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Gardeners' World

Season 41 2008
TV-G

  • 2008-02-29T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 30m
  • 10h 30m (21 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Gardeners' World is a long-running BBC television programme about gardening that continues to this day. The first episode was filmed in 1968, presented by Ken Burras and came from Oxford Botanical Gardens. Most of the episodes of the show are 30 minutes long, though there are many specials that last longer.

31 episodes

Season Premiere

2008-02-29T20:00:00Z

41x01 A New Orchard for Berryfields

Season Premiere

41x01 A New Orchard for Berryfields

  • 2008-02-29T20:00:00Z30m

Monty is back at Berryfields finishing off Winter gardening jobs and getting ready for new challenges and new projects for the garden. He's joined by Alys Fowler, Berryfields' head gardener, and together they plan and plant a small orchard of heritage apple, pear and plum varieties. There's also a look at projects across the UK where growing, and safeguarding the future of local British fruit varieties is celebrated: From a community orchard project in Gloucestershire, to the conservation of 'Mazzard' Cherries in Devon.

2008-03-14T20:00:00Z

41x02 Dawn of Spring

41x02 Dawn of Spring

  • 2008-03-14T20:00:00Z30m

Carol Klein celebrates spring in the West Country. Carol shares her propagation secrets from her home garden in Devon, with tips on primroses and tulips.

2008-03-21T20:00:00Z

41x03 Easter in the Garden

41x03 Easter in the Garden

  • 2008-03-21T20:00:00Z30m

Gardening tips and advice. Good Friday is one of the busiest weekends for nurseries and garden centres as the official gardening year begins. Monty is in the Long Borders moving and dividing some of the mature plants. Carol visits Great Dixter to talk to head gardener Fergus Garrett as he prepares for the garden's first opening. Joe Swift is at one of the country's award winning garden centres.

2008-03-28T20:00:00Z

41x04 Design Modern Garden

41x04 Design Modern Garden

  • 2008-03-28T20:00:00Z30m

Joe Swift takes the fear out of designing a garden with some simple principles. Starting at the Chaumont Garden Design festival in France, Joe looks at this year's design fashions and translates them to fit the domestic garden. Using four gardens, Joe shows how line, repetition, scale and proportion, simplicity, discovery and functionality should be used.

2008-04-04T19:00:00Z

41x05 Allotment Search

41x05 Allotment Search

  • 2008-04-04T19:00:00Z30m

New look show. Monty Don and head gardener Alys Fowler sow colourful annuals at Berryfields. Joe Swift starts looking for an allotment in North London where he can grow fruit and vegetables for his family. Carol Klein is at home in Devon working on her own garden.

2008-04-11T19:00:00Z

41x06 New Spaces

41x06 New Spaces

  • 2008-04-11T19:00:00Z30m

At Berryfields we sow the first carrots of the season and Monty launches two big new projects for Gardeners' World this year. Firstly a challenge for Joe Swift to provide fruit and vegetables for his family from his new London allotment. Then down in Devon, Carol takes on a young family who want to create an environmentally friendly garden with her help.

2008-04-18T19:00:00Z

41x07 A Garden For The Senses

41x07 A Garden For The Senses

  • 2008-04-18T19:00:00Z30m

A garden for the senses is the new project that Monty makes a start on at Berryfields. His plan is to create a space that will offer stunning colourful displays, heady scents and relaxing and contemplative sounds. But first he needs to clear the area. In London, Joe takes his family to see the new allotment and Carol helps Jo and Russell Ash to dig their first flower bed.

2008-04-25T19:00:00Z

41x08 Nectar Bar

41x08 Nectar Bar

  • 2008-04-25T19:00:00Z30m

Monty re-visits the nectar bar and the woodland glade to add new plants to both, but his main task is developing the planting in the Cottage Garden in a new direction. Carol finishes her new pond at her home at Glebe Cottage in Devon, and Joe and his family are on his allotment in Enfield, planting broad beans and Goji berries. Back at Berryfields, Alys attempts to grow some Cacti from seed, and Monty revels in the tulip display in the Long Borders.

The team explore the 23rd annual Malvern Spring Gardening Show, held at the Three Counties Show Ground in Worcestershire. This year the Malvern Spring Gardening Show is bigger and better than ever with 17 stunning Show Gardens and more plant nurseries in the Floral Marquee than Chelsea. Joe looks for advice and ideas for his allotment, whilst Carol is plant hunting in the Floral Marquee.

2008-05-16T19:00:00Z

41x10 The Changing Garden

41x10 The Changing Garden

  • 2008-05-16T19:00:00Z30m

A look at the way in which we garden and how it is changing. We visit a radical project in London, which provides people without any garden at all with a place to cultivate plants. Carol and Joe are back at Berryfields and starting a project that embraces the fact that the average size of a British back garden is decreasing.

2008-05-30T19:00:00Z

41x11 Wonderful Allotments

41x11 Wonderful Allotments

  • 2008-05-30T19:00:00Z30m

Joe visits an award winning allotment site at Stoke on Trent.

2008-06-16T19:00:00Z

41x12 Climate Change

41x12 Climate Change

  • 2008-06-16T19:00:00Z30m

The team assess climate change by nurturing dry gardens and growing exotic vegetables.

41x13 Gardeners' World Live 2008

  • 2008-06-13T19:00:00Z30m

Rachel de Thame meets Ben Barnes, star of Disney's Prince Caspian.

2008-06-20T19:00:00Z

41x14 Jungle Garden

41x14 Jungle Garden

  • 2008-06-20T19:00:00Z30m

Joe Swift is in the jungle garden exploring different ways of planting exotics.

2008-07-11T19:00:00Z

41x15 Summer Borders

41x15 Summer Borders

  • 2008-07-11T19:00:00Z30m

Gardeners' World celebrates its summer borders.

2008-08-01T19:00:00Z

41x16 Gardens For Families

41x16 Gardens For Families

  • 2008-08-01T19:00:00Z30m

A look at how gardeners create their gardens to fit their family's needs.

41x17 Location, Lifestyle & Work

  • 2008-08-08T19:00:00Z30m

How does location, lifestyle and work reflect on the way we garden?

41x18 RHS Harlow Carr & Rosemoor

  • 2008-08-15T19:00:00Z30m

The Royal Horticultural Society at Harlow Carr and Rosemoor present their best plants.

2008-08-22T19:00:00Z

41x19 Cottage Garden

41x19 Cottage Garden

  • 2008-08-22T19:00:00Z30m

How has the English cottage garden coped with the threat of climate change?

2008-09-05T19:00:00Z

41x21 Rachel's Border

41x21 Rachel's Border

  • 2008-09-05T19:00:00Z30m

Making a border from scratch is one of the most exciting aspects of garden making, and last summer Rachel de Thame had the chance to fulfil a lifelong ambition, planting up a 20 metre border with all the planting combinations she previously could only dream about.

It's Toby's first Christmas in the Berryfields garden, and to celebrate he is planting a willow glade packed full of colourful promise. In years to come the plan is that he will coppice the willow and use it to build fencing and other structures around the garden. He practises his willow weaving skills as he and head gardener Alys Fowler create new obelisks for the long borders.

Plus, Joe celebrates his first season on the allotment with a Christmas party for his allotment buddies. He travels to Surrey to bring in the grape harvest for the Christmas bubbly.

Carol Klein is at home in Glebe Cottage, where she rejuvenates her crocosmia and pays a final visit to new gardeners Jo Ash and Russ Johnson. They reflect on their busy year.

Sarah Raven is at home making beautiful Christmas decorations from all things natural.

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