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The Beechgrove Garden episode 12 2016

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 / 2 minutes of reading / February 22, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 12 2016, Jim and George are planning for jam tomorrow as Jim sorts out the raspberries, while George is a wee bit more exotic and tends to the fig and the vine. In Garden on a Budget, Carole is with Meike Guijt and family in rural Kennethmont helping mould a garden out of almost nothing. This week, they create a garden table from an old tree stump and plant some edible flowers. Jim is concerned that gardening is not offered as a career choice for young people. In a mission to find How to […]

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 11 2016

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 / 2 minutes of reading / February 21, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 11 2016, Carole is in the Keder, starting the year’s collection of tender vegetables, and Jim is with the allotmenteers of Tillicoultry to discover how the community runs this immaculately presented and organised allotment. The gardening charity Scotland’s Gardens celebrates its 85th year. To mark the occasion, Carole visits one of their new recruits and newest garden on the list, at Barbara Pickard’s no-nonsense but beautiful cottage garden at Balmullo in Fife. Beechgrove Garden episode 11 2016: After our break at Gardening Scotland Jim, George and Carole were back at the Beechgrove Garden

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 10 2016

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 / 1 minute of reading / February 20, 2018 / By HDclump

In Beechgrove Garden episode 10 2016 the team take a break from the garden to be at Gardening Scotland, the biggest gardening show north of the border. The cream of British growers will be there, with everything from pansies to pelargoniums and cacti to clematis in a stunning floral frenzy. We see those who are growing for gold including those exhibits showing off their medals from the previous week’s Chelsea Flower Show. Show gardens are a buzzing, eclectic mix from Hive Jive, a garden inspired by the ‘waggle dance’ of bees, to the secret herb garden made with invasive

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Gardening Australia ep.4 2018

Gardening Australia 2018 / 2 minutes of reading / February 17, 2018 / By HDclump

In Gardening Australia ep.4 2018 : Costa Georgiadis visits a plantsman’s garden; Tino Carnevale and Millie Ross try some unusual vegie-growing containers; Josh Byrne shows how a storm drain became a park and Sophie Thomson gives an overview of her garden. Gardening Australia 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 this television program. Gardening Australia ep.4 2018: 1. The Big Picture Sophie Thomson gives viewers an overview of her Adelaide

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 8 2016

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 / 2 minutes of reading / February 16, 2018 / By HDclump

In the Beechgrove Garden episode 8 2016, Jim is starting off new varieties of tomatoes and he’s going to try them in a range of new tomato growing gadgets. Brian Cunningham, head gardener of Scone Palace, is back continuing his revamping of the Beechgrove alpine garden. This week, Brian finishes off the hard landscaping and starts the planting. Jim and George’s busman’s holiday continues in the Netherlands and this time they visit the world’s largest cut flower auction at Aalsmeer, near Amsterdam. It was a glorious sunny day at Beechgrove this week with temperatures reaching the 20’s. You

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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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