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The Beechgrove Garden episode 7 2016

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 / 2 minutes of reading / February 15, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 7 2016: Carole creates a chef’s windowsill as she grows a range of micro salads, while Chris takes on the job of revamping the old heather garden and turns it into our own piece of an ancient Scottish hill top in miniature. George and Jim are off on a bulb-lover’s busman’s holiday and indulging in more than a little ‘tulip fever’ as they visit world-famous Keukenhof Botanic Park near Amsterdam to see the mind-blowing bulb displays. It was a beautiful sunny spring day at Beechgrove. It was time to get on with some gardening […]

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2016

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 / 2 minutes of reading / February 14, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2016: Carole continues with her windowsill gardening and sows herbs and salad leaves, which can be used to produce tasty, foodie salads for weeks. In Garden on a Budget, Carole is with Mieke Guijt in rural Kennethmont, helping to mould a garden out of almost nothing. Carole takes Mieke on a budget shopping trip to buy materials for easy-to-make compost bays and shows her how to have plants for ‘free’. George visits the painterly garden of Broughton House in Kirkcudbright. The house and garden belonged to EA Hornel, artist, collector and ‘Glasgow boy’.

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 5 2016

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 / 3 minutes of reading / February 13, 2018 / By HDclump

In the Beechgrove Garden episode 5 2016, Jim is hoping that the soil is now warm enough to plant tatties in the main veggie plot, while on the decking garden Carole is also planting tatties on a tiny scale. Chris and Carole are going on very different fungal forays in Beechgrove this year. Chris is creating a whole Jurassic Park fungal valley with ancient timbers and all manner of edible mushrooms. Again on the other end of the scale, Carole tries out some windowsill mushroom-growing kits. George visits Alan Shamash’s impressive hillside garden full of an extensive collection

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 26 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 12, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 26 2015: although this is the last in the present series, gardening is a year round activity and so Jim, Carole, George and Chris have a long list of jobs that we could and should be doing that will keep us all busy for the foreseeable. This is also a perfect time to be planting and Chris and George are starting off a new project to create a ‘sub-tropical’ garden that although will look exotic and jungly next year, it will be created with super hardy plants. Carole visits Tom Taylor in Drumoak who

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 25 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 11, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 25 2015: Carole and George plant various combinations of bulbs and spring bedding plants to see which of these make the most attractive displays, while Jim has a big clear-out in his greenhouse. The programme catches up with Brian Cunningham at Scone Palace Garden to review the progress made to the David Douglas trail, and Carole also visits Tillypronie Garden near Tarland and delights in the swathes of heathers. The Beechgrove Garden episode 25 2015: Planting bulbs George was outside the greenhouse. It is time to start planting bulbs for entering into

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 24 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 10, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 24 2015: Jim and Carole walk around the garden pointing out plant combinations showing colour at this time of year. Jim prepares half hardy perennials for winter, whilst Carole enjoys the gloxinias which are still flowering well and shows how to dry off amaryllis bulbs. In Coldstream, George Anderson meets Alec West who has an orchard jam-packed with apples, pears and plums – his fruit collection is said to be the biggest in Scotland. It was a fine autumn day at Beechgrove this week and Jim and Carole were at the back of the

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Gardening Australia ep.3 2018

Gardening Australia 2018 / 2 minutes of reading / February 9, 2018 / By HDclump

In Gardening Australia ep.3 2018: Costa and Jane enjoy a Tamil feast; Tino prepares a garden for a big party; Sophie discovers the botanicals used to make beauty products and we meet guest presenter Steven Wells, who creates healing gardens. Gardening Australia ep.3 2018: 1. Food Needs Flowers Flowers are great for adding colour to gardens, but today Millie is planting them for a different reason – to attract pollinators! 2. Jobs for the Weekend – 9th February Seasonal advice on what jobs to do in the garden this weekend 3. The Beauty of Botanicals Sophie

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 23 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 8, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 23 2015: Jim and Carole are preparing for the seasons to come as they show how to overwinter a whole range of vegetables so that they will be ready for harvest early next year. Jim is also preparing plants for the winter months and shows how to put begonias to bed. Also in the programme, Carole and George taste test Carole’s spaghetti squash and her greenhouse-grown aubergines while Jim and George revel in the late fruit harvest. Chris visits Greywalls Garden near Gullane. Built in 1901, Greywalls is a stunning example of an Edwardian

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 7, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2015: Jim Carole and Chris assessing how the new Michaelmas daisy collection has fared over the summer. Carole looks at her aubergines and peppers to see if they have managed to bear any fruit this season. Jim visits Heathryfold Allotments in Aberdeen, whose multicultural plotters grow a range of vegetables and fruit from their homelands. Both Jim and Carole are on the island of Bute, to attend and enjoy the famous local Horticultural Society’s summer flower show. The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2015 1. Aubergines and Peppers Carole and Jim were in the

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 3 minutes of reading / February 6, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2015: the whole Beechgrove team are travelling ‘doon the watter’ to the Buteiful island of Bute and to Rothesay for a Beechgrove Special Roadshow. The Pavilion in Rothesay is the venue for a Beechgrove Q&A evening. The historical venue will be full of locals and their gardening questions which Jim, Carole, George and Chis will hope to have answers for. Bute has a favourable climate for growing and is known for Bute tatties, Bute dahlias and most recently Bute truffles. Jim and Carole will also visit some of the gardens of Bute to

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / February 5, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2015: Jim is on his own in the garden, taking on all his special subjects, including monitoring the progress of the tomatoes and reviewing his hydrangea pruning observation to see which of his three methods of pruning is working best and resulting in most flowers. Meanwhile, Carole and George are helping out with the last stages of the creation of a new community garden with the good folk of Inverbervie. The new community garden will be the central feature to a garden trail around the village, designed for locals to enjoy as a

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Gardening Australia ep.2 2018

Gardening Australia 2018 / 2 minutes of reading / February 4, 2018 / By HDclump

In Gardening Australia ep 2 2018: Costa and Sophie look at a project growing a new food crop in Darwin; Millie meets the landscape architect behind a wetland habitat garden; Josh looks at native plants for problem spots; Jerry propagates warm-season herbs. Gardening Australia ep 2 2018 provides practical, realistic, and credible horticultural and gardening advice, inspiring and entertaining all gardeners around the world. Presented by Australia’s leading horticultural experts, Gardening Australia is a valuable resource to all gardeners through the television program. Gardening Australia ep.2 2018 1. Top Crop Costa Georgiadis and Sophie Thomson are

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