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Britains Best Back Gardens - Top 10 Favourites ep.3

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Alan Titchmarsh has been on a year long search for the best back gardens in Britain. In this brand new series he travels across Britain taking us over the hedges and through the gates of his 30 favourites. To celebrate his 50 years as a gardener, Alan Titchmarsh has been on a year-long search for the best back gardens in Britain. Over the past twelve months, more than 600 applicants nominated their gardens from which he has chosen his top 30. Many of them are gardens that have never been filmed and Alan’s search has taken him from the northernmost point of the UK to the heart of Britain’s biggest cities, discovering people from all walks of life doing amazing things with their outdoor spaces at every turn. Britains Best Back Gardens - Top 10 Favourites ep.3 Part 3 : Top 10 Favourites In this episode, Alan reveals his 10 favourite challenging plots – amazing gardens that have been created despite restrictions in size, location or circumstances. From the tiniest pub garden t

Britains Best Back Gardens - Working Gardens ep.2

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Alan Titchmarsh has been on a year long search for the best back gardens in Britain. In this brand new series he travels across Britain taking us over the hedges and through the gates of his 30 favourites.  To celebrate his 50 years as a gardener, Alan Titchmarsh has been on a year-long search for the best back gardens in Britain. Over the past twelve months, more than 600 applicants nominated their gardens from which he has chosen his top 30. Many of them are gardens that have never been filmed and Alan’s search has taken him from the northernmost point of the UK to the heart of Britain’s biggest cities, discovering people from all walks of life doing amazing things with their outdoor spaces at every turn. Britains Best Back Gardens - Working Gardens ep.2  Part 2 : Working Gardens  In episode two, Alan shows us his ten favourite working gardens. These are plots that do more than just look nice, they enhance the lives of their owners in other ways. From a vegetable garden g

Britains Best Back Gardens - Challenging Plots ep.1

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Britain’s Best Back Gardens  Alan Titchmarsh has been on a year long search for the best back gardens in Britain. In this brand new series he travels across Britain taking us over the hedges and through the gates of his 30 favourites. To celebrate his 50 years as a gardener, Alan has appealed to the nation to nominate their gardens. Over the past twelve months, he has received more than 600 applicants from which he has chosen his top 30. Many of them are gardens that have never been filmed and Alan’s search has taken him from the northernmost point of the UK to the heart of Britain’s biggest cities, discovering people from all walks of life doing amazing things with their outdoor spaces at every turn. Alan takes us behind the nation’s ordinary properties, into a world of jaw dropping sights and sounds. Britains Best Back Gardens - Challenging Plots ep.1 Alan has always said that if you really want to understand Britain’s obsession with its backyards you have to go beyond

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016 ep.1

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With less than 24 hours to go before the showground officially opens, a first look at the gardens and exhibits set to cause a stir at the world-famous garden show. Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift reveal how this huge event is put together in just three weeks. This post was moved here: https://hdclump.com/ chelsea-flower-show-episode-1-2016 Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift with a first look at the gardens and exhibits. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016 ep.1

Monty Don's French Gardens - ep.3

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The Artistic Garden  In the last programme in the series, Monty Don turns to France's famous artistic tradition to see what influence it has had on the country's gardens.  Monty travels to some of the most celebrated artists' gardens, including the one created by the impressionist Claude Monet, who planted and painted his garden for half his life. Monty also matches the paintings to the garden of Paul Cezanne, as well as visiting several contemporary artistic gardens to see how the use of plants and trees has evolved into new and varied styles. The Artistic Garden Episode 2 : The Gourmet Garden LINK In this, the second programme, he turns to the French love of food and finds out how this has influenced their gardens. Monty travels to some of the most famous 'potager' or kitchen gardens, where vegetables and flowers are planted together in elaborate and beautiful displays. He talks to gardeners about this style of planting which has been copied the

Monty Don's French Gardens - ep.2

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The Gourmet Garden Monty Don visits some of the most famous and interesting gardens in France. In this, the second programme, he turns to the French love of food and finds out how this has influenced their gardens. Monty travels to some of the most famous 'potager' or kitchen gardens, where vegetables and flowers are planted together in elaborate and beautiful displays. He talks to gardeners about this style of planting which has been copied the world over. He also visits allotments, learns to pick asparagus, enjoys some of the best produce from the land and learns about the importance the French attach to the soil. Monty Don's French Gardens - ep.2 Episode 1 : Gardens of Power and Passion LINK  Monty Don tells the stories behind France's most important historic gardens. These include elaborate walled gardens designed to please the mistress - and then the wife - of a king, magnificent displays of flowers and fountains that involved thousands of soldiers

British Gardens in Time - Nymans ep.4

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Nymans, one of the most fashionable and romantic gardens of the Edwardian and interwar years, was the creation of a family of German emigres of Jewish descent. The Messels arrived in Britain in 1870 at a time when both anti-semitism and anti-German sentiment were rife. Nevertheless, Ludwig Messel succeeded in establishing a successful stockbroking firm and creating at Nymans the quintessential English garden with rare plants and a theatrical herbaceous border inspired by William Robinson.  His children and grandchildren would continue to develop the garden and the family's spectacular social trajectory reached its apogee with Ludwig's great-grandson Antony Armstrong-Jones's marriage to Princess Margaret. However, Nymans was to repeatedly face disaster as a fire devastated the house leaving just a romantic ruin to dominate the garden, while the garden itself came close to total destruction in the Great Storm of 1987. British Gardens in Time - Nymans ep.4 Series whi

Gardening Australia ep.8 2016

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Jane explores the new courtyard gardens at the Shrine of Remembrance; Costa meets a passionate fig farmer; Josh visits a contemporary courtyard garden and we meet an expert bromeliad grower. Gardening Australia ep.8 2016 1. A Creative Courtyard Josh visits a gorgeous contemporary courtyard garden in south Fremantle and meets owner and landscaper Linda Green 2. A Garden to Remember Jane visits Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance and explores four new courtyard gardens inspired by the environments in which soldiers fought 3. Plant Profile - Hosta Tino takes a look at the Hosta - a plant that loves shade 4. Forever Figs Costa meets a passionate Sydney farmer who's been growing figs and prickly pears for 40 years 5. The Garden Gang Find out what the presenters have been busy doing in the garden 6. My Garden Path - Viktor Przetocki We meet expert bromeliad grower and keen collector Viktor Przetocki whose garden is overflowing with thousands of these plants 7. Propagatin

British Gardens in Time - Biddulph Grange ep.3

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 Biddulph Grange, the best-surviving Victorian garden in the country, takes the visitor on a whistlestop journey around the world from China to Egypt in a series of gardens connected by tunnels and subterranean passageways.  Biddulph was created at the height of the British Empire by James Bateman, the son of a wealthy industrialist. Bateman was fascinated by botany and the emerging technologies of the Victorian era, filling his garden with rare specimens tracked down by the Victorian plant hunters laid out to designs that purported to come from around the world but were actually inspired by the Great Exhibition and painted plates from the Potteries.  But Bateman's fascination for all things new would come into conflict with his deeply held religious beliefs, leading him into open conflict with Darwin, financial ruin and the eventual loss of his beloved garden. British Gardens in Time - Biddulph Grange ep.3 Series which explores four iconic British gardens, from Christop

The Beechgrove Garden ep.7 2016

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The Beechgrove Garden ep.7 2016 This post was moved here: https://video-clump.com/2018/02/15/ beechgrove-garden-episode-7-2016 Carole was in the Greenhouse for the final part of her series on windowsill gardening. This time it was all about growing microgreens –full of proteins and vitamins making a healthy addition to snacks and sandwiches, also the latest trend with chefs. Last week Carole recommended getting an electric propagator to get seedsstarted but the alternative is an unheated propagator which could simply sit on the windowsill. Any kind of vegetable seed can be harvested as a microgreen and they too are very easy to grow. These are not like the sprouting seeds,here you wait till they have grown to seedling stage, cut them off with scissors - this is thepart you eat. One example is a radish which can be sown in a tray of compost, covered with more compost and placed in an unheated propagator. This canthen be harvested for its leaves in a few weeks’time

Gardening Australia ep.7 2016

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Jerry explores a tropical cottage garden; Tino prunes berries for a bumper crop; John visits a refurbished fern gully garden; and Sophie creates succulent spheres. Gardening Australia ep.7 2016 1. Succulent Spheres Sophie gets creative and makes sculptural succulent spheres 2. Pruning Berries Tino shows how to prune berries and currants to ensure a bumper crop next season 3. Colouring Hydrangeas Jane explains how to make your hydrangeas blue or pink 4. A Subtropical Treasure Jerry travels to Buderim in Queensland to explore a classic cottage garden containing a number of unusual plants 5. FAQ's - Pruning Ornamental Grasses | Bananas in Melbourne | Coriander Bolting Josh tells us how to prune ornamental native grasses, Jane tells us how to grow bananas in Melbourne and Tino explains how to stop coriander from bolting 6. Fern Fever John visits the refurbished Fern Gully at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, and meets the landscape architect behind the project

British Gardens in Time - Stowe ep.2

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Stowe, one of the most remarkable creations of Georgian England, is the birthplace of the landscape garden. Created on a vast scale with 36 temples, eight lakes and a dozen avenues, Stowe launched the career of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and fostered a rebellion that overthrew the first British prime minister, Robert Walpole. Rather than being a garden of flowers and shrubs, Stowe is a garden of ideas and its grottos and classical monuments spell out a furious, coded political manifesto. Stowe's creator, Viscount Cobham, dreamt of climbing to the pinnacle of political power and establishing a long-lived dynasty, but less than a century after his death, his family was to become the most scandalous bankrupts in English history. British Gardens in Time - Stowe ep.1 The scale and beauty of Stowe have attracted visitors for over 300 years. Picture-perfect views, winding paths, lakeside walks and temples create a timeless landscape, reflecting the changing seasons. Ful

British Gardens in Time - Great Dixter ep.1

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Series which explores four iconic British gardens, from Christopher Lloyd's Arts and Craft Great Dixter to Georgian Stowe and from Victorian Biddulph Grange to the quintessentially English Nyman's. British Gardens in Time - Great Dixter ep.1  Great Dixter lays claim to being the most innovative, spectacular and provocative garden of the 20th century. Made famous by the much-loved eccentric plantsman and writer Christopher Lloyd, who used the garden as a living laboratory and documented his experiments in a weekly column in Country Life, Great Dixter began life as a Gertrude Jekyll-inspired Arts and Crafts garden surrounding a house designed by Edwin Lutyens. The Lloyd family created Dixter just before the outbreak of the First World War with the intention of establishing a rural idyll for Christo and his five siblings. Dixter was to be both Christo's horticultural nursery and the setting for his rebellion in late middle age as he finally threw off the shackles o

Gardening Australia ep.6 2016

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Gardening Australia is an Australian lifestyle television program which suggests and promotes organic and environmentally friendly ways of gardening. Gardening Australia ep.6 2016 1. Aquatic Oasis Angus meets a passionate biology professor who's turned an old fibreglass pool into an aquatic wonderland 2. Plant Profile - Pom Pom Tree Sophie shares why the old fashioned Pom Pom Tree - Dais continifolia - is worth growing 3. Saving Seed Tino shows how easy it is to save seed 4. A Life in the Garden Jane explores a delightfully ordered garden with a ripper vegie patch in Surrey Hills, Melbourne 5. Propagating Echeveria Jerry offers tips on propagating echeveria 6. Get Composting Costa makes composting as easy as ABC to inspire everyone to have a go 7. Native Tidy Up Josh spruces up his native garden by pruning, thinning and mulching 8. FAQ's - Fertilising Potted Plants | Bumpy Lemons | Mulch for Succulents Josh tells us how often we should feed potted plants,

Monty Don's Italian Gardens - The Veneto Lucca and the Lakes ep.4

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Monty Don concludes his garden tour of Italy in the wealthy north where, in the Veneto and Lucca, extravagant pleasure gardens were created for flirtation and fun. This post was moved here: https://video-clump.com/2018/03/13/ monty-dons-italian-gardens Monty Don's Italian Gardens - The Veneto Lucca and the Lakes ep.4

Gardening Australia ep.5 2016

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1. Dazzling Dahlias Sophie meets an Adelaide couple who inherited a dahlia collection that they cleverly incorporated into their terraced cottage-style garden 2. My Garden Path - Amy Duncan We watch tattoo artist Amy Duncan at work as she creates a botanical work of art, and talks about her connection to plants and flowers 3. Fabulous Foliage Jerry shows us a range of his favourite, bright and colourful tropical foliage plants 4. What a Tool! Tino shows us his favourite gardening tool 5. FAQs - Orchid Flowers | Watering in Plants Jane demonstrates what to do when an orchid flower dies and Josh explains why we need to water plants in 6. April Alliums Tino shows us how to cultivate a range of awesome alliums, including spring onions, chives and garlic 7. Vaucluse House Costa explores this 19th century Sydney mansion that is still surrounded by original gardens and woodlands Gardening Australia ep.5 2016

Gardeners World ep.8 2016

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This post was moved here :   https://video-clump.com/2017/12/05/ gardeners-world-episode-8-2016 /  With over 70 floral displays on show, Monty is on the lookout for scented plants to take back to Longmeadow, Carol advises on plants to buy for problem places in the garden, and Adam Frost takes a tour of the show gardens to find the best take-home design tips. Gardening show packed with good ideas, tips, advice from experts and timely reminders to get the most out of your garden, whatever its size or type Gardeners World ep.8 2016 1.Start hardening off tender plants It’s really important to harden off plants that have been raised indoors, including those bought from a garden centre. A coldframe is ideal for this, but if you don’t have one, a sheltered corner will do. For the first week, leave your plants out during the day and bring them in at night. For the second, you can leave them out the whole time. By then, your plants will have acclimatised to life outdoors and

Monty Don's Italian Gardens - The South ep.3

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Monty Don continues his grand garden tour of Italy. This time he is in Naples to visit some of the most sublime, romantic retreats in southern Italy. This post was moved here: https://video-clump.com/2018/03/13/ monty-dons-italian-gardens Monty Don's Italian Gardens - The South ep.3 \

Beechgrove Garden ep.20 2015

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This post was moved here:   https://video-clump.com/2018/02/05/ 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. Beechgrove Garden ep.20 2015  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 florific community space and to have tourists stop and take time in the village.

Gardening Australia ep.3 2016

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Jane prunes native plants; Costa showcases three purple plants; Sophie visits a relaxed formal garden; Tino gets stuck into planting greens and we meet a passionate Queensland plant ecologist. Gardening Australia ep.3 2016 1. FAQ's: Stop Basil Seeding | Pruning English Box | Using Secateurs Answers to frequently asked questions from emails, letters and Facebook 2. Pruning Natives Jane shows us how to prune a range of native plants 3. A Mountain in Bloom Costa visits the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden at Mt Tomah and showcases three stunning purple plants 4. A Winning Partnership Sophie meets two passionate garden owners in Adelaide who have created a stunning, relaxed formal style garden 5. Not Just Greens Tino prepares garden beds with his special topsoil mix and plants silverbeet, lettuce, chicory and edible chrysanthemum 6. Soil pH Jerry explains soil pH and how it affects plants 7. Plant Profile - Ivory Curl Angus profiles the Australian native tree Ivory C