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  1. English Garden, The. Part 6: Perfectly Dazzling (1840-1914) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    With the variety and growth of suburban gardens, a gardener could create his own make-believe world, and with Chinese, Egyptian, rhododendron and rock gardens, and this is what he did. The surrounding...

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  2. Aladdin’s Garden (Hummingbirds) (1975 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the garden of Peter Rapse, in the Aripo Valley, Trinidad. Looks at the flowers and the hummingbirds which use them as a source of food. Using high-speed photography, reveals the flexibility of the...

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  3. Monty Don’s Paradise Gardens (2018)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £14.99

    In this BBC documentary, renowned gardener Monty Don travels in search of paradise gardens referenced in the Koran as green spaces filled with flowers and fruit where shade and water provide a safe haven...

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  4. Gardens Through Time Series (7 Parts) (2004)

    A television series made to celebrate the Royal Horticultural Society’s bicentenary. Two years in production, the series follows Diarmuid Gavin and Jane Owen as they create seven period gardens at the RHS...

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  5. Norman Conquests, The (2014)

    Director
    Herbert Wise
    Producer
    Verity Lambert
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 306 mins), £8.70

    3-Disc set. A trilogy of plays written by Alan Ayckbourn in 1973 and adapted by Thames Television for broadcast in 1977. Each of the plays depicts the same six characters over the same weekend in a different...

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  6. English Garden, The. Part 7: Technicolour and Technology (1914-) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    After World War I loss of confidence set in. Ideas were adapted from the past and people became more immediately concerned with collecting as many species and hybrids as possible. Immediacy was all and...

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  7. English Garden, The. Part 4: The Lake in the Landscape (1775-1785) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Under the reign of George III there was a revival of interest in English gothic with mock castles and ruins becoming the central feature for many landscape gardens. Buildings such as follies and treehouses...

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  8. Ian Hamilton Finlay (2005)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 26 minutes), £13.99

    From previously barren moorland in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Ian Hamilton Finlay has created a unique garden as an encompassing work of art. Little Sparta is a combination of culture and...

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  9. English Garden, The. Part 1: A Tapestry of Herbs and Roses (To 1660) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

    The story of great gardens in England and Wales from Roman times to the 1980s. This programme opens with Sir John Gielgud in the Jubilee Gardens, London, remarking that the English garden often reflected the...

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  10. Biology of Fungus Ants (1960 Film)

    Producer
    N Bariand; M Bazire; P P Grassé
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The observation of the behaviour of atta ants, whose normal habitat is equatorial America, was made possible for the first time due to experiments conducted in the laboratory. Gives a detailed study of a...

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