Organic Gardening

Josh Byrne continues creating the school garden in WA's Swan Valley. Jane Edmanson profiles the persimmon tree, shows us how to plant and care for the tree and samples its deliciously gooey fruit. Jerry Coleby-Williams gives some tips on how to maintain the garden in winter - even in a drought. Angus Stewart visits a county style garden at Bilpin, NSW, which is filled with rare and unusual plants.

Peter Cundall shows how to take rose cuttings and also demonstrates pruning techniques. Jane Edmanson looks at some unusual plants and tells us how to use them in your garden. Leonie Norrington visits a garden that is filled with dyckias and hechtias and shows us how to propagate, grow and maintain them. John Patrick explains what to look for when selecting a tree for the garden.

John Patrick meets a bamboo specialist to find out which bamboo grows well in cooler climates. Sophie Thomson visits the Adelaide Botanic Gardens to look at their vast cycad collection. Meredith Kirton suggests some good hedging plants and 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.

Pete demonstrates how to prune neglected fruit trees and check for diseases and pests. Jane Edmanson talks about new varieties of large hybrid clematis and explains how to grow clematis successfully. Sophie profiles chaenomeles, prized for its wonderful winter flowers borne on bare branches. Josh Byrne visits a garden which is based on permaculture principles

John Patrick talks about some of his favourite advanced native trees, Jane Edmanson tells us about the deliciously scented daphne, how to care for them and how to remedy any that are ailing. Jerry Coleby-Williams alerts gardeners to waterweeds and Colin Campbell discovers a garden that has been transformed from a banana plantation into a garden overflowing with a vast plant collection.

Peter Cundall is back in the veggie patch planting potatoes. Leonie Norrington meets a specialist in top end waterlilies in the wild, and gives practical tips on how to grow waterlilies in a garden pond. Colin Campbell demonstrates how to lift and divide cannas and Jane Edmanson visits a sensory garden at a Rehabilitation Unit to find out about the role plants can make in a patients recovery.

Sophie Thomson takes a walk through the Windsor Street Trail, a re-vegetated streetscape filled with native and indigenous plants, Brian Sampson explains his passion for bonsai and the creation of miniature landscapes, Jane Edmanson creates a hanging basket using spectacular trailing plants and Angus Stewart visits a world class garden that features wide garden beds and a woodland walk.

Sophie Thomson takes a walk through Wittunga Botanic Gardens in South Australia's Adelaide Hills, Jane Edmanson demonstrates how to repot and reinvigorate indoor plants, Colin Campbell looks at a salvia collection in Queensland and Josh Byrne continues work at a school garden, where he and the students are building a wetland, which will incorporate indigenous plants and a habitat for wildlife.

Peter Cundall visits Sydney's Vaucluse House, surrounded by 10 hectares of garden, including a pleasure garden, bushland and significant trees, Jerry Coleby-Williams shows how to make his grandfather's recipe for compost tea, Jane Edmanson shows us a wonderful collection of camellias, John Patrick looks at compact, low maintenance water-wise plants - good options for drought-proofing a garden.

Peter Cundall is busy in his veggie patch preparing for spring, planting onions, oca, and soft fruit canes, Meredith Kirton shows us her garden in suburban Sydney and explains its design, John Patrick returns to Stephen Ryan's magnificent Mt Macedon garden in Victoria where they do some end of winter maintenance work and Jane Edmanson shows us how to plant and prune passionfruit.

Jane Edmanson visits the new orang-utan enclosure and gets up close to the zoos elephants, Colin Campbell shows us how to hard-prune a mature hibiscus, Jerry Coleby-Williams gives us a tip for growing begonias and shows us a great tropical climbing plant, the bougainvillea and Leonie Norrington meets a leading Darwin landscape architect

Peter Cundall gives us an overview of the patch and how it all works, Angus Stewart shows us how to make a cold compost, Leonie Norrington takes advantage of the cooler, dry season temperatures in Darwin to plant cherry tomatoes, coriander, winged beans and mint. Josh Byrne has put the final touches to his small garden in Fremantle, which is jam-packed and productive.

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

Peter Cundall grows tomatoes from seed and tells us how to care for citrus, Angus Stewart visits the eucalypt walk at the Australian Garden and explains the many types and characteristics of the trees, Jerry Coleby-Williams shows how to get hard-shelled seeds to propagate faster, John Patrick looks into a problem fungus with a fungi specialist and Jane Edmanson visits a Japanese style garden

Josh Byrne is back at the school garden planting out an orchard, Colin Campbell profiles the tibouchina, a shrub that is much-loved for its showy purple flowers, John Patrick meets the chief botanist at Melbourne's herbarium, the Gardening Australia team solves viewers gardening problems and we visit a magnificent garden in Victoria's Dandenong ranges

Peter Cundall looks at subantarctic plants, Sophie Thomson visits an insectary in South Australia, Jane Edmanson deals with citrus gall, Colin Campbell shows us the many varieties of rosemary and explains how to grow and care for them, Peter Cundall shows techniques to prune guava trees and Angus Stewart visits a garden that has been transformed from a weed infested block to a botanic-like garden

Sophie Thomson visits the stately gardens of Carrick Hill in South Australia, Colin Campbell explains how to work out which is the right rainwater tank for your garden, the team solves viewers gardening problems, John Patrick shows us how to re-pot large plants and Leonie Norrington meets the curator of the Northern Territory Herbarium

Peter Cundall visits Tasmania's Government House to have a look around the extensive grounds, Josh Byrne installs organic waste systems at the school garden in WA, Jane Edmanson shows us how to espalier fruit trees and camellias and John Patrick shows us how to design vertical gardens, to make the most of small spaces in a spectacular way.

Peter Cundall shows us a method of sowing root vegetable seed by mixing it with sand, Jane Edmanson profiles Viburnum, a shrub that has a large range of beautiful flowering forms from winter to summer, Jerry Coleby-Williams visits a mangrove ecosystem, Jane Edmanson demonstrates how to easily re-pot orchids and John Patrick returns to Stephen Ryan's magnificent Mt Macedon garden in Victoria

Peter Cundall plants tomatoes and shows us how to create two types of fertiliser, Sophie Thomson discovers standard grevilleas, finds out how to grow them and how to incorporate them into the garden, Jane Edmanson demonstrates three methods of layering, a technique for propagating plants that's easy and fun and Jerry Coleby-Williams visits a tropical butterfly garden in northern Queensland

Angus Stewart visits an Abbey garden and meets the Benedictine nuns that tend the productive garden, Sophie Thomson looks at the cacti collection at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Meredith Kirton visits an unusual collection of banksias at the Mt Annan Botanic Gardens and John Patrick meets the designer of the children's garden at Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens

Jerry Coleby-Williams meets Robyn and Larry Butler who had to work tirelessly to re-build their garden after it was destroyed by Cyclone Larry in 2006, Josh Byrne visits Faye Arcaro's extensive garden in Perth, Angus Stewart finds a garden that's been transformed from a bare block into a garden for the senses and Meredith Kirton looks at Tim Robson's productive garden in Sydney

Peter Cundall visits a native garden on top of Mt Wellington, Meredith Kirton looks at the terrible Asthma weed, Josh Byrne profiles verticordia at Kings Park and Jerry Coleby-Williams discovers a garden design that ensures a view from every window including to a rainforest and a friendship garden. Lastly, we announce the winner of the 2007 Gardening Australia - Gardener of the Year.

Peter Cundall checks on the progress of his tomatoes and other crops, Josh Byrne puts the finishing touches at the school garden, John Patrick meets a tree expert who tells us about the vital role trees make to our environment and our lives, Sophie Thomson tells us about the best mulches to put on the garden over summer, and we meet a landscape artist who has transformed her 4-hectare property

Jerry Coleby-Williams gives tips to help the garden survive summer, Angus Stewart looks at some interesting results from trials on fertilising natives, John Patrick returns to Stephen Ryan's Mt Macedon garden to check on the fruits of their labour in the perennial border, Colin Campbell meets the owners of Dumfries Homestead who explain the challenges of gardening in the outback.