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May 30, 2017 Millie gives some tips on how renters can quickly grow a gorgeous, established garden even if you're on a short lease and a shoestring budget, John visits a low maintenance garden in Melbourne that is striking for its formal, minimalistic, design, and show you a great tip on how to keep greens like spring onions fresher for longer. Indira explores Sydney Park Wetlands, which has been transformed from a disused industrial site into an ecological heartland while Jerry demonstrates why lifting, dividing and propagating a ginger in his garden helps to keep his hair shiny and manageable!
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May 22, 2017 Coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show begins with a preview of the gardens and exhibits, before the event is officially open to visitors. Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift reveal how the show is put together in just three weeks.
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May 21, 2017 There is work to be done around and in the pond this week and Monty Don also begins planting out his dahlias. Adding zing to the month of May is the euphorbia and Carol Klein visits Oxford Botanic garden to view their extensive collection. Mark Lane is in Hackney finding out how a car breaker's yard at the side of a Tudor National Trust property has been transformed into an award-winning garden used by the local community, while Adam Frost explains how to plant for structure in his herbaceous border.
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May 21, 2017 Josh meets a group of volunteers in Perth who do gardening maintenance for the elderly and physically disabled, allowing them to stay in their homes and continue to enjoy their gardens, Tino shows how easy it is to make a chilli pesticide using chillies and some everyday products from around the house , and Sophie plants a variety of autumn alliums and gives some great tips on how to prolonging your harvest.
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May 21, 2017 Costa heads to the NSW Central Coast to explore the vibrant range of native plants on show at Mt Penang Gardens. Got lots of garden waste leftover at the end of the growing season? Instead of putting it into landfill, Tino shows how it can be used to create soil-improving hot compost, and Sophie profiles a sweet-smelling, climbing flower that withstands the frosty Adelaide weather. John visits a sloping block that, with clever design, has been turned into a garden filled with pockets of private green spaces.
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May 13, 2017 A full hour of gardens and gardening from not only Longmeadow but also the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Monty gets going on planting herbs in his new herb garden and gives advice on how to divide and move ornamental grasses, while Nick Bailey demonstrates a simple and easy way of making a pond. Then meet the queen of herbs, Jekka McVicar, as she builds a herb garden at the Malvern Show and join Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Frances Tophill as they show the best from the floral marquee and show gardens. Also, Adam Frost explains why he has chosen a rose as his golden jubilee plant.
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May 6, 2017 Monty gets to work in the cutting garden, plants his tomatoes and brings pots of citrus out of the greenhouse and into the garden for the summer. Carol visits another of her gardening heroes, Penelope Hobhouse, and finds out about her lifetime of making grand gardens and how she has now created a low-maintenance haven for herself filled with foliage and colour in her small Somerset garden. Then meet Gill Bagshawe, who has filled her plot in the Peak District with raised beds to grow as many different cut flowers as she possibly can. And Alan Power extols the virtues of the Japanese maple as his choice of plant for the golden jubilee award
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May 6, 2017 Sophie visits one of Adelaide's favourite historic garden properties, Carrick Hill, Tino gives an update on his strawberry patch experiment, and Costa and Jane visit a group home and help create a garden that is accessible to everyone. Also, Josh shows how to divide grasses and clumping perennials while Angus visits a former industrial site in Sydney that's been transformed into a naturalistic foreshore reserve.
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April 30, 2017 Costa explores the gardens of Parliament House; Sophie visits a stunning garden in the Coonawarra region; Tino plants autumn root vegetables & guest presenter Indira Naidoo sees a carpark transformed into a botanical paradise.
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April 30, 2017 In this Easter special, Costa dyes eggs and learns the horticultural history of chocolate. Sophie makes 'egghead' seed pots. Tino visits a wildlife sanctuary in Tasmania and Millie makes a holiday herb basket.
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