Alan's Garden Secrets Season 1 Episode 4 20th Century

TV Show: Alan’s Garden Secrets

Aired on: 8:00 PM on November 30th, 2010 – Tuesday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 4

Episode Name: 20th Century

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Alan Titchmarsh presents a stunning series that reveals the amazing secrets behind Britain’s great gardens, examining how they continue to influence gardeners, including himself, today.Alan reveals how Sissinghurst gardens in Kent is one of the most influential of the 20th century. Created by two passionate gardeners, Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Sir Harold Nicholson, its development coincided with key social changes in the British garden.There was a pre- and post-war boom in surburban housing, creating a generation of domestic gardeners. Despite its size, Sissinghurst appealed to the public because it was a warm and intimate garden and had been designed with a great many practical uses. Alan reveals that it was one of the first lifestyle gardens, made up of different ‘rooms’ designed for eating, relaxing and entertaining. Ideas that would lead to today’s barbecue areas and daybed chillout zones in the garden began here.

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Alan’s Garden Secrets Season 1 Episode 3 19th Century

TV Show: Alan’s Garden Secrets

Aired on: 8:00 PM on November 23rd, 2010 – Tuesday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3

Episode Name: 19th Century

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Alan Titchmarsh presents a stunning series that reveals the amazing secrets behind Britain’s great gardens, examining how they continue to influence gardeners, including himself, today.The Victorians gave us a taste for exotic plants from around the world, a thirst for technology in the garden and a love of bold statements. Biddulph Grange, in Staffordshire, is a classic example of all these elements.The Victorians were transforming the garden from the natural landscapes of the 18th century to a new manufactured style. Alan comments how Biddulph is ‘a world in one garden’ made up of separate highly stylized designs inspired by China, Italy, Egypt and Scotland. These gardens are a setting for plant life from around the world and Alan explains how the Victorians were passionate plant hunters, particularly for orchids. He also shows us how to plant and care for exotics in our own garden.

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48 Hours Mystery Season 24 Episode 8 Secrets, Lies And Alibis

TV Show: 48 Hours Mystery

Aired on: 10:00 PM on November 20th, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: CBS Channel

Episode Details: Season 24 Episode 8

Episode Name: Secrets, Lies And Alibis

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A wealthy couple is targeted for death, but why? Troy Roberts reports

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Alan's Garden Secrets Season 1 Episode 2 18th Century

TV Show: Alan’s Garden Secrets

Aired on: 8:00 PM on November 16th, 2010 – Tuesday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2

Episode Name: 18th Century

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Alan Titchmarsh presents a stunning series that reveals the amazing secrets behind Britain’s great gardens, examining how they continue to influence gardeners, including himself, today.Few gardening movements can match the impact of the 18th-century landscape movement, and Stowe in Buckinghamshire is one of the most important examples of their revolutionary designs. Here we find a rejection of the rigid formality of the previous century and an embracing of nature, no matter what the ecological cost.

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Alan's Garden Secrets Season 1 Episode 1 17th Century

TV Show: Alan’s Garden Secrets

Aired on: 8:00 PM on November 9th, 2010 – Tuesday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 1

Episode Name: 17th Century

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Alan Titchmarsh presents a stunning series that reveals the amazing secrets behind Britain’s great gardens, examining how they continue to influence gardeners, including himself, today.In the first episode, Alan visits Hatfield House in Hertfordshire to look at the key design features of the gardens of this 17th-century stately home. This was a time when horticulture and architecture worked seamlessly together and Hatfield reflects this new love of the aesthetic. Alan examines the famous parterres which are some of the first examples of Britain’s affection for formal gardening, and shows how the parterre has been brought into the 21st century by designer Tom Stuart-Smith with his designs at Broughton Grange in Oxfordshire.
Alan also looks at the use of perspective, which at Hatfield makes the driveways seem bigger and changes how the garden is seen from different points of view. He look at a French import, espaliers, that have been used to stunning effect in Hatfield and show how these have changed the way we contort trees in our garden, including his own tip on stepover apple trees.

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