Gardeners' World Season 43 Episode 32 The Science Of Gardening

TV Show: Gardeners’ World

Aired on: 8:30 PM on November 26th, 2010 – Friday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 43 Episode 32

Episode Name: The Science Of Gardening

Preview:

Carol Klein invites us into her garden to unearth the science beneath the muck and magic of gardening.Carol has been a passionate gardener for over 30 years and, like many gardeners, she’s fascinated by what’s going on at a deeper level when it comes to her plants. So, Carol turns her beloved garden into a living laboratory and plays host to scientific experts who help her to explore, analyse and observe her soil, compost, seeds, weather, leaves, and flowers.
Carol asks the questions to which many gardeners want answers: Why don’t my seeds germinate? How does compost work? What is photosynthesis and why is it important? What happens when we prune a plant? How do insects see flowers? And how can I work out which plants should go where in my garden?Carol shows that by understanding the science behind gardening, we can all become better gardeners and grow more beautiful and more bountiful gardens.

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Gardeners’ World Season 43 Episode 30

TV Show: Gardeners’ World

Aired on: 8:30 PM on November 5th, 2010 – Friday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 43 Episode 30

Episode Name: EPISODE:30

Preview:

It’s Bonfire Night and along with the colder nights and fireworks come a thick carpet of autumn leaves. Toby Buckland shows us how, with a little patience, leaves can be turned into leaf mould – one of the best, most nutritious soil improvers money can’t buy.Carol Klein is at Kew finding out how the complicated world of plant classification is now becoming much simpler as scientists are beginning to use DNA techniques to accurately draw up definitive family trees for plants.

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Gardeners' World Season 43 Episode 29

TV Show: Gardeners’ World

Aired on: 8:30 PM on October 29th, 2010 – Friday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 43 Episode 29

Episode Name: EPISODE:29

Preview:

It’s Bonfire Night and along with the colder nights and fireworks come a thick carpet of autumn leaves. Toby Buckland shows us how, with a little patience, leaves can be turned into leaf mould – one of the best, most nutritious soil improvers money can’t buy.Carol Klein is at Kew finding out how the complicated world of plant classification is now becoming much simpler as scientists are beginning to use DNA techniques to accurately draw up definitive family trees for plants.
Almost three years ago, Joe Swift got involved in changing an urban wasteland, local to his London home, into a community garden. It has now won a prestigious RHS award and he returns to find out how valuable and life-enhancing it has become to the local residents who use it to grow flowers, fruit and vegetables.Earlier this year, we asked garden writer and bulb expert Anna Pavord to take us to one of her favourite gardens. She chose Hanham Court, the garden of the well-known designers Julian and Isabel Bannerman, and went along when their displays of tulips were at their vibrant best. It not only gave her the opportunity to revel in the glory of her favourite blooms at their peak of perfection but also recommend some of her favourite varieties for planting in our own back gardens. Back at Greenacre, Toby plants a few of his own for an explosion of colour in the borders next spring.

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Gardeners' World Season 43 Episode 28

TV Show: Gardeners’ World

Aired on: 8:30 PM on October 22nd, 2010 – Friday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 43 Episode 28
 
Episode Name: EPISODE:28

Preview:

The tropical bananas and cannas at Greenacre have filled the late summer and autumn borders with fiery colours and big bold foliage, but as the clocks go back and the days shorten, it is time to put them to bed before the first hard frosts of the season kill them off. Toby Buckland has tips and advice on how to store these tender tropicals over winter so that we can enjoy them again next year.Fiery colours of a leafy kind are on Carol Klein’s agenda when she visits the National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire to examine just a few of the 2000 members of the maple family grown there. She discovers a wonderland of spectacular leaf colour and fascinating bark formations, and recommends the best varieties that gardeners might grow in their own back gardens.On the trail of the autumn apple harvest, Alys Fowler meets Paul Barnett, an apple man who grows 250 different varieties of apple – on just one tree! Thanks to a technique called budding, incredibly, he has managed to fruit all his favourite apples, both cookers and eaters, in his own back garden.

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Gardeners’ World Season 43 Episode 27

TV Show: Gardeners’ World

Aired on: 8:30 PM on October 15th, 2010 – Friday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 43 Episode 27

Episode Name: EPISODE:27

Preview:

With autumn now in full swing, Toby Buckland looks at a planting style that really sings out in the borders at this time of year; prairie planting. By combining ornamental grasses and hardy flowering perennials, gardeners can create a low-maintenance border that will look as good coated with frost in December as on these bright autumn days. No wonder this style of planting has been the gardening story of the last decade.

Prairie planting is also a style that allows gardeners to create an amazing display quickly and cheaply. With thrift in mind, Toby is extending the border at Greenacre in the same way that it was created; using seeds and cuttings.Toby also visits a garden which has recently spent years perfecting a traditional means of growing exotic fruit. The restored Victorian pineapple pit at Heligan in Cornwall is heated by rotting straw and horse manure, and shows just how much effort and expense our gardening ancestors were prepared to spare in order to impress the neighbours!

Back at Greenacre, we are planting some rather easier, but no less tasty, fruit. Now is the time to plant strawberries if you want a bumper crop next summer, and, in a quest for the ultimate strawberry, we have invited some top horticulturalists, chefs and the Gardeners’ World team – Toby, Joe, Alys and Carol – to nominate their very favourite variety. We will plant them all and next year will reveal which variety produced the tastiest, sweetest, most succulent crop.

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Gardeners’ World Season 43 Episode 26

TV Show: Gardeners’ World

Aired on: 8:30 PM on October 8th, 2010 – Friday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 43 Episode 26

Episode Name: EPISODE:26

Preview:

With autumn now in full swing, Toby Buckland looks at a planting style that really sings out in the borders at this time of year; prairie planting. By combining ornamental grasses and hardy flowering perennials, gardeners can create a low maintenance border that will look as good coated with frost in December as on these bright autumn days. No wonder this style of planting has been the gardening story of the last decade.Prairie planting is also a style that allows gardeners to create an amazing display quickly and cheaply. With thrift in mind, Toby is extending the border at Greenacre in the same way that it was created; using seeds and cuttings.

Toby also visits a garden which has recently spent years perfecting a traditional means of growing exotic fruit. The restored Victorian pineapple pit at Heligan in Cornwall is heated by rotting straw and horse manure, and shows just how much effort and expense our gardening ancestors were prepared to spare in order to impress the neighbours!Back at Greenacre, we are planting some rather easier, but no less tasty, fruit. Now is the time to plant strawberries if you want a bumper crop next summer, and, in a quest for the ultimate strawberry, we have invited some top horticulturalists, chefs and the Gardeners’ World team – Toby, Joe, Alys and Carol – to nominate their very favourite variety. We will plant them all and next year will reveal which variety produced the tastiest, sweetest, most succulent crop.

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