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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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Season 49 Episodes

Episode 1 EP 1
Episode 1

Spring is nearly upon us and Gardeners' World is back with a new series. As usual, Monty Don is at Longmeadow, reviewing the effects the wi…

Episode 2 EP 2
Episode 2

As the gardening year gets underway at Longmeadow, Monty is tidying up his ornamental grass border, pruning roses and planning for summer s…

Episode 3 EP 3
Episode 3

As part of his planning for summer, Monty begins to sow annual climbers and gets started on tidying and mulching his borders. In the last o…

Episode 4 EP 4
Episode 4

The first big gardening weekend of the year gets underway with Monty dividing perennials and giving plenty of tips for how we can kick-star…

Episode 5 EP 5
Episode 5

Monty gets to work in his wildlife garden, preparing for early pollinators.

Episode 6 EP 6
Episode 6

Monty starts a new project: a cutting garden.

Episode 7 EP 7
Episode 7

Nick Bailey marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.

Episode 8 EP 8
Episode 8

Monty Don visits the RHS Malvern Spring Festival.

Episode 9 EP 9
Episode 9

Carol begins her journey to investigate why plants thrive in challenging conditions.

Episode 10 EP 10
Episode 10

Monty's focus is on summer when he plants up containers for color in the Jewel Garden.

Episode 11 EP 11
Episode 11

A celebration of the volunteers who keep gardens around the country looking their best.

Episode 12 EP 12
Episode 12

Tender vegetables, bedding plants and bees are the focus of Monty's gardening this week.

Episode 13 EP 13
Episode 13

Monty gives his tips on late croppers to sow now.

Episode 14 EP 14
Episode 14

Carol Klein wades through streams and marshes to show how to choose the right water plants.

Episode 15 EP 15
Episode 15

Monty gives tips on extending the flower season in the borders.

Episode 16 EP 16
Episode 16

Rachel de Thame pays a visit to the garden of theatre impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh.

Episode 17 EP 17
Episode 17

Joe Swift looks at how the rose garden has been reimagined in the Savill Garden.

Episode 18 EP 18
Episode 18

Joe Swift ponders ways of putting a contemporary twist on traditional bedding plants.

Episode 19 EP 19
Episode 19

On the 20th anniversary of the death of Geoff Hamilton, Adam Frost returns to Barnsdale.

Episode 20 EP 20
Episode 20

Alan Power catches up with the transformation of Shakespeare's New Place garden.

Episode 21 EP 21
Episode 21

Monty Don has plenty of tips on how to cut hedges so that they grow well.

Episode 22 EP 22
Episode 22

Monty advises on how to look after soft fruit to ensure maximum production next year.

Episode 23 EP 23
Episode 23

Monty goes on an inspiring visit to the longest herbaceous border in the world.

Episode 24 EP 24
Episode 24

Carol Klein continues looking at plant families, exploring popular relations of the rose.

Episode 25 EP 25
Episode 25

Monty adds some autumn flowering asters to his borders and refreshes his strawberry beds.

Episode 26 EP 26
Episode 26

Monty starts to tidy up the garden for autumn and reviews this year's display in the jewel garden. Carol Klein looks at the Apiaceae family…

Episode 27 EP 27
Episode 27

Monty catches up with seasonal jobs at Longmeadow this week when he divides some perennials and plants alpines for spring colour. He also t…

Episode 28 EP 28
Episode 28

After months of nurturing the plants in his garden, Monty reaps a harvest of a different kind when he investigates how productive his bees …

Episode 29 EP 29
Episode 29

There is a visitor at Longmeadow this week when Rachel de Thame lends Monty a hand as he refreshes his dry garden with plants that will thr…

Episode 30 EP 30
Episode 30

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