Botany – A Blooming History episode 3 – Hidden World: For 10,000 years or more, humans created new plant varieties for food by trial and error and a touch of serendipity. Then 150 years ago, a new era began. Pioneer botanists unlocked the patterns found in different types of plants and opened the door to a new branch […]
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Botany – A Blooming History episode 2 – Photosynthesis: The air we breathe, and all the food we eat, is created from water, sunlight, carbon dioxide and a few minerals. That’s it, nothing else. It sounds simple, but this process is one of the most fascinating and complicated in all of science. Without it there could be no life on
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Botany – A Blooming History episode 1 – A Confusion of Names: What makes plants grow is a simple enough question. The answer turns out to be one of the most complicated and fascinating stories in science and took over 300 years to unravel. Timothy Walker, director of Oxford University Botanic Garden, reveals how the breakthroughs of Swedish
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The Secret History of the British Garden – 17th Century episode 1: Monty Don uncovers the extraordinary stories behind Britain’s 17th-century gardens. Starting his journey at the sole surviving garden of the 1600s – Levens Hall in Cumbria – Monty sets out to investigate what the gardens of this age would have looked like and what influenced and inspired their
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Gardeners World episode 2 2012: With the official start of spring and Mothering Sunday only days away, Monty Don and the team look at the practical ways to achieve a better looking garden at this busy time of year. Monty is selecting and planting climbing roses at his garden in Herefordshire and gives plenty of advice on how
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Gardeners World episode 1 2012 : Gardeners’ World returns for the start of the gardening year with Monty Don in the garden at his Hertfordshire home, Longmeadow. As the charge towards spring gathers pace, Monty, along with Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame, are preparing for the season ahead. They’ll have a host of practical tips to help
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In Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 8, Monty Don visits Cape Town’s famous Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens he sees the King Proteus, South Africa’s national plant. In the Drakensberg Mountains he sees some native flora in its natural environment. Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 8 His favourite garden is a school vegetable patch in
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