The Great Gardening Challenge

The first episode comes from Norris Green in Liverpool, and pits an established professional company from Harrogate against an up-and-coming show garden team. Faced with designing gardens for an open public area that has been neglected and repeatedly suffered from vandalism in the past, what type of gardens will the designers create? And who will be victorious?

This time, Hertfordshire husbands Jon and Adam take on husband-and-wife team Catherine and James from Yorkshire. Their challenge is to deliver amazing garden spaces, on a budget of £5,000, for the Knightswood Day Care Centre in the heart of the Essex countryside. With a brief from the centre that includes sensory elements, seating and a potting shed, both teams have ambitious designs. But can they complete them in just two days?

Professional gardening teams from opposite ends of the UK compete to deliver amazing garden spaces for the Care for Veterans home in Worthing, with a brief of high accessibility.

Gardeners compete over the Focus Birmingham Day Care Centre.

Four pairs of gardeners compete in two semi-final rounds to create gardens for Glenfield Hospital in Leicester - one for the staff and another for the patients.

In the final round, the remaining two pairs of designers create show spaces at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey, on a budget of £10,000.