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August 26, 2017 Costa gets stuck back into his verge garden after building work temporarily halted progress, Josh meets a scientist unlocking the relationship between fire and native plants in a wonderfully diverse area of Western Australia, and Jerry shares his grandmother's technique for preparing the perfect seed bed guaranteed to lead to success. Meet a passionate young conservationist and learn about the process of repopulating the wild with threatened orchids while Josh learns how to smoke native plant seeds to aid germination.
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August 26, 2017 As well as propagating succulent plants, Monty Don revisits his container vegetable garden, gives advice on how to get a good crop of pumpkins and gets out and about when he meets Jake Hobson, one of the UK's leading cloud pruning and topiary experts. Adam Frost looks at a newly planted garden at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex, which has been designed to display both hardy and exotic vegetables, Rachel de Thame visits a garden in Wiltshire, where vibrant colours are the key to the success of its summer borders, and we meet two enthusiasts in Manchester who have a passion for air plants, and Flo Headlam returns to Potterne to check on the progress of the new community space and to join the local residents as they get to grips with building and planting the garden.
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August 19, 2017 Guest presenter Carolyn Blackman explores the materials available for creating gorgeous gardens, Tino helps out an olive-growing couple with their harvest in beautiful northern Tasmania, and Costa is in Canberra to visit a scientist whose research into water and productive gardening is changing the world. Jerry Coleby-Williams shows a novel method of pest control while Millie shows how to move plants successfully whilst helping a friend renovate their garden.
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August 19, 2017 As Monty starts to bring in the tastiest of the summer harvest, he is planning for the months ahead as he gives advice on what to sow now to keep the crops coming up to the end of autumn. He also plans for next spring when he gives tips on saving money by propagating perennials. Carol Klein visits a lady who is losing her eyesight and helps her organise her confused borders and give her recommendations of plants which will be a feast for her senses. Joe Swift takes a close look of the design of a contemporary country garden and Nick Bailey travels to an Essex village to meet a bunch of enthusiastic villagers who are using their gardens to help in the revival and preservation of the historic Pemberton roses. Arit Anderson meets a gardener who is looking to the future in the design and planting of his extraordinary garden and we pay a second visit to Wales to catch up with Shaish Alam to find out how his crops have been faring in his newly planted field.
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August 13, 2017 Jane visits a beautiful chestnut and hazelnut grove in Victoria's high country, Costa takes a look at an impressive array of winter flowering natives, and Jerry propagates some of his unusual food plants. Millie checks the pH of her soil and shows why it is such an important test to do and Tino shows how to prune a pomegranate, a youngberry and a quince tree.
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August 12, 2017 Monty Don gives advice on how to cut and maintain hedges as well as giving ideas on growing fruit in pots. Carol Klein chooses varieties of late-flowering clematis as her plant of the month, Nick Bailey travels to the southern tip of Cornwall to seek out a plant which escaped from our gardens and is now threatening rare and native plants, and Adam Frost uncovers the secrets of successful planting combinations in an Oxfordshire garden. Mark Lane joins the enthusiasts who have lovingly restored a walled garden in Warwick as they open their gates to the public for the first time, and we visit a garden in Yorkshire where foliage and not flowers are of paramount importance.
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August 6, 2017 There are plans for propagating and planting at Longmeadow this week when Monty Don plants up a new bed of irises and takes pelargonium cuttings. Nick Bailey brightens up a dull and shady space at the side of a terraced house and gives advice on plants that will thrive, Carol Klein pays the first of two visits to West Yorkshire to meet a couple whose outstanding planting has resulted in a garden full of late summer interest and Joe Swift takes a close look at a sloping and shady town garden to find out how the owner has designed this difficult space.
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August 6, 2017 Josh visits a very special forest of ancient and beautiful tingle trees in WA's Walpole Wilderness Area, Millie shows how to pot up a cactus without getting hurt, and Sophie gets some essential pruning advice from a young rose pruner. Costa joins a revegetation team for National Tree Week to help restore some former farmland while Tino gives us an idea for nasturtium seed pods.
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July 29, 2017 At the height of summer, it is time to ensure that fruits and vegetables are given attention to ensure maximum cropping. Monty Don gives advice on the summer pruning of fruit trees, as well as showing how to get the best from tomatoes and chillies. He also recommends plants which will carry on flowering into autumn. Carol Klein meets one of her gardening heroes, Roy Lancaster, and joins him as he reminisces on his life and explains his passion for plants. Nick Bailey is on the trail of some more alien invaders to our gardens, and we travel to Wales to meet a chef who has taken on a field in which to grow vegetables.
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July 28, 2017 Jerry visits a couple who meld their passions for cycads and bromeliads in one beautiful garden, Tino shows us how we can have coriander forever, and Josh plants some natives that will do well in a hot, dry spot in his garden. Also, in 'My Garden Path' Jane shares her gardening story, from shy school girl to Gardening Australia presenter, while Sophie profiles some of her favourite Aloes.
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