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With her can-do attitude, love of simple gardens

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and decades of experience... Hello!

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..Charlie Dimmock is one of Britain's best-loved gardeners.

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Looking good, boys!

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But the new kids on the gardening block are the Rich brothers.

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We want to be the brothers

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that change people's perceptions of gardens.

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Winners of multiple medals at the Chelsea Flower Show,

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the boys have become known for their dramatic outdoor spaces.

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Now, these two different generations of gardening are going head-to-head.

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I know they've got a gold medal, but I can come up with a few ideas.

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They're meeting frustrated garden owners across the country...

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The photos made it look tiny. It is, isn't it?

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I'm sure you've seen larger. I don't know what to do with it.

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..and will each pitch them a design based on their needs... Wow!

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..and budget. That looks really exciting.

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It doesn't look like it could be our garden. The winner...

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Hey! Ta-dah!

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- ALL: Whoo! - ..brings their design to life.

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Hold on, hold on! Sweet as a nut.

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And the loser has to help them build it.

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Oh, I'm getting irritated now with faffing around...

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This is what happens... Does he ever get irritating? All the time.

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..when different styles collide...

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Who chose these? One, two, three...

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This looks like your design. Yeah!

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..to turn garden dreams into reality.

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Wow! Open your eyes.

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Wow!

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It's amazing.

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It's beautiful.

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Today, Charlie and the Rich brothers will be competing over

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a garden that, to its owners, is more than just an outdoor space.

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This application's from Andy and Angela. Family home.

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They've lived there 20 years,

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lots of happy memories of the children growing up there.

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They look like a lovely couple,

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don't they? Some nice big smiles. Yeah.

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Retired police officer Andy and his wife Angela

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live in Worcestershire with their dog Rudy.

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Their grown-up daughter Kelly lives close by.

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Well, looking at the garden, I think

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it could do with a little bit of something.

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Yeah. I think we've lost the inspiration a little bit.

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Both Kelly and their elder son John grew up in this garden,

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but two years ago, after a long battle with illness,

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John died tragically at the age of 26.

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And since then, Mum and Dad haven't had the heart to stay on top of it.

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They've sort of lost their motivation in the garden,

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so they want us to go in and help them be

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re-motivated to enjoy the garden again.

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What we want to do is to bring a bit of happiness into the garden again,

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because we've always had happy times here.

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So...

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This time, I think we want to do it for us and our daughter,

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and it would just be lovely to have the garden looking nice.

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Right now, the garden has a featureless lawn,

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with an ugly concrete path that leads down to

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a prominent row of sheds.

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It's going to be kind of easy for us to create something quite special.

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Yeah. There's loads of opportunities, isn't there? Yeah.

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I think it'll cheer us up, for a start. Mmm.

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It'll give us something to look at when we come down, apart from grass.

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ANGELA CHUCKLES

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The couple would also like the garden to reflect the happy times

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they all spent here as a family.

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They would love to put in a bit of a garden that sort of

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brings back lots of happy memories of their son.

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Just somewhere where you can just reflect

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and celebrate his life, which would be lovely.

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He just loved the garden as well and he used to like his apple pies,

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didn't he, as well? Which my mum used to make him.

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With the garden meaning so much to them,

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they're not skimping on the budget.

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?5,000 is going to come out of my pension,

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that I've saved all my life for.

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Budget-wise, quite good, ?5,000,

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although, you know, it's quite a large garden. Yeah.

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By rights, we should be able to give them something really special. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah? Definitely.

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This is a unique challenge for Charlie and the boys,

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and they will now go head-to-head and compete for the chance to create

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the garden of Andy and Angela's dreams.

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They each have to come up with a design for the couple's garden

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that will work within their budget.

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Andy and Angela will then choose a winner

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and the loser will have to help the winner build the garden.

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Now the designers are travelling to Worcester to make their pitch.

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But whose design will the couple go for?

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Charlie, with her wealth of experience...

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or the Rich brothers, known for their clean, contemporary look?

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Right...

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It's split up into two kind of styles.

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One a bit more modern and one a bit more traditional and soft.

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This area here is the more contemporary, more modern.

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So it's got a linear avenue, broken up by these pockets of planting.

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It's got a beautiful avenue of apple trees.

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The boys have picked up that Angela wanted

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some fruit trees in the garden.

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This is a gravel path edged with paviors.

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And then, down the bottom here, I've got a seating area with evergreens.

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So it's always going to look attractive. Yeah.

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And it will draw you down the garden.

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Both designers have incorporated a peaceful area to sit and reflect.

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That leads you down to this really nice,

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quite contemporary seating space.

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You'd be walking down into the tree canopy and then you can just turn

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right into the nice little spot where you can sit down and relax.

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Is that my shed at the top? At the top. Yes.

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Yeah. We thought that was the best man cave we've ever seen,

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so you don't want to get rid of that.

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Charlie has remembered Angela would like some shade across the path.

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And this is a pergola area to screen the shed.

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So, it's very simple pergola. We've got clipped yew

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and then we've got climbers going up over the pergola.

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With the planting, we wanted to keep it quite vibrant and uplifting.

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So, it's a space to really enjoy.

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Yeah. And it's the feeling that it conjures up.

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I feel calm just looking at it now.

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THEY LAUGH

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Andy and Angela were clear they wanted the focal point of the garden

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to be a memorial for their son John.

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I was thinking of something like a pedestal with a solar light on

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that automatically comes on and, if we planted a lot of scented plants

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along there as you walk down to that area,

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you'd get all the smells of lavender and maybe rosemary.

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What we wanted to do was give

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this lovely focal magnolia tree to symbolise John.

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And it gives you this lovely little space

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where it's going to be dappled, you'll be underneath it.

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You can see it change, you know, it'll come into flower.

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And it really just creates this lovely little atmosphere, really.

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The pitch is over.

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It's now up to Andy and Angela to decide

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how to spend their ?5,000.

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Will they go for Charlie's winding path

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and scented planting to commemorate their son's life...

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..which I think...

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..or for the Rich brothers' avenue of apple trees,

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and feature magnolia as a memorial to John?

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Especially the seating area, which I really like.

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Hello. Hi, guys. Hey.

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Hello, there. We've made our

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decision. I have to say, you've captured a lot of elements

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that we were after in our garden.

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But our decision is...

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THEY ALL CHEER

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Amazing. Awesome. Oh, thank you very much. Oh, brilliant.

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What made you choose our design?

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Well, we thought it was what we're looking for

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in a contemplative area. Brilliant.

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We love trees. So, any trees are good.

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But it was so hard, because Charlie captured us as people.

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I think that shows how much gardens can really give.

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Because there are so many elements to a garden, like you've said.

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There's personal journeys,

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there's moods and atmospheres and spirit, so...

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I hope those are tears of happiness for a beautiful garden. They are!

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It's just going to make a big change to us.

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To be in the garden.

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Yeah, it will be a really special place to be.

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But it was a really hard decision. We didn't say it would be easy.

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Well, no. I know. Hopefully, the build will be nice and easy. Yes!

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It's clear just how much this garden means to Andy and Angela.

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The boys may have won,

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but all three of them will need to pull together to build something

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that honours John's memory and helps this couple look to the future.

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It's day one of the build.

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While Harry and David are finessing their planting plans off site,

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they've sent in project manager Paul and landscapers Andy and Lee

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to start marking out the garden.

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The first big challenge is that the boys' design has the new path

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in a slightly different place to the existing one.

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In reality, this path actually runs at an angle,

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so, in order for this to look like it does on a plan,

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we've got to change the angle of that path

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and square it up towards the shed.

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So, rather than just put a new path in the lines of the old one,

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it all has to be re-marked.

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And because all parts of

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the Rich brothers' design work off each other,

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before any new path can go in

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the patio needs to be perfect.

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So the team take time to prepare the area

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before the pale modern tiles are laid.

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Meanwhile, the plants have turned up,

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the path has been marked out and then cut and edged with wood.

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The Rich brothers have now arrived

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and are out front busy briefing Charlie on the task ahead.

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This garden's really got a lot of meaning behind it, hasn't it?

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So I think it's important

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we nail it. But it does put the pressure on you boys! I know.

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We're confident, aren't we?

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They've got this lovely backdrop,

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so it'll be really nice to, kind of, accentuate that, maybe,

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with a little bit of planting.

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A little bit of planting? THEY LAUGH

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Looks like a lot of planting to me!

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Come on, then! Stop talking and get on with it! All right!

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Come on!

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The first task for Harry and David

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is to mark out the garden's four new flower beds.

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Putting in such a long path means a lot of expos landscaping.

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So the boys want to flank it with large areas of planting.

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We've already got the terracing in the middle of the garden,

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and, for us, it's key that all these beds run off that,

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so all we're doing now is stringing up that main line.

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That's going to create the avenue as you walk down.

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Then all the beds come off that, really, so we can start

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creating the shapes and, you know, then we can start planting.

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But it's great using a string line, because, you know, you can adapt it

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and change it without actually cementing anything onto the ground.

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With a five grand budget to play with,

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the Rich brothers have invested in a lot of plants.

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But they want to re-use anything that Andy and Angela already

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had in the garden, and Charlie's been put in charge of salvage.

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The boys want me to save as many plants from this border as possible,

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and there's a couple of fuchsias that Angela really wants to save.

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I have to say they're a bit past their sell-by date.

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They've gone really, really woody.

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The other big problem is

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there's lots of perennial weeds in this border,

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so I'm going to have to pick over the plants really carefully,

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cos there's lots of bindweed, potentilla, dandelions,

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which have all got roots that will regenerate.

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If you chop them up and plant them, you'll just get more.

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SHE GRUNTS

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So, the process is - get all the soil off...

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..so that you don't transplant

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any of the perennial weeds.

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And then I'm going to go and put that in the shade,

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maybe with a bit of polythene over it

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so that we can just plant it straight back in

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and it doesn't dehydrate.

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Happy with the positioning of the flower beds,

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it's time for David to unleash his secret weapon.

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Watch out, men.

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The turf cutter.

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MOTOR HUMS

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Using a turf cutter makes life a lot easier. I mean...

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And it does it in a nice, clean strip as well, so when you're

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making beds, it leaves that really crisp edge, which is quite good.

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You'd be looking at spending about ?50 a day on one of these,

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but if you're doing a large area,

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then I would definitely recommend using one of these.

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But it also helps to have your older brother following behind

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to clear up the spoil.

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Meanwhile, Charlie is making progress with her salvage project.

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These aquilegia are just coming into flower,

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so it's really not the best time of the year to transplant them.

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But it is a case of having to.

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So I've lifted them with as much soil on them as possible,

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so the roots aren't disturbed.

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And all that will happen is, if they do dry out a bit,

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you will lose the flowers this year.

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But they'll be fine the following year.

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With such a lot of turf being lifted

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to make the flower beds and meadow areas,

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the boys have come up with a nifty plan to re-use it.

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But it's not on the design,

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so they need to get the green light from Andy and Angela.

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So, we've got this idea we need to run by you.

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OK. It's an idea of creating a hazel hurdle seat, like a turf seat.

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I've never heard of that before.

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You can see this is the hazel hurdle here.

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What we'd like to do, if it's OK with you guys,

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is cut this in half

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to create this hazel hurdle retaining seat. Right. And then,

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because this soil's got quite a lot of weeds in it, we'd like

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to keep it here rather than put it into the beds we've created. Lovely.

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Run the turf over it, and that means you can sit down here

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and have a completely different perspective on your garden. Lovely.

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Is that OK? Is that all right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Brilliant.

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The plus of it all, because we're cutting it in half,

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we get two! So, what we're going to do, not only have one here,

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but we'll have one over there as well, are you happy with that?

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Sounds a good idea. Really happy, thank you very much. Brilliant.

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That's how you keep the client happy.

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Give them something extra for nothing.

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Thank you very much. See you. Thank you.

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It's great Angela and Andrew

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are really happy with the hazel hurdle idea.

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It's going to make a really good addition to the garden.

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You see this more as a natural fencing,

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but we're going to use it as a decorative face to a seat.

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It will retain some soil and turf

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and create a really nice seat down the garden.

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Woven hazel like this has been used for thousands of years

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for fencing because of its strength and durability.

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Yeah, as you can see, it's a real tight fit.

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It's a real craft to put it all together.

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It doesn't make it easy to get it apart.

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Ah! Beautiful.

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With the patio finished, it's time for the magnolia tree to be planted.

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It's like a blooming obstacle course around here. It'll be worth it.

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It'll be worth it when it's in place.

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This magnolia is called Merrill

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and it has this beautiful open flower which is short-lived,

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but really gives a statement at this time of year.

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Where are we going, Harry?

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Down by there, shall we? About there?

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Oh.

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Not only will the magnolia add shade to the seating area,

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it will stand as a memorial for Andy and Angela's son John.

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Nothing nicer than sitting next to a tree in blossom this time of year.

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It's got a nice habit, hasn't it? This shape is absolutely stunning.

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It's key, when you're choosing your tree at the nursery,

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really think about the shape because

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the tree's going to grow up in ten years' time.

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If you can pick a nice shape now,

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when it's mature, it's going to look so elegant and beautiful.

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Before planting a tree, tease the roots out

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to give them a better chance of establishing once it's planted.

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Are we ready? Yep.

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OK. Down we go.

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Oh. Oh, look at that. Some could say that was perfect.

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It's like you've almost done that before!

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HARRY LAUGHS

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Let's get it in now.

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Magnolias thrive in moist soil

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so they need frequent watering

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to establish over the next two years.

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Meanwhile, the medieval turf seat is coming together

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with the help of some 21st-century tools.

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Brilliant. I've just attached the half hurdle to some sturdy posts.

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Now, all we've got to do is start backfilling.

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Getting the right height for the seat requires a lot of turf.

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And, with two to build, it's every man for himself.

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Oi! Oi, you!

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Oh, Lee! CHARLIE LAUGHS

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A turf stealer!

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Now the path has been edged and a base layer added,

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Harry's finishing it with a limestone bonded gravel

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that will contrast nicely with the patio.

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We've already laid a couple of inches of hard-core

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on the base of the path.

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We're now going to put the finishing 40ml of the gravel

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which will give this lovely contemporary feel.

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As the next key feature in the garden,

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to add some formal elegance to the path,

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the boys are creating an avenue of apple trees.

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Angela has fond memories of her son enjoying his grandma's apple pie.

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These look gorgeous. They look awesome.

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Beautiful avenue trees. Yeah.

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Ready? Yeah. Oh, that's quite relaxing. It is.

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Quite excited about getting these in.

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Well in. And then look at this.

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Wow, where's that going? In here.

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It's going to create the avenue down the path. Shall we put it down?

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About here, shall we? They're quite tall.

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Probably one in the middle and one down there, I'd say.

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This one's maybe in the middle.

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On the design,

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these five apple trees will run in a line along the ten-metre path,

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so it's all hands on deck to hold the trees in position

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before perfectionists Harry and

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David will agree to them being planted.

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Do we need to have that one at the end or do we put that one up here?

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Have one in the middle and two there. One in the middle

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and two where Charlie is. Then you block out that.

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I've got them. You come here.

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Yeah, give them a good old heave-ho.

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Oh, that's nice. Loving that.

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Just in time.

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Because the heavens have opened.

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Get out of the rain! Get out.

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Lie them down! Ugh.

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Is your jumper anywhere?

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Luckily, the rain doesn't last long and the team are soon back to work.

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After lifting a lot of turf,

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the hazel hurdle seats are nearly finished.

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You may think it looks a little bit high,

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as you can see here, there's the hurdle.

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That's because the soil is going to compact down,

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so we just want to give it an inch or two over that,

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so that it stays higher than the hurdle.

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Can I just stay here now?

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There's only a bit of planting to do! Ah!

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It's the right height, isn't it? It's a nice seat height.

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You always say, with seats, it's important not to have it too low

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otherwise you're hunched up when you're sitting,

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your knees are up by your chest.

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It's nice to have something a bit more perched, good for the posture.

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It will be a really lovely view down there. Yeah.

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Right, I'm going to finish it off. Right. Hoy, got a slightly damp bum!

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Whilst the landscapers plant the standard apple trees,

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the boys are complementing them

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with another traditional formal feature on the fence.

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We've finished with these turf seats. What we're going to do

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is plant these espaliered fruit trees in between them.

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Espalier, all it means is

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that the tree has been manipulated to a framework.

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This is perfect for taking advantage of vertical space like a boundary.

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These are beautiful,

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so they link in with the rest of the fruit trees in the garden.

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They're great, because they add that nice bit of structure,

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especially to a slightly boring boundary fence.

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What we're going to do with these ones,

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we're going to leave them on their framework at the moment.

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But what we'd advise Andrew and Angela to do is string along

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some wire or something the branches can grow across

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and, hopefully over time, they will all link up together.

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This one here's a plum.

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Hopefully over time, the branches will grow over the boundary,

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so you can sit on your turf seat and eat some plums.

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The espalier technique, as the name suggests,

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became popular in France in the Middle Ages.

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The ancient tradition continues and, in Britain,

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some of the best examples can be found at West Dean Gardens

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in Chichester.

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Here, a celebrated apple collection is housed in its walled garden.

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'People have trained plants ever since people have been gardening.'

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And there are a number of reasons to do it.

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One, you could utilise spaces which wouldn't otherwise be utilised.

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Two, it's a very productive way of growing fruit.

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It's easily accessible, you can make the tree the size you want it to be.

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Three, it's extremely attractive

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and that's the principle reason why I love it.

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We've got examples of circular training.

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You can train them in S-shapes. You can train them as fans.

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It's very pertinent

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to the modern contemporary small gardens that most people have,

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because you can actually grow fruit

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in positions where you might not otherwise be able to grow it.

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Back in the garden,

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the sun is now shining and with the hard landscaping complete,

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the boys are adding curved

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meadow areas to help soften the landscape.

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They've cleverly come up with a couple of different ways

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to create a meadow.

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So Harry and Charlie are each

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planting different areas of the garden.

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Harry is laying 20m of pre-sown meadow lawn for an instant effect.

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It's the same as kind of laying turf. Makes it very simple to do.

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And, instead of having to lay seed,

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it's really going to be this instant meadow

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which is going to encourage wildlife, birds.

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It flowers right throughout the season.

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At the back of the garden,

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Charlie is using a more traditional and cheaper method

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to create a similar effect.

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I'm going to create a meadow here from seed.

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It's a really good value way of doing it.

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Compared to, say, using meadow turf,

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which is ?12 a square yard up to ?25 a square yard,

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the seed that you can use is about 60p a square yard,

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which is quite different. When you prepare the seed bed,

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you need to rake it over, so you've got a nice tilth on the surface,

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and remove the big stones and rubbly bits,

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so that the seeds have a better chance of germinating.

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Meadow plants as well like quite a poor soil.

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So I'm going to add this gravel to the soil.

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But the other thing is, when you come to sow the seeds,

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that is 10g of seed in there.

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I have to spread that one gram a square metre.

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So I'm going to mix all the seed in with the gravel,

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then spread the gravel and you can see where you're going.

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I'm just going to sprinkle it over, then give it a light rake as well.

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Charlie. Yeah?

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How long will it take for it to establish?

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You should start seeing some growth after two weeks quite happily.

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And then, in a month-and-a-half's time, it should be out in flower.

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Yeah, it'll look lovely from up there. I know.

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It's looking good, looking good! It is, oh!

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The boys have chosen nearly 200 plants to fill their new flowerbeds.

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To help create the peaceful atmosphere

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Andy and Angela were after,

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the boys have chosen flowers that will provide colour and vitality.

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120 grasses will soften the hard edges of the landscaping

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and add gentle movement and texture.

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The sun is setting on the build.

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With the planting done, the last job of the day

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is to compact the gravel on the path

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to leave a smooth surface.

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Andy and Angela's garden was a flat and uninspiring large lawn

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with Andy's sheds as the only feature.

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Now it's had a ?5,000 transformation.

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The boys have broken up the large expanse of lawn

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with a modern patio placed right in the middle.

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Perfect for socialising and relaxing,

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the stone pavers came in at ?560.

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The couple were keen to get rid of their concrete slabs

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and, in their place, the brothers have built

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a cool and contemporary gravel path for ?350.

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Either side, the boys have placed five statuesque apple trees

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that will transform the path into an elegant avenue

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and spent just over ?1,300 on meadow lawn,

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grasses and perennials.

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David and Harry spent just ?60 on some dirt cheap seating

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for the boundary made from hazel hurdles and leftover turf.

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And, finally, the most important thing for Andy and Angela

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was to have a memorial for their son John.

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The boys spent ?240 on the couple's favourite tree, the magnolia,

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that will provide beautiful blooms for many years.

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It's time to find out if Harry and David, with Charlie and the team,

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have delivered the garden Andy and Angela are hoping for.

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Right, guys, I'd like you to open your eyes to your new garden.

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Oh, my Lord. Oh, my goodness!

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Oh! THEY LAUGH

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What do you think? It's lovely.

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Excellent. Oh, it's beautiful.

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The seat. Yeah, there's the seats.

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THEY LAUGH

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Oh, my goodness, look at all that. And the trees.

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And the path! Yeah, got rid of the concrete path.

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Oh, my goodness. That's lovely.

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Bye-bye, concrete. DAVID LAUGHS

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Happy to see that go? Thank goodness for that. Oh, yeah.

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There's lots of smiles. That's got to be a good sign, hasn't it?

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What we've done is interplanted the grasses with lovely perennials.

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So, this summer, it's all going to come up

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in this block planting.

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You'll get so much interest from here.

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Oh, it's lovely.

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Oh. I can't get over these seats. I can't.

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They are brilliant. Brilliant.

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And it's nice we can actually sit here

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instead of on the patio all the time.

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Something a bit different for us, isn't it?

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One important factor for us was to create this calming space.

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Do you think it has that? Definitely.

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It's lovely. Beautiful.

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There's a really nice view out of the kitchen as well,

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the magnolia tree. I was going to say.

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A lot going on. Yeah, very. There is an awful lot.

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It's beautiful all round there.

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Are you getting emotional now? Just a little bit.

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Tears and smiles and laughter,

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that's got to be exactly what you want in a garden.

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It's amazing to have been part of this with you guys,

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I know it means a lot to you. It's been lovely. It's been really good.

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It's been a pleasure having you.

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With so many happy family memories for the couple in this garden,

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the pressure was immense for Harry and David

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to get their new design just right.

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Wow. Amazing. Lovely, especially the trees and the pathway.

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I thought it was just lovely. A great improvement.

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It's got its character back again, hasn't it?

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