Mr Bloom's Nursery
2011 · Family
Mr Bloom's Nursery is a children's television program on BBC's brand CBeebies. Mr Bloom, played by Ben Faulks, is a gardener who helps children to get involved and inspired by nature. Each episode sees a small group of children visiting his allotment, feeding his "Compostarium" compost bin and interacting with puppet vegetables.
Episodes
▶1. Stretch15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers wake up some seeds by planting them. Inside the Nursery, Joan is leading an aerobics class but Raymond is too tired to join in because he's been play-acting at Captain Asparagus all morning. He falls fast asleep and it seems nothing can wake him up. Who will do the stretchiest stretch in the aerobics class and win a prize?▶2. Worms15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. The Tiddlers and Mr Bloom dig to find worms in the garden and watch some at work in the Compostarium who are busy taking rubbish and turning it into something useful. Inside the Nursery, Margaret dreams of becoming a Space Cabbage so the Tiddlers help by creating star pictures and planets, and the Wee MacGregors take the left-over rubbish to help make Margaret's dream come true.▶3. Giant Turnip15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers work together as a team to get a seed-sowing job done. Inside the Nursery, there's a huge turnip that needs to be pulled up. The Wee MacGregors try to push it out, Raymond tries to uproot it dressed as a sumo wrestler and Joan tries by asking nicely. It seems Mr Bloom, the Tiddlers and the Veggies all need to join forces to get the job done.▶4. Blanket15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers pot some plants, as they've grown too big for the pots they're in. Inside the Nursery, Margaret has a comfort blanket which she doesn't want to let go of, but looking back at pictures of the Veggies as babies, she discovers that it used to be someone else's blanket before it became hers. Will this give Margaret the courage to let go of her precious possession?▶5. Grow Business15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, the Tiddlers help harvest vegetables, giving them a wash to make them look their best for another one of Mr Bloom's prize-winning displays. Inside the Nursery it is the House of Fennel fashion show, run by Joan. But Raymond and Colin get accidentally covered in mud, so the Tiddlers have a race against the clock to clean them up for the show before a special guest arrives.▶6. Hide and Seek15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, the Tiddlers each show Mr Bloom that they're good at different jobs - digging, watering, raking and sweeping. Inside the Nursery, the Veggies are having a Games Day to show off their different skills. Raymond is balancing plant pots on his head, Colin runs fast and Joan tidies up after everyone. Margaret doesn't want to join in because she doesn't think she's good at anything.... that is until the game of Hide and Seek is suggested.▶7. Underground15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, the Tiddlers each show Mr Bloom that they're good at different jobs - digging, watering, raking and sweeping. In the garden, the Tiddlers and Mr Bloom hunt for potatoes - eventually finding them underground. Inside the Nursery, Compo produces a treasure map because Margaret has run out of glittery glue for her sparkly sea picture. Everyone dresses like pirates and the Veggies climb aboard a special pirate ship to go on an adventure in search of buried treasure.▶8. Saving Bean15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers give the plants a drink, but there's not enough water to go round, so everyone tries a rain dance, and it works! The rain water is collected in the garden's water butt for a dry day when it's needed most. Inside the Nursery the Veggies decide to make a chocolate cake for Joan and the Tiddlers lend a hand. But Raymond and Margaret nibble away at the chocolate decorations and only one Veggie thinks to save the decorations for when they are needed most.▶9. Ladybirds15m · An unhealthy lettuce being eaten by greenfly is discovered, so Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers use ladybirds to destroy the bugs. Meanwhile, Joan prepares for the Ladybird Ball, but Raymond is feeling unwell.▶10. Right Size15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, there is a digging job to be done, but some of the garden forks are too big for the Tiddlers. Inside the Nursery, Raymond tries to play football with the Wee MacGregors but he's too big and accidentally squashes their football. Raymond tries playing seesaw with Colin but accidentally sends him flying to a precarious position up high on top of a flower pot. Someone just the right size is needed to help get Colin down.▶11. Funfair15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers discover that it takes time for vegetables to grow - the leeks having grown from very small seeds to be taller than the children are! Inside, the fun fair has come to the Nursery. Colin the runner bean has never been tall enough before to ride the helter-skelter and has even tried to cheat his way on. But will he have grown tall enough to ride this time?▶12. Snails15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, the Tiddlers collect the snails which have been nibbling Mr Bloom's lettuces and together they create a gravel barrier around the plants. But inside the Nursery, the snails escape causing panic among the Veggies as they frantically protect their precious strawberry plant. Compo produces some hard-boiled eggs which prove to be the perfect defence for the plant.▶13. Scared15m · ▶14. Music15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers stop to listen to the sounds of the garden. Inside the Nursery, Joan wants a musical performance from some professional veggie musicians. But Mr Bloom, the Veggies and the Tiddlers practise a nursery rhyme and make music from bits and bobs they find.▶15. Bloom's Barbershop15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers pull leaves from a special kind of lettuce to add to their salad, safe in the knowledge that new leaves will grow. Inside the Nursery, Joan's leafy hair has grown so much she can't see where she's going, so Mr Bloom uses Compo's special leaf cutter to give the reluctant fennel a trim.▶16. Energy15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers give some plant food to some wilty tomato plants in order to perk them up. Inside the Nursery, Joan is teaching Raymond and Colin some dance moves, but Colin is enjoying himself so much he skips lunch in order to keep on dancing. When he runs out of energy, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers come to the rescue with an emergency lunchbox.▶17. Making Do15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers are planting seeds but they don't have any plant pots so make do with what they find instead. Inside the Nursery, the Veggies are dressing up as crocodiles but Raymond the butternut squash feels left out because he hasn't got a costume. That is until the Tiddlers help Mr Bloom make Raymond a costume from bits and bobs that Compo finds.▶18. Changing Colour15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, the Tiddlers learn to pick the ripe red tomatoes and not the unripe green ones. Inside the Nursery, the Veggies are excitedly waiting for their friends the Bananas to arrive. Joan the fennel has dressed completely in yellow to welcome them and is horrified to see that the bananas are a different colour.▶19. Collecting Seeds15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers pick some tomatoes and cut them open to discover the seeds inside. In the Nursery, Colin's scooter is stuck under a fallen pot and no-one can lift it up. The Wee MacGregors play the bagpipes to summon more of their family to help - their Scottish cousins who like them, all came from seeds of the Grandpa Macgregor radish plant!▶20. Tidying15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, a tidy-up is needed in one of the vegetable patches - Mr Bloom can't tell the weeds from the leaves of the sprouting carrots. Inside the Nursery, Raymond wants to play Princes and Princesses with Joan but she's lost her tiara in amongst all the mess. The Tiddlers agree to help tidy up, but will they find Joan's crown?▶21. Bounce15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers water the plants to give them a drink in the hot sun. Inside the Nursery, Colin the runner bean is trying to break a record by jumping on his trampoline higher than a bean has ever jumped before! But he gets too hot, so has to have a drink to cool down before he can attempt the record again.▶22. Making Room15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers help spread out some seedlings so they've got more room to grow. Inside the Nursery Joan wants perform her Fennel Fandango in a special dance show, but there's not enough room for all the Veggies to practise their moves.▶23. Bees15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. Mr Bloom teaches the Tiddlers that bees are little helpers in the garden. Inside the Nursery, a bee - an old friend of Raymond - rescues Margaret's hat which is stuck up high on a shelf. As a way of saying thank you to the bee, the Tiddlers make a bee house.▶24. Accidents15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. Mr Bloom is having a clumsy day and keeps having accidents in the garden. Inside the Nursery, Sebastian the aubergine has organised an art competition but Margaret accidentally spills paint on Joan's picture.▶25. Labels15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers put labels in the vegetable beds to help them remember what is planted where. Inside the Nursery, the cheeky radishes, the Wee MacGregors have switched the labels around. Colin the runner bean thinks he should be a cabbage, Margaret the cabbage thinks she should be a butternut squash, and Raymond the butternut squash thinks he should be a runner bean!▶26. Wind15m · Green-fingered gardener Mr Bloom welcomes a team of young helpers, who tend to his plants and produce. In the garden, Mr Bloom teaches the Tiddlers about seeds which fly on the wind. Inside the Nursery, Colin the runner bean wants to be like his hero, Captain Asparagus, by flying in his homemade flying machine.
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