The BEST episodes of Gardeners' World season 43

#1 - Episode 3

Season 43 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/2010

Toby Buckland is tidying up the Bee Border at Greenacre, cutting back the ghosts of last year's plants and selecting some nectar rich spring flowering perennials and shrubs that can be planted now to help ensure there is sufficient food for early bees. At Glebe Cottage in Devon, Carol Klein is celebrating the extensive Primula family. She takes us through the family tree, and reveals some surprising clan-members in between.

#2 - Episode 17

Season 43 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/1/2010

Gardening magazine. Toby Buckland shows us how to make a beautiful but simple garden path using recycled materials from both the home and the garden to create an informal look. Carol Klein visits the restored Victorian vegetable garden at Knightshayes Court. She also investigates the Campanula family. In Joe Swift's sustainable back garden at Greenacre, he shows us how to make a simple bench from a reclaimed pallet. And Alys Fowler is taking the plunge in a natural swimming pond.

#3 - Episode 18

Season 43 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/6/2010

It's the holiday season and there's no better time for Gardeners' World to take to the road, so when Toby Buckland and Carol Klein heard about a community of gardeners in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire with some of the commonest garden problems, they didn't need asking twice to head out and see if there was anything they could do to help. Toby concentrates on the gardens and allotments. Carol gives advice on issues ranging from propagation to pruning.

#4 - The Science of Gardening

Season 43 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/19/2010

The Science of Gardening. Carol Klein 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.

#5 - Episode 19

Season 43 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/20/2010

Toby shows how to increase the numbers of butterflies coming to your garden by planting the right flowers. Carol takes a look at the more decorative members of the potato family.

#6 - Episode 20

Season 43 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/27/2012

#7 - Episode 21

Season 43 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/3/2010

#8 - Episode 22

Season 43 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/10/2010

#9 - Episode 23

Season 43 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/17/2010

#10 - Episode 24

Season 43 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/24/2010

#11 - Grow to Show

Season 43 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/1/2010

#12 - Episode 26

Season 43 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/8/2010

#13 - Episode 27

Season 43 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/15/2010

#14 - Episode 28

Season 43 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/22/2010

#15 - Episode 29

Season 43 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/29/2010

#16 - Episode 30

Season 43 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/5/2010

#17 - Episode 31

Season 43 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/12/2010

#18 - Episode 16

Season 43 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/23/2010

Gardening magazine. Toby Buckland gets stuck into building an ingenious herb spiral - an easy build with a cunning design allowing all the herbs you like to cook with to be grown in one small but beautiful planter. Joe Swift is in the vegetable patch harvesting crops like peas, early potatoes and salad that are ready to eat, but he also has top tips on sowing exotic Chinese veg now to ensure there are crops to eat well into the autumn.

#19 - Gardening on the Edge

Season 43 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/2/2010

Toby Buckland visits some of his favourite coastal gardens and discovers how, despite the tricky and tempestuous locations, the gardens around the coast of Britain are at the forefront of horticulture and are amongst the most beautiful in the country.

#20 - Episode 14

Season 43 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/18/2010

Gardeners' World Live comes to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, offering something for everyone, from high-end design to helpful hints for ordinary gardeners. Toby Buckland visits the jewel in the crown of Gardeners' World Live, the RHS Floral Marquee, meeting passionate plantsmen and women from around the country. Whether it's a tried and tested favourite or something rare and unusual, Toby discovers the plants and the stories behind them. Joe Swift tours the show gardens, from the large and aspirational to the small and inspirational, finding the best ideas to take away and try out at home. Carol Klein gives her guide to propagation, with tips on how to turn one plant into many. And Alys Fowler meets the nurseries offering the best edibles at the show. And the ever popular Gardeners' World Plant Swap is back. Toby, Carol, Joe and Alys meet viewers and visitors wanting to swap their spare plants.

#21 - Episode 13

Season 43 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/11/2010

Toby Buckland is removing wall-flowers and digging up spent tulips, and has plenty of ideas for colourful replacements which will give dramatic flowers and foliage well into the first frosts of autumn. There's plenty of summer gardening advice for lawns, fruit gardens and shrub care from the experts at the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley.

#22 - Episode 12

Season 43 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/4/2010

With summer on the horizon and everything in the garden growing like fury, there is plenty to be getting on with in the garden at the moment and Gardeners' World has some timely advice for borders, veg patches, boggy areas and even compost heaps. Plants which thrive in the moist conditions of pond margins are looking at their best right now and Toby Buckland recommends varieties which not only add a splash of colour but also have great foliage.

#23 - Episode 11

Season 43 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/21/2010

Toby Buckland shares his top tips on how to get a bumper tomato harvest, as well as his ideas for where to plant shrubs with purple, gold and silver leaves to ensure that they flourish in your garden. Carol Klein continues her investigation into plant families as she delves into the nettle clan, while Alys Fowler uses a Native American Indian technique for growing tender vegetables. Plus a final chance to see the rhododendrons at the Leonardslee garden in West Sussex.

#24 - Episode 10

Season 43 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/2010

Toby Buckland shows us how to get the wow factor with beautiful blooming hanging baskets and recommends some of the best water-retaining products to keep baskets in even the sunniest of spots hydrated. And drawing inspiration from one of the nation's finest woodland gardens, Aberglasney, Toby suggests a fantastic selection of colourful plants that will thrive in the dappled shade of a tree canopy or beside a fence or wall.

#25 - The Malvern Spring Show

Season 43 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/7/2010

The Malvern Spring Show heralds the start of the flower show season. The Gardeners' World team are there highlighting the best plants in the floral marquee and finding the latest in design ideas from the show gardens. 2010 is the Malvern Show's 25th anniversary and the International Year of Biodiversity, so the team find out how the way we garden has changed over the last quarter-century and how nurturing wildlife has become second nature to gardeners.