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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Secret Mind of Slime: Meet slime molds: the brainless blobs that can learn, make decisions, and navigate mazes. Who says you need brains to be smart? Extremely primitive life-forms called slime molds can navigate mazes, choose between foods, and create efficient networks—no brain required. New research on these organisms, which are neither plant nor animal, could help reveal the fundamental
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The Green Planet episode 5: We rely on plants for almost everything, including the air we breathe and the food we eat. Two in five wild plants are threatened with extinction, but people are finding new ways to help them, from projects in Africa to reseed the landscape to the rebuilding of a tropical forest in Brazil, tree by tree.
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The Green Planet episode 4: Deserts are hostile – temperatures soar and water is rare. Yet plants find extraordinary ways to survive. They may grow imperceptibly slowly or travel the landscape looking for water. Others wait decades in suspended animation for rain to power an explosion of colour across the dunes. Desert plants protect their water stores from
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The Green Planet episode 3: Plants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most importantly, they must get their timing right. Between the tropics and the frozen poles lies a region dominated by relentless change in the form of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
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The Green Planet episode 2: Water plants create some of the most beautiful, bizarre and important habitats on earth. To hold on in torrents, plants use a kind of superglue. Some are armed with vicious weapons to fight titanic battles for space. Others form perfect spheres and escape from animal enemies by rolling. Where nutrients are washed away, plants turn
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The Green Planet episode 1: More kinds of plants are crammed together in the tropical rainforests than anywhere else on Earth. The result is astonishing beauty and intense competition – a plant battleground. New filming techniques allow us to enter the plants’ world and see it from their perspective and on their timescale. From fast-growing trees to flowers that mimic
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Gardening Australia episode 24 2021: Jane Edmanson takes a look at clematis, Tino Carnevale visits a Hobart market gardener, Jerry Coleby-Williams gets the inside scoop on potting mix, Josh Byrne tours an indoor jungle, and Millie Ross gets set up for spring. Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth
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Gardening Australia episode 23 2021: Costa Georgiadis visits a tranquil family retreat, Josh Byrne meets a community of verge gardeners, Jerry Coleby-Williams tours Toowoomba’s famous rose garden and Jane Edmanson discovers stunning cool climate classics. Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening ideas, meet avid gardeners and look
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Gardening Australia episode 22 2021: Costa Georgiadis finds cherry blossoms in Sydney, Millie Ross discovers the plants of the Victorian Goldfields, Jerry Coleby-Williams takes a deep dive into turmeric and ginger and Tino Carnevale grows spuds the easy way. Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening ideas, meet
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Gardening Australia episode 21 2021: Costa Georgiadis learns how to make a kokedama, Sophie Thomson visits a flower farm in the Adelaide Hills, Jane Edmanson shows us around her own courtyard garden and Millie Ross makes a portable potting bench. Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening ideas,
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Gardening Australia episode 20 2021: Costa Georgiadis meets the Wollemi Pine saviours, Sophie Thomson is on Kangaroo Island, Clarence Slockee joins a wildlife rescue group, Josh Byrne explores a garden designed to resist fire, and we meet a cultural burn team. Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening
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