STONE Lane Gardens in Chagford has featured on the latest edition of a BBC Two programme highlighting the difficulties facing Britain's horticulture.

The gardens, a five acre arboretum that holds important national collections of wild birch and alder trees, featured in Monday's episode of 'The Great British Garden Revival' on BBC Two.

The series unites 14 of Britain's top television gardeners in an effort to switch Britain back to a nation proud of its roses and rockeries, hedgerows and herb gardens, water features and wildflowers.

Film crews visited Stone Lane Gardens in September to look at the work being done at the gardens. More than 1,700 trees from 140 provenances now grace the garden, collected from around the northern hemisphere by the garden's creator, Kenneth Ashburner.

Presenter and gardening expert Joe Swift chatted to Kenneth's wife June about the work of her late husband, and how she can often imagine him as she wanders around the garden.

The arboretum features as part of an episode focusing on cut flowers and trees.

In each episode, two presenters focus on an endangered aspect of gardens about which they feel passionately, and offer hands-on, practical advice to viewers on how they can restore and look after their gardens.

Nationwide, more people now have paved patios in their gardens than those who have trees. Today, only 2% of Britain is covered in ancient woodland. The programme sees presenter Joe Swift travel to Chagford, Brighton, and Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Executive producer for Outline Productions, Bridget Boseley, said: 'Getting so many talented presenters involved to encourage viewers to re-engage with their gardens and our horticultural heritage demonstrates how passionately they feel about this issue and our ambition for the scale of this series.'

The episode is now available to watch via BBC iPlayer.