Gardeners' World (1968)
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 - Episode 1
Release Date: 2024-03-15Monty 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 - Episode 2
Release Date: 2024-03-22As the days are getting longer, Monty is busy preparing his dahlia tubers ready for planting, cutting back fuchsias and planting out shallots.
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Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 2024-03-29To kick off the Easter weekend, Monty is refreshing the planting on the Mound. Frances Tophill goes to Helmsley Walled Garden in North Yorkshire to revel in the spring colour.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 2024-04-05Adam Frost takes stock of his borders and plans ahead for some year-round interest. Joe Swift travels to Birmingham to meet an allotmenteer who is passionate about growing all things Italian.
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Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 2024-04-12With summer in mind, Monty plants up a seating area filled with night-scented plants and begins preparations to sow a new lawn. He also takes dahlia cuttings and sows squash for an autumn harvest.
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Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 2024-04-19Monty is repairing turf, sowing sweetcorn and planting pots for evening fragrance this summer. Adam travels to Dublin to meet musician Adam Clayton in his garden.
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Episode 7 - Episode 7
Release Date: 2024-04-26Adam Frost continues to develop his new woodland border, ably assisted by Ash the cat. Frances Tophill travels to Buckinghamshire to explore a beautiful garden called Wind in the Willows.
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Episode 8 - Episode 8
Release Date: 2024-05-03Monty expands the planting on the mound and prepares for a summer display in the cottage garden. Nick Bailey explores a garden that combines historic charm with modern design.
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Episode 9 - Episode 9
Release Date: 2024-05-10Gardeners’ World comes from the RHS Malvern Spring Festival, where Arit Anderson and Joe Swift explore show gardens packed full of ideas and discover the newest varieties of plants and flowers.
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Episode 10 - Episode 10
Release Date: 2024-05-17Monty is busy moving his tender succulents outdoors and makes a start on planting up his new cut flower beds. In North Yorkshire, Frances Tophill visits the gardens at Newby Hall.
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Episode 11 - Episode 11
Release Date: 2024-05-31With summer feasts in mind, Monty reveals a new outdoor eating area he has been working on. Carol Klein visits a spectacular garden in Oxfordshire where the borders are filled with colourful annuals.
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Episode 12 - Episode 12
Release Date: 2024-06-07Monty reveals his plans for planting up pots in his cottage garden. Sue Kent visits a unique garden in Carmarthenshire situated around a wooden house on stilts.
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Episode 13 - Episode 13
Release Date: 2024-06-14The 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 - Episode 14
Release Date: 2024-06-21Frances Tophill is at Powderham Castle in Devon. She spends the day there with her good friend Jeanette, who has been transforming part of the walled garden into a productive growing space.
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Episode 15 - Episode 15
Release Date: 2024-06-27The 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 - Episode 16
Release Date: 2024-07-04In a special programme, Gardeners’ World comes from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival.
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Episode 17 - Episode 17
Release Date: 2024-07-19The team are in Cheshire, at the biggest horticultural event in the north, the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park.
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Episode 18 - Episode 18
Release Date: 2024-07-26Monty is getting the garden ‘holiday ready’, planting phlox and cutting back plants that have finished flowering. Carol Klein shares tips on how to increase the stocks of flowering bulbs and tubers.
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Episode 19 - Episode 19
Release Date: 2024-08-02As the garden starts to hit its mid summer peak, Monty prunes his philadelphus and takes cuttings. Sue Kent assesses her summer borders and takes wallflower cuttings.
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Episode 20 - Episode 20
Release Date: 2024-08-09Adam 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 - Episode 21
Release Date: 2024-08-16Monty 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 autumn and beyond.
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Episode 22 - Episode 22
Release Date: 2024-08-23With September just around the corner, Monty's thinking ahead to next year and makes a start on adding foxtail lilies to his borders. And Rachel de Thame delves into the extraordinary world of bees.
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Episode 23 - Episode 23
Release Date: 2024-08-30Monty continues his preparations for next year by getting some daffodils in the ground, while Frances Tophill visits pioneering horticulturist Josh Sparkes at his experimental plot in Devon.
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Episode 24 - Episode 24
Release Date: 2024-09-06In a special programme coming from Norfolk, Arit Anderson and Adam Frost go behind the scenes at East Ruston Old Vicarage to discover how this beautiful garden was created.
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Episode 25 - Episode 25
Release Date: 2024-09-13Planning ahead for next year, Monty plants camassias and cyclamen for a spring display and sows hardy annuals into his cut flower beds, whilst in the veg garden he plants out strawberries.
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Episode 26 - Episode 26
Release Date: 2024-09-20Monty gives his top tips on how to keep lawns looking their best throughout autumn, tidies up the pond, and plans ahead for a colourful spring display by potting up hyacinth bulbs.
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Episode 27 - Episode 27
Release Date: 2024-09-27Frances Tophill is back at Powderham Castle in Devon. As well as planting up a new herb bed, identifying and collecting seedlings, dividing perennial plants and making a comfrey liquid feed, she explains how to help tackle the decline of butterflies and pollinators in gardens.
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Episode 28 - Episode 28
Release Date: 2024-10-04With 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 - Episode 29
Release Date: 2024-10-11It’s apple harvest time, so Monty collects some of his windfalls to juice, plants a shrub in the Cottage Garden, and pots up amaryllis bulbs for Christmas.
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Episode 30 - Episode 30
Release Date: 2024-10-18Frances Tophill is back at Powderham Castle in Devon, where she puts the finishing touches to a new herb bed and prepares the vegetable beds for winter.
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Episode 31 - Episode 31
Release Date: 2024-10-25Monty plants an early flowering clematis along a very shady wall, checks on the progress of his supermarket garlic and plants out two other types of garlic to overwinter outdoors.
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Episode 32 - Episode 32
Release Date: 2024-11-08Monty plants a hawthorn hedge in the orchard, prunes a climbing rose and starts to plant tulips for next spring. He puts his dahlia tubers into storage and offers some timely advice for protecting plants over winter.