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The Beechgrove Garden

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Scotland's favourite gardening programme.

Beechgrove Garden: 2012

Gwyneth Hardy

Jim McColl

Carole Baxter

Lesley Watson

George Anderson

The Beechgrove Garden: 2012: Episode 26

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Episode 26

2012

BBC Two - The Beechgrove Garden, 2012, Episode 26

The team celebrate Lesley Watson's 16 years with the programme as she prepares to leave.

The team celebrate Lesley Watson's 16 years with the programme as she prepares to leave, and explain what makes a plant hardy. Plus, Jim welcomes some new arrivals to Beechgrove.

The last in the present series of the Beechgrove Garden is also sadly the last featuring Lesley Watson. The Beechgrove team are celebrating and remembering Lesley's 16 years with the programme as she hangs up her purple boots for the last time.

Also in the final programme of this series, Jim McColl, Carole Baxter and Lesley Watson are battening down the hatches ahead of the winter and looking forward to spring. They take a look at what dictates the 'hardiness' of a plant and how we can better understand it.

Lesley also visits the Equinox garden, which she has designed to be colourful at both equinoxes. With a nod to the hardiness discussion, Lesley plants her favourite tree of all time, prunus autumnalis rosea, in a place where she hopes it will thrive. Finally, Jim excitedly takes care of new arrivals to Beechgrove - a new citrus collection and a new camellia collection.

The Beechgrove Garden: 2012

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Gardening with Jim McColl, Carole Baxter, Lesley Watson, George Anderson and Carolyn Spray

Scotland's gardening series returns for another season to dig up pearls of wisdom from the past. With Jim McColl, Carole Baxter, Lesley Watson, George Anderson and Carolyn Spray

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