UKTV Style Gardens
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UKTV Gardens was a digital
television channel
broadcasting in the United Kingdom
, part of the UKTV
family of channels. As its name suggests, the channel focused entirely on gardening shows. When it originally launched, the channel was known as UKTV Style Gardens and all the gardening content from UKTV Style was moved to the new channel. In early 2007 it adopted the more independent name UKTV Gardens.
It was available on Sky Digital
and Virgin Media
.
as Good Food on 22 June 2009., and UKTV Gardens was closed down and was replaced with Really
on 19 May 2009 with all the gardening programmes that were on this channel transferring to Home.
Before UKTV Gardens closed, it ran the complete series of The Victorian Kitchen Garden
series, a fitting tribute to gardening in the Victorian age.
Digital television
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television channel
Television channel
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broadcasting in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, part of the UKTV
UKTV
UKTV is a digital cable and satellite television network, formed through a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, a commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Scripps Networks Interactive, spun off from The E.W Scripps Company in 2008...
family of channels. As its name suggests, the channel focused entirely on gardening shows. When it originally launched, the channel was known as UKTV Style Gardens and all the gardening content from UKTV Style was moved to the new channel. In early 2007 it adopted the more independent name UKTV Gardens.
It was available on Sky Digital
Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)
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and Virgin Media
Virgin Media
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.
Programming
- Christine's Garden
- Gardeners' WorldGardeners' WorldGardeners' World is a long-running BBC television programme about gardening that continues to this day. Its first episode was filmed in 1968, presented by Ken Burras and came from Oxford Botanical Gardens. The magazine BBC Gardeners' World is a tie-in to the programme. Most of its episodes have...
- Ground ForceGround ForceGround Force was a British garden makeover television series originally broadcast by the BBC between 1997 and 2005. The series was originally hosted by Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh and was produced by Endemol for the BBC.-Production:...
- Grow Your Own Veg!
- Home Front in the Garden
- Nature's Calendar
- Model Gardens
- Recreating EdenRecreating EdenRecreating Eden is a Canadian lifestyle and gardening television documentary program. Its aim is to examine the physical, mental, and spiritual healing effects that gardens have on their keepers-History:...
2009 closure and replacement
As part of the UKTV rebrand, UKTV Style along with UKTV Gardens and UKTV Food where the third phase of the rebrand, with UKTV Style rebranded as Home on 30 April 2009 and UKTV FoodUKTV Food
Good Food is a lifestyle channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel originally launched on 5 November 2001 and relaunched in its current format on 22 June 2009. Good Food is available on satellite through Sky and on cable services, primarily...
as Good Food on 22 June 2009., and UKTV Gardens was closed down and was replaced with Really
Really (TV channel)
Really is a digital television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom as part of the UKTV family of channels. The channel launched on 19 May 2009 as the UKTV's channel for female lifestyle programming and is available on satellite through Sky, cable services primarily through Virgin Media and...
on 19 May 2009 with all the gardening programmes that were on this channel transferring to Home.
Before UKTV Gardens closed, it ran the complete series of The Victorian Kitchen Garden
The Victorian Kitchen Garden
The Victorian Kitchen Garden was a 13-part television series produced in 1987 by Jennifer Davies for BBC2. It recreated a kitchen garden of the Victorian era at Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire, although at the time the series was made Chilton Foliat was in the county of Berkshire...
series, a fitting tribute to gardening in the Victorian age.
External links
- UKTV Gardens (Now redirects to www.lovehome.co.uk)