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.
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Monty Don returns to the series and uses his garden at his own Herefordshire home. Monty, Carol, Joe and Rachel are getting ready for spring. Carol takes a look around one of the country's best winter gardens at Anglesey Abbey. Joe and Rachel are in Dorset.
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s44e02March 18, 20112011-03-1820:30⌄
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March 18, 2011
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With winter drawing to a close, work in the garden increases. Monty plants pots of summer bulbs for colour and scent. He also talks about his plans for reinvigorating the area in his garden where perennials planted for their rich jewel-like colours need some attention. Carol takes a look around Glendurgan Garden in Cornwall.
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s44e03March 25, 20112011-03-2520:30⌄
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The team offer advise on which plants will add colour to the garden during the summer.
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s44e04April 1, 20112011-04-0119:30⌄
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With April now here, Monty Don starts to reinvigorate his Jewel Garden. Carol Klein takes a look around one of the world's most renowned camellia collections when she visits Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall. Rachel de Thame takes a look behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural Society's main garden at Wisley.
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s44e05April 8, 20112011-04-0819:30⌄
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Monty is getting ready for for the summer by sowing hardy annuals like nasturtiums and calendulas. Carol takes a look around a garden that is full of art, design and architecture. Joe attempts to deal with a gardening problem that many lovers of exotic plants have been struggling to deal with because of the winter weather.
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s44e06April 15, 20112011-04-1519:30⌄
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Monty adds pot-grown plants, as well as sowing some from seed to his gareden after spring gets under way. He also names some other wildflowers which would thrive in most gardens. Carol talks to Matt Bishop, who explains why he is attracted to later flowering varieties of daffodils. Rachel attempts to show how to deal with pruning an overgrown shrubbery.
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s44e07April 22, 20112011-04-2219:30⌄
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Monty is planting climbers for different aspects in his walled garden at Longmeadow, Carol is in her garden at Glebe cottage where she takes inspiration from the nearby Devon hedgerows to find out which kind of plants thrive there and then uses some of their cultivated cousins to transform an area in her own garden.
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s44e08May 6, 20112011-05-0619:30⌄
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Monty works on his 'dry garden', an area where the soil is particularly thin and baked by the sun as May gets under way. Rachel takes a look around the gardens of Coton Manor in Northamptonshire. Carol talks to a woman who loves gardening for the different creatures they attract to her South Devon garden.
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s44e09May 13, 20112011-05-1319:30⌄
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The team begin this year's flower show season by paying a visit to the Malvern Spring Gardening Show.
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s44e10May 20, 20112011-05-2019:30⌄
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Monty gets ready to surround the courtyard garden with scented summer pots. Joe gets the chance to take a look around a rarely seen private garden created by one of Britain's foremost designers. Carol travels to Wiltshire to help a couple who have lost most of the plants on their pergola because of the harsh winter.
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s44e11June 3, 20112011-06-0319:30⌄
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The plants in the garden are growing with such speed that some have a tendency to flop as June gets under way. Monty explains how to make stakes that can be used for many years to come to help the plants. Carol pays a visitor to a gardener and bee keeper in Wiltshire who is trying to make the most of a shady area by planting nectar rich plants.
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s44e12June 10, 20112011-06-1019:30⌄
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Monty takes a look around the iconic garden of impressionist painter Claude Monet in Giverny. Monty also shares his top tips for growing key culinary herbs back in his own garden. Carol pays a visit to a gardener in need of help.
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s44e13June 17, 20112011-06-1719:30⌄
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Monty plants dahlias, tends to his roses and offers tips on how to extend the life of the vegetable garden. Monty, Carol, Joe and Rachel are at Gardeners' World Live, where they take a look at different show gardens. They also take part in a bring and buy plant sale.
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s44e14July 8, 20112011-07-0819:30⌄
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Monty demonstrates which plants to choose for sensational borders that will last through out the summer. He also plants squashes and pumpkins. Carol offers advice on which are the best hardy geraniums for different situations. She also takes a look around the gardens of Waltham Place. Joe visits Cothay Manor where he learns what it takes to maintain 12 acres of beautiful gardens.
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s44e15July 22, 20112011-07-2219:30⌄
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Monty is impressed by the sweet peas he grew from seed earlier in the year. He takes softwood cuttings from herbs, including lavender, and lifts and divides the primulas. Rachel talks to a couple from Hampshire who have created their garden around the hosta which is their favourite plant. Carol is in Wales to learn how a man changed his sloping plot into a garden on five different levels.
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s44e16July 29, 20112011-07-2919:30⌄
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At Longmeadow, Monty attempts to make sure that there will be some late summer colour. He also divides irises and shows what has gone wrong with his onion crop. Joe takes a look around Newby Hall in North Yorkshire which is also home to the longest herbaceous borders in Europe. Carol explains how she manages to keep her flower beds looking their best at this time of year.
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s44e17August 12, 20112011-08-1219:30⌄
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Monty is pruning the deciduous hedges that are an important part of the structure and form of Longmeadow. He then plants dahlias and cannas in pots for colour that will last right into the autumn. Monty also travel to London and gets the chance to look around second largest garden in the city which is the American Ambassador's garden.
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s44e18August 19, 20112011-08-1919:30⌄
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Monty makes plans for the autumn by planting crocus at Longmeadow. He also adds cyclamen to the spring garden, and offers tips on how to get a great show from them. Joe takeas a look around Marks Hall. Carol talks to a Staffordshire couple who've created a garden for all four seasons in their half-acre plot.
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s44e19August 26, 20112011-08-2619:30⌄
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Monty reveals his his plans to create a wet meadow. He begins by planting some herbaceous perennials. Carol travels to the Welsh mountains to pick up some vegetable growing tips.
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s44e20September 2, 20112011-09-0219:30⌄
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Monty explaisn how to to maximise next year's soft fruit crop by pruning his summer raspberries and planting on strawberry runners. Rachel de Thame pays a visit to the home of historian Sir Roy Strong and takes a look around his garden.
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s44e21September 9, 20112011-09-0919:30⌄
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Monty makes plans for spring by planting some early nectar sources for bees. He also plants some asters which will give colour for autumn and also help bees build up their nectar reserves to help them get through the winter. Carol travels to Norfolk to take a look around the Pensthorpe Nature Reserve.
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s44e22September 23, 20112011-09-2319:30⌄
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Monty offers advice on taking cuttings from roses to bulk up stock for free. Carol is collecting seeds from her favourite flowering perennials as she plans to plant up a new border as cheaply as possible. Rachel travels to Hook End in Berkshire to take a look at a variety of splendid roses.
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s44e23September 30, 20112011-09-3019:30⌄
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This special programme comes from all four of the Royal Horticultural Society gardens as the presenters are out on the road lookingst how each location's differing climate affects the plants they grow.
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s44e24October 7, 20112011-10-0719:30⌄
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Monty offers advice on how to store an apple crop so it will last roght through winter. Monty also clears his greenhouse and makes plans for next year by planting garlic in the vegetable garden. Carol is in her garden at Glebe Cottage, where she is dividing her perennials.
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s44e25October 14, 20112011-10-1419:30⌄
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Monty is getting the garden ready for next summer by planting some sweet peas. Carol visits Thorp Perrow Arboretum in Yorkshire taking a look at the autumn display and she also recommends varieties suitable to plant in our gardens. Monty also plants some daffodils and anemones in the dry shade under trees for a spring display in his garden.
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s44e26October 21, 20112011-10-2119:30⌄
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Monty insulates his greenhouse so that it can provide a winter home for all sorts of different tender plants. He also offers tips and techniques for ensuring their survival until the following year. Carol takes a look around the garden of a tropical plant enthusiast to discover how he protects some of his exotic specimens. Monty visits the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in South Africa where he takes a look at their native plants which are also familiar to many British gardens.
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s44e27October 28, 20112011-10-2819:30⌄
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Monty does some autumn maintenance on his garden as he looks back over the year. Carol is at Glebe Cottage as she continues to work on her new raised beds and taming an overgrown and unruly rambling rose. Joe takes a look around Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.
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s44e28Christmas Special2011-12-0920:30⌄
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Christmas Special
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Monty, Carol, Joe and Rachel attempt to celebrate the festive season from a gardener's point of view. Monty and Rachel have a good clear up as Longmeadow as they cut back some plants but leaving others for the wildlife. Monty also works on his rhubarb patch. With Joe's hel. Monty attempts to move a holly tree that has outgrown its current location. Carol finds out more about some of the country's best winter walks. Pam Ayres explains how she encourages wildlife into her garden.
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