Organic Gardening

Creating A School Garden: Josh Byrne continues creating the school garden in WA's Swan Valley. It's time to install and plant a raised vegie patch and the students lend a hand.

Persimmon: Jane Edmanson profiles the persimmon tree, shows us how to plant and care for the tree and samples its deliciously gooey fruit.

Winter Garden Maintenance: Jerry Coleby-Williams gives some tips on how to maintain the garden in winter - even in a drought.

Woodgreen Garden: Angus Stewart visits a county style garden at Bilpin, NSW, which is filled with rare and unusual plants.

Taking Cuttings-Propagation-Pruning Roses: Peter Cundall shows how to take rose cuttings, and also demonstrates the pruning techniques needed for healthy roses.

Quirky Plants: Jane Edmanson looks at some unusual plants and tells us how to use them in your garden for that wow factor. Dyckias and Hechtias: Leonie Norrington visits a garden in Darwin that is filled with dyckias and hechtias and shows us how to propagate, grow and maintain them.

Selecting A Tree: John Patrick explains what to look for when selecting a tree for the garden to help get the right one for the conditions and location.

Cool-Climate Bamboo: John Patrick meets a bamboo specialist to find out which bamboo grows well in cooler climates. Cycads: Sophie Thomson visits the Adelaide Botanic Gardens to look at their vast cycad collection and finds out what's remarkable about these tough plants. Growing Hedges: Meredith Kirton suggests some good hedging plants and explains how to grow the perfect hedge. Meredith talks about how hedges can create space, structure, formality and make a great screen for privacy. George Tindale Memorial Garden: Jane Edmanson visits the beautiful George Tindale Memorial Gardens in Victoria's Sherbrooke forest where she looks at trees and plants that offer winter charm.

Pruning Fruit Trees: Pete demonstrates how to prune neglected fruit trees and checks the trees for diseases and pests including coddling moth and aphids. Clematis: Jane Edmanson talks about the new varieties of large hybrid clematis that will be released in spring 2007, and explains how to grow clematis successfully. Flowering Quinces: Sophie profiles chaenomeles, commonly known as the flowering quince, prized for its wonderful winter flowers borne on bare branches. Gardening With…Sabrina Hahn: Josh Byrne visits Sabrina Hahn, ABC Radio Perth's local gardening expert to have a look around her garden. He finds that it's based on permaculture principles with a big focus on native and mediterranean plants.

Grevillea Propagation: Angus Stewart shows us the science behind propagating, and demonstrates some of the tricks of the trade when propagating semi-hardwood cuttings. Advanced Native Trees: John Patrick talks about some of his favourite advanced native trees that provide an instant feature in the garden and explains how to choose the best specimen. Daphne Care: Jane Edmanson tells us about the deliciously scented daphne, how to care for them and how to remedy any that are ailing. Weed Alert-Water Weeds: Jerry Coleby-Williams alerts gardeners to waterweeds - water hyacinth, water lettuce and salvinia – which are considered a major problem for North Australian waterways. An Evolving Garden: Colin Campbell discovers a hillside country garden south of Brisbane, which has been transformed from a banana plantation into a garden that overflows with an impressive plant collection.

Pete's Patch: Peter Cundall is back in the vegie patch planting potatoes. Tropical Waterlilies: Leonie Norrington meets Diane Lucas, a specialist in top end waterlilies in the wild, who shows us that although the waterlily is prized for their beautiful flower, their beauty goes well beneath the surface. Leonie gives us practical tips on how best to grow waterlilies in a garden pond. Dividing Cannas: Colin Campbell demonstrates how to lift and divide cannas, a great way to increase canna stock, and get brilliant results after just a season or two. A Sensory Garden: Jane Edmanson visits a sensory garden at a Rehabilitation Unit to find out about the important role plants can make in a patient's recovery.

Windsor St Trail: Sophie Thomson takes a walk through the Windsor Street Trail in Sth Australia, a re-vegetated streetscape filled with native and indigenous plants, where once there was nothing. Native Bonsai: Brian Sampson explains his passion for bonsai and the creation of miniature landscapes – mostly using Australian natives. Hanging Baskets: Jane Edmanson shows us how to create a hanging basket using spectacular trailing plants. Merry Garth Garden: Angus Stewart visits Merry Garth in the Blue Mountains where he finds a world class garden that features winding paths, wide garden beds and a woodland walk.

Wittunga Botanic Gardens: Sophie Thomson takes a walk through the Wittunga Botanic Gardens in Sth Australia's Adelaide Hills. She explores the comprehensive botanic displays of Australian and South African plants. Indoor Plant Care: Jane Edmanson demonstrates how to repot and reinvigorate indoor plants. She explains why it is necessary and tells us about the best ones to use. Salvias: Colin Campbell takes a look at a salvia collection in Queensland, and shows us how to grow and maintain them. Creating A School Garden: Josh Byrne continues work at the school garden in WA, where he and the students are building a wetland, which will incorporate indigenous plants and grasses to create a habitat for wildlife.

Vaucluse House: Peter Cundall visits Sydney's Vaucluse House, which was built in 1803. It's surrounded by 10 hectares of garden, including a pleasure garden, bushland and significant trees - Peter lends a hand in the huge kitchen garden. Compost Tea: Jerry Coleby-Williams shows how to make his grandfather's recipe for compost tea, a liquid manure that is a great fertiliser on the garden. Camellias: Jane Edmanson shows us a wonderful collection of camellias in Melbourne's outer suburbs. She explains the different varieties of camellia and how to incorporate them into the garden. Water-wise Plants: John Patrick looks at compact, low maintenance water-wise plants - good options for gardeners wanting to drought-proof their gardens. A World Of Trees: We meet a passionate tree collector from Dunkeld in country Victoria who started his collection in 1973. Now, Bill Funk's farm is covered with thousands of trees from all over the world.

Pete's Patch: Peter Cundall is busy in his vegie patch preparing for spring, planting onions, oca, and soft fruit canes such as raspberries. Meredith's Garden: Gardening Australia presenter Meredith Kirton shows us her garden in suburban Sydney and explains its design and the plants she has used to create colour and texture. A Seasonal Garden: John Patrick returns to Stephen Ryan's magnificent Mt Macedon garden in Victoria where they do some end of winter maintenance work, including pruning, tidying the perennial border, and tending to the early spring plants. Growing Passionfruit: Jane Edmanson shows us how to plant and prune passionfruit and how to maintain them to ensure delectable fruit.

Zoo Habitats: Jane Edmanson visits the new orangutan enclosure and gets up close to the zoo's elephants, to find out how it replicates native habitats. Pruning Hibiscus: Colin Campbell shows us how to hard-prune a mature hibiscus, to produce prolific flowering in the next growing season. Tips and Tricks – Propagating Begonias: Jerry Coleby-Williams gives us a tip for growing begonias. Bougainvillea: Jerry Coleby Williams shows us a great tropical climbing plant, the bougainvillea. It provides magnificent splashes of colour in the garden and although it is a tropical plant it is also quite drought tolerant. Tropical Design: Leonie Norrington meets a leading Darwin landscape architect, who uses bold designs and plants with strong architectural shapes and colours.

Pete's Patch: Peter Cundall gives us an overview of the patch and how it all works, including why crop rotation is critical. Composting Methods: Angus Stewart shows us how to make a cold compost, explaining how much easier it is to maintain than the traditional hot composting system. Dry Season Vegie Garden: Leonie Norrington takes advantage of the cooler, dry season temperatures in Darwin to plant out her vegie patch with cherry tomatoes, coriander, winged beans and mint. Creating A Small Garden: Josh Byrne has put the final touches to his small garden in Fremantle which is jam-packed and productive. He shows us how it all came together.

The Diversity Garden-The Home Garden: Angus Stewart explores Cranbourne's Australian Garden, and gives practical advice on how to design our gardens using native plants. Growing Vegies in Pots: Meredith Kirton demonstrates a great way to grow vegies in pots. A Scented Garden: John Patrick visits a fragrant garden in Melbourne and shows us the best plants to use for exquisite fragrance. Magnolias: Jane Edmanson visits an amazing garden filled with a vast collection of magnolias.

Pete's Patch: Peter Cundall shows us how to grow tomatoes from seed with the aid of a hot water bottle, and he also tells us how to care for citrus. The Eucalypt Walk: Angus Stewart visits the eucalypt walk at the Australian Garden in Cranbourne and explains the many types and characteristics of the trees. Tips and Tricks: Jerry Coleby-Williams shows us how to get hard-shelled seeds to propagate faster by sandpapering the hard outer shell. A Fungus Problem: John Patrick visits a garden to look into a problem fungus with fungi specialist Tom May, who tells us how to identify it and what to do about it. A Japanese Oasis: Jane Edmanson visits a Japanese style garden nestled in the hills of Gippsland in Victoria, to show us the design elements that comprise a Japanese garden.

Creating A School Garden: Josh Byrne is back at the school garden planting out an orchard, which includes fruit trees, grapevines and an under-story of companion plants. Tibouchina: Colin Campbell profiles the tibouchina, a shrub that is much-loved for its showy purple flowers. The National Herbarium: John Patrick meets David Cantrill, chief botanist at Melbourne's herbarium to have a look at the treasures in the collection and to find out why they are significant. Ask It, Solve It: The Gardening Australia team solves viewers gardening problems. A Hillside Idyll: We visit a magnificent garden in Victoria's Dandenong ranges that is abundant with collections of beech trees, vereya rhododendrons and daphnes.

Subantarctic Plant House: Peter Cundall is at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, looking at plants that grow in the subantarctic, including ferns, Macquarie Island cabbages, bog plants and lichens. Biological Pest Control: Sophie Thomson visits an insectary at Loxton in South Australia that breeds beneficial insects for use in the home garden. Tips and Tricks: Jane Edmanson shows us how to deal with citrus gall, a lumpy looking infestation caused by the citrus gall wasp. Rosemary: Colin Campbell shows us the many varieties of rosemary and explains how to grow and care for them. Pruning Guava Trees: Peter Cundall shows us the techniques to prune guava trees for successful fruiting. A Parkland Garden: Angus Stewart visits a garden set on 2 hectares in Galston, NSW, which has been transformed over 30 years from a weed infested block into an extraordinary botanic-like garden boasting a unique range of plants.

Government House, Tasmania: Peter Cundall visits Tasmania's Government House to have a look around the extensive grounds, where he uncovers the stories behind the evolution of the beautiful gardens. Creating a School Garden: Josh Byrne installs the organic waste systems – the worm farm, the compost bays and the chook runs – at the school garden in WA. How To Espalier: Jane Edmanson shows us how to espalier fruit trees and camellias, including how to select, plant, shape and maintain them. Vertical Gardens: John Patrick shows us how to design vertical gardens, to make the most of small spaces in a spectacular way.

Carrick Hill: Sophie Thomson visits the stately gardens of Carrick Hill in Sth Australia, which includes a fine pear arbour, perennial borders and a water rill – all framed by an impressive hedge. Rainwater Tanks: Colin Campbell explains how to work out which is the right rainwater tank for your garden. Ask It-Solve It: The organic Gardening team solves viewers gardening problems. Re-potting Larger Plants: John Patrick shows us how to re-pot large plants. A Botanist's Garden: Leonie Norrington meets the curator of the Northern Territory Herbarium whose own garden is an incredible display of plants that all relate to the Gondwana continent.

Pete's Patch: Peter Cundall shows us a method of sowing root vegetable seed by mixing it with sand. Viburnums: Jane Edmanson profiles Viburnum, a shrub that has a large range of beautiful flowering forms from winter through to summer. Mangroves: Jerry Coleby-Williams visits a mangrove ecosystem to explain how it works and explore the different types of plants it contains. Tips and Tricks: Jane Edmanson demonstrates how to easily re-pot orchids. A Seasonal Garden: John Patrick returns to Stephen Ryan's magnificent Mt Macedon garden in Victoria to see how things are coming along now that it's well into spring. It's also time to plant dahlias for summer.

Pete's Patch: Peter Cundall is in his vegie patch and it's time to plant tomatoes. He also shows us how to create two types of fertiliser. Standard Grevilleas: Sophie Thomson discovers standard grevilleas, finds out how to grow them and how to incorporate them into the garden. Propagating By Layering: Jane Edmanson demonstrates three methods of layering, a technique for propagating plants that's easy and fun. A Butterfly Garden: Jerry Coleby-Williams visits a tropical butterfly garden in northern Queensland, to delve into the relationship between plants and butterflies.

The Abbey Garden: Angus Stewart visits an Abbey garden in the beautiful hills near Bowral, NSW. He meets the Benedictine nuns that tend the productive garden, which supplies food for the Abbey kitchen. Cacti: Sophie Thomson looks at the cacti collection at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, and tells us how to incorporate them into the garden for spectacular results. Banksias: Meredith Kirton shows us the unusual collection of banksias at the Mt Annan Botanic Gardens in NSW. Banksia's provide year round interest and attract birds to the garden. Ask it,Solve It: The Organic Gardening team solves viewers gardening problems. The Children's Garden: John Patrick meets Andrew Laidlaw, the designer of the children's garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, to find out how the garden is designed to engage children.

A 2007 Gardener of the Year Special, profiling the four finalists from around Australia: Butlerspride: Jerry Coleby-Williams meets Robynn and Larry Butler in Cairns who had to work tirelessly to re-build their garden after it was destroyed by Cyclone Larry in 2006. A Diverse Garden: Josh Byrne visits Faye Arcaro's extensive garden in Perth. He explores its themed rooms filled with layers of foliage and contrasting colour and texture, which also provides habitat for wildlife. A Cool Climate Garden: Angus Stewart meets William Gardner at Bowral in NSW, and finds a garden that's been transformed from a bare block into a garden for the senses. A Productive Garden: Meredith Kirton looks at Tim Robson's productive garden in Sydney. She finds an attractive, edible garden planted out with 50 fruit trees.

A Tasmanian Native Garden: Peter Cundall visits an amazing native garden on top of Mt Wellington near Hobart. Asthma Weed: Meredith Kirton looks at the terrible Asthma weed, which is hazardous to asthma and hay fever sufferers. Tips and Tricks: Jerry Coleby-Williams explains an easy way to maximise a cherry tomato crop. Feather Flowers: Josh Byrne profiles verticordia at Kings Park in Perth, showing the species and explaining how to incorporate them into the garden. Ashwood Garden: Jerry Coleby-Williams visits a garden North of Brisbane and discovers a design that ensures a view from every window including to a rainforest, and a friendship garden. Gardener Of The Year: We announce the winner of the 2007 Gardening Australia Gardener of the Year.

Pete's Patch: Peter Cundall is back in the patch where he checks on the progress of the tomatoes and other crops, and does some summer planting. Creating a School Garden: Josh Byrne puts the finishing touches at the school garden in WA, and gives us an overview of the completed garden and how it will work. The Value of Trees: John Patrick meets tree expert Dr. Greg Moore who tells us about the vital role trees make to our environment and our lives. Tips and Tricks – Understanding Mulches: Sophie Thomson tells us about the best mulches to put on the garden over summer. An Artist's Landscape: We meet a landscape artist near Daylesford, in country Victoria, who has transformed her 4-hectare property into an extraordinary, living work of garden art.

Summer Survival: Jerry Coleby-Williams gives tips to help the garden survive summer. Fertilising Natives: Angus Stewart looks at some interesting research results from trials on fertilising natives particularly the flannel flower, the black kangaroo paw and the blue banksia. Tips and Tricks: Jerry Colby-Williams shows us a simple solution for your compost in summer. A Seasonal Garden: John Patrick returns Stephen Ryan's Mt Macedon garden, to check on the fruits of their labour in the perennial border. Dumfries Garden: Colin Campbell visits Dumfries Homestead outside Longreach in outback Queensland. He meets the owners who explain the challenges of gardening in the outback, and discovers their tips for successful gardening in extremely harsh conditions.