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Gardening

• Gardening on the radio (a French marigold)

  Gardening on the radio

  Get advice and handy hints with one of the BBC's gardening radio shows, from Gardeners' Question Time to Radio Humberside's The Great Outdoors. You can catch up online, wherever you live in the UK.

  • Beechgrove Potting Shed
  • Gardeners' Question Time
  • Gardeners' Corner
  • The Gardening Show
  • The Great Outdoors
  • Sunday Gardening

• Gardeners' calendar (autumn leaves)

  Gardeners' Calendar

  Keep on top of your garden and plan ahead with daily tips throughout the year with the brand new Gardeners' calendar. Here are some ideas for the week ahead.

  • Today's tips
  • Make leaf mould
  • Frost-proof your garden
  • Plant gooseberry bushes
  • Prune deciduous trees
  • Launch the planner

• Desktop calendar (bark of the Tibetan cherry, Prunus serrula)

  Beautiful bark - download this month's desktop calendar image now.

• Podcasts (pink anemone)

  Looking for inspiration and tips? Download one of the BBC's gardening podcasts.

• The new Gardening Beta Homepage

  What is a beta?

  The term 'beta' refers to a web page that is still under development.

  We would like your feedback about the Gardening beta homepage to try to improve it further.

  Then once everyone is happy with it, we'll remove its beta label.

• Gardening on the radio
• Gardeners' calendar
• Desktop calendar
• Podcasts

Plant finder database (Nerine)

Plant finder database

Search for plants by their common or their
Latin names:

Gardeners' World blog (Alys Fowler, Carol Klein, Toby Buckland and Joe Swift)

Gardeners' World blog

Get an exclusive insight into life behind the scenes at Greenacre with blogs from the team.

Go to Gardener's World blog

Gardeners' Question Time (an allotment)

Gardeners'
Question Time

Ask a question and listen to the podcast .

Message board (Viola Blue Princess)

Message Board

Share your horticultural tips or get gardening advice from fellow enthusiasts.

Gardeners' calendar (collecting poppy seeds)

Gardeners' calendar

Find daily tips for your garden any day of the year and use the planner.

Go to Gardeners' calendar

Pest and Disease Identifier (a slug)

Pest and disease identifier

Use the BBC's Pest and disease identifier to solve your plant pest queries.

Launch pest and disease identifier

Dig In

Dig In

Sample Nigel Slater's recipes and download the free Dig In Growing Guide .

Scotland's Gardens podcast (Radio Scotland logo)

Podcast:
Scotland's Gardens

• Cuttings and highlights from Radio Scotland's Beechgrove Potting Shed .

Gardening Programmes

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• All TV Gardening Programmes

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More Gardening Programmes on BBC iPlayer

• On Radio Today
• All Radio Gardening Programmes

Catch up on BBC Radio

More Gardening Programmes on BBC iPlayer

• 1. Gardeners' World
     2009, Joe's Design Made Easy 6 days left to watch Joe Swift revisits a garden he helped to design and build.
  2. Anns a Gharradh (In the Garden)
     Episode 7 3 days left to watch Calina makes over another garden and Eilidh takes a trip to Castle Kisimul.
  3. Gardeners' World
     2009, Carol's Gardening Class 1 month left to watch Follow the progress of Carol Klein's gardening class and her three pupils.
  4. Gardeners' World
     2009, Episode 23 1 month left to watch It's all systems go at Greenacre as the team get the garden ready for the winter ahead.

• 1. Gardeners' Corner
     07/11/2009 6 days left to listen Cherrie McIlwaine and the experts answer calls on theGardeners' Corner phone-in.
  2. Gardeners' Question Time
     06/11/2009 Available to listen Eric Robson chairs. With Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and John Cushnie.
  3. The Sunday Gardening Show
     01/11/2009 13 hours left to listen With Mike George and Reg Moule.
  4. Georgina Windsor
     01/11/2009 12 hours left to listen Grow it, cook it, eat it! Entertainment for people who enjoy a greener lifestyle.

Current Gardening Programmes

BBC iPlayer - Making the unmissable, unmissable Catch up on the last 7 days of BBC Gardening

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• Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
• Message board - Allotments , Clinic , TV & radio
• RHS Chelsea Flower Show
• RHS Flower Show Tatton Park

Around bbc.co.uk

• BBC Science & Nature - Garden wildlife
• BBC Weather - Gardening weather
• Dig In: Grow your own grub
• BBC Food - Gourmet gardening for beginners
• BBC Health

Elsewhere on the web

    Botanic Gardens

• (External) The National Botanic Garden of Wales
• (External) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
• (External) Kew Gardens

Gardening in the news

• Residents face messy gardens fine
• Award for cancer patients' garden
• Bank on seeds - the world's buffer
• Contest to design Olympic garden
• Grant for festival gardens revamp
• 'Extinct' flower found in garden
• Garden refit finishes first phase

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