Jim McColl
Presenter
Beechgrove Garden (1997)
Season 33
Gardening show that celebrates Scottish horticulture and growing conditions.
Released July 28, 1997
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.scotland, tmdb.garden, tmdb.allotment-garden, imdb.gardening, tmdb.gardening
Watch Providers: BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel, The Roku Channel, Britbox Apple TV Channel
Production Companies: Tern TV
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S33E1 - Episode 1
The Beechgrove Garden has only just emerged from the December snow, and the team take stock of the damage done over the severe winter and search for hopeful signs of spring.
April 10, 2011, midnight
S33E2 - Episode 2
Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team mount Project Plant Rescue, Jim and Carole investigate the alternatives to peat, and Lesley begins her garden design masterclass.
April 11, 2011, midnight
S33E3 - Episode 3
Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team decide to start planting potatoes, Lesley and Carole mount their tatties-in-containers challenge and Jim gives a self-sufficient couple tips.
April 18, 2011, midnight
S33E4 - Episode 4
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim and George show how to pollinate plants by hand to maximise fruit yields. And Carole and Lesley take a look at some of last year's potato trials.
April 25, 2011, midnight
S33E5 - Episode 5
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole and Lesley revamp the Beechgrove alpine garden, George demonstrates how to grow large vegetables, and Jim plants broad beans and sweet peas.
May 2, 2011, midnight
S33E6 - Episode 6
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole and Lesley plant new collections of baby fuchsias, Carole and George tackle leek rust and white onion rot, and the tulips are out in force.
May 14, 2011, midnight
S33E7 - Episode 7
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole starts a gourd trial, Jim seeds celtuce, chicory, claytonia and Chinese kale while Lesley tackles square gardens in her design masterclass.
May 21, 2011, midnight
S33E8 - Episode 8
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole attempts to rekindle interest in carnations, Jim has another go at growing sweetcorn, and George learns the tricks of the bonsai-growing trade.
May 30, 2011, midnight
S33E9 - Episode 9
The team is on a break from the garden to be at Gardening Scotland. Sometimes called the Chelsea of the north, it is the biggest gardening show north of the border.
June 4, 2011, midnight
S33E10 - Episode 10
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim indulges his passion for dahlias and provides solutions for a steep, sloping garden in Linlithgow, and Lesley creates an Olympic-themed bedding.
June 11, 2011, midnight
S33E11 - Episode 11
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole and Lesley plant annuals in the greenhouse, Carole seeds her geranium family trial, and Carolyn has solutions for a shaded, sloped garden.
June 18, 2011, midnight
S33E12 - Episode 12
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim reviews developments in the orchard, Carole plants a range of micro leaves and George gives a Kelso couple pruning and plant maintenance tips.
June 26, 2011, midnight
S33E13 - Episode 13
Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team puts waders on and heads for the pond, Jim tries out a new lawn moss product, and Carole visits a couple's garden in Grantown-on-Spey.
July 2, 2011, midnight
S33E14 - Episode 14
Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team discuss the state of the oak which is now hampering the growth of other plants, and decide to lift the crown of the tree.
July 9, 2011, midnight
S33E15 - Episode 15
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim checks on the success of the yields in the fruit house, and Carole and George give the bog garden a revamp. Plus Jim reviews the garvinea trial.
July 16, 2011, midnight
S33E16 - Episode 16
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole and Lesley make arrangements of hardy annuals and check their potato yields, while Jim sees if a new fertiliser has helped the vegetable crop.
July 23, 2011, midnight
S33E17 - Episode 17
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole visits Janis Louden in Lumphanan to help create a herb garden before tracking down the renowned giant titum arum at the RBGE.
July 30, 2011, midnight
S33E18 - Episode 18
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim, Carole and Lesley each take a favourite area of the garden to showcase as well as completing routine maintenance in those areas.
Aug. 6, 2011, midnight
S33E19 - Episode 19
Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team is on the road to help complete the development of a new community garden used by those affected by homelessness in Maryhill, Glasgow.
Aug. 13, 2011, midnight
S33E20 - Episode 20
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim reviews varieties of dahlias and garvineas, and visits Glenbervie House's garden, while Carole and Lesley look at their trial of tumbling plants.
Aug. 20, 2011, midnight
S33E21 - Episode 21
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole harvests her trial broad beans, Lesley discovers how her hardy and half-hardy annuals have fared, and George helps a pair of novice gardeners.
Aug. 27, 2011, midnight
S33E22 - Episode 22
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim reviews the vegetables he has been growing in the potager and Carole demonstrates how to take semi-ripe cuttings for easy propogation.
Sept. 3, 2011, midnight
S33E23 - Episode 23
Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim works on the main lawn to help it cope with erratic weather conditions, while Carole helps Drumblade Primary clear the weeds from its sandpit.
Sept. 10, 2011, midnight
S33E24 - Episode 24
Landscape gardening show. The Beechgrove team are on the road to Spey Bay to help build a garden full of wildlife themes at one of the most exposed sites they have ever worked on.
Sept. 17, 2011, midnight
S33E25 - Episode 25
Celebrating Scottish gardens. George Anderson enters his produce at the Dalkeith show, and Jim McColl visits the Newburgh Orchard Group in Fife to learn of their current project.
Sept. 24, 2011, midnight
S33E26 - Episode 26
Gardening programme celebrating Scottish gardens, with horticultural tips. The team enjoys the colour of autumn while battening down the hatches ahead of the winter.
Oct. 1, 2011, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: July 28, 1997
Last Air Date: Oct. 25, 2018, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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