The BEST episodes of Gardeners' World
Every episode of Gardeners' World ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gardeners' World!
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.
#1 - Episode 6
Season 49 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/15/2016
Monty starts a new project - a cutting garden - and gives advice on what to grow to provide plenty of cut flowers for gorgeous summer bouquets. We visit Cumbria to meet Jack Gott, who has been passionate about that most flamboyant of flowers, the dahlia, for more than 40 years and has over a thousand plants in his garden. James Alexander-Sinclair celebrates a harbinger of spring, the ephemeral cherry blossom, at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.
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#3 - Episode 1
Season 49 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/4/2016
Spring is nearly upon us and Gardeners' World is back with a new series. As usual, Monty Don is at Longmeadow where he sets out his plans for the coming year. This week, Monty reviews the effects the winter weather has had on his garden. Carol Klein visits a Welsh hillside garden and delves into the botany of bulbs with a couple who have used a scientific approach to plant their garden with the earliest of spring flowers. It is the perfect time of year to plant trees and Joe Swift gives us his guide to choosing the best ones for our gardens. And there is a glimmer of hope for gardeners who have had to cope with copious amounts of rainfall this year when we visit a garden which, last year, was brought back from the brink of destruction with spectacular results.
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Season 49 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/11/2016
As the gardening year gets underway at Longmeadow, Monty is tidying up his ornamental grass border, pruning roses and planning for summer scent. Joe Swift continues his series on trees when he gives tips on how to plant a tree for future success. Rachel de Thame follows a fragrant trail and explains how even the tiniest of flowers pack a punch in the perfume stakes. And, in the first of several visits, we join the head gardener of Britain's most famous garden at Sissinghurst as he sets out his plans to restore it to its original vision.
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#7 - Episode 2
Season 48 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/13/2015
Hellebores, the jewels of the early spring border, come under the spotlight on this show. Monty Don shares his top tips on how to get the best from them. Carol Klein visits a couple who have just moved into a bungalow with a badly neglected garden. With her help over the coming year, they're hoping to create the garden of their dreams.
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#9 - Episode 5
Season 48 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/3/2015
With the long Easter weekend ahead, the time is ripe for tackling some major projects in the garden. At Longmeadow, Monty Don breaks ground for his new pond, and Carol Klein pays Geoff and Sally Davis another visit in their Somerset garden. Their overgrown shrubs are in need of a jolly good haircut, but they haven't a clue where to begin.
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#11 - Episode 7
Season 48 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/17/2015
Magnolias are the showstoppers of the tree world right now; to celebrate them in all their glory, James Alexander-Sinclair visits Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex, with its collection of magnificent champion trees. Monty Don is busy at Longmeadow too, giving his borders a bit of a boost and pricking out seedlings by the hundred.
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#13 - Episode 14
Season 48 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/19/2015
Joe Swift continues his quest to find the perfect hanging basket and comes up with his own design for a shady part of his garden. Monty Don has caught the bug too and shows us how to plant up an edible basket. Meanwhile, Carol Klein explores one of the nation's most beautiful gardens to find out why their borders work so well.
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#14 - Episode 15
Season 48 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/26/2015
This edition of the programme is bursting with colour and packed with information. At Longmeadow, Monty Don celebrates the arrival of summer by making a start on his new scented border; and offers a few suggestions for what to be getting on with for the weekend ahead.
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#15 - Episode 16
Season 48 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/3/2015
Plants that have a head for heights come under the spotlight this week. At Craigieburn Garden in the Scottish Borders Gardeners' World discovers a unique collection of Himalayan plants, and visits a nurseryman in Hebden Bridge who has been growing alpines since he was a teenager.
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#16 - Episode 17
Season 48 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/10/2015
As the summer gathers pace and the weather starts to warm up, drought-tolerant plants really hit their stride. Monty Don shares some of his favourites from Longmeadow, and garden designer Adam Frost shows us how to build a gravel garden from scratch.
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#17 - Episode 21
Season 48 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/14/2015
At Longmeadow, Monty gets help from an expert to decide on a course of action for his box hedge. He also attempts to grow some mushrooms in the hope of picking a bumper crop come the autumn.
#22 - Episode 27
Season 48 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/24/2015
Charge your glasses as Joe Swift visits a drinkable allotment in London where much of the produce is grown to make beer, wine and cider. And in the first of a five-part series about botany, Carol Klein looks at the capsules of potential that herald the start and end of most plants' lives - seeds.
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Season 48 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/9/2015
Monty Don is at Longmeadow with a host of seasonal jobs to keep his autumn garden looking beautiful for as long as possible. And in the third of her fascinating films about how plants work, Carol Klein investigates the science of stems.
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Season 48 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/16/2015
In the fourth of her films about botany, Carol Klein explores the inner workings of leaves - how they harness the sun's energy and turn it into food. And Joe Swift meets Griff Rhys Jones for a private tour of his remarkable garden and discovers what a passionate gardener he is.
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#25 - Episode 2
Season 51 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/16/2018
Monty Don makes plans for a bumper harvest of fruit when he adds raspberries to his fruit garden, and gives advice on how to plant bare-root trees. Carol Klein explores one of the unsung heroes of the spring border, the daphne, while Joe Swift shares designs on brightening up dull and uninteresting spaces with pots full of colour that can be planted now.
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