tips for growing rhododendrons.
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October 27, 2017 Sophie explores a native botanic garden, for threatened species, run entirely by volunteers. Find out what the presenters are doing in their gardens this weekend while Costa visits an aged-care facility where chooks improve the residents' well-being. There's a great way to use up your excess fruit, and Tino explains how to choose the right manure for your plants. Jerry visits a spectacular shade garden.
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October 14, 2017 Jerry explores the exciting world of euphorbias, a family that includes plants of all sorts of shapes and sizes, Costa shows why it's important to pick the right sized pot for your plant, and Jane visits a long-running gardening club that works with students at the local primary school. Millie visits an historical nursery to find out what it takes to raise the perfect seedling and meet a passionate nurseryman who grows plants to build and restore wetlands.
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October 14, 2017 Monty plans for next year's fruit harvest when he adds gooseberries to the fruit garden he planted earlier in the year. He also divides and moves herbaceous perennials and advises on the best bulbs to plant now for cut flowers next year. Frances Tophill meets a couple who have filled their garden with tender plants and devised a meticulous method of protecting them over the winter, and we catch up with Adam Frost in his own garden when he gives design tips on placing and planting trees. Nick Bailey explores a myriad of colour in leaf, bark and berry when he travels to Bluebell Arboretum in Leicestershire, and Arit Anderson is in Yorkshire, where she finds out about a project using innovative techniques for producing food. We also visit Warwickshire to look at their collection of hardy chrysanthemums and to see how they can bring much-needed late colour into our gardens.
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October 8, 2017 Tino supplements the seasonal offerings at the patch by planting a range of true-blue edible Tassie plants, Jerry talks about the cabbage white butterfly parasite, and Jane meets a gardener who has created a spectacular plant-filled garden in an unforgiving, inland climate. Millie talks about poisonous plants, Costa discovers a vibrant oasis filled with lush trees and leafy understorey created from a road closure in inner Sydney and Sophie gets native plant advice from a conservationist who propagates endangered species in his back garden.
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October 8, 2017 The beginning of October is a good time to plan for next year and Monty begins the process of taking out plants which are in the wrong place and either moving or dividing others. He also gives advice on making leaf mould from fallen leaves and how to use it. Frances Tophill helps a gardener whose plants are not thriving where they are planted, and Joe Swift visits a small garden full of great design tips. Nick Bailey meets a soil zoologist to find out about the abundance of life which lives under our feet, Adam Frost is on a community allotment in Manchester where growing food is providing solace and support to refugees, and we travel to Staffordshire to visit a cottage garden which has been planted with a particular emphasis on colour.
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September 30, 2017 Monty shows how to prune and train the exuberant summer growth of climbing roses and makes the most of the seasonal warmth by planting perennials and sowing annuals for next year's flowers. Frances Tophill visits a viewer's garden to give advice on how to prune unruly shrubs and Nick Bailey investigates a brand new way of combating Himalayan balsam, one of the UK's most invasive weed species. Stourhead in autumn is a horticultural highlight of the year and Alan Power gives us a behind-the-scenes tour while Arit Anderson travels to Yorkshire to find out how scientific research has uncovered the super powers of plants, and we meet a gardener who has dedicated his allotment to growing his own beer.
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September 30, 2017 Costa repurposes an old bath tub to make a palace fit for soil royalty - worms! Jane visits Australia's newest quarantine facility to find out what happens to plants when they're imported into the country, Sophie profiles an old-fashioned favourite - the cherry plum, and Millie plants up a challenging narrow space at the side of her house with some of her useful and ornamental favourites. Finally, meet a couple who have dedicated their lives to growing and advocating for Australia's amazing native plants.
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