UKTV Gardens was a

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broadcasting in the

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, part of the

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family of channels. As its name suggests, the channel focused entirely on gardening shows. When it originally launched, the channel was known as UKTV Style Gardens on 23 February 2005 and all the gardening content from

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was moved to the new channel. In early 2007 it adopted the more independent name ''UKTV Gardens''. It was available on Sky Digital and

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2009 closure and replacement

As part of the UKTV rebrand, UKTV Style along with UKTV Gardens and UKTV Food were the third phase of the rebrand, with UKTV Style rebranded as

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on 30 April 2009 and UKTV Food as

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on 22 June 2009., and UKTV Gardens was closed down and was replaced with Really on 19 May 2009 with all the gardening programmes that were on this channel transferring to

. Before UKTV Gardens closed, it ran all 13 episodes of ''

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'', a fitting tribute to gardening.

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