Garden Rescue Season 1, Episode 7: Stoke-on-Trent

1

York

Charlie Dimmock and Chelsea gold medal-winners Dave and Harry Rich transform gardens around the country within the owners' budgets, beginning at a terraced home in York.

43 min

2

Walsall

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers transform a garden in Walsall, transforming the area into a stylish garden that the family can relax in, in comfort and away from prying eyes.

43 min

3

Bedford

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich Brothers compete to design a garden in Bedford for a single mother and her six-year-old daughter. However, they must work with a budget of just £1,300.

43 min

4

Worcester

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers face an emotional job as they help a couple redesign their featureless garden in memory of their son, who died two years ago at the age of 26.

43 min

5

Farnham

In Farnham, Surrey, Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers meet James and his fiancee Laura, whose long, thin garden is completely bare apart from the remains of an old bathroom suite. The pair have renovated their house but with a wedding to plan haven't got time to tackle the garden. Added to that their budget is tight - the designers only have £1,500 to transform it from a barren wasteland to a flower-filled haven.

43 min

6

Marlborough

Charlie Dimmock and Dave and Harry Rich head to Marlborough, Wiltshire, where they come up with ideas to transform a featureless garden into a wildlife haven on a budget of £6,000.

43 min

7

Stoke-on-Trent

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich Brothers are in Stoke-on-Trent to help a young couple who have run out of ideas when it comes to their garden, having sorted their new-build home.

43 min

8

Pontefract

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich Brothers head to Pontefract, West Yorkshire, where they compete to design a fifty-foot long garden which will enable the owners to grow vegetables.

43 min

9

Devizes

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are in Devizes, Wiltshire, each designing a wildlife-friendly garden that must also be ideal for everyday family life - on a budget of £1,500.

43 min

10

Northwood

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers compete for the chance to transform a boring lawn in north-west London into an ultra-modern garden to match the owners' high-spec house.

43 min

11

Hereford

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are in Hereford competing for a budget of £2,000 to design a back garden for different generations living under the same roof. Jackie and her husband Neil bought Jackie's childhood home from her dad Mervyn so that they could all live together and care for him in his old age. With a limited budget to spend, the designers come up with some fabulous ideas for creating garden sculpture and focal points on a shoestring.

43 min

12

Bolton

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are in Bolton competing for a budget of £6,500 to design a garden for Lorna and Luciano and their two young sons. The garden needs to have lots to entertain the energetic boys but that is not the only requirement - Luciano is from Sicily and would love a garden that reminds him of home, complete with a pizza oven. Along the way the designers have some great tips for good-looking, natural features that children will love and there is no primary-coloured plastic in sight.

43 min

13

Faversham

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers compete to design a garden for Stan and Gloria in Faversham, whose cherished front garden was washed away in a landslide. Confronted with a barren wasteland and an enormous amount of tarmac, our designers compete for a £1,500 budget to restore what was once a magical front garden to its former glory. Includes some clever ideas for disguising eyesores, such as when the designers plant a living screen and indulge in some ingenious upcycling.

43 min

14

Romsey

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are in Hampshire competing to design a garden for Nigel and Sue with a generous £8,000 budget. The couple are looking to turn their boring, featureless plot into a stylish, sophisticated haven for spending a long and happy retirement in. Along the way the designers have a wealth of tips on how to create a bog garden and how to deal with slight slopes, plus great trees and shrubs to plant to create privacy and screening in a garden.

43 min

15

Stevenage

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are in Stevenage competing to design a garden for Jenna and Craig and their brand new twins. Confronted with a sloped and mismatched garden, dotted with unsightly manholes, and a £1,000 budget, the trio of designers pull out all the stops to make the garden safe and usable for the twins in years to come. And when it comes to disguising those manholes, the designers have just the solution.

43 min

16

Stamford

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are competing to design a garden for a family of seven in Stamford, Lincolnshire. They've just moved from rural Rutland to suburbia and miss the sights and sounds of the countryside they've left behind. With five kids, it's a busy, noisy house and mum and dad want their garden transformed into a peaceful area they can call their own. Charlie and the Rich Brothers have a healthy £4,500 to spend, but with an awkward plot in a built-up modern setting, it's a huge challenge to design a garden that will remind them of the rural life they miss.

43 min

17

Bexley

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are in Bexley, Kent to visit a couple with two growing sons. As the boys get bigger, they're feeling the squeeze in the house so are keen to transform a disused area at the bottom of the garden into a new multi-functional space that they can all enjoy. The centrepiece of this space needs to be a cabin that will be an extension to their home, but they would also like a contemporary outdoor space around it. With the cabin eating up the majority of the budget, the designers have their work cut out.

43 min

18

Fleet

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are in Fleet, Hampshire, competing to build a low-maintenance, contemporary garden for a retired couple. With a healthy £7,000 budget and only a patch of grass and fence panels to play with, our designers transform this blank canvas into a sensational garden that definitely has the wow factor. With bending over and digging being an issue, the team have ideas for making gardening less labour intensive.

43 min

19

Cambridgeshire

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are competing to design a party garden for a couple and their two teenage children in Cambridgeshire. With a high-spec, stylish home, the family now want a garden to match and have £2,500 to spend. The designers find themselves with a challenge on their hands though as the garden is dominated by an ugly warehouse just behind it so they come up with some ingenious ideas to divert the views in another direction.

43 min

20

Blackburn

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers compete to design a zen space for a young couple longing for a Japanese garden. With a £7,000 budget, our designers bring east Asian style to Blackburn, turning the couple's mismatched garden into an area of tranquillity and serenity. There's a teahouse, enormous rocks and a pond. It's a big build and not one for the faint hearted.

43 min