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Gardeners' World

TV Show 1968 8.2/10 371 episodes
Documentary

Synopsis

Gardeners' World is a long-running BBC Television programme about gardening, first broadcast in 1968 and still running as of 2013. Its first episode was presented by Ken Burras and came from Oxford Botanical Gardens. The magazine BBC Gardeners' World is a tie-in to the programme. Most of its episodes have been 30 minutes in length, although there are many specials that last longer. The 2008 and 2009 series used a 60-minute format.

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Episode 1

Monty and the team are back, full of the very best practical tips and advice for all gardeners of all levels.

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Episode 2

As the days are getting longer, Monty is busy preparing his dahlia tubers ready for planting, cutting back fuchsias and planting out shallo…

Episode 3 EP 3
Episode 3

To kick off the Easter weekend, Monty is refreshing the planting on the Mound. Frances Tophill goes to Helmsley Walled Garden in North York…

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Episode 4

Adam Frost takes stock of his borders and plans ahead for some year-round interest. Joe Swift travels to Birmingham to meet an allotmenteer…

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Episode 5

With summer in mind, Monty plants up a seating area filled with night-scented plants and begins preparations to sow a new lawn. He also tak…

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Episode 6

Monty is repairing turf, sowing sweetcorn and planting pots for evening fragrance this summer. Adam travels to Dublin to meet musician Adam…

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Episode 7

Adam Frost continues to develop his new woodland border, ably assisted by Ash the cat. Frances Tophill travels to Buckinghamshire to explor…

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Episode 8

Monty expands the planting on the mound and prepares for a summer display in the cottage garden. Nick Bailey explores a garden that combine…

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Episode 9

Gardeners’ World comes from the RHS Malvern Spring Festival, where Arit Anderson and Joe Swift explore show gardens packed full of ideas an…

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Episode 10

Monty is busy moving his tender succulents outdoors and makes a start on planting up his new cut flower beds. In North Yorkshire, Frances T…

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Episode 11

With summer feasts in mind, Monty reveals a new outdoor eating area he has been working on. Carol Klein visits a spectacular garden in Oxfo…

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Episode 12

Monty reveals his plans for planting up pots in his cottage garden. Sue Kent visits a unique garden in Carmarthenshire situated around a wo…

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Episode 13

The team are Birmingham-bound for one of the highlights of the horticultural year - the annual Gardeners’ World Live event.

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Episode 14

Frances Tophill is at Powderham Castle in Devon. She spends the day there with her good friend Jeanette, who has been transforming part of …

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Episode 15

The roses are in full bloom at Longmeadow as Monty tackles some emergency pruning needed on one of his favourite crab apples.

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Episode 16

In a special programme, Gardeners’ World comes from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival.

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Episode 17

The team are in Cheshire, at the biggest horticultural event in the north, the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park.

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Episode 18

Monty is getting the garden ‘holiday ready’, planting phlox and cutting back plants that have finished flowering. Carol Klein shares tips o…

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Episode 19

As the garden starts to hit its mid summer peak, Monty prunes his philadelphus and takes cuttings. Sue Kent assesses her summer borders and…

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Episode 20

Adam Frost gets on with a few timely tasks at home in his garden. He also shares his top tips on how to build a green roof on a log store.

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Episode 21

Monty gives his top tips for filling gaps in the summer borders, with an array of plants to extend the season and take the garden into the …

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Episode 22

With September just around the corner, Monty's thinking ahead to next year and makes a start on adding foxtail lilies to his borders. And R…

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Episode 23

Monty continues his preparations for next year by getting some daffodils in the ground, while Frances Tophill visits pioneering horticultur…

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Episode 24

In a special programme coming from Norfolk, Arit Anderson and Adam Frost go behind the scenes at East Ruston Old Vicarage to discover how t…

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Episode 25

Planning ahead for next year, Monty plants camassias and cyclamen for a spring display and sows hardy annuals into his cut flower beds, whi…

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Episode 26

Monty gives his top tips on how to keep lawns looking their best throughout autumn, tidies up the pond, and plans ahead for a colourful spr…

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Episode 27

Frances Tophill is back at Powderham Castle in Devon. As well as planting up a new herb bed, identifying and collecting seedlings, dividing…

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Episode 28

With autumn well and truly underway, Monty shares his tips on how to get more for your money when buying perennials.

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Episode 29

It’s apple harvest time, so Monty collects some of his windfalls to juice, plants a shrub in the Cottage Garden, and pots up amaryllis bulb…

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Episode 30

Frances Tophill is back at Powderham Castle in Devon, where she puts the finishing touches to a new herb bed and prepares the vegetable bed…

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Episode 31

Monty plants an early flowering clematis along a very shady wall, checks on the progress of his supermarket garlic and plants out two other…

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Episode 32

Monty plants a hawthorn hedge in the orchard, prunes a climbing rose and starts to plant tulips for next spring. He puts his dahlia tubers …

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