Gardeners have criticised the BBC for taking the Great British Garden Revival off air after one episode – to make way for Mandela coverage before Christmas. The 14-episode gardening extravaganza…
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Spring will be stunning this year, says Alan Titchmarsh
Spring may have sprung late, but when it finally comes it will be sensational, Alan Titchmarsh has predicted. The ITV Love Your Garden presenter shared gardeners’ frustration at being stuck…
Could you design the One Show’s garden?
Do you have what it takes to design a garden for the Royal Horticultural Society and the BBC at a premier flower show? BBC1’s The One Show has teamed up…
Allotment Wars – BBC1 under fire from gardeners
The BBC has been accused of sensationalising allotment disputes after a 55-minute fly-on-the-wall documentary that “dished the dirt” on plot battles. BBC1’s Allotment Wars, filmed over seven months, attracted 2.49million…
Scotland’s Beechgrove Garden heads south on BBC2
BBC Scotland’s flagship gardening series The Beechgrove Gardenis to be broadcast nationally for the first time this spring. In a move that will create a rival to Gardeners’ World, Beechgrove…
Garden inventors slay the BBC’s Dragons
A father-and-son who turned down £50,000 of investment for a garden gadget on BBC2’s Dragons’ Denhave told how they have no regrets about walking away from the deal. Yorkshireman Mike…
BBC’s abandoned Greenacre garden rises from the ashes
A television garden abandoned by the BBC after just two-and-a-half years on-screen has been given a new lease of life – as an urban veg-growing project. Greenacre at Edgbaston in…
Organic Monty Don slams critics in BBC chemical spat
Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don has vowed to defy a BBC statement that pledged he will offer a balance of organic and non-organic advice on TV. Product firms had criticised Monty…
Red alert over Monty Don’s lily beetle tip
Plant protection firms have accused Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don of issuing biased advice on how to control a troublesome plant pest. On BBC2’s flagship show last Month, Monty told how…
Blue Peter garden to open to public for first time
The Blue Peter garden is to open to the public for the first time, now that it has been relocated from London to Manchester. Now rebuilt at MediaCityUK at Salford…