Secret Garden (2026)
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To experience epic animal adventures, there's no need to travel the globe. Some of the greatest natural dramas are happening much closer to home.Britain's 30 million gardens have a combined area greater than all of our national nature reserves combined. And it turns out that our flowerbeds, vegetable patches, lawns and ponds are home to thousands of animal and plant species - many rarely seen, most barely understood.Secret Garden tells the surprising stories of the wild characters that live right on our doorsteps, revealing what they get up to when our backs are turned.
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- 01
OxfordshireThe lives of the kingfishers, otters, and other animals in a river garden. Life here seems idyllic, but all are at the mercy of seasonal floods. - 02
BristolThe hidden lives of foxes, hedgehogs, blue tits, and frogs, each making a life for themselves in a small urban garden in Bristol. - 03
The Lake DistrictThe hidden struggles of swallows, field mice, newts, and moles as they race to breed in a beautiful country garden in Cumbria.
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Season01
- S01E01Season's bestOxfordshireApril 5, 2026The lives of the kingfishers, otters, and other animals in a river garden. Life here seems idyllic, but all are at the mercy of seasonal flo
- S01E02BristolApril 12, 2026The hidden lives of foxes, hedgehogs, blue tits, and frogs, each making a life for themselves in a small urban garden in Bristol.
- S01E03The Lake DistrictApril 19, 2026The hidden struggles of swallows, field mice, newts, and moles as they race to breed in a beautiful country garden in Cumbria.
- S01E04
The Wye ValleyApril 26, 2026How tawny owls, badgers, dormice, and bumblebees have made a home in a beautiful woodland garden hidden at the bottom of a steep-sided Welsh - S01E05
The Western HighlandsMay 3, 2026How a remote garden on Scotland’s west coast has become an oasis for barn owls and pine martens as they battle the elements to feed, breed,
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