How to Be a Gardener episode 11: You don’t need a gingerbread cottage in the country to have a cottage garden. Old-fashioned flowers and a cluttered ‘look’ usually suits more traditional-style properties, but it’s a good style for plant lovers with small gardens just about anywhere, as it allows you to pack lots of colour and interest into a small […]
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Bees, Butterflies and Blooms episode 3: In the third and final programme of the series, Sarah Raven takes her mission to halt the rapid decline in Britain’s essential bees, butterflies and pollinating insects to our cities and challenges our city parks departments to sow nectar rich modern meadows, and to make their floral displays more nectar and pollen rich to
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Bees, Butterflies and Blooms episode 2: In the second programme of this three-part series, Sarah Raven takes her mission to halt the rapid decline in Britain’s essential bees, butterflies and pollinating insects to our towns, and challenges the RHS Britain in Bloom competition to make their floral displays more nectar- and pollen-rich, to help to increase the amount of food
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Bees, Butterflies and Blooms episode 1:Â Writer, broadcaster and gardener Sarah Raven is on a mission to halt the rapid decline in Britain’s essential bees, butterflies and pollinating insects by bringing flower power to towns, cities and the countryside. The world’s bees and other pollinating insects are in crisis. It is a complex problem that scientists the world
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Joe Swift and Jo Whiley are back in Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival episode 2 2019 – along with gardening experts Carol Klein, Adam Frost, Rachel de Thame, Arit Anderson, Frances Tophill and Mark Lane – where they reveal the winners of this year’s Best Show Garden and the Best Floral Exhibit. Rachel de Thame explores a new
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Gardeners World episode 12 2019: Monty gets going on a new project this week when he starts planting a colour-themed, fragrant border, and he has tips on successional planting in the vegetable garden. Nick Bailey begins his ultimate guide to growing clematis and this week looks at spring-flowering clematis, while Arit Anderson visits a new, free, public roof
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Sandi Toksvig and Adam Frost kick off the flower show season with a glimpse of what goes into making the the Chelsea Flower Show the most eagerly awaited event in the gardening calendar.  The Road to Chelsea goes from Grenada to Yorkshire and from Brighton to Cardiff by way of a leisurely cruise down the Thames. Sandi,
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Britain in Bloom episode 1 2019: Chris Bavin heads to the heart of the Yorkshire Dales to meet the Pateley Bridge Bloomers, who are determined to save their local high street after it was affected by dwindling tourist numbers. This is only their second time competing in Britain in Bloom. Last year they won a silver gilt but this year
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The third leg of Carol’s odyssey takes her on a journey from England to Turkey, to Italy and home again, discovering the intricate biology of the iris flower and its cultural significance to mankind over thousands of years. Carol takes a close-up look into the intimate relationship between bees and irises and, under the guidance of an evolutionary plant biologist,
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In the Beechgrove Garden the air is filled with scented sweetpeas. Jim grows his strictly standing to attention in cordon fashion while Carole’s blue collection are left to scramble.
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