The BEST episodes of Gardeners' World season 41
Every episode of Gardeners' World season 41, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gardeners' World season 41!
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 - Malvern Spring Gardening Show
Season 41 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/9/2008
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.
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Season 41 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/30/2008
Joe visits an award winning allotment site at Stoke on Trent.
#3 - Gardeners' World at Christmas
Season 41 - Episode 31 - Aired 12/19/2008
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.
#4 - Rachel's Border
Season 41 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/5/2008
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.
#5 - Cottage Garden
Season 41 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/22/2008
How has the English cottage garden coped with the threat of climate change?
#6 - RHS Harlow Carr & Rosemoor
Season 41 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/15/2008
The Royal Horticultural Society at Harlow Carr and Rosemoor present their best plants.
#7 - Location, Lifestyle & Work
Season 41 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/8/2008
How does location, lifestyle and work reflect on the way we garden?
#8 - Gardens For Families
Season 41 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/1/2008
A look at how gardeners create their gardens to fit their family's needs.
#9 - Summer Borders
Season 41 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/11/2008
Gardeners' World celebrates its summer borders.
#10 - Jungle Garden
Season 41 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/20/2008
Joe Swift is in the jungle garden exploring different ways of planting exotics.
#11 - Gardeners' World Live 2008
Season 41 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/13/2008
Rachel de Thame meets Ben Barnes, star of Disney's Prince Caspian.
#12 - Climate Change
Season 41 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/16/2008
The team assess climate change by nurturing dry gardens and growing exotic vegetables.
#13 - The Changing Garden
Season 41 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/16/2008
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.
#14 - Nectar Bar
Season 41 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/25/2008
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.
#15 - A Garden For The Senses
Season 41 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/18/2008
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.
#16 - New Spaces
Season 41 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/11/2008
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.
#17 - Allotment Search
Season 41 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/4/2008
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.
#18 - Design Modern Garden
Season 41 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/28/2008
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.
#19 - Easter in the Garden
Season 41 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/21/2008
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.
#20 - Dawn of Spring
Season 41 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/2008
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.
#21 - A New Orchard for Berryfields
Season 41 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/29/2008
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.