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Ground Force
1997 - 2005 0.0 (0 votes) 12 Seasons
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Ground Force

Overview

Ground 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.

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Seasons

Season 0 (2000)

No overview available.

17 episodes

Season 2 ()

No overview available.

16 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Northwood

Another chance to see the team embrace the difficult task of transforming a narrow patch of land in Northwood, London, into a series of stylish garden rooms before the owners get back from Paris

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Spalding

Alan Titchmarsh and the team travel to Spalding, in Lincolnshire, where they have just two days to convert a demolished garage into a Tuscan-style dining area

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: West Hanney

Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh recreate a tranquil Yorkshire Dales scene in an Oxfordshire garden, using giant rocks, alpine plants and a waterfall

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Bristol

The team design a garden suitable for a wheelchair user, incorporating a patio, pond and an abundance of plants

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Bromley

The crew of Blue Watch join Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh to create a beautiful garden in the grounds of Bromley Fire Station

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Basingstoke

Alan Titchmarsh and the team are given the daunting task of transforming a garden that the previous owner decided to resurface with concrete

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Warwick

The green-fingered experts summon the police to help clear a Warwick couple's garden, which has come to resemble a rubbish tip. At first everything seems to go smoothly - then disaster strikes

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Newport, Gwent

A patch of clay in Newport, Gwent, is given an ultra-modern makeover with a pier, bandstand, fountain and sculpture. Presented by Alan Titchmarsh

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Leatherhead

Alan Titchmarsh leads the green-fingered team in creating a seaside garden with pier and decking in Leatherhead for a female rugby star

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Edmonton

Alan Titchmarsh and the green-fingered team create a taste of north Africa in a London garden, using sand, hot planting, paving stones and a pavilion

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Pudsey

The team are assigned the difficult task of renovating a Yorkshire garden with a veritable brickyard lurking beneath the surface. Racing against the clock, they manage to make it fit for children of any age - giving the owner a shock on his return two days later

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Rainham

The miracle makeover team work wonders in the front garden of a couple from Rainham in Kent. Lumpy grass and a narrow drive make way for cobbles and a water feature

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Saltash

The team create a garden water feature to make nuclear submariner Rob Smith feel at home when he berths at Saltash, racing against time and hoping the cement isn't still wet

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Alloa

The team renovate a small garden in Alloa for a retired woman, complete with raised beds and new paths, to make her horticultural hobby easier to manage. A plant table, fountain and private patio are also planned, but a torrential downpour jeopardises the project

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Torquay

Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh attempt to create a feng shui garden in Torquay using a combination of running water, bamboo fencing and Chinese lanterns

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Lurgan

Alan Titchmarsh and the team pitch in to create the ultimate football fan's garden, complete with corner grandstand, in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. But plans to keep the owner at bay fall into disarray, resulting in a last-minute dash to achieve their goal - with absolutely no chance of extra time

Runtime: 30 min
Season 8 (2002)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Bordon
2002-01-07

Tommy needs an extra helper as the team face one of their most daunting challenges when they embark on their biggest ever deck project - which has to be built on a steep slope. As Alan busies himself with the immediate task in hand, Charlie gets on with the planting and has a few ideas to brighten up the rabbit hutch

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Luton

Louise from Luton is packed off to a health farm to allow renovation of her overgrown garden. The team get off to a good start by laying a resin-bonded path but disaster almost strikes when an outbreak of food-poisoning threatens to close the spa and Louise can't understand why her friends won't let her return home.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Chesham

A rain-soaked retirement home garden poses a challenge for the team as they set to work creating a tranquil space in which the residents can relax. They begin by removing the swing from a willow tree, adding paving and pot plants - but with rumours of a royal visit rife, confusion is sure to follow.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Great Harwood

A neglected back garden is transformed with a large natural-looking pond surrounded by trees and wild flowers. Tommy builds a new fence and pond-dipping platforms.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Harrow

The back yard of a terraced house in Harrow is converted into a garden of two halves - an English cottage garden with pergola and roses, but also influences from Romania, the owner's homeland.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Brotherton
2002-02-18

In the last episode of the series, the team are challenged to revamp a plot at Lyndale Residential Caravan Site. They set about building a veranda and creating a water feature using copper piping, but the terrible weather and poor soil make progress very difficult leaving them staring defeat in the face.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 9 (2002)

No overview available.

5 episodes

Season 10 (2003)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Nantwich
2003-01-27

The garden of Helen, a charity-worker, is revamped with a twisting rill, circular lawns and a 'pig patio' made from concrete railway sleepers.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Stamford

Three daughters plan a new garden at their family home while their parents are away celebrating their dad's 60th birthday. Unfortunately, the garden contains so much compacted clay, the going proves very tough.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Newcastle

A couple are keen to make their New Zealander son-in-law feel at home in Newcastle so they design a garden especially for him. As Charlie and Kirsty become bogged down in a swampy area of the garden, Tommy and Will leave little time for decking after labouring over the paving. Despite their best efforts, the job proves to be more of a cahllenge than anticipated.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Garforth

While Tommy concentrates on the paving, Charlie makes the most of half a shed and some exciting plants, while a stone-wall water feature and an awning add to the ambience.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Putney

A huge, overgrown council house garden is transformed into a haven for a mother and her children. The team try to make the most of one of the original features - a beautiful plum tree - by surrounding it with a circular paved area, while the paddling pool is restored to it's former glory and a lawn area is laid.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Truro
2003-03-13

In the final episode of this series, a dilapidated area at Cornwall's Wildlife Trust headquarters is transformed into a wildlife haven. Made entirely from recycled materials, the finished plot comes complete with a pond and an aqueduct water feature.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 11 (2004)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Poplar
2004-03-01

The team create a new garden for east London resident Susanne, who wants to connect her land to her sister's property next door. They develop a circular theme with a round patio and seating made from an old fireplace hearth, as well as adding eye-catching plants and water features. But they only have two days to finish the task before Susanne's sister returns, and there are three skiploads of crazy paving to get rid of before they can start.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Castle Donington

The green-fingered team comes to the aid of a woman in Castle Donington who wants to create a new garden for her grandmother, with an easy walking surface, a pond and raised beds for plants, as well as a gazebo to do the crossword in.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Croydon

The team come to the aid of a preachers family who want to transform their garden. Unable to proceed with the children's original idea of paving half the garden, Tommy Walsh comes up with an alternative plan - creating a sunken plot complete with large stone water feature.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Kingswinford

The team erect a summerhouse with a verandah and create a mini knot-garden surrounded by cottage-style brick paving for a family man who has packed his wife and kids off to a holiday camp.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Ilford

The team create a wheelchair-friendly garden, including raised beds and ponds, for an Essex woman with brittle bone syndrome. Her close friend had thought about paving the plot, but this proves too ambitious a plan for their tight schedule. Instead, they build a ramp from the existing deck and lay a gravel path on special matting designed to make it safe for a wheelchair.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Beckenham Kent

The green-fingered gurus travel to Beckenham in Kent to help teenage twins surprise their hard-working mother with a garden makeover. The boys have a bit of spare time now that they've finished their GCSEs and with the team's help create a shapely path, decking and an arboretum, and renovate the tumbledown gazebo.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Bacup
2004-06-23

The team come to the aid of a woman from Bacup who has fostered more than 70 children, all under the age of two. Janet Hill has always wanted a garden she can sit in with the babies, so while she's away Charlie and Tommy step in. But while they make short work of the planting, paving, pergolas and water features, the project hits a snag when a sewer pipe is damaged.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Molesey Surrey

Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh create a garden for a lock-keeper in Molesey, Surrey, on the bank of the River Thames. While the oblivious owner is away on a health and safety course, the team builds a shady, secluded area with decking and a small water feature, as well as using a new process to lay cobbled paving in record time. However, while the rush to meet the usual two-day deadline, lock-keeper Steve is not in any hurry to come back.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 12 (2005)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Kingston-upon-Hull
2005-01-24

A long, thin garden is converted into a series of 'rooms' comprising an angled patio, a woodland garden and a formal pond at the request of the owners daughter.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Fulham

A garden owner calls in the team to surprise his Japanese wife as their garden is given an oriental makeover, featuring a pool, lanterns, decking and a pottery shed / tea house.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Cork

The team travel to Cork to transform a 180ft garden for a rugby-mad couple. The pair had planned to turn the large space into an entertaining area as an extension to their small house, so the team set to work installing split-level decking and a misty water feature.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Calverton

The green-fingered team visit Calverton, Nottinghamshire, to finish the work of a keen gardener who died before completing his dream project, so his widow can enjoy the fruits of his labour. Work begins on an ambitious deck including a pond, pergola and swing seat - but rain looks likely to disrupt their plans.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Dorchester

The team come to the aid of a Dorchester couple with three-year-old triplets, putting in a path and patio made from circular paving and railway sleepers, along with beds of plants and a secret play area for the children.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Wakefield

The team make an uneven garden more accessible for wheelchairs, so the owner's disabled father can enjoy it. The plan involves building bridges, inclines, and a water feature, as well as outside lighting to help the deaf householders communicate by sign-language in the evening.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Eastleigh

The green-fingered team come to the aid of two brothers in Eastleigh, who let the garden fall into a lamentable state while their parents were in America and are hoping to put things right. Once the rubbish has been cleared away, they install concentric rings of paving stones and a circular pergola.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Spain
2005-03-21

It's off to Spain for the last episode of the series where the garden of a renovated farmhouse near Marbella is transformed for an expat couple. The owners want an area where they can sit and enjoy the magnificent view, so the team set to work on a pergola and water feature using traditional terracotta tiles. They also add blue ceramic planters and a stepping-stone path.

Runtime: 30 min
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