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July 23, 2017 Ep 2 Added.
Monty Don and Joe Swift host the first of two visits to the RHS Flower Show, Tatton Park in Cheshire, with Carol Klein, Toby Buckland and Arit Anderson. The team explore the diverse range of show gardens including the ingenious designs for the compact 'back to backs'. Carol celebrates the late summer flowering displays in the floral marquee and shares her guide to getting the best out of your hydrangeas. Monty hails horticulture's next generation of planters and landscapers and Joe quizzes champion growers for the secrets to producing perfect summer fruit and veg.
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July 21, 2017 Monty visits a floral paradise just outside Dublin to discover how plantsman Jimi Blake fills his garden with flora for free. Monty also gives advice on what to sow now in the veg garden. Adam Frost is on the hunt for some clever design ideas in a garden in Littlehampton, while Nick Bailey shows how to transform a bland patio into a space that looks and smells incredible at twilight. Mark Lane travels to Oldham to visit a newly opened Maggie's Centre and Carol Klein reveals her highly fragrant plant of the month.
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July 21, 2017 Tino gets some tips from an organic apple grower, Milly shows how to train a climber to properly cover a wall, and Costa plants a garden for making different types of tea. A plant profile of Hooker's Banksia: This native shrub produces magnificent flowers that look great in the garden or as a cut flower, and guest presenter Carolyn Blackman shows where to start when planting a garden from scratch. Sophie turns an old television into a home for native bees.
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July 19, 2017 Costa recommends some flowers that are sure to attract pollinating bees, Millie gets stuck into some seasonal propagating in her vegie patch and John creates a water garden using native aquatic plants. Also find out how to use excess chillies to flavour olive oil while Sophie shows us how she's turned an old bicycle wheel into a pumpkin growing frame.
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July 13, 2017 The British back garden is a familiar setting, but underneath the peonies and petunias is a much wilder hidden world, a miniature Serengeti, with beauty and brutality in equal measure. In this documentary, Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts spend an entire year exploring every inch of a series of interlinked back gardens in Welwyn Garden City. They want to answer a fundamental question: how much wildlife lives beyond our back doors? How good for wildlife is the great British garden?
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July 13, 2017 As the garden reaches its peak of summer perfection, Monty gives advice on how to prune summer flowering shrubs, maintain the floral display and plans for autumn flowers. He also makes a return visit to Dublin to find out how world-renowned plantswoman Helen Dillon is progressing in her new garden. Joe Swift shows how good design should not hinder challenging conditions when he visits a garden in Kent, Rachel de Thame explores the vital role of scent in wild flowers and the insects that visit them, while Nick Bailey has designs on a weekend project which will transform a front garden into a beautiful and practical space, and meet a passionate gardener who has filled her small Cumbrian garden with 40 different varieties of wisteria.
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July 8, 2017 Monty Don and Joe Swift take a first look at the Royal Horticultural Society's Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. In the first of three programmes, Monty, Joe and a team of experts review the diverse range of show gardens and discover how multi award-winning designer Andy Sturgeon is recycling Chelsea Flower Show gardens of the past.
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July 8, 2017 Jane visits a clivia specialist and is blown away by the variety of colours and forms. Tino and Millie answer questions about growing vegies and hedging, Costa introduces guest presenter Carolyn Blackman, landscape designer, and Sophie gives tips on how to fertilise roses to keep them in tip-top shape. Also, Jerry explains the layout and thought behind the design of his suburban garden.
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July 1, 2017 Rachel de Thame joins Monty in Longmeadow and adds more medicinal planting to the herb garden, especially those that the bees love. Rachel also investigates ways to aid honey bee conservation and protect the nation's favourite pollinators. Monty visits a local garden in Herefordshire to see a national collection of Siberian iris, which inspires him to create a new iris patch, adding warmth and splash of colour into his dry garden. Also discover a garden containing a stunning collection of clematis montana, and Carol is in Somerset visiting the home of one of her horticultural heroes, Margery Fish. And Nick Bailey shows how to plan, design and build a brilliant border fit for any garden.
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July 1, 2017 Jane tells us when to divide salvias, Jerry gives his citrus some calcium and Josh offers solutions for a non-flowering wisteria and Millie serves a bag of potting mix three ways to cater for the needs of different plants in her garden. Kale Chips: Here's a great way to use up any excess kale you've grown in the vegie Garden! Tino visits a food garden tended by inmates of a Tasmanian prison.
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