Paradise Gardens

All Episodes 1997

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  • 1997-01-07T00:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Home And Garden
Geoff Hamilton presents a six-part series showcasing gardens as escapist havens from the modern world. A delightful series that turned out to be the last from the fondly remembered TV gardener Geoff Hamilton.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

1997-01-07T00:00:00Z

1x01 A Leafy Highway

Series Premiere

1x01 A Leafy Highway

  • 1997-01-07T00:00:00Z30m

The first leg of Geoff's journey takes him to an inner city garden in Cardiff, and then onto a garden paradise belonging to an Oxfordshire couple, then at his last stop Geoff visits a friar's forest garden.

1997-01-10T00:00:00Z

1x02 Summer in the City

1x02 Summer in the City

  • 1997-01-10T00:00:00Z30m

Geoff Hamilton visits two very different inner city gardens: Martin Summer's Chelsea roof garden, and a small balcony garden in Bermondsey, owned by the Gardiner family. Then back at Geoff's Barnsdale garden, he lays down a patio.

1997-01-10T00:00:00Z

1x03 The Secret Corner

1x03 The Secret Corner

  • 1997-01-10T00:00:00Z30m

Geoff Hamilton offers advice on how to create a paradise in your own garden. In this edition Items featured include touring a Warwick town garden, advice on using trellis to make fencing higher, ideas on creating a willow arbour, and a peek at an idyllic country garden

1997-01-10T00:00:00Z

1x04 A Feast of Colour

1x04 A Feast of Colour

  • 1997-01-10T00:00:00Z30m

Gardening series presented by Geoff Hamilton. In this edition, Geoff investigates how the use of colour in gardens can affect us. He goes on a tour of some captivatingly colourful gardens, visiting Miriam Rothschild's wildflower meadow, the medieval meads at Tretower Court in Powys, and a garden in Hampshire that has been restored according to its original 1908 planting scheme, designed by Gertrude Jekyll.

1997-01-10T00:00:00Z

1x05 A Mirror for the Sky

1x05 A Mirror for the Sky

  • 1997-01-10T00:00:00Z30m

Geoff Hamilton offers advice on how to create a paradise in your own garden. In this edition he tours a collection of wonderful gardens that showcase great ideas for incorporating water features into garden schemes. During the programme he visits the garden of Paul Guppy; this garden features an impressive assortment of ponds, streams and tunnels. Then he heads over to Geoffrey Smith's green enclave in Warwick. Here Geoffrey offers a demonstration on how to create a mysterious water feature in a backyard. The last stop is at Cleve West's garden, where he offers some helpful tips on how to achieve a futuristic style in the garden.

1997-01-10T00:00:00Z

1x06 Dear Old Mother Nature

1x06 Dear Old Mother Nature

  • 1997-01-10T00:00:00Z30m

Last in the series in which Geoff Hamilton offers advice on how to create a paradise garden. In this programme, Geoff looks at gardens which were designed for the dual purpose of exuding delightful natural fragrancea, and to generate great visual impact. These gardens feature an abundance of both wildlife and plantlife, including wild roses. Other items featured in the programme include a visit to a cottage herbery, and a garden designed to engage the visually impaired.

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