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11 Episodes 2005 - 2005
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
At Kew's country garden, Wakehurst Place, Steve Robinson is hard at work making charcoal, while Margaret Leigh prepares for the annual plant auction. In the bamboo garden, Ray Townsend answers a call for help from London Zoo and the tree gang deal with an Italian poplar that stands in the way of the Jodrell Laboratory extension.
Episode 5
Steve Alton travels to St Helena to collect seed of the island's unique plant life for the Millenium Seedbank, while back at Wakehurst Place a rare cabbage plant is being transferred to Kew. The marathon pruning session begins on the rose pergola and a new recruit to the tree gang gets a lesson from Andy McClure, Kew's oldest tree surgeon.
Episode 6
Head of the Arboretum, Tony Kirkham, fights to save one of Kew's oldest trees, a Ginkgo Biloba. Elsewhere the mycology department surveys the fungi of the gardens and Roselle Andrews creates a special wreath for Remembrance Sunday.
Episode 7
Botanist Bill Baker solves a Victorian taxonomic dispute and pays tribute to John Dransfield who is retiring. Ray Townsend gets to work creating an authentic Zen garden around the Japanese Gateway and Kew provides a home for 50 chameleons seized by customs.
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
In the Jodrell Laboratory, Olwen Grace examines the chemical properties of aloes while outside a team of 300 volunteers tackle an invasive weed. Inside the Temperate house, it's organised chaos as the final preparations for the Chihuly exhibition are underway and a bedding scheme with a difference is designed outside the Princess of Wales Conservatory.
Episode 11