The new series bursts into bloom with the best of British bulbs, flowering now at the Spalding Show, and the value and variety of winter-flowering heathers at the RHS Gardens at Wisley. And the growing season gets off to a flourishing start at Barnsdale. With Geoff Hamilton , Dr Stefan Buczacki and Pippa Greenwood.
Including a visit to Adrian Bloom 's winter garden in Bressingham, Norfolk. With Geoff Hamilton, Dr Stefan Buczacki and Nigel Colborn.
As well as daffodils, there's gardening under glass and techniques for propagating a favourite shrub from winter hardwood cuttings. With Geoff Hamilton , Dr Stefan Buczacki and Anne Swithinbank.
A Century of Alpines: the country's top alpine enthusiasts compete for medals and prestige as the University of Warwick hosts a once a decade gathering of international experts. Colborn's Creative Planting: more principles of planting design, including ground rules for ground cover and colour codes for changing the mood. With Geoff Hamilton, Dr Stefan Buczacki and Nigel Colborn.
Tips from a high-rise balcony garden, 200ft above London's East End, preventive measures against pest attacks on fruit trees, and more on making raised beds. With Geoff Hamilton, Dr Stefan Buczacki and Pippa Greenwood.
The Chelsea Flower Show Amateur gardeners pick up tips from this year's winners. With Geoff Hamilton , Nigel Colborn , Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood.
A visit to Mr and Mrs Paddy Ashdown's cottage garden in Somerset, which is a retreat and relaxation from a hectic life in politics. A profile of tall bearded irises, plus some timely tips for weed eradication. With Geoff Hamilton, Dr Stefan Buczacki, Nigel Colborn and Pippa Greenwood.
How to transform a steeply sloping site into an attractive garden. Former Dad's Army star Bill Pertwee spots the prettiest station gardens on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. With Geoff Hamilton , Dr Stefan Buczacki, Pippa Greenwood and Nigel Colborn.
A visit to a stylish garden in Rutland complete with flower garden, created in only five years from an unpromising quarter-acre plot. Chris and Pauline Lloyd grapple with a sloping garden. Plus a look at a blaze of begonias, fuchsias and pelargoniums in a retired miner's garden in Swadlincote, Derbyshire. With Geoff Hamilton , Nigel Colborn , Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank.
A visit to the tranquil woodland garden Colonel Harry Clive created for his wife Dorothy. She died in the 1950s, but the garden is still planted for year-round interest. Plus a look around the Warwickshire grounds of Horticulture Research International, an organisation which reveals new techniques for growing mini veg for maxi crops. With Geoff Hamilton , Dr Stefan Buczacki, Pippa Greenwood and Nigel Colborn.
Gardeners World episode 1 2002: Alan Titchmarsh reveals the changes he has made to his garden over the winter and reveals his new plans for the year.
Gardeners World episode 2 2002: As spring approaches, Alan Titchmarsh shows us how to propagate Delphinium and ferns.
It's the best, but not of 2005, or 2007, but 2006! Yay.
Flowers and stuff
Joe Swift visits the inner city gardens bringing people together from all walks of life. Having pledged to help residents near his own London home set up a communal gardening area, Joe embarks upon a personal journey to discover how community gardens are created and run. He meets people from urban neighbourhoods up and down the country who nurture their local green spaces, and sees a pioneering neighbourhood scheme in New York to make the city more green.
Based at RHS Rosemoor gardens in Devon, Carol Klein extols the beauty of winter in this showcase RHS garden, and also visits plant collections and growers and breeders across the country who specialise in the care and cultivation of the most sumptuous seasonal blooms. She takes a tour of the gardens with curator Christopher Bailes, meets gardeners and volunteers working in the various garden areas, and discovers tips and tasks to be getting on with in the garden.
Monty Don examines the renaissance in the Great British allotment and asks why the number of plots in the UK seem to be shrinking when demand is on the increase. Monty also takes time out to celebrate this great tradition by meeting the different personalities, young and old, for whom their allotment is their own private paradise.
It's the first programme of a new series, and Gardeners' World is in its 40th year. Monty Don begins a new garden that will celebrate some of the famous faces and gardens which have appeared on the programme over the years. Along with Carol Klein in the cottage garden, and Joe Swift growing tropical edibles, Monty starts planting in the long borders and launches a Viewers' Bedding Competition.
The Gardeners' World team would like viewers to begin greening up their houses and neighbourhoods by growing and sharing plants for hanging baskets. Monty begins by sowing seeds for plants to fill baskets at Berryfields, as well as giving tips on how to grow great bedding plants. Carol starts a new project where she will grow and harvest vegetables from a small plot of just 5 x 1.2 metres, while Joe extols the virtues of the most flamboyant of early spring flowers, the Camellia.
It's time to get going with planting around the Berryfields pond which was completely redone at the end of last year. The winter rains have filled it up and now it's time to start establishing new plantings to attract wildlife. Monty starts sowing seeds for a new meadow, Carol starts growing some perennial plants and Joe plants some shrubs to extend the nectar bar.
The Easter weekend is one of the busiest of the gardening year, and Berryfields is no exception. Monty is replanting one end of the long borders with perennial plants of 'cool' hues: blues, whites and hints of plum. Carol is planting up her tiny vegetable plot and starting off some potatoes to grow in plastic compost bags, and Joe is toiling away in the 40-year-anniversary garden, starting to build the wall, steps and pathway.
Spring is well under way and the fresh greens of the season inspire Monty to begin a 'green' garden: a garden that has the basis of green flowers and all the spectrum of green foliage that it is possible to plant. Joe returns to his modern town garden that he built last year, to see how it has come through the winter. Carol is adding more plants to her small garden which is filled entirely with plants that have been grown from seeds and cuttings.
It's a nostalgic look back at previous presenters of the programme as Monty, Joe and Carol each take a section of the 40-year garden and plant it up to represent the planting of Percy Thrower, Arthur Billet, Geoff Hamilton and Alan Titchmarsh. Sarah Raven returns with the second part of her cutting patch series and Monty is also in the long border planting clematis.
This programme comes from the 22nd annual Malvern Spring Gardening Show held at the Three Counties Showground in Worcestershire. The team explores the show and this area of the country, taking a look at all the highlights. Monty shops for green flowers and foliage for the new green garden back at Berryfields, and Carol, Rachel and Joe decide to get stuck in and have a go at designing and planting a plot in the Borders without Gardens competition.
Monty, Joe and Carol are joined at Berryfields by Sarah Raven for another indulgent hour of gardening. It's all about colour as Monty and Sarah plant up the green garden with foliage, flowers and texture, Joe injects some structure and seasonal colour into the dry garden, Carol is planning for hot summer purples and oranges in her garden of seeds and cuttings, and Sarah shows how to grow the rich hues of late-summer flowers.
Right plant, right place is the mantra as Monty plants out irises for full sun in the long borders and irises for the water margins by the pond, Carol deals with flowers for dappled shade in the cottage garden and Joe plants up summer pots for sunny, shady and dry parts of the garden.
The long borders get some attention this week as Monty plants out annual climbers and preens perennials for maximum flower performance. Carol is in the herb garden giving advice about tender culinary herbs while Joe takes a trip to the late Geoff Hamilton's garden at Barnsdale where, in the lead up to Gardeners' World Live, Nick and Sue Hamilton have been growing plants for the 40th year show garden.
The most popular gardening event of the year comes to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, where the Gardeners' World team celebrate 40 years of the programme with the building of the 40th year anniversary garden. Joe Swift aims to win a coveted RHS medal for the show garden, while Carol explores the RHS Floral Marquee, Rachel takes a look at the show gardens, Monty mans the seed swap and Michelle Robinson offers her take on the best gardening day out of the year.
The formal garden gets a transformation this week when the winner of the bedding competition plants out her design with Monty and the team. Monty is also planting for insects by the pond by extending the variety of plants in the nectar bar, while Joe adds edible tropical plants to the jungle garden. Plus Carol keeps the cottage garden at peak performance by adding more successional colour.
Gardener and former art teacher Carol Klein has always created wonderful colour combinations in her own garden and with her acclaimed displays at RHS garden shows. She reveals how much our opportunity to use colour has developed over the centuries and shows how planting has been influenced by innovators like Gertrude Jekyll and Christopher Lloyd. Carol visits celebrated colour-themed gardens like Sissinghurst and Great Dixter to reveal the secrets of successful garden design.
Great Britain's one million acres of private gardens are under threat as an estimated 20,000 new homes are built every year in back gardens grabbed by developers. Garden Grabbing exploits a loophole in the current law which classes private gardens as brownfield not greenfield sites. Designer Joe Swift finds out just how important our urban back gardens are and asks if there are any pioneering alternatives, both here and abroad, to the traditional back garden.
Can eating certain foods actually save your life? For some time a new class of Super Foods foods has been marketed as cure-alls because they are rich in anti-oxidants as well as vitamins and minerals. With four children of her own, Rachel de Thame is on a mission to demystify the truths and myths about Super Foods and to find out if there really is such a thing as a perfect diet.
The sale of cut flowers in the UK is at an all time high, but cheaper land and labour costs and a warmer climate have led to overseas competitors dominating 85 per cent of the market. Presenter Sarah Raven visits the UK's most beautiful cutting gardens, where British growers are cutting their own niche in an ever expanding market, and tries to encourage the cut flower market and its consumers to celebrate our native seasonal flowers with a Great British Cut Flower Week.
Monty looks back over what's happened at Berryfields over the last few weeks. He gets to grips with the long borders and provides an update on the vegetable garden. Carol starts the first week of a longer project in the cottage garden where she is transforming a small space for shade-loving plants. Joe starts work in the courtyard garden and gives advice on small space gardening.
Monty introduces a new sweet pea which has been named after him and we pay a visit to Roger Parsons who has bred numerous varieties, including sweet pea 'Monty Don'. We also visit a garden that has been partially destroyed by floods to see the damage and find out how the owners are going to restore the garden to its former glory. Carol continues her work in the cottage garden and Joe is in the courtyard garden giving advice on small space gardening.
As summer draws to a close there are loads of tasks to be getting on with. Monty is clearing crops in the vegetable garden and planting green manure, Joe is working in the dry garden and the time is ripe for Carol to start propagating from seeds and cuttings. There's also a visit to Kew Gardens to find out if our changing climate has affected plants in any way.
Monty reveals how to make perfect compost from all sorts of garden and kitchen waste, whilst Joe is plants some unusual bulbs which thrive in dry conditions. Carol continues to propagate from the garden by dividing as many plants as possible, and we find out about an heroic effort to save bedding displays in Upton upon Severn which were destroyed by floods just days before they were due to be judged by the Royal Horticultural Society.
At Berryfields, Monty celebrates the plants that provide late colour in the garden. Carol continues to propagate from plants, taking cuttings. And Joe maintains the lush plants in the jungle garden.
Monty Don prepares the soil for next year's sweet peas. Joe Swift makes the most of limited planting space in his family garden. And Carol Klein makes more plants by taking root cuttings.
Although Autumn is well under way at Berryfields, Monty continues to plant crops in the vegetable garden which will provide early vegetables in spring as well as clearing up the remains of the summer vegetables. Carol plants out meadow plants which she grew from seed earlier in the year, while Joe gives the low down on what's good for your lawn.
A new garden is unveiled at Berryfields this week which is exclusively for growing soft fruits such as strawberries and raspberries, and Monty gets the project started when the first plants go in. Joe continues the fruit theme when he plants some ornamental and productive fruit in his small family garden while Carol gets to grips with moving and replanting a tree.
Monty reveals a simple and quick way of building a garden seat when he begins a new project of making a woodland glade. As the gardening days grow colder and shorter, Joe and Carol are wrapping up and protecting tender plants to ensure their survival over winter and into next spring.
In the last programme of the current series, Monty plans bright colours for Spring as he plants tulips in the long borders. Carol gives advice on how to look after garden wildlife over the harsh months of Winter. Joe shows how to ensure the survival of exotic late-flowering perennials like Dahlias and Cannas.
In an hour long Christmas edition of Gardeners' World, Monty Don, Carol Klein, Joe Swift, Sarah Raven and Alys Fowler offer 12 gardening ideas to cover each of the 12 days of Christmas. Carol and Joe enjoy a series of winter walks with a horticultural flavour. Sarah follows the journey of the British cobnut from harvest to the plate. Back at Berryfields, Monty and Alys tackle a host of winter tasks and start planning the new gardening year.
Monty is back at Berryfields finishing off Winter gardening jobs and getting ready for new challenges and new projects for the garden. He's joined by Alys Fowler, Berryfields' head gardener, and together they plan and plant a small orchard of heritage apple, pear and plum varieties. There's also a look at projects across the UK where growing, and safeguarding the future of local British fruit varieties is celebrated: From a community orchard project in Gloucestershire, to the conservation of 'Mazzard' Cherries in Devon.
Carol Klein celebrates spring in the West Country. Carol shares her propagation secrets from her home garden in Devon, with tips on primroses and tulips.
Gardening tips and advice. Good Friday is one of the busiest weekends for nurseries and garden centres as the official gardening year begins. Monty is in the Long Borders moving and dividing some of the mature plants. Carol visits Great Dixter to talk to head gardener Fergus Garrett as he prepares for the garden's first opening. Joe Swift is at one of the country's award winning garden centres.
Joe Swift takes the fear out of designing a garden with some simple principles. Starting at the Chaumont Garden Design festival in France, Joe looks at this year's design fashions and translates them to fit the domestic garden. Using four gardens, Joe shows how line, repetition, scale and proportion, simplicity, discovery and functionality should be used.
New look show. Monty Don and head gardener Alys Fowler sow colourful annuals at Berryfields. Joe Swift starts looking for an allotment in North London where he can grow fruit and vegetables for his family. Carol Klein is at home in Devon working on her own garden.
At Berryfields we sow the first carrots of the season and Monty launches two big new projects for Gardeners' World this year. Firstly a challenge for Joe Swift to provide fruit and vegetables for his family from his new London allotment. Then down in Devon, Carol takes on a young family who want to create an environmentally friendly garden with her help.
A garden for the senses is the new project that Monty makes a start on at Berryfields. His plan is to create a space that will offer stunning colourful displays, heady scents and relaxing and contemplative sounds. But first he needs to clear the area. In London, Joe takes his family to see the new allotment and Carol helps Jo and Russell Ash to dig their first flower bed.
Monty re-visits the nectar bar and the woodland glade to add new plants to both, but his main task is developing the planting in the Cottage Garden in a new direction. Carol finishes her new pond at her home at Glebe Cottage in Devon, and Joe and his family are on his allotment in Enfield, planting broad beans and Goji berries. Back at Berryfields, Alys attempts to grow some Cacti from seed, and Monty revels in the tulip display in the Long Borders.
The team explore the 23rd annual Malvern Spring Gardening Show, held at the Three Counties Show Ground in Worcestershire. This year the Malvern Spring Gardening Show is bigger and better than ever with 17 stunning Show Gardens and more plant nurseries in the Floral Marquee than Chelsea. Joe looks for advice and ideas for his allotment, whilst Carol is plant hunting in the Floral Marquee.
A look at the way in which we garden and how it is changing. We visit a radical project in London, which provides people without any garden at all with a place to cultivate plants. Carol and Joe are back at Berryfields and starting a project that embraces the fact that the average size of a British back garden is decreasing.
Joe visits an award winning allotment site at Stoke on Trent.
The team assess climate change by nurturing dry gardens and growing exotic vegetables.
Rachel de Thame meets Ben Barnes, star of Disney's Prince Caspian.
Joe Swift is in the jungle garden exploring different ways of planting exotics.
Gardeners' World celebrates its summer borders.
A look at how gardeners create their gardens to fit their family's needs.
How does location, lifestyle and work reflect on the way we garden?
The Royal Horticultural Society at Harlow Carr and Rosemoor present their best plants.
How has the English cottage garden coped with the threat of climate change?
Making a border from scratch is one of the most exciting aspects of garden making, and last summer Rachel de Thame had the chance to fulfil a lifelong ambition, planting up a 20 metre border with all the planting combinations she previously could only dream about.
It's Toby's first Christmas in the Berryfields garden, and to celebrate he is planting a willow glade packed full of colourful promise. In years to come the plan is that he will coppice the willow and use it to build fencing and other structures around the garden. He practises his willow weaving skills as he and head gardener Alys Fowler create new obelisks for the long borders. Plus, Joe celebrates his first season on the allotment with a Christmas party for his allotment buddies. He travels to Surrey to bring in the grape harvest for the Christmas bubbly. Carol Klein is at home in Glebe Cottage, where she rejuvenates her crocosmia and pays a final visit to new gardeners Jo Ash and Russ Johnson. They reflect on their busy year. Sarah Raven is at home making beautiful Christmas decorations from all things natural.
Toby and the team begin to transform a muddy field into the nation's new back garden.
Toby and the team launch the Dig In campaign, encouraging the nation to grow its own grub.
Gardening magazine. Toby starts planting up the new 'twilight garden'.
Toby works on the pond and Carol reveals her final three proteges for gardening school.
The team are at the 24th annual Spring Gardening Show in Malvern, Worcestershire.
Carol Klein's apprentices tackle root cuttings of garden favourites.
Toby Buckland and Alys Fowler explore ways of making gardens more bee friendly.
Toby Buckland plants out the annual plug plants ready for a summer of vibrant colour.
The most popular gardening event of the year comes to the NEC in Birmingham.
The team revisit many of the exciting new garden areas and ambitious projects at Greenacre. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jrx32/episodes/2009
Toby visits the RHS garden at Rosemoor and gets tips on how they maintain the displays. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jrx32/episodes/2009
Toby Buckland, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Alys Fowler give a few professional pointers to help you groom your garden to perfection. Toby finds himself up to his waist in water lilies at the RHS gardens at Wisley, and shows us what water plants we should be adding to our small ponds. He also gets inspiration for Greenacre from their glasshouse, which is packed with exotic plants. Carol focuses her students' attention on the care of seedlings, shows them how to pot on plants and shares her in-depth knowledge of the most flamboyant plant in the summer garden - the dahlia. Joe is back on his allotment catching up on his crops, and in Design Made Easy, he gives advice on the best colourful climbing plants for pergolas. Alys joins Toby at Greenacre and, as well as catching up on all the seasonal gardening tasks, sows oriental vegetables.
12/23. Toby Buckland visits the most northern Royal Horticultural Society garden at Harlow Carr.
13/23. Toby Buckland visits the RHS garden at Hyde Hall in Essex, inspiring his own dry garden.
14/23. Owner Lynda Brown describes the garden of Jessamine Cottage past and present.
15/23. Toby Buckland returns to his coastal garden to create a seat made from sea washed pebbles.
September is the month when exotic plants reach their exuberant best, and in the tropical border at Greenacre Toby shows us which plants have performed. Carol's favourite plant this week is the fiery crocosmia and she shows us the best ones to grow to set our borders ablaze. Now is the perfect time to get new lawns growing, and Toby gives us the lowdown on laying turf while Alys chooses the less expensive option of growing a lawn from seed. And Radio One DJ Sarah Cox invites us into her own garden to see how she and her family have benefited from her first year of growing vegetables.
As some plants complete their life cycle in the garden, it's the perfect opportunity for the gardener to reap a bountiful seed harvest. Toby Buckland explains which plants to go for and how to collect and store them. For Carol Klein, late summer is the time when some plants are looking their most spectacular and, at Glebe Cottage, it's the Japanese anemone which is shining out from her borders. Joe Swift offers design tips for seating areas, and Toby joins him to make one with a contemporary edge at Greenacre. Plus, the garden of the first of the five finalists in the BBC Gardener of the Year competition is revealed.
18/23. Toby Buckland and Alys Fowler plan for spring
19/23. The judges visit the third finalist in the BBC Gardener of the Year competition.
20/23. Toby Buckland is inspired by the Orient and adds Japanese azaleas to Greenacre.
21/23. Toby Buckland plants a hazel nut tree and harvests the seeds from annual flowers.
22/23. Toby Buckland explains which plants need wrapping up for the winter.
23/23. It's all systems go at Greenacre as the team get the garden ready for the winter ahead.
Follow the progress of Carol Klein's gardening class as the show revisits the three pupils she took under her wing in 2009. There's another chance to see highlights of the class and find out how each one has developed new horticultural skills. Throughout the spring and summer all three amateur gardeners paid weekly visits to Glebe Cottage in Devon where Carol taught them the basic propagation and planting skills, as well as passing on some of her own trade secrets.
Garden designer Joe Swift pays a return visit to Birmingham couple Mark Amphlett and Suzanne Raynor, to find out if the garden he helped them design and build has grown into the space they always wanted. Throughout the year Joe has been helping Mark and Suzanne transform their back garden from an overgrown space into a stylish family garden. With two young children, the couple wanted a design that was elegant but practical. So six months after their first meeting it is time for Joe to look back over the year to see how the garden progressed from early drawings to final planting schemes. He also talks to Mark and Suzanne about how they have found the experience and what plans they may have for the rest of their outdoor space.
The story of the founding of the Royal Horticultural Society
After a long and unforgiving winter, the team are back with plenty of inspirational plants, seasonal jobs and essential tasks for the weekend. Toby recommends some of the best varieties of snowdrop for your garden and offers tips on the tastiest varieties of tomato, while Joe Swift joins him to get the fruit garden under way. Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage taking a closer look at the Hellebore family, and Alys Fowler sows sweet peas for picking in the summer.
Toby Buckland plants climbing and rambling roses around a new pergola at Greenacre, while Joe Swift maintains the prairie border and divides the perennial sunflower Lemon Queen. The Royal Horticultural Society demonstrate rose pruning techniques at Hyde Hall, and at Glebe Cottage, Carol Klein has tips on growing irises as she prepares the flowers for summer.
Toby Buckland is tidying up the Bee Border at Greenacre, cutting back the ghosts of last year's plants and selecting some nectar rich spring flowering perennials and shrubs that can be planted now to help ensure there is sufficient food for early bees. At Glebe Cottage in Devon, Carol Klein is celebrating the extensive Primula family. She takes us through the family tree, and reveals some surprising clan-members in between.
Toby Buckland starts off varieties of vegetables which can be sown, grown and harvested within weeks, in a new vegetable plot at Greenacre, while Joe Swift is planting evergreen hedging and offering advice on planting out Camellias. At Glebe Cottage, Carol Klein explores the relationships between members of the lily family, while at RHS Wisley Colin Crosbie gives a master class in Camellia pruning techniques and recommends varieties that will extend the flowering season.
While gardeners nationwide are getting their gardens in shape over the Easter bank holiday weekend, so too are Toby Buckland, Joe Swift and Alys Fowler. Each of them is creating a back garden at Greenacre. Meanwhile, Carol Klein is out and about at Tresco Abbey on the Isles of Scilly, exploring the extraordinary and exotic plants that thrive in their microclimate under the care of head gardener, Mike Nelhams.
With thoughts of fresh posies and sweet smelling summer blooms, Toby Buckland has plans for a cutting garden at Greenacre. He makes his first sowings of flowers that will bloom within 12 weeks and makes recommendations for varieties that are ideal for cut flower borders. Spring has truly arrived when one of the wilder members of the pea family, the gorse, is in flower. Carol Klein follows its trail to her own back garden and looks at one of its surprising relatives.
Walls and fences are one of the most tricky areas of the garden to cover so, whether they face north, south, east or west. Toby Buckland comes up with suggestions for quick-growing climbing plants which will have them covered and looking good this summer. Carol Klein uncovers the colourful world of the Brassica family, plus Joe Swift joins Toby at Greenacre and shows us how to build a pond from recycled materials without compromising on design and quality.
Toby Buckland is focusing on the high impact, low maintenance plants of the American prairie-style border at Greenacre. Alys Fowler plants the glorious, blousy peony and adds some luscious foliage to the cutting garden. In her garden at Glebe Cottage, Carol Klein is taking a look at the borage family. Plus Toby plants sweetcorn in his family garden and has tips on how to grow popcorn.
The Malvern Spring Show heralds the start of the flower show season. The Gardeners' World team are there highlighting the best plants in the floral marquee and finding the latest in design ideas from the show gardens. 2010 is the Malvern Show's 25th anniversary and the International Year of Biodiversity, so the team find out how the way we garden has changed over the last quarter-century and how nurturing wildlife has become second nature to gardeners.
Toby Buckland shows us how to get the wow factor with beautiful blooming hanging baskets and recommends some of the best water-retaining products to keep baskets in even the sunniest of spots hydrated. And drawing inspiration from one of the nation's finest woodland gardens, Aberglasney, Toby suggests a fantastic selection of colourful plants that will thrive in the dappled shade of a tree canopy or beside a fence or wall.
Toby Buckland shares his top tips on how to get a bumper tomato harvest, as well as his ideas for where to plant shrubs with purple, gold and silver leaves to ensure that they flourish in your garden. Carol Klein continues her investigation into plant families as she delves into the nettle clan, while Alys Fowler uses a Native American Indian technique for growing tender vegetables. Plus a final chance to see the rhododendrons at the Leonardslee garden in West Sussex.
With summer on the horizon and everything in the garden growing like fury, there is plenty to be getting on with in the garden at the moment and Gardeners' World has some timely advice for borders, veg patches, boggy areas and even compost heaps. Plants which thrive in the moist conditions of pond margins are looking at their best right now and Toby Buckland recommends varieties which not only add a splash of colour but also have great foliage.
Toby Buckland is removing wall-flowers and digging up spent tulips, and has plenty of ideas for colourful replacements which will give dramatic flowers and foliage well into the first frosts of autumn. There's plenty of summer gardening advice for lawns, fruit gardens and shrub care from the experts at the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley.
Gardeners' World Live comes to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, offering something for everyone, from high-end design to helpful hints for ordinary gardeners. Toby Buckland visits the jewel in the crown of Gardeners' World Live, the RHS Floral Marquee, meeting passionate plantsmen and women from around the country. Whether it's a tried and tested favourite or something rare and unusual, Toby discovers the plants and the stories behind them. Joe Swift tours the show gardens, from the large and aspirational to the small and inspirational, finding the best ideas to take away and try out at home. Carol Klein gives her guide to propagation, with tips on how to turn one plant into many. And Alys Fowler meets the nurseries offering the best edibles at the show. And the ever popular Gardeners' World Plant Swap is back. Toby, Carol, Joe and Alys meet viewers and visitors wanting to swap their spare plants.
Toby Buckland visits some of his favourite coastal gardens and discovers how, despite the tricky and tempestuous locations, the gardens around the coast of Britain are at the forefront of horticulture and are amongst the most beautiful in the country.
Gardening magazine. Toby Buckland gets stuck into building an ingenious herb spiral - an easy build with a cunning design allowing all the herbs you like to cook with to be grown in one small but beautiful planter. Joe Swift is in the vegetable patch harvesting crops like peas, early potatoes and salad that are ready to eat, but he also has top tips on sowing exotic Chinese veg now to ensure there are crops to eat well into the autumn.
Gardening magazine. Toby Buckland shows us how to make a beautiful but simple garden path using recycled materials from both the home and the garden to create an informal look. Carol Klein visits the restored Victorian vegetable garden at Knightshayes Court. She also investigates the Campanula family. In Joe Swift's sustainable back garden at Greenacre, he shows us how to make a simple bench from a reclaimed pallet. And Alys Fowler is taking the plunge in a natural swimming pond.
It's the holiday season and there's no better time for Gardeners' World to take to the road, so when Toby Buckland and Carol Klein heard about a community of gardeners in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire with some of the commonest garden problems, they didn't need asking twice to head out and see if there was anything they could do to help. Toby concentrates on the gardens and allotments. Carol gives advice on issues ranging from propagation to pruning.
Toby shows how to increase the numbers of butterflies coming to your garden by planting the right flowers. Carol takes a look at the more decorative members of the potato family.
The Science of Gardening. Carol Klein has been a passionate gardener for over 30 years and, like many gardeners, she's fascinated by what's going on at a deeper level when it comes to her plants. So, Carol turns her beloved garden into a living laboratory and plays host to scientific experts who help her to explore, analyse and observe her soil, compost, seeds, weather, leaves, and flowers.
Gardeners' World returns with Monty Don back at the helm, but this time in the garden at his own Herefordshire home - a place that he has lovingly nurtured for the last 20 years. With winter receding, Monty, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame are preparing for spring. As well as showing us round his garden, Monty lifts and divides snowdrops. He also gets his vegetable garden started by sowing beetroot and planting onions. Carol Klein visits one of Britain's most inspirational winter gardens, Anglesey Abbey, and discovers that even in the darkest winter months gardens can still delight the senses with colour, fragrance and architectural beauty. Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame are in Dorset offering advice and a helping hand to a plucky gardener who, although it is officially still winter, is about to open her garden to the public under the National Garden Scheme.
As the winter draws to a close, work in the garden starts to step up gear. With the flowers and fruits of summer in mind, Monty Don gets going by planting pots of summer bulbs for colour and scent, passing on his secrets of success by using a variety of different planting techniques. He also reveals his plans for reinvigorating the area in his garden where perennials planted for their rich jewel-like colours need some attention. He shows that, by dividing and replanting some of the larger clumps now, he will get not only more plants but a better display later in the summer. Carol Klein visits Glendurgan Garden in Cornwall. Despite a slow start to the year, their magnificent magnolias are starting to bloom and she also joins in with the replanting of a border and gets their advice on the care and planting of tree ferns.
British summer time means that, from Saturday, we all have an extra hour to get out in our gardens in the evenings just as the early spring display is coming into its own. At Longmeadow, Monty Don introduces us to the coppice, a woodland area where his favourite flower, the primrose, is in bloom.As well as enjoying the seasonal colours of spring, it's time to plan the summer display. Monty sows sweet peas and gives his recommendations of what to grow to give you for colour in the garden and cut flowers for the house.
As April gets under way, at Longmeadow Monty Don begins the process of reinvigorating his Jewel Garden where, over the coming months, he will be using plants which will give an evolving tapestry of colour over the seasons. Beginning with structural plants, Monty recommends shrubs to give any border a richness of colour, either through their leaves or their flowers. Evergreen shrubs that are in their flowering prime right now are camellias, and Carol Klein revels in the glory of one the world's most renowned camellia collections when she visits Mount Edgcumbe on the banks of the River Tamar in Cornwall. Meanwhile, Rachel de Thame goes behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural Society's main garden at Wisley, where she reveals the secrets of a mysterious brew they've been using to keep their plants looking at their very best. Back at Longmeadow, the soil has warmed up sufficiently for Monty to be able to get his allotment under way.
Spring gets into its stride and Longmeadow is bursting into life. Monty Don prepares for the summer by sowing hardy annual seed directly into the spring warmed soil. Monty also introduces us to the walled garden, an intimate family space where he'll be doing some timely lawn repair and pruning his frost damaged figs. Carol Klein visits a garden that embraces art, design and architecture. The Gibberd Garden in Harlow is considered one of the most important postwar gardens in the country, a space where sculpture and plants compliment each other perfectly. Carol delights in the diverse installments and plentiful vistas and gets lots of wonderful inspiration from the spaces. Joe Swift tackles a gardening dilemma that many lovers of exotic plants have been struggling with as a result of the severe winter. He travels to Walsall in the Midlands to help a gardener whose beloved cordylines have been devastated by disease. (Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 4 Star)
As spring gets well underway, Monty Don adds to his collection of fritillaries at Longmeadow with pot-grown plants, as well as sowing some from seed. He also recommends other wildflowers which would thrive in the garden. Carol Klein meets Matt Bishop, who explains why he is attracted to later flowering varieties of daffodils and demonstrates how he is using them to breed new ones. Rachel de Thame shows a viewer how to get to grips with pruning an overgrown shrubbery, and divides and plants easy perennials for a blaze of summer colour. Back at Longmeadow, Monty celebrates the versatility of the euphorbia, which will bring colour, form and longevity to all areas of the garden from full sun to dry shade, and begins work on planting a variety of ornamental vegetables, such as ruby chard and red cabbage.
It's the busiest gardening weekend of the year and in a special hour-long programme for Easter there's plenty of inspiration to get our gardens kick started for the year ahead. At Longmeadow, Monty gets going on planting climbers for different aspects in his walled garden. From clematis and roses for full sun to plants for more shady places we get his top recommendations for varieties along with techniques for planting success. Continuing the theme of garden boundaries, this week Carol Klein is in her own garden at Glebe cottage. She gets inspiration from the nearby Devon hedgerows to discover the kind of plants which thrive there and then uses some of their cultivated cousins to transform an unpromising area of her garden in the shadow of a fence. Back at Longmeadow, as well as catching up with jobs on the veg plot and in the greenhouse, Monty begins the long and timely task of replanting his jewel garden with perennials in readiness for a bedazzling, gem-like display this summer.
As May gets under way at Longmeadow, Monty Don turns his attention to his 'dry garden', an area where the soil is particularly thin and baked by the sun. He recommends plants which thrive in these conditions. Meanwhile, Rachel de Thame visits the gorgeous gardens of Coton Manor in Northamptonshire, where the owner has planted inspirational combinations in unpromising areas. Carol Klein meets a woman who loves gardening, not for plants, but for the creatures they attract to her South Devon garden. And back at Longmeadow, Monty introduces an area of his garden which regularly floods and demonstrates, through planting, how he has used this situation to enhance what he calls his 'damp garden'.
Monty Don, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame kick off the flower show season at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show. They revel in the beautiful flowers, all at the peak of perfection, in the floral marquee. They hunt for planting inspiration in the 21 show gardens and each of them scour the showground to find which plant, garden, gadget or display to choose as their 'best in show'.
As the cow parsley and hawthorn blossom herald the real arrival of summer, the jewel garden starts to show signs of the abundance of colour that is to come. Monty Don prepares to surround the courtyard garden with scented summer pots. He also shares tips on how to care for citrus plants in containers. Joe Swift visits a rarely seen private garden created by one of Britain's foremost designers that will open for the first time as part of collaboration between the RHS and the Society of Garden Designers. This wonderful contemporary space has a free-flowing organic style inspired by the surrounding landscape. Carol Klein tackles a gardening dilemma that will be of interest to all those who have a passion for climbers. She travels to Wiltshire to help a couple who have lost most of the plants on their pergola to the harsh winter and have failed to get others established.
By the first week of June, plants are growing with such speed that some have a tendency to flop. Staking is the answer. As well as sharing his tips, Monty Don shows how to make stakes that can be used for many years to come. Now the nights are guaranteed to be frost free, Monty plants out the tender annuals he's raised from seed. Carol Klein visits a Wiltshire gardener and bee keeper who wants to make the most of a shady area by planting nectar rich plants. Carol helps by choosing plants with flowers which will not only attract her honey bees but will give much needed colour. Rachel De Thame discovers the benefits of The Chelsea Chop from the experts at RHS Wisley. Here some flowering perennial plants are cut back to trick them into flowering later. Back at Longmeadow, Monty turns his attention to his citrus trees and shows how, with a bit of TLC, they will spend the summer in tip top condition.
Monty Don visits the iconic garden of impressionist painter Claude Monet at Giverny. As well as revelling in the beauty and colour of Monet's paradise at this time of year, he has a privileged chat to Englishman James Priest, who, just this week, took up his role as Head Gardener of this world-renowned garden. Back at Longmeadow Monty shares his top tips for growing key culinary herbs. Now that soft summer fruits are beginning to swell he also begins the task of netting and mulching strawberries to ensure he can enjoy the harvest before the birds do. Meanwhile, Carol Klein offers some timely propagation advice at her home in Devon.
Special hour-long episode of the gardening programme. Now that the threat of frost has disappeared and the ground is warm, Monty Don plants out his dahlias, tends his roses and offers tips on extending the life of the vegetable garden at Longmeadow. Monty then teams up with Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame at Gardeners' World Live, where they view some spectacular show gardens and top class plants, and take part in a bring and buy plant sale.
An hour-long episode of the gardening programme. At Longmeadow, Monty Don shows which plants to choose for sensational borders right through the summer - from ornamental grasses to late flowering perennials. He also plants out squashes and pumpkins, as well as making his own comfrey feed. Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage giving advice on the best hardy geraniums for different situations and sharing tips on how to lift, divide and propagate them. She also visits the remarkable gardens of Waltham Place where the landscape is deliberately left untamed and even weeds are allowed to flourish. She discovers what plants work best in this low maintenance gardening style and learns how to create this type of naturalistic planting. Joe Swift is at Cothay Manor to discover what it takes to maintain 12 acres of stunning gardens and to see their many garden rooms, each a gem in its own right. And Rachel de Thame is at RHS Wisley getting advice from the experts on how to prune wisteria to get maximum flowers next spring.
There are plenty of timely midsummer jobs to be getting on with this week and at Longmeadow, Monty revels in the sweet peas he grew from seed earlier in the year and shows how to keep their display going on into the weeks ahead. He also takes softwood cuttings from herbs, including lavender, and lifts and divides primulas. Rachel meets a couple from Hampshire who have created their entire garden around their obsession for one plant, the hosta. And Carol travels to Wales to find out how one man tackled his sloping plot to make a garden on five different levels.
This show celebrates the arrival of the holiday season. At Longmeadow, Monty ensures that there will be late summer colour by propagating some his favourites from the fantastically diverse salvia family. He also divides irises and reveals what has gone wrong with his onion crop. Joe finds seasonal inspiration at historic Newby Hall in North Yorkshire, home to the longest herbaceous borders in Europe. Carol is at home showing how she keeps her flower beds looking their best at this time of year. Then she heads to the heart of London and discovers some hidden gardens to visit, all for the price of a travel card.
Monty Don prunes the deciduous hedges that are key part of the structure and form of Longmeadow. He shows us how to shape and cut as well as share tips on the right tools for the job. He also plants dahlias and cannas in pots for colour that will last from now and into the autumn and will provide a vibrant replacement for the spent lilies. Monty also heads to the capital and gets exclusive access to the second largest garden in London, the US Ambassador's garden where he meets head gardener, Stephen Crisp who has created a wonderful 'country house' style garden in the middle of a bustling city. Carol Klein visits an urban garden with a difference - a bijou NGS garden called Little Eden where the owners have created a small, charming oasis of colour in the heart of a housing estate near Wakefield.
Monty Don is planning ahead and planting autumn flowering crocus at Longmeadow. Also for autumn colour, he's adding cyclamen to the spring garden, and has tips on how to get a great show from them. Joe Swift visits Marks Hall, a surprising but inspiring modern garden created within the original walls of a Victorian kitchen garden. And Carol Klein is in Staffordshire with a couple who've created a garden for all seasons in their half-acre plot.
Monty Don unveils his plans for a wet meadow. He starts by planting herbaceous perennials that will thrive in heavy soils and also look good amidst the long grass. He also pots-on his salvia cuttings and explains the benefits of planting 'green manure' in the veg patch. Now that he has harvested his potatoes, that is exactly what he is doing to boost the fertility of the soil for next year. Carol Klein goes to the Welsh mountains to pick up some veg-growing tips from some green fingered ex-miners at their pristine allotments. And Tom Hart-Dyke goes to one of his favourite gardens, Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens in Dorset, and he is on the look out for unusual plants from far-flung shores that we can be grown in gardens in Britain.
Monty Don shows what to do now to maximise next year's soft fruit crop by pruning his summer raspberries and planting on the strawberry runners he potted up a few weeks ago. As Monty harvests September's abundance in the vegetable garden he makes notes of the tastiest varieties he has grown this year which he would grow again next year, as well as sowing some quick growing crops to harvest in the autumn. At Glebe Cottage, some of the mainstays of the late summer garden are from South Africa and Carol Klein is propagating them by sowing agapanthus seeds and demonstrating an unusual method of increasing eucomis. And Rachel de Thame visits the renowned historian Sir Roy Strong at his own garden, The Laskett, and talks to him about its creation over the last 40 years, while getting a privileged look at his extraordinary archive.
With bees in mind, Monty plans for spring by planting some early nectar sources for them using bulbs which flower early in the year, namely crocus and winter aconites. He also selects some asters which will not only give colour for autumn but will also help bees build up their nectar reserves to help them survive the winter. Carol is in Norfolk at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve taking a look at the borders designed by the renowned plantsman Piet Oudolf who has recently reworked his planting there. She finds out how he has combined over 100 different types of perennials and over 20 types of grasses to produce some stunning combinations which are also good for the insect population. And Joe Swift discovers the remarkable overhanging gardens of Marqueyssac in the Dordogne where over 150,000 hand-pruned, one hundred year-old box trees have been sculpted into curves and shapes to mimic the surrounding countryside. Back at Longmeadow, Monty begins the task of repairing and reseeding his grass paths and recommends lawn seed to cope with shade and heavy footfall.
Monty Don shows how to take cuttings from favourite roses to bulk up stock for free. He looks ahead to summer 2012 by planting foxgloves he's raised from seed, along with autumn onions for a bumper crop in June. Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage collecting seeds from her favourite flowers with a view to planting up a new border as cheaply as possible. And Rachel de Thame is at Hook End Farm in Berkshire admiring one gardener's wide variety of splendid roses growing in every corner of her garden.
In a special programme which comes from all four of the Royal Horticultural Society gardens, the Gardeners' World team are out on the road exploring how each location's differing climate affects the plants they grow and getting plenty of gardening tips along the way. Carol Klein introduces the programme from Wisley in Surrey, one of the country's southern 'hot spots'. She finds out how plants are assessed in their trial beds and how that information is useful to all gardeners. In the northernmost garden at Harlow Carr in Yorkshire, where the winters can be quite harsh, Joe Swift gets plenty of timely propagating tips. Rachel de Thame explores the gardens at Hyde Hall in Essex, the driest county, and discovers plants which thrive with minimal rainfall. By contrast, in the west, where the rainfall is high, Monty Don visits Rosemoor in Devon and finds plenty of inspiring planting combinations in their colourful 'hot borders'.
Monty Don has advice on how to successfully store an apple crop so it will last through winter, and explains why he thinks it high time wall flowers came back into fashion. With tomatoes now over, Monty clears his greenhouse and plans for next year by planting garlic in the vegetable garden. Carol is home at Glebe Cottage, where she is dividing her perennials to continue the cost-effective stocking of her new beds. Alan Power, head gardener of one of Britain's best loved gardens, Stourhead, travels to Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland to see how the gardens there have influenced his ideas.
At Longmeadow, Monty is planning for next summer by sowing a batch of sweet peas. He wants to find out, by sowing a batch now and another next spring, whether the flowering and general performance of the plants will differ. Carol Klein is amongst the leaves, bark and berries at Thorp Perrow Arboretum in Yorkshire admiring the onset of the autumn display, and recommends varieties suitable to plant in our gardens. Plus, a visit to Ryton Gardens in Warwickshire to find out about their collection of heritage vegetables and how to collect their seeds, and back at Longmeadow, Monty plants daffodils and anemones in the dry shade under trees for a spring display.
With autumn well under way, some plants in the garden need to be brought in under cover. Monty Don makes a start by insulating his greenhouse to provide a winter home for all sorts of tender plants and gives his tips and techniques for ensuring their survival until next year. Carol Klein visits the garden of a tropical plant enthusiast to find out how he protects some of his exotic specimens and also discovers some which are perfectly hardy in Britain's climate. And Monty's at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in South Africa admiring many of their native plants which are also familiar to British gardens.
Monty Don gets going with autumn garden maintenance whilst looking back over the year and reviewing his borders to see which plants have done well and which haven't. As he clears annuals that are past their best, he plans a colourful display for late spring by planting up the garden with tulips. Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage, continuing work on her new raised beds and taming an overgrown and unruly rambling rose, explaining how to prune and tie it in for maximum flower performance next summer. Joe Swift visits Alnwick Castle in Northumberland and looks at how its strong structural design ensures the garden's interest over the winter months. And Monty Don gets going with autumn garden maintenance whilst looking back over the year and reviewing his borders to see which plants have done well and which haven't. As he clears annuals that are past their best, he plans a colourful display for late spring by planting up the garden with tulips. Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage, continuing work on her new raised beds and taming an overgrown and unruly rambling rose, explaining how to prune and tie it in for maximum flower performance next summer. Joe Swift visits Alnwick Castle in Northumberland and looks at how its strong structural design ensures the garden's interest over the winter months. And Monty extols the virtues of making your own leaf mould as well as recommending several jobs we could all be doing in our gardens this winter.
In this Christmas special, Monty Don, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame celebrate the festive season from a gardener's point of view. At Longmeadow, Monty and Rachel have a good clear up, cutting back some plants but leaving others for winter structure and wildlife. Monty also rejuvenates his rhubarb patch and introduces a local Herefordshire heritage variety apple tree to his orchard. He enlists Joe Swift's help to move a holly tree that has outgrown its situation. Out and about, Carol Klein discovers some of Britain's best winter walks. Rachel de Thame gets tips on how, with a bit of ingenuity, anyone can make beautiful Christmas decorations from their own garden. Joe Swift visits an urban vineyard in Hackney, East London to find out which grapes can be grown at home. As a special Christmas cracker, Pam Ayres, poet and gardener, shows us how she encourages wildlife into her garden and provides for seasonal visitors during the colder months.
Gardeners' World returns for the start of the gardening year with Monty Don in the garden at his Herefordshire home, Longmeadow. As the charge towards spring gathers pace, Monty, along with Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame, are preparing for the season ahead. They'll have a host of practical tips to help you grow better and will be seeking out the most inspiring gardens in the UK to visit. This week, as well as revealing the changes to his garden that have taken place over winter, Monty shows us how to plant bare-rooted raspberries in his renovated fruit garden and gets his secateurs out to chop back his buddleja and clematis. As the soil warms up and activity increases in all our gardens, Monty recommends jobs for the weekend to ensure that all our seeds, seedlings and plants get off to the best possible start. Carol Klein visits an ancient woodland site in Essex where wild species of hellebores are thriving and meets an enthusiast who is using the native plant's characteristics to help produce the next generation of garden hellebores. Joe Swift starts his guide to terrific garden design by studying the one thing every garden has in common - boundaries, and Rachel de Thame visits the world-renowned garden of Sir Harold Hillier in Hampshire to luxuriate in the sight and scent of late winter flowering shrubs.
With the official start of spring and Mothering Sunday only days away, Monty Don and the team look at the practical ways to achieve a better looking garden at this busy time of year. Monty is selecting and planting climbing roses at his garden in Herefordshire and gives plenty of advice on how to get them to thrive. A visit to a national collection of rambling roses in Gloucestershire provides plenty of inspiration for gardeners to choose different varieties to suit different garden situations. Monty also gets on with some timely and essential border maintenance tasks that we could all be doing in our gardens this weekend. With a large part of the UK already suffering from drought conditions, Carol Klein looks at how some plants have adapted themselves to grow in the driest of soils and gives us her choice of plants which, for those of us who may not be able to water our gardens this year, should survive with the minimum of attention. And Joe Swift continues his design series looking at different gardens to find out what we could learn from their layout and how to apply those rules to our own back gardens.
As the clocks move forward, the longer days of spring are welcomed by every gardener. It's a busy time in the garden and the longer daylight hours present a great opportunity to get on with larger gardening projects. Weather permitting, Joe will join Monty in his garden to get to grips with lining his newly created pond giving plenty of advice for anyone wanting to use water in the garden. Monty is also getting on with seed sowing and recommends varieties which, if sown now, will give a sensational display later this year. Joe Swift continues his design series with a look at how crucial the choice of landscaping materials can be to a successful garden. He also illustrates how water can add atmosphere and surprise and he shows us how we can apply these design principles to our own gardens. From her garden in Devon, Carol Klein responds to a viewer's gardening dilemma by showing us how to select and propagate plants suited to a dry bank situation.
With the garden growing apace, Monty shows us how we can take advantage of the new growth of all sorts of perennials, and begins by taking cuttings from emerging Delphiniums in his border and also from a pot grown plant. He also demonstrates the best way of planting Clematis against a wall to ensure a profusion of summer flowers, keeps on top of the seasonal seed sowing and explains why, at this time of year when growing space and plant protection is at a premium, a coldframe can be an essential bit of kit for any gardener. Carol travels to Southern Ireland looking at wild primroses and meets a remarkable man who has spent the last 35 years conserving old 19th century Irish primroses as well as breeding new varieties. We find the secrets of growing successful Clematis from a woman whose passion for them has led to her collecting and growing over 100 of them in the harsh climate of her Northumberland garden.
It's Easter and the biggest gardening weekend of the year; the team give plenty of advice and inspiration - from large projects to tackling weeds. At Longmeadow, Monty is getting started on the vegetable plot, where he recommends a palette of potatoes for delicious summer crops. He also returns to his newly created pond, where he is showing how to conceal the liner with an attractive edge. Carol Klein celebrates the humble daffodil. She travels to Lincolnshire and discovers drifts of wild daffodils, but also meets a man whose passion is to preserve and identify a historic collection of cultivated varieties. Rachel de Thame helps a group of military wives as they begin growing cut flowers for the first time. And Joe concludes his series on design when he shows how even the smallest garden can have areas where focal points and plants can create a pleasing effect.
This episode is packed with know-how about how to sow a seed and ideas about improving gardens this summer. Monty begins by explaining that, by sowing a few simple seeds, he has been able to stock the beds in his walled garden with summer colour. He also carries out some timely pruning of winter flowering shrubs to ensure plenty of flowers next spring. As a response to a keen gardener's cry for help, Carol gives a masterclass on successful seed sowing and shows what mix of compost to use, how to sow different sizes of seed, how to water them and what aftercare they need. Rachel returns to her group of novice gardeners as they get going on their cut flower patch and begin sowing the easiest of all seeds to grow - hardy annuals. And the programme visits a man who last year set himself the challenge of creating a two-acre meadow in Somerset crammed with a heady mix of annual flowers with such spectacular results that it became known as the field of dreams.
If you have a shady spot in your garden that is bereft of flowers, then Monty Don has some great suggestions of stalwarts which not only thrive in those tricky conditions but return year after year. On the veg plot, he also shares his tips on putting up a runner bean support. Carol Klein discovers our native lungwort, the pulmonaria, growing prolifically in the woodlands and verges of the New Forest, and meets a woman who has been growing them in her Hampshire garden for over 15 years. Joe Swift travels to an allotment site in West Yorkshire to visit a vegetable grower who, using the power of manure, is already harvesting an astonishingly early bounty of potatoes.And we meet a gardener whose Essex garden is full of summer colour, all down to his passion for lilies.
With plenty of advice and tips on how and what to plant in a pond, Rachel de Thame joins Monty at Longmeadow to give a helping hand. Monty also gets up to date with all the seasonal jobs in the Jewel garden, from sowing his collected opium poppy seed to trying out a method of growing lilies in plunge pots for bold summer colour. Carol follows the trail of one of spring's brightest plants to an allotment in South Yorkshire and a man who has amassed a national collection of Euphorbias there. Joe visits Charles Rutherfoord, architect and chair of the Society of Garden Designers to talk to him about the unique design of his own small garden. And the confectionary colours of Primulas come under the spotlight when we go to the RHS garden at Harlow Carr to find out tips for their successful cultivation.
The programme comes from the Malvern Spring show where Monty Don, Carol Klein and James Alexander Sinclair bring the very best that the show has to offer. From planting and design in the show gardens to new and exciting varieties in the floral marquee, they search out beautiful and innovative ideas to draw inspiration from.
Monty Don returns to Longmeadow with inspirational ideas and plants gathered at the Malvern Spring Show. He has tips and advice for planting ferns for dry places and then turns his attention to the pond where he shares ideas on different types of water lilies and how to plant them. Carol Klein delves into the quirky world of moisture-loving ferns, discovering them in the wild and admiring their variety when she visits a restored Victorian grotto in Wales. There is also a catch-up on the novice gardeners at Didcot army barracks, as they continue to develop their cut-flower garden.
With warm weather and little risk of frost, Monty Don is planting out his tender annual plants into a container for colour and interest all summer long. He is also busy in the vegetable garden with tips and advice on how best to grow cauliflowers and protect them so that you get to eat them before the birds and caterpillars do. Carol Klein answers an unusual dilemma from a gardener that lives in a lighthouse and has particularly harsh, exposed growing conditions to deal with. Garden visiting is more popular than ever in Britain, particularly over the summer months. To kick the season off we go to the tranquil Worcestershire village of Feckenham where over 30 private gardens are getting ready to open their doors to the public.
With the garden springing into life and new blooms opening each day, it gives Monty Don plenty of opportunity to get on top of all the seasonal jobs at Longmeadow and answer a few viewer questions along the way. With a postbag full of gardening dilemmas, Carol Klein helps out one viewer with propagation queries. There is also a look behind the scenes with Rachel de Thame as she races to get the royal barge planted up and pristine in time for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.
In this hour-long special, Monty Don, Carol Klein, Rachel de Thame and Joe Swift report from Gardeners' World Live at the NEC in Birmingham on the very best the show has to offer - from fabulous show gardens to stunning plants in the floral marquee. The team are also inviting the public to contribute spare plants to the Gardeners' World Living Wall, made up of plants for sun, for shade and plants that are wildlife friendly. As there is still plenty to be getting on with in the garden at this time of year, Monty also has ideas for seasonal jobs to do for viewers at home.
t is the summer solstice so the days are the longest of the year and the sun is at its highest. With the garden growing before our eyes, Monty Don is in his borders replacing plants like wallflowers that are past their best with other annuals that will give colour right through to autumn. Carol Klein will be answering a viewer's letter with advice on gardening to provide a habitat for wildlife. Joe Swift picks up design tips from Kelmarsh Hall, whose 18th century garden is the epitome of the effortless, relaxed, English country style. And in Monty's vegetable garden, the first fruit and summer vegetables are ready to harvest.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don reveals how the garden has changed over the last four weeks and gets to grips with a variety of jobs in the walled garden. He demonstrates how to cut back hardy biennials to encourage secondary growth, shows us how to thin out our borders as well as other seasonal tasks. If edibles are your passion he'll be giving tips on what you can sow, such as carrots and beans, as well as harvesting, cooking and tasting his early potatoes to find his favourite variety. Carol Klein celebrates the hardy geranium. She discovers how they thrive in a wild nature reserve in Somerset and visits East Lambrook Manor, a beautiful garden that is host to a stunning array of this cottage garden stalwart. And Rachel de Thame returns to the army barracks in Didcot where the community garden she's helping to create is beginning to bloom.
Gardeners' World has something for those that are interested in the Olympics, something for those coming to London and something for those who are happy staying at home. Rachel de Thame gets a preview of the gardens in the Olympic Park and meets those who have battled the elements to make sure they are at the peak of perfection. Carol Klein discovers London's wild side, exploring a community garden in the centre of the city that provides a haven for both flora and fauna. Joe Swift walks the paths of power. On an exclusive visit to the historic garden at 10 Downing Street, he learns of the changes made by successive Prime Ministers. And Monty Don is busy at Longmeadow, sowing late summer salads, harvesting blackcurrants and advising us on how to feed our flowers to maximise longevity.
It's August, the sunshine month, and Monty will be surrounding himself with summer's sweetest smells when he shows us what to plant for fragrance in his walled garden. Rachel too will be in search of intoxicating scent on a visit to RHS Harlow Carr, seeing fabulous displays of philadelphus, night scented stocks as well as reveling in the fantastic fragrance of their sweet pea collection. Carol returns to her native Lancashire and discovers aromatic roses thriving in the wild. She also seeks out some of the best-scented garden roses on a visit to Dutton Hall in the picturesque Ribble Valley, which has a collection of over 200 species. And back at Longmeadow, Monty will be in his herb garden cutting back marjorman, rosemary and thyme to ensure abundance for the rest of the summer, as well as sharing tips on how to propagate culinary herbs.
As the garden reaches an abundance of growth in August, it is the pond, hedges and edges of the garden which are the focus of attention. In the pond, the growth of algae is at its height, so Monty recommends some plants which will eventually improve the quality of the water and help to prevent this unwelcome growth. He also gets going on cutting the hedges and mowing areas of the garden where the grass has been left to grow, so that the wildflowers can seed themselves ready for next year's display. Joe visits a garden on a Welsh mountainside and finds out how the owner has risen to the challenging topography, frequent torrential downpours and often waterlogged site, and made a lush, colourful and verdant garden. And at Glebe Cottage, Carol answers viewers' queries about the proliferation of slugs and snails in our gardens this year. She recommends some plants we can add to our gardens which molluscs won't be so keen to munch on.
Our gardens offer so much at this time of year - after all our work earlier in the year it is now rewarding us with beds full of blooms, vegetables and berries. However, there is still plenty to be getting on with to ensure the beauty continues right through to the autumn and Monty Don has plenty of timely gardening techniques to ensure the garden stays in tip top condition throughout the summer months. Monty harvests his organic vegetables and finds out how viewers across the UK have got on with their own potato crops. He also gets to grips with his rambling rose by pruning it in the hope of getting an even better display next year. Carol Klein looks at water lilies in the wild and visits a garden to see how breeding has enabled gardeners to grow sensational varieties in any size of pond. Roses are in full abundance at a small garden in Richmond, North Yorkshire, where the owners show us how to create a superb display in a small space.
By the end of August, gardens are full of colour and produce. With a Bank Holiday to enjoy in his garden, Monty Don is busy showing us how to plan late summer colour in our flowerbeds. Carol Klein visits East Yorkshire, in search of the harebell, one of her favourite wild flowers. She also visits a fantastic historic garden to appreciate the harebell's cultivated cousin, the campanula. Rachel de Thame celebrates the success of her project with a group of army wives at a Didcot military base as they harvest the blooms from their cut flower garden for the regiment to enjoy at a celebration lunch. Monty is also sharing viewers' tips on how to overcome the onslaught of slugs and snails as well as showing us how to successfully reseed bare patches in the lawn.
By the end of August, some perennial plants will be setting seed and, for gardeners on a budget, this is the time to collect, store and sow them to stock our gardens for free. Monty demystifies the process by showing us which seeds to sow now, which to save for later and which ones respond better to a bit of time spent...
For many gardeners, the beginning of September is the start of a new gardening season and, with this in mind, Monty Don recommends vegetables to sow now for winter cropping. He also plants out the rose cuttings he took last year and takes more from another of his favourite roses.
The last days of summer are when gardeners start planning for spring colour and it is a perfect time to choose and plant bulbs. At Longmeadow, Monty Don gives his recommendations. Carol Klein responds to another viewer's dilemma at Glebe Cottage in Devon and shows how best to propagate favourite plants during a house move. From taking cuttings to saving seed, she demonstrates which plants can quickly make a new garden feel like home. Joe Swift visits Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset, once the home of the Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, to see one of the best restorations of the Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll partnerships in the country. He takes a close look at how design and colour can evoke mood in a garden
In this special programme from the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens, Monty Don visits the RHS garden at Wisley in Surrey and Carol Klein visits Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire to get practical gardening advice from their experts and to find solutions to viewers' gardening dilemmas. At Wisley, Monty looks at the vegetable garden to find out how it has fared over the difficult gardening year of 2012 and discovers what the RHS gardeners have been growing to excite the taste buds. He also gets a few top tips from the RHS fruit experts on the best grapes to grow for eating and the best for producing wine here in the UK. At Harlow Carr, the northernmost garden of the RHS, Carol Klein discovers the plants which grow well in their harsher climate and along with the RHS experts, answers a few dilemmas from our northern viewers on choosing hardy plants for exposed conditions, what lawns need now to ensure a great sward in spring and how to propagate a favourite magnolia.
Monty Don is back at Longmeadow making the most of the garden's glory now and preparing for the seasons to come. He demonstrates a quick and easy way to prune shrub roses and then plants up pots that will flower in time for Christmas. Grasses look their best at the end of summer and Carol Klein visits a garden in Somerset where they have been used to maximum effect on a sloping site with a range of soil conditions. Meanwhile, Monty meets a self-sufficient vegan gardener, finding out how he grows vegetables for maximum nutrition and flavour and picks up some tips on bottling and storing surplus crops.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don has plenty of advice for jobs to be getting on with in early autumn and has tips for planting bulbs in a variety of places in the garden. At Glebe Cottage, Carol Klein answers another gardener's dilemma when she shows the best way to divide and care for agapanthus, as well as giving her advice on dividing perennial plants. It is the start of one of the best seasons for planting and, from RHS Rosemoor, Rachel de Thame recommends autumn flowering plants for our gardens, which also have the benefit of adding scent. Plus, from earlier this year, a visit to the water meadows at Cricklade in Wiltshire to enjoy the spectacle of the fritillary meadows. Reserve manager Anita Barratt talks about these beautiful spring flowers, which can be planted in gardens right now.
Monty Don plans for next year's flowers. He plants roses for spring and summer flowering and tidies up in the vegetable garden. Carol Klein looks at Britain's native wild clematis and also visits a clematis enthusiast in Lancashire who has grown the plants alongside some unusual partners. Carol gets his tips on how to display them at their best. Rachel de Thame travels to Bristol to meet a couple who have filled their tiny back garden with tender tropical plants. She finds out how they manage to protect their vast collection over the winter months.
With the first frosts beginning to bite, Monty Don takes some practical steps to preserve and protect tender plants like cannas and shares tips on how to over-winter dahlias. Also, with an eye on next spring, Monty plants up containers with tulips and pansies as well as planting out wallflowers grown from seed. Now is also the perfect time to plant apple trees and Monty will be sharing advice on planting and training step-over apples. Carol Klein will be at Glebe Cottage demonstrating just how easy it is to make more of our favourite plants for free by taking cuttings from their roots. As well as giving an insight into which plants can be reproduced in this way, she'll also be giving us a practical guide on how to do this type of propagation. In the gardens of West Dean in Sussex, Joe discovers a fantastic collection of fruit which has been trained to take up the minimum of space but which yields maximum crops. He finds out not only how it is done but also how fruit grown in this way is ideal for smaller gardens
With Halloween just round the corner, Monty Don is harvesting his pumpkins and showing how to store them for roasts, soups and stews in the coming months. Joe Swift visits a high-end garden in London to get some tips on how clever landscaping and the use of lighting can turn a small space into an outdoor room which can be used all year round. Carol Klein is in Wales to find out how the versatile willow can be used by the gardener to bring form and colour to winter borders. There are over 400 different kinds of willow and for millennia they have been used by man for everything from weaving to fuel. Back at Longmeadow, Monty is planting up his containers in preparation for next spring.
Now we are truly in the throes of autumn, Monty Don turns his attention to collecting fallen leaves. Monty regards these as a free harvest with which to make leafmould; he also shows what to plant now under the shade of trees for colour next year. We meet a gardener in Essex who fills her beds and borders with over 9,000 tulips which are all carefully colour co-ordinated and we find out her favourite combinations. Colour is also on Rachel de Thame's agenda when she travels to Suffolk to look at some of the best small trees and shrubs for autumn colour in the gardens at East Bergholt Place, drawing inspiration from owner and plantsman Rupert Eley. Carol Klein is at the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Rosemoor in Devon where they grow a collection of one of our most iconic winter plants, holly, and she recommends the best varieties to grow for berries in our own gardens.
In the last of this year's series of Gardeners' World, Monty has plenty of advice on the jobs we can be doing now and over the winter in the garden. He also reviews some of the plants which have thrived and those which have not during this extraordinary summer. On Walney Island in Cumbria, Carol explores the diversity of wild plants which thrive in its maritime climate and discovers a very special hardy geranium which grows nowhere else in the world. Rachel travels to Swansea to meet passionate gardener Andrea Gordon, who, despite being blind from birth, has a garden overflowing with plants. And Joe meets 92-year-old Walter Partridge who not only produces an abundance of vegetables on his immaculate allotment in Grantham but is also the bee-keeper for the site.
The first signs of spring herald the start of the new gardening year and the start of a new series of Gardeners' World. In the seasons to come, Monty Don will be in his garden, Longmeadow, and along with Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame, will have a host of practical tips and inspirational ideas to help viewers improve their gardens. Monty Don reveals the changes he has made to his garden over the winter, tackles timely pruning tasks and shows us the best way to lay a new path. Snowdrops are lighting up the winter garden and Carol is out and about in Oxfordshire celebrating their staggering diversity and the length to which some gardeners will go in order to get their hands on the latest varieties. Rachel visits Cambridge Botanic Garden, which has one of the country's most celebrated winter gardens, to find inspiring plants and planting combinations that not only look fabulous now but that can also provide year round interest. Over the next few weeks Joe will be helping viewers achieve the garden of their dreams by offering up simple planting design plans for four very different styles of garden. He starts off with the romance of a cottage garden.
Monty Don revels in his passion for roses as he sets about planting some bare root varieties in the Jewel Garden at Longmeadow in readiness for a colourful spring and summer. Continuing the rose theme, there is an inspirational visit to the magnificent formal rose garden of Hever Castle in Kent, home to a breathtaking collection of hybrid teas. Carol Klein is in her Devon garden at Glebe Cottage, where she is delighting in the seasonal scent of her mahonias, while describing their exotic and dramatic history. And Joe Swift continues his planting design series by sharing ideas and top tips on the different types of plants to choose when creating a contemporary garden.
This week on Gardeners' World, Monty Don shows us how to prepare for spring and summer with timely tasks in his damp garden and soft fruit area. Joe Swift continues his series of master classes on planting design to help us achieve the garden of our dreams. This week he is sharing tips on how to create a tropical green oasis. Carol Klein is in her Devon garden planting a viburnum that will give spring colour and fill the garden with fragrance. By considering its natural, native habitat, Carol shows how to plant it in the perfect place. We visit a couple that moved to a cottage in Cornwall and used their mastery of flower and foliage colour to turn a thin stretch of land into a beautiful garden. Back at Longmeadow Monty has advice on the best type of mulch to use for different planting conditions and he gets to grips with pruning his gooseberry and currant bushes.
We have a long Easter weekend ahead to get to grips with timely gardening tasks and Monty Don has plenty of ideas of what to do now. Amongst other jobs he'll be cutting back his grass borders while Joe Swift reveals his top tips for creating a naturalistic garden. Carol Klein makes her way down to Cornwall in search of a garden full of beautiful spring colour. And if you're heading off to the garden centre this weekend, there's all you need to know about bedding plants from the 'living catalogue' of new and existing varieties at Ball Colegrave in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Monty Don shows us how to plant pots of bulbs for fabulous summer colour. Rachel de Thame shares her passion for rare plants looking at a relative new comer to spring gardens, the hepatica. These delightful little flowers come in a huge range of colours and sizes and Rachel meets a collector who has travelled far and wide in search of new varieties. Back at Longmeadow, Monty is in his vegetable patch hoping that his soil is warm enough to plant the first potatoes of the year
This week on Gardeners' World, Monty Don is at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey. He'll be getting the latest advice about how best to look after orchids, along with some top tips on how to create a mini-meadow from scratch. He's also keen to find out more about alpines with a view to growing some back home at Longmeadow. Carol Klein helps a Britain in Bloom volunteer who's determined to bring colour to the former mining town of Easington Colliery. First time gardener Michael Welsh has begged and borrowed plants from all over to start a community garden. Carol uses her expertise to help him get even more plants for free. Joe Swift gets an early taste of summer colour at the National Botanic Garden of Wales where they're hard at work conserving some of the rarest plants in the world
This week on Gardeners World, Monty Don is searching for signs of our long-delayed spring in his garden at Longmeadow. Taking inspiration from his trip to RHS Garden Wisley last week, he will be planting up an alpine trough. Carol Klein is out and about looking at native celandines, Wordsworth's favourite flower; they grace our hedgerows and woods at this time of year. The wild strains are too invasive for most domestic gardens but Carol finds a number of cultivated varieties that should suit most of us. And, if its colour you are after, then enjoy a sneak preview of summer when we visit agapanthus enthusiast, Michael Dedman, in his Essex garden to see his prized collection of these beautiful African lilies at their very best. Back at Longmeadow, Monty's hoping the soil will have warmed up enough to finally allow him to plant his potatoes.
Monty Don makes a start on turning his vegetable patch into a cottage garden. He also tackles the blanketweed that has taken over his pond, and plants a grapevine to train through a hole in the wall of his new greenhouse. Meanwhile, Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage in Devon where she reveals a little of the fascinating history of one of our woodland gems, the trillium. And Joe Swift travels to Swansea to explore a wonderful suburban garden with a charm all of its own.
This episode comes from the Malvern Spring Gardening Show at the Three Counties Showground. Monty Don, Joe Swift and Carol Klein go behind the scenes to meet the show garden designers and the nursery men and women who make this event so special. Monty takes a sneak peak at the floral marquee before the show opens and then he searches for the perfect plants to add to his cottage garden, as well as checking out some of the ideas for sustainable gardening at the show. Carol hunts for rare and unusual plants being showcased at Malvern and discovers what it takes for smaller growers to get their plants to the show in peak condition. Meanwhile Joe will be in the show gardens on the lookout for design tips that could help us all transform our gardens.
Gardening magazine. Monty Don tackles seasonal jobs at Longmeadow and plants clematis in his cottage garden. Rachel de Thame takes a walk down memory lane when she visits the world's biggest flower garden in Holland and Carol Klein is on the trail of early plant hunters, responsible for the glorious selection of magnolias brought to these shores.
Monty Don plants up summer bedding in the Jewel Garden and starts a new tomato experiment. Carol Klein visits Batsford Arboretum in the Cotswolds.
Gardening magazine. Monty Don has some top tips for creating new herbaceous perennials for free as he busily fills the gaps in his cottage garden. He also shows what can be done with tulips now that the best of their flowering has been seen for the year. Carol Klein continues her plant hunter series with a visit to a unique display of wild rhododendrons at Minterne House in Dorset originally collected from the Himalayas and beyond.
As summer unfolds at Longmeadow, Monty Don undertakes timely tasks in his vegetable garden and flower beds. Meanwhile, Carol Klein enjoys the beauty of one of our unsung native flowers, the geum, and visits a cottage garden which holds the national collection of cultivated forms. Plus, Formula 1 supremo Sir Frank Williams explains why he is opening his garden at Inholmes as part of the National Garden Scheme Festival Weekend.
With the season well underway, there's plenty of work to be getting on with in the garden at Longmeadow and there's plenty to enjoy too. Monty Don will be undertaking some timely tasks to make sure the garden remains beautiful and productive all summer long. Joe Swift visits a garden transported, lock, stock and barrel to Britain from Japan around a hundred years ago and Carol Klein tells us the fascinating story behind one of our most graceful cottage garden plants - astrantia.
Monty Don makes a start on his new wild flower garden at Longmeadow and at last gets to taste the first new potatoes of the year. He also demonstrates how a radical chop of some border plants now can rejuvenate them for later in the season. Carol Klein celebrates a cottage garden favourite, the foxglove, and Joe Swift drops in on world renowned garden designer, Dan Pearson, to find out what he's got in store for his new garden.
With high summer in full swing at Longmeadow, Monty Don is busy ensuring that his plants are making the most of the warmth and light. He puts to use the homemade fertilizer he made a few weeks ago and catches up with his tomato-growing trial to see how the different techniques are performing. Carol Klein gets to grips with flowering dogwoods, perhaps the most aristocratic and elegant of all garden trees, and there's a visit to a magical topiary garden in Kent.
Longmeadow is in full bloom, but Monty Don is keen to remind viewers that there is still time to sow some late vegetables, demonstrating how easy it is to grow salad in a pot. It's time to give wisterias their summer prune. An expert, whose 252ft vine was in full flower just weeks ago, shows how she cuts back that summer growth. Meanwhile, Carol Klein has been out and about in Norfolk to revel in the delights of the bearded iris.
In a Summer of Wildlife special episode, Monty Don explores the secret life of his garden from the soil organisms underfoot to the birds that soar overhead. Naturalist Simon King shows us the wildlife that depends on our gardens, we visit a small space designed as a haven for garden creatures and Carol Klein celebrates a plant family popular with bees and butterflies.
Monty Don shares some of Longmeadow's late-summer highlights and looks ahead to the future, propagating a range of favourite plants to guarantee a great display next summer. Carol Klein celebrates a vibrant summer flower, the daylily, and we meet an artist who has created a very special roof garden where creativity and colour collide.
Monty Don serves up an extra big helping of timely jobs to keep gardeners busy over the Bank Holiday weekend. He also makes a start on cutting his hedges, with plenty of advice on how to go about it and the right tools to use for the job.Carol Klein steps back in time when she visits an 18th century walled garden in the Scottish Borders. It belongs to Michael Wickenden who has turned it into a very special home for his enormous collection of rare and unusual plants gathered from across the globe. There is also a visit to a couple of allotmenteers in London who have turned their plot into a paradise. Fruit and veg aside, it's become the home to their absolute obsession for roses. Back at Longmeadow, thrift is the order of the day when Monty shows how to take cuttings from his newly acquired penstemons.
As August draws to a close, Monty Don turns his attention to autumn and tackles that perennial problem of what to grow in the shade of a tree or shrub. He also takes cuttings of his favourite pelargoniums - an essential task at this time of year. Carol Klein takes a closer look at that late summer jewel, the crocosmia, and we meet a gardener in Derbyshire who has spent a lifetime growing and showing gladioli.
As part of BBC2′s Harvest, Gardeners’ World celebrates the bounty our gardens have to offer at this time of year. Carol Klein is out and about gathering a wild blackberry harvest from the hedgerows and discovering a surprising number of more domesticated brambles that we can grow in our gardens. We join a champion vegetable grower in Yorkshire as he prepares for the biggest show of the season and Monty Don is at Longmeadow enjoying the fruits of his labours.
Monty Don tackles autumn lawn maintenance tasks before planting a series of bulbs in readiness for next spring while Carol Klein explores burnets – meadow plants that are becoming increasingly popular. Plus the team meets a man who has a particular fascination with the echinacea and Monty finds wildflowers useful as he attempts to plant up the steep banks of his new meadow mound.
Monty Don presents Gardeners' World from RHS Rosemoor in Devon. He will be finding out how they grow really productive fruit trees in the smallest of spaces and what it takes for a vegetable to earn the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Carol Klein will also be at Rosemoor getting seasonal inspiration from their extensive sedum collection, all nestled within the stunning borders in the garden. Joe Swift pays a visit to Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire to find out how a ten year experiment in naturalistic planting, by garden designer Piet Oudolf, is shaping up. Have you ever wondered what the life of an RHS volunteer is like? We visit RHS Harlow Carr near Harrogate to find out how the volunteers are vital in maintaining such a beautiful garden.
Monty Don is hard at work gathering his bumper apple, pear and quince crop and has some timely advice on how to store them. Although the festive season seems a long way off, Monty is also planting up some indoor bulbs that make perfect gifts for Christmas. The show visits an inspiring daffodil breeder in Northern Ireland who encourages us all to think about planting drifts of fabulous spring colour and Carol Klein travels to Wales and explores the intriguing world of the Eupatorium with a passionate gardener who has a rare and spectacular collection.
As autumn unfolds in the garden, Monty Don and his faithful sidekick Nigel have plenty to be getting on with, making the most of the season and preparing for the winter ahead. Carol Klein is in Surrey looking at wild and cultivated heathers. Hugely popular in the 1970s, these plants had fallen out of favour but Carol meets a plantsman to find out why they are well worth rediscovering.
Autumn is in full-swing at Longmeadow but the garden is still looking good. Monty is dividing his Pulmonaria to encourage a good display next spring and he will have some timely advice on protecting plants from the first frosts of the season. Joe is visiting a suburban oasis packed with tropical plants to find out what it takes to create and maintain exotic planting in a most unlikely location – an exposed back garden with heavy clay soil, just a few miles outside Bristol. Also, it’s been a bumper year for berries and our native rowan trees are heavy with fruit. Carol is revealing the myth and magic of this favourite tree in the wild, before exploring a stellar array of rowans from around the world, in the shadow of the giant telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
With the warm weather on the wane, it’s time to think about preparing our garden borders for next year, but with his flower beds still looking good, Monty Don faces some tough decisions about what to ditch for his spring display. He also tackles that perennial hazard of slippery paths and shows us how best to deal with the problem. Carol Klein visits a National Collection of michaelmas daisies near Malvern to find out what makes it so special. And with Halloween just round the corner, we visit a giant veg grower who has a showstopper of a pumpkin big enough to scare any trick or treaters!
With gardens now going into hibernation, Monty Don is busy lifting and storing tender plants to keep over winter. This time of year is also about planning ahead for winter displays and spring colour and Monty has ideas and tips for planting up garden pots to provide a focal point through the coldest months. Rachel de Thame sees firsthand the mania for tulip growing in Holland when she visits the world's largest spring garden, Keukenhof. Joe Swift visits TV presenter Esther Rantzen and gets a privileged guided tour around her much-loved garden. Meanwhile, Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage celebrating the dazzling delights of our autumn borders in the form of vibrant bulbous plants from South Africa
There's plenty to do to prepare for the season to come. Monty Don is clearing out spent crops and mulching his asparagus. Joe Swift's been to visit keen gardeners, Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway, to see how they combine sustainability with their designer-style. Carol Klein's exploring the history of the rose at Coughton Court, one of our best rose gardens and Monty plants a new rose of his own. What happens when you have to downsize and leave your much-loved garden? We catch-up with an Aberdeen couple, to see how they're making sure that some of their favourite plants can travel with them to their new life.
Monty Don starts to prepare the flowering borders in the Jewel Garden for winter and makes a big garden bonfire. Carol Klein celebrates berry-laden hedgerows and shows how to grow them into new trees. Rachel de Thame brings memories of Noel Coward and of the summer just passed when she visits Julian Clary in his garden. And Monty also puts up bird boxes around the garden in the hope that robins and wrens will seek them out over the winter and that they will be nesting in them next spring.
In this episode, Carol is looking at one of the gems of early spring - the crocus, and meets world-renowned crocus expert Brian Mathew. Over the next few weeks, Joe is looking at gardens that thrive despite their extreme locations. He starts in west Wales in a bog garden; looking at plants that love the rainfall and soggy soil. Rachel visits a fabulous rose garden, home to over 2,500 different varieties and the perfect place to see how our tastes and fashions in roses have changed over the 20th century. Meanwhile, back at Longmeadow, Monty is showing us what we can do now to guarantee a fantastic display of roses in the summer. He is also adding to his woodland spring planting and chitting his potatoes in anticipation of creamy new potatoes later in the year
Monty tackles the problem of box blight in his garden at Longmeadow. It means taking drastic action, but in the long term will hopefully be for the best. Carol Klein looks at the spring delight that is the cyclamen. She meets one of the country's leading experts in this most delicate of hardy plants and uncovers just how easy they are to grow. Joe Swift visits a gardener taking on the challenges of gardening on the windswept Cornish coastline, to create a haven of beauty against the odds. And we meet an amateur gardener who breeds a stunning array of sweet peas to make the most fragrant and colourful displays
Gardeners' World continues with more timely spring tasks to keep our gardens looking their best. Monty Don is pruning his buddleja and sowing seeds for a stunning summer display. Carol Klein meets a young family in Gloucestershire who are just getting started with their first garden. Over the course of the year, Carol will be helping and advising them on how to transform their small space into a lovely multifunctional family garden. Joe Swift visits a gardener in Northumberland who copes with temperatures of -18C in the winter and 30C in the summer. Despite these extremes, she has succeeded in developing a wonderful garden she can enjoy all year round. And we meet a grower whose love of butterflies and bees has inspired his fabulous and extensive collection of buddleja.
Carol Klein continues to take a closer look at the nation's favourite plants and meets the people who dedicate their lives to them. This time she's admiring the daffodil. Plus a visit to dahlia enthusiast Darren Everest on his allotment in Kent. He knows a thing or two about dahlias - he's been growing them, in all shapes and sizes, since he was just 11, and showing them, with great success, since he was a teenager. In his own garden, Longmeadow, Monty Don pots up his own dahlia tubers, and offers tips for getting the best results later in the year. And Joe Swift meets a Lancashire gardener who has spent 20 years creating a spectacular garden on a rocky cliff-face behind her home.
Monty Don overhauls his ornamental grasses with tips along the way on how to get rid of the larger overgrown plants. Rachel visits a garden in Cornwall full of hydrangeas. Carol looks at how the gardeners are progressing and helps them lay a lawn.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don finishes rejuvenating his dry garden, a sun-baked corner of the garden that had become overrun by thuggish plants. He has advice on how to make the most of a dry border where the soil is poor, with suggestions of plants that will thrive in these conditions. Carol Klein is in the rather exotic setting of Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens in Dorset, meeting camellia expert Jennifer Trehane. Abbotsbury is vibrant with colour from their stunning camellia collection at this time of year, so it is the perfect place for Jennifer to share her wealth of knowledge about this much-loved plant. And we meet auricula enthusiast Patricia Cleveland-Peck and delight in her collection of these show-stopping plants.
The long Easter weekend offers lots of opportunity to really get cracking in the garden. Monty Don has suggestions for beautiful climbers that thrive in shady spots and gets on with planting up his vegetable garden. Carol Klein returns to help first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique, and guides them in what to look for at a garden centre as they hunt out trees and shrubs for their new borders. And Joe Swift visits a very special quarry garden in Staffordshire racing to get ready in time to open to the public on Easter Sunday, despite being hit by the severe winter storms.
Carol Klein visits eminent plantsman Keith Wiley at his garden in Devon, which celebrates the exquisite dog's tooth violet. Keith is passionate about these unsung woodland plants. Rachel de Thame visits the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh to take a look behind the scenes at their world-renowned collection of alpines and find out what it takes to keep their fantastic display at the peak of perfection. And at Longmeadow, Monty Don cracks on with some timely tasks and makes a start on planting up a yew hedge.
The programme comes from the renowned RHS Malvern Spring Festival, otherwise known affectionately as the plants and people show. Monty Don gets an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the impressive displays, plants and show gardens on offer. Meanwhile, Carol Klein seeks out this year's show stoppers in the fabulously scented floral marquee and Joe Swift gets an inside track on the motivation and inspiration behind some of the stunning show garden designs.
With the growing season well and truly underway, Monty Don turns his attention to planting out his sweet peas and potting up lilies. Carol Klein returns to Gloucestershire to help first-time gardeners, Dan and Dominique, plant up their new border in the style of a cottage garden. And we meet newsreader, Sophie Raworth, to find out why plants and gardens are so important to her in the run up to the Chelsea Flower Show.
Monty Don offers advice on making the perfect herb garden and plants out some beautiful garden stalwarts in his cottage borders at Longmeadow. We meet Carrie Thomas in Swansea, who holds the National Collection of aquilegias, and celebrate all that this theatrical, delicate flower has to offer. And Carol Klein is with new gardeners Dan and Dominique, giving their veg patch a necessary kick-start. She helps them make the most of their new raised beds, and gives them tips on how to grow the tastiest root and salad crops.
Monty Don and the team celebrate the start of summer as they indulge in the stunning array of colour and scent beginning to take over our gardens. Carol Klein continues her celebration of great plants and the people who champion them. In this episode she's with Billy Carruthers in West Lothian, enjoying his wonderful and varied collection of flamboyant peonies. Joe Swift visits world-renowned opera venue Glyndebourne, in Sussex and is given an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of their gardens only days before the opera season begins and the gates open to the public.
Carol Klein and Joe Swift are at Gardeners' World Live in Birmingham. Joe casts an expert eye over the spectacular show gardens, while Carol focuses on the delights of the floral marquee. Meanwhile, Monty Don catches up with various tasks at Longmeadow to ensure that his garden stays in tip-top condition all summer long.
With the Wimbledon tennis championships just around the corner, Joe Swift meets the gardening team responsible for the spectacular floral displays at this world-renowned event. Carol Klein is in Cornwall meeting a couple that grow a huge range of gloriously scented honeysuckles from all over the world. She compares our native varieties with the Mediterranean and American hybrids, and learns which of them are most suited to our own gardens. And Monty Don is at home at Longmeadow, with some timely seasonal tips for getting the very best from our flowers and vegetables.
With the garden growing before his eyes, Monty Don has plenty to be getting on with at Longmeadow. In preparation for beautiful late summer grass borders, he fills the gaps that the diseased box hedges have left with grasses he has raised from seed. Joe Swift casts his designer's eye over a city garden in London and highlights the key principles to be kept in mind when making the most of a small space. And we pay a visit to a stunning arts-and-crafts-style garden, High Glanau Manor near Monmouth, where colour and proportion come together in perfect harmony.
Monty Don welcomes us to his garden at Longmeadow and offers some timely tips on keeping gardens at their best right through to the end of the season. Carol Klein meets wildlife enthusiast Steve Head to discover more about the wildlife that depend on the habitat our garden ponds provide. And Joe Swift gets an exclusive behind the scenes tour of the private gardens at Eton College, that counts prime minister David Cameron amongst its long list of VIP ex-pupils.
This week, Gardeners' World is all about pots! Monty Don takes a look at the use of pots and containers and revels in their versatility, practicality and potential, and shows us how best to use them in our own gardens. Carol Klein returns to Stroud to see how the new gardeners are progressing and helps them select the perfect plant combinations for containers on their shady patio. And we meet blogger and writer Niki Preston, who reveals how gardening using containers changed her life.
Monty Don's garden at Longmeadow is now under full sail but needs a gentle steer to keep it looking beautiful all summer long. This week Gardeners' World is all about tweaking and tidying, whether it's thinning or pruning trees, improving the soil or collecting seeds from spring and early summer-flowering plants, there are plenty of small jobs still to be done in the garden. Carol Klein is in Kent meeting lavender expert and breeder, Dr Simon Charlesworth, whose stunning walled garden is packed with many varieties of this beautifully scented plant. And Joe Swift visits the founder of the Mulberry fashion label, whose Somerset garden is a design classic
Carol Klein is in Hampshire with the horticulturist Roy Lancaster, appreciating the virtues of the often overlooked St John's wort. Joe Swift is out and about and vists a very unusual allotment in Tottenham, north London. And Monty Don is at Longmeadow where he reveals the secrets of his success when making homemade compost.
Monty Don's garden at Longmeadow is thriving in the summer sunshine and is looking more beautiful by the day. But the warm, wet weather has meant the hedges are growing like crazy and are in need of a good haircut. Monty has tips on how to best tackle this annual task. Carol Klein returns to first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique in Gloucestershire where there's work to be done. There are borders to weed and plants to propagate so they have more of their favourites, for free, next year. And Rachel de Thame visits Coleton Fishacre in Devon, a beautiful seaside garden that has become a haven for all sorts of unusual plants.
It is summer and it is the perfect time to get out and about visiting gardens. With that in mind, Monty Don leaves Longmeadow to explore the beautiful gardens at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex. He seeks inspiration from their amazing dry garden and discovers how they manage to keep their lawns looking pristine in such a hot summer. Carol Klein travels to RHS Wisley to learn more about the creatures that inhabit our beds and borders. She finds out which insects visit our flowers, feed on our foliage and, most importantly, help keep our plants healthy. And we meet a couple in Bournemouth whose extraordinary front garden never fails to wow the RHS Britain in Bloom judges.
As August draws to a close, Monty Don turns his attention to his ornamental grass borders. They are just coming into their prime but are in need of some late summer colour. Carol Klein travels to Cheshire to meet a man who is on a mission to find the best performing heleniums for British gardens. Plus Joe Swift is treated to a Jamaican feast when he visits Moor Green allotments in Birmingham.
For many gardeners, the beginning of September is the start of a new season. Monty Don embraces this shift as he harvests an abundance of delicious produce at the same time as looking ahead to the spring. Carol Klein continues to explore the wonders of the fauna visiting our gardens and travels to Shaftesbury to meet wildlife enthusiast Brigit Strawbridge. Together, they explore the nooks and crannies in her tiny garden to find out what wonderful creatures dwell in these hidden places. And we visit a hospital in Salisbury where a very special garden, designed by Cleve West, is helping spinal injury patients on their difficult road to recovery.
As the last days of summer start to fade and autumn takes hold, it is time to start planning ahead for next year. At Longmeadow, Monty Don adds some foxtail lilies to his dry garden for a touch of drama in May and June. Carol Klein is in Kent visiting salvia expert William Dyson to find out where these exquisite plants come from, how many colours there are to choose from and what they need to thrive in the UK. And we meet a remarkable woman from a family of gardeners on the eve of her 100th birthday.
As autumn gathers momentum, there is still plenty to do in the garden. Monty Don cuts back his wildflower meadow and, with an eye on some early season colour, makes a start on planting up his spring containers. Joe Swift learns the importance of allotment beekeeping when he visits an award-winning plot in Bristol. And Carol Klein travels to Dorset to meet Neil Lucas, one of the country's leading experts on ornamental grasses.
As well as catching up with various tasks at Longmeadow, Monty Don meets world-renowned garden designer, Piet Oudolf, at his latest creation in Somerset. He gets to grips with Oudolf's iconic naturalistic planting and explains how this style can be adapted to other gardens. Meanwhile, Carol Klein goes tree climbing in Bristol to find out how important these precious havens are for urban wildlife.
With the arrival of October, it is time to start thinking about getting some garlic in the ground. Monty Don shares his secrets on how to get a successful crop. Carol Klein takes first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique for a day out in Devon. They are on the hunt for some seasonal inspiration for their new garden, and what better place to look than RHS Rosemoor? And with the bulb-planting season well and truly upon us, we meet a daffodil enthusiast in Port Stewart, County Londonderry, who would never be without these cheery harbingers of spring.
In the first of four films, we find out how Rachel de Thame got on over the past year as she attempted to grow her own cut flowers. Carol Klein helps first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique plant up a range of tasty fruit in their new garden in Gloucestershire. And if you're still in a quandary about what to grow in your winter pots this year, Monty Don may well have the answer. With scent and colour very much in mind, he plants up a showstopper that will get your neighbours talking.
As autumn gathers momentum, it's time to start putting the garden to bed for winter. Monty Don has some timely advice on what to do. Carol Klein meets a nurseryman in Herefordshire and together they indulge in the seasonal beauty of the Japanese maple. And there's the next instalment of Rachel de Thame's cut flower garden diary as we join her back in April when she plants up Verbena bonariensis and takes inspiration from a glorious cutting garden at Parham House in West Sussex.
As the days get shorter, it's a busy time in the garden. Monty Don cracks on with his seasonal tasks at Longmeadow, giving hints and tips along the way. Carol Klein visits first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique for the very last time as they get their garden ready for winter. And we catch up with Rachel de Thame's cut flower garden diary. It's July and her beds are flourishing.
Monty Don prepares his garden for winter and takes stock of his year at Longmeadow. The team visits RHS Wisley to learn more about some of the fungal diseases that can wreak havoc with plants at this time of year. Carol Klein is at home in Devon celebrating her wildlife hedge and all the creatures that depend upon it. And in the final instalment of her cut flower diary, Rachel de Thame shares her tips on how to cut and arrange flowers as she prepares for a family party.
With spring just around the corner, Gardeners' World is back for a new series. As usual, Monty will be at Longmeadow sharing a wealth of tips and ideas on how to keep your garden looking good all year long. In this episode, he tackles some urgent pruning and reveals some of the projects he's got in store over the coming months.
Hellebores, the jewels of the early spring border, come under the spotlight on this show. Monty Don shares his top tips on how to get the best from them. Carol Klein visits a couple who have just moved into a bungalow with a badly neglected garden. With her help over the coming year, they're hoping to create the garden of their dreams.
If there's one flower that's fallen foul of fashion in recent times, it's the once-popular chrysanthemum. Monty Don thinks that they're well worth revisiting and shows us how to get them off to a flying start. And if you're thinking of giving your garden a bit of a spring revamp, Joe Swift has some helpful suggestions to get things going.
With the clocks going forward this weekend, it’s time to get busy in the garden. Monty creates a new bed of asparagus and shows us how to divide hostas.
With the long Easter weekend ahead, the time is ripe for tackling some major projects in the garden. At Longmeadow, Monty Don breaks ground for his new pond, and Carol Klein pays Geoff and Sally Davis another visit in their Somerset garden. Their overgrown shrubs are in need of a jolly good haircut, but they haven't a clue where to begin.
As the weather begins to warm up, there's plenty to be getting on with in the garden. Monty Don welcomes us to Longmeadow and cracks on with some timely tasks.
Magnolias are the showstoppers of the tree world right now; to celebrate them in all their glory, James Alexander-Sinclair visits Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex, with its collection of magnificent champion trees. Monty Don is busy at Longmeadow too, giving his borders a bit of a boost and pricking out seedlings by the hundred.
Monty is working on his ornamental grasses. In South Africa, some red-hot pokers grow in the wild and it is revealed what it takes to keep them happy.
Gardening magazine. The team are at the 30th RHS Malvern Spring Festival, where they are on the hunt for ideas we can all draw inspiration from for our own gardens.
As Monty's wildlife garden begins to take shape at Longmeadow, bees are very much at the forefront of his mind. He plants up a nectar-rich border that will attract all sorts of bees and other pollinating insects from spring right through to the autumn. Meanwhile, Joe Swift goes on a quest to find out more about the wonderful world of hanging baskets, starting with a visit to one of the country's leading growers.
With the hanging basket season well and truly under way, Joe Swift meets a florist in Surrey who has perfected the art of kokedama - a modern take on the hanging basket. House plants come under the spotlight too, as the programme pays a visit to South Africa to learn more about the ever-popular cape primrose.
Over 400 gardens in England and Wales are getting ready to open to the public for the National Gardens Scheme. Carol Klein visits one of them as they prepare for the big event. It's an eventful day at Longmeadow too, as a local beekeeper arrives with a swarm for Monty's new hive.
Carol Klein and Joe Swift are at Gardeners' World Live in Birmingham. Joe casts his expert eye over the spectacular show gardens, while Carol focuses on the delights of the floral marquee. Back at Longmeadow, Monty Don catches up with various tasks to ensure that his garden stays in tip-top condition all summer long.
Joe Swift continues his quest to find the perfect hanging basket and comes up with his own design for a shady part of his garden. Monty Don has caught the bug too and shows us how to plant up an edible basket. Meanwhile, Carol Klein explores one of the nation's most beautiful gardens to find out why their borders work so well.
This edition of the programme is bursting with colour and packed with information. At Longmeadow, Monty Don celebrates the arrival of summer by making a start on his new scented border; and offers a few suggestions for what to be getting on with for the weekend ahead.
Plants that have a head for heights come under the spotlight this week. At Craigieburn Garden in the Scottish Borders Gardeners' World discovers a unique collection of Himalayan plants, and visits a nurseryman in Hebden Bridge who has been growing alpines since he was a teenager.
As the summer gathers pace and the weather starts to warm up, drought-tolerant plants really hit their stride. Monty Don shares some of his favourites from Longmeadow, and garden designer Adam Frost shows us how to build a gravel garden from scratch.
Monty is in Cambridge for an exclusive look around the gorgeous garden at Clare College.
Carol is at Logan Botanic Garden near Stranraer, known for its colourful, exotic borders. Joe pays a visit to a street in Bristol as the residents get ready to be judged by RHS Britain in Bloom.
Monty offers some timely tips on how to make sure your garden doesn’t suffer while you are away on holiday.
At Longmeadow, Monty gets help from an expert to decide on a course of action for his box hedge. He also attempts to grow some mushrooms in the hope of picking a bumper crop come the autumn.
Carol catches up with Geoff and Sally Davis to find out how their garden renovation project is coming along. Monty is at Longmeadow where he enjoys the fruits of his labour.
It's the Bank Holiday weekend and there is plenty to be getting on with in the garden. Monty Don takes stock of what has and and has not worked at Longmeadow.
Whilst enjoying the late season colour in the Jewel Garden as the summer begins to fade, Monty Don turns his attention to his spring borders which are in need of refurbishment if they are going to pack a punch early next year.
Monty Don tackles some seasonal gardening jobs at Longmeadow, and guest presenter Matthew Wilson has some ideas to brighten up a dark, north-facing wall.
As autumn unfolds in the garden, Monty Don has plenty to be getting on with at Longmeadow. And in his quest to track down some of the nation's most remarkable allotments, Joe Swift visits a tropical paradise in Runcorn.
Charge your glasses as Joe Swift visits a drinkable allotment in London where much of the produce is grown to make beer, wine and cider. And in the first of a five-part series about botany, Carol Klein looks at the capsules of potential that herald the start and end of most plants' lives - seeds.
In the second of her films about botany, Carol Klein goes underground to unravel the mysteries of roots and why they are so important to the health of our plants. Joe Swift meets fashion icon Dame Zandra Rhodes to explore how the flowers she likes to grow have influenced her designs over the years.
Monty Don is at Longmeadow with a host of seasonal jobs to keep his autumn garden looking beautiful for as long as possible. And in the third of her fascinating films about how plants work, Carol Klein investigates the science of stems.
In the fourth of her films about botany, Carol Klein explores the inner workings of leaves - how they harness the sun's energy and turn it into food. And Joe Swift meets Griff Rhys Jones for a private tour of his remarkable garden and discovers what a passionate gardener he is.
In the last programme of the current series, Monty Don takes stock of his year at Longmeadow. We visit RHS Wisley to learn why autumn leaves are such a precious commodity for our gardens. And in the final instalment of her botany series, Carol Klein celebrates the glorious displays put on by flowering plants to attract pollinators.
Spring is nearly upon us and Gardeners' World is back with a new series. As usual, Monty Don is at Longmeadow where he sets out his plans for the coming year. This week, Monty reviews the effects the winter weather has had on his garden. Carol Klein visits a Welsh hillside garden and delves into the botany of bulbs with a couple who have used a scientific approach to plant their garden with the earliest of spring flowers. It is the perfect time of year to plant trees and Joe Swift gives us his guide to choosing the best ones for our gardens. And there is a glimmer of hope for gardeners who have had to cope with copious amounts of rainfall this year when we visit a garden which, last year, was brought back from the brink of destruction with spectacular results.
As the gardening year gets underway at Longmeadow, Monty is tidying up his ornamental grass border, pruning roses and planning for summer scent. Joe Swift continues his series on trees when he gives tips on how to plant a tree for future success. Rachel de Thame follows a fragrant trail and explains how even the tiniest of flowers pack a punch in the perfume stakes. And, in the first of several visits, we join the head gardener of Britain's most famous garden at Sissinghurst as he sets out his plans to restore it to its original vision.
As part of his planning for summer, Monty begins to sow annual climbers and gets started on tidying and mulching his borders. In the last of Joe Swift's series on trees, he learns how and when to prune them, and why. We meet clematis enthusiast Mike Brown, whose collection fills his garden with colour all summer long, and amongst the brutalist architecture of London's Barbican, Nick Bailey, head gardener of the Chelsea Physic Garden, discovers a hidden tropical oasis.
The first big gardening weekend of the year gets underway with Monty dividing perennials and giving plenty of tips for how we can kick-start the garden for the season ahead. As millions of bedding plants are poised for planting in our pots and borders, Joe Swift visits a major grower to find out how they are produced and what drives the demand. Rachel is at a garden centre to find the top plant trends this Easter, and we travel to Devon to get some expert advice on looking after orchids from specialist grower Sara Rittershaus
For the first time this season, Monty gets to work in his wildlife garden to ensure that there are plenty of plants in flower for early pollinators. Carol Klein meets Stuart Donachie, who has embraced every planting opportunity in his shady garden in Herefordshire, and Frances Tophill invites viewers to grow easy summer vegetables along with her as she trials varieties for taste and productivity at RHS Rosemoor.
Monty starts a new project - a cutting garden - and gives advice on what to grow to provide plenty of cut flowers for gorgeous summer bouquets. We visit Cumbria to meet Jack Gott, who has been passionate about that most flamboyant of flowers, the dahlia, for more than 40 years and has over a thousand plants in his garden. James Alexander-Sinclair celebrates a harbinger of spring, the ephemeral cherry blossom, at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.
Monty gets his new vegetable garden underway by making raised beds. He also offers advice on how to cut back herbs. Nick Bailey marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare when he investigates the fact and the fiction behind the bard's potions and poisons at the Chelsea Physic Garden, and we visit Pashley Manor in east Sussex to unearth the story behind the planting of over 25,000 tulips.
Monty visits the RHS Malvern Spring Festival where he is joined by Carol Klein and Chelsea gold medal winner Adam Frost. With over 70 floral displays on show, Monty is on the lookout for scented plants to take back to Longmeadow, Carol advises on plants to buy for problem places in the garden and Adam Frost takes a tour of the show gardens to find the best take-home design tips.
As the growing season picks up a pace, Monty is sowing vegetables and planting out the scented plants which he brought back from the Malvern Spring Festival. Carol is delving into the hedgerows and rooting at the bases of walls, fences and trees as she begins her journey to investigate why plants thrive in challenging conditions and we return to Sissinghurst to find out about the changes Troy Scott-Smith is making to the world famous white garden.
At Longmeadow, Monty's focus is on summer when he plants up containers for colour in the Jewel Garden. He also turns his attention to overcrowded ornamental grasses which, now they are beginning to put on growth, need to be split and replanted. Continuing her search for finding the right plant for the right place, Carol takes a close look at why plants survive in the cracks and crevices of walls and gives her recommendations for garden plants that will thrive in similar conditions. Zephaniah Lindo takes a trip to Wales to meet a fellow primula enthusiast.
This week we are celebrating the work of the army of volunteers who keep gardens up and down the country looking their best for visitors. Frances Tophill continues her vegetable trials at RHS Rosemoor in Devon when she plants out her allotment with the help of RHS volunteers and we visit the Bodnant Garden in north Wales to find out how the volunteers there guide visitors through the world-famous Laburnum Arch. Back at Longmeadow, we catch up with Monty's progress in his cutting garden and, now that plants are growing apace, he gets on with seasonal maintenance tasks in the Jewel Garden.
Tender vegetables, bedding plants and bees are the focus of Monty's gardening at Longmeadow as he plants out squashes and scented annuals and harvests honey. Adam Frost is in London looking at how small spaces in the metropolis can be utilised to make gardens for wildlife, food and relaxation. And we visit north Wales to meet a man with a passion for prehistoric plants.
As the longest day of the year approaches, there is more time for everyone to be outside and enjoy the garden and Monty is no exception. Although some vegetables do not respond well to a late sowing, there are others that do and Monty gives his tips on late croppers to sow now. Carol Klein and Joe Swift make a visit to Gardeners' World Live in Birmingham to revel in the hundreds of summer flowering plants on display and to find design tips for small gardens.
Whilst celebrating the glory of summer flowers at Longmeadow, Monty has plenty of tips, from pruning and propagation techniques for different types of clematis to troubleshooting problems with roses. Carol Klein wades through streams and marshes to show us how gardeners can emulate nature when choosing the right water plants for our gardens, and we visit Norfolk to revel in an extraordinary collection of iris.
Monty is reaping the rewards of the summer when he begins to harvest crops from the vegetable garden and gives tips on extending the flower season in the borders. Carol takes a trip to the seaside to discover why some plants thrive despite being assaulted by salt-laden winds and we make a final visit to Sissinghurst to catch up with Troy Scott-Smith and see the changes that have been made to the garden.
Monty demonstrates that it is not too late to start growing vegetables by showing which types to sow now, and he adds some summer colour to the Spring Garden by sinking plants in pots into the borders. A hosta National Collection holder shares the secrets of his propagating success, and Rachel de Thame pays a visit to the garden of theatre impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh.
Earlier in the year, Monty put aside a patch of his garden to grow his own cut flowers, and this week he returns to assess the results and harvest his first crop of colourful blooms. We pay a visit to an organic flower farm to find out how, from seed to harvest, the process of growing plays a large part in improving wellbeing, and Joe Swift explores the Savill Garden in Windsor to see how the traditional rose garden has been reimagined into a contemporary design.
As summer gets into full swing, there is plenty for Monty to be doing at Longmeadow, and this week he gets to grips with summer pruning as he tackles his espaliered pear trees. Nature's bounty is very much in evidence at Lord Rothschild's garden at Waddesdon Manor, where we get an exclusive look behind the scenes, and Joe Swift ponders ways of putting a contemporary twist on traditional bedding plants.
Now that rambling roses have finished flowering, Monty turns his attention to pruning and tying in new growth for a good display next year. On the 20th anniversary of the death of Geoff Hamilton, Adam Frost returns to the famous Gardeners' World location, Barnsdale, to pay tribute and to revisit some his own early gardening memories. And we travel to Abergavenny to visit the garden of a sweet pea enthusiast, to get her top tips for growing the best blooms.
Whether you are staying at home or going away on holiday, Monty has plenty of tips for how to keep the garden looking good and remaining productive during August. Joe Swift pays a visit to the Northumberland garden of Chris Mullin who, after over 20 years as a member of parliament, has turned his attention to the renovation of his walled garden. And National Trust head gardener Alan Power catches up with the transformation of Shakespeare's New Place garden in Stratford-upon-Avon. Hide description Gardeners' World
Now that birds are no longer nesting in hedges, now is the time to get them looking trim and neat and Monty has plenty of tips on how to cut them so that they grow well. Alan Power visits Croome Park in Worcestershire to discover more about one of the first great landscapes of Capability Brown, and we visit a couple near Chepstow whose ornamental grass garden was inspired by the Far East.
With the bank holiday ahead, there is plenty of opportunity to catch up with some essential jobs in the garden and Monty gives a masterclass on how to look after and prune soft fruit to ensure maximum production next year. Frances Tophill is at RHS Rosemoor, where she is catching up on her vegetable trials which she started earlier in the year, and Alan Power visits Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset to find out more about the discovery of a long-lost gladiolus, which was originally included in the planting plans of Gertrude Jekyll over 100 years ago.
This episode sees the first of eight hour-long episodes of Gardeners' World. Monty and the regular team are joined by some new faces offering tips, advice and inspiration from gardens large and small across the country. In this programme, Monty is at Longmeadow catching up with some seasonal jobs, and he also gets out and about for an inspiring visit to the longest herbaceous border in the world. Seven-time Chelsea gold medal-winning designer Adam Frost lays out plans for his new garden in Lincolnshire, while newcomer Flo Headlam visits a small city front garden in Liverpool to get underway with her mission to green up Britain's grey spaces. Nick Macer will be in Sheffield, exploring the ways in which Britain's climatic conditions can be exploited for growing some surprising plants, and Carol Klein is in Devon, getting to grips with some of the members of the extraordinary buttercup family, which include clematis and delphiniums.
In another full hour of gardening, Monty is at Longmeadow giving advice on how to deal with unruly roses, taking cuttings of herbs and planting a new tree. Carol Klein continues her series on plant families, exploring some of the most popular relations of the rose, and we pay a visit to an orchard in Worcestershire to find out how enthusiasts are caring for one of the rose family members - the plum. Nick Macer is in London visiting a town garden where two different microclimates offer very different planting opportunities. Adam Frost reveals his plans for his new garden, while Flo Headlam is in the heart of Bristol, transforming unpromising grey spaces into vibrant green. And Jane Moore meets a gardener in Torquay who has designed and planted his garden with thousands of plants which reflect areas of the world from Asia to the Mediterranean.
Gardening magazine. Monty adds some autumn flowering asters to his borders, as well as refreshing his strawberry beds with new stock. Carol Klein continues her series on plant families and this week, she takes a close look at one of the largest plant families in the world, the daisy family. Nick Macer is in Essex where he discovers a garden where cacti are grown to monstrous proportions due, in part, to its microclimate. Garden doctor Nick Bailey is in Berkshire, where he provides a remedy for a patch of dry shade in a small back garden, while Jane Moore visits two tiny gardens on the sunny and shady side of the same street in Bristol. And Adam Frost begins the first of his design projects in his new Lincolnshire garden.
Gardening magazine. Monty starts to tidy up the garden for autumn and reviews this year's display in the jewel garden. Carol Klein looks at the Apiaceae family, which includes not only stalwart and wildlife-friendly plants but also edible roots, and we pay a visit to a giant vegetable grower who is hoping to break the world record with his carrots. Adam Frost's designs begin taking shape when he starts to build raised beds for his contemporary kitchen garden, while Nick Bailey travels to a suburban garden in Windsor to tackle overgrown climbers and shrubs. Jane Moore discovers an exuberant garden and gardener whose small space is packed with plants, and Nick Macer discovers a garden in Ireland where the climate resembles an Atlantic rainforest.
Gardening magazine. Monty catches up with seasonal jobs at Longmeadow this week when he divides some perennials and plants alpines for spring colour. He also travels to Dublin to meet Helen Dillon to find out why she is planning to leave her world-famous garden after decades of honing it to perfection. In Scotland, Joe Swift begins his quest to find out why we should rekindle our love for rock gardens, while Frances Tophill perches precariously on a cliff in Cornwall as she joins a couple who have created a garden in extreme conditions. Adam Frost continues his progress on designing his garden in Lincolnshire and Flo Headlam transforms a shady and neglected front garden in London. And garden designer Mark Lane shares his passion for colour in his garden in Kent.
Gardening magazine. After months of nurturing the plants in his garden, Monty reaps a harvest of a different kind when he investigates how productive his bees have been at making honey. Joe Swift visits the world famous Chatsworth House in Derbyshire to explore the history of its monumental 19th-century rock garden and to see how a more contemporary version compliments the original design. Frances Tophill explores the challenges of gardening on the edge of a Scottish loch, while Flo Headlam is in Birmingham, transforming a city rooftop. Adam Frost continues with the transformation of his Lincolnshire garden, Alan Power spends a day with the head gardener at the Bishop's Palace in Wells, and Zephaniah Lindo is in Yorkshire, looking at research into how light can be manipulated to change the way plants grow.
Gardening magazine. There is a visitor at Longmeadow this week when Rachel de Thame lends Monty a hand as he refreshes his dry garden with plants that will thrive in tricky growing conditions. Monty also visits a national collection of vines to search out the best varieties for growing outdoors. Frances Tophill travels to the heart of Wales to meet a couple who have carved out a garden 1000 feet above sea level and Joe Swift visits Chelsea gold medal winner and stonemason Martin Cook to see how he uses contemporary rock sculpture within his Buckinghamshire garden. Garden doctor Nick Bailey offers intensive care to some neglected patio pots, while Adam Frost gets to work on renovating his rose pergola and laying paths in his kitchen garden. Alan Power visits Marks Hall arboretum in Essex, spending a day with the head gardener to find out what it takes to manage a landscape populated with trees.
Monty Don kicks off the gardening year from Longmeadow, sharing his tips for pruning, planting up pots for spring colour and sharing his plans for the coming year. At the National Trust's Packwood House in Warwickshire, the herbaceous borders come under Adam Frost's scrutiny as he finds out how they have been planted for maximum colour and impact. Over the course of this 50th series, Carol Klein will be sharing some of her heroes of gardening. She begins with plantswoman, garden designer and author Beth Chatto.
Monty Don mulches the borders in preparation for spring and pots up his dahlias for the year ahead. Carol Klein celebrates her plant of the month, which can only mean the bright and beautiful daffodil. Frances Tophill heads to Barbados to offer her services to Andromeda Botanic Gardens and using the opportunity to brush up on her horticultural skills. And as part of the programmes 50th anniversary, Nick Bailey reveals the plant he thinks has had the most impact on British gardens over the last half-century.
Monty starts his plans for his revamped courtyard garden when he plants bare root trees and gives advice on climbers which will thrive on east-facing walls. Nick Bailey explores the strange world of lichens and finds out how these plants grow and thrive on trees, wood and stone, and Frances Tophill meets the enthusiastic gardeners of Barbados who fill their gardens, however small, with colour, foliage and world-class flowers. And as part of the programmes 50th anniversary, Flo Headlam reveals the plant she thinks has had the most impact on British gardens over the last half century.
This week at Longmeadow, Monty begins a brand new project when he starts a new soft fruit garden. He also plants new potatoes and divides herbaceous plants in the jewel garden. Frances visits an extraordinary tropical garden in Barbados which was developed from a collapsed cave, and we meet Chris Baines, a legend of gardening for wildlife, in his own small town garden. And as part of the programme's 50th anniversary, Mark Lane offers his choice of the plant he thinks has had the most impact on British gardens over the last half century.
Monty Don offers advice on the best apples and pears to grow in small spaces when he begins to plant up his new fruit garden and gets on with planning for colour when he adds some summer flowering bulbs. As April gets underway, Carol Klein chooses the primrose as her plant of the month and the programme meets a couple from Yorkshire who have a passion for growing fruit and have filled their garden with over 100 fruit trees. As part of the programme's 50th anniversary, Joe Swift makes the case for his Golden Jubilee plant, the one he thinks has had the most impact on British gardens over the last half-century.
Nick Bailey gets to grips with an unpromising patch of grass and gives his tips on how to achieve a luscious lawn, and Carol Klein continues her series on her gardening heroes when she visits Waterperry Gardens to find out about the legacy of Beatrix Havergal. Frances Tophill selects her Golden Jubilee plant, Flo Headlam visits a garden centre in Manchester which is run by the local community, and there is a return to Adam Frost's garden, where he gives advice on how to rid borders of bindweed.
Monty Don continues work in his courtyard, where he gives advice on plants which thrive on shady walls, sows root crops in the vegetable garden and catches up on work in his cottage garden. Joe Swift pays a visit to a small-town garden to find out how an interior designer has transformed her outdoor space, and gives tips on how to bring elements of design into back gardens. The team meet Charles Dowding who, since the 1980s, has pioneered the practice of 'no dig' organic gardening. Flo Headlam showcases her golden jubilee plant.
Monty gets to work in the cutting garden, plants his tomatoes and brings pots of citrus out of the greenhouse and into the garden for the summer. Carol Klein visits another of her gardening heroes, Penelope Hobhouse, and finds out about her lifetime of making grand gardens and how she has now created a low-maintenance haven for herself filled with foliage and colour in her small Somerset garden. We meet Gill Bagshawe, who has filled her plot in the Peak District with raised beds to grow as many different cut flowers as she possibly can. And Alan Power extols the virtues of the Japanese maple as his choice of plant for the golden jubilee award.
There is a full hour of gardens and gardening from not only Longmeadow but also the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Monty gets going on planting herbs in his new herb garden and gives advice on how to divide and move ornamental grasses, while Nick Bailey demonstrates a simple and easy way of making a pond. We meet the queen of herbs, Jekka McVicar, as she builds a herb garden at the Malvern Show and join Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Frances Tophill as they bring us the best from the floral marquee and show gardens. And Adam Frost explains why he has chosen a rose as his golden jubilee plant.
Mark Lane is in Hackney, finding out how a car wrecker's yard at the side of a Tudor National Trust property has been transformed into an award-winning garden used by the local community. Carol Klein visits Oxford Botanic garden to view their euphorbia collection and Rachel de Thame visits a garden which has opened to the public every year for 90 years as part of the National Gardens Scheme. Including Weather.
Monty gives advice on herbs which will grow happily in shade and has an unusual choice for his summer containers - bananas. Earlier this year, Monty paid a visit to Chatsworth House to find out about the history of the extensive grounds and gardens and also about the challenges of putting on its first RHS flower show. Flo Headlam visits a school where gardening is high on the curriculum and Nick Bailey shows us how we can build a pond in a weekend. We also meet the head gardener who manages a garden situated on a barge and discover how and what plants thrive in such extraordinary conditions.
There is an hour of gardens and gardening tonight, not only from Longmeadow but also the brand new RHS Chatsworth Flower Show. Set against a majestic backdrop, Joe Swift, Carol Klein and Adam Frost bring an exclusive look at the show. We meet leading designer Jo Thompson as she prepares her show garden with a difference. In the Floral Pavilion, Carol finds pioneering plants that have shaped the gardens of today and garden designer Arit Anderson looks to the future - meeting the team behind a garden built for the changing climate. Back at Longmeadow, Monty provides the ubiquitous jobs for the weekend.
Gardeners' World celebrates its 50th anniversary with a full hour of gardening from Gardeners' World Live at the NEC. Monty kicks off the party and is joined by the whole team, who will be bringing you all the show has to offer. Joe Swift and Adam Frost take a look at the show gardens and we meet garden designer David Stevens, who has created a garden showcasing 50 years of changing trends in our back yards. Carol Klein is in the floral marquee looking at the plants which have defined the decades, whilst Rachel de Thame, Flo Headlam, Alan Power, Nick Bailey and Mark Lane explore the show features including the Gardeners' World-themed borders and other floral displays. Monty and Alan Titchmarsh meet to talk about their experiences as the nation's head gardener and Mary Berry reveals the winner of the golden jubilee plant award.
Monty Don plants a tree fern in the damp garden and uses netting to protect his soft fruits from birds. Carol Klein selects hardy geraniums as her Plant of the Month, Flo Headlam visits an inspiring church garden in Lewisham that feeds both the mind and body, and Nick Bailey gets an insight into the impact of parasitoid wasps on gardens.
Rachel de Thame joins Monty Don at Longmeadow to add more medicinal planting to the herb garden - especially those that bees love. She also investigates how gardeners can aid honey bee conservation and protect the nation's favourite pollinators. Monty visits a garden in Herefordshire to see a collection of Siberian Iris, which inspires him to create a new Iris patch, adding warmth and splash of colour into his dry garden. The green-fingered experts also discover a garden containing a stunning collection of clematis Montana. Plus, Nick Bailey reveals how to plan, design and build a border fit for any garden, while in Somerset, Carol Klein visits the home of Margery Fish, the writer who exercised a strong influence on the informal style of the cottage garden, before her death in 1969.
Monty Don gives advice on how to prune summer flowering shrubs, makes plans for autumn flowers and returns to Dublin to find out how Helen Dillon is progressing in her new garden. Joe Swift shows how good design should not hinder challenging conditions when he visits a garden in Kent, Rachel de Thame explores the vital role of scent in wild flowers and the insects that visit them, and Nick Bailey prepares designs for a weekend project that will transform a front garden into a beautiful and practical space. Including Weather.
Monty Don visits a floral paradise outside of Dublin and discovers how Jimi Blake fills his garden with flora for free. Elsewhere, Nicky Bailey demonstrates how to transform a bland patio into a space that looks incredible at twilight, and Mark Lane travels to Oldham to visit the newly opened Maggie's Centre.
At the height of summer, it is time to ensure that fruits and vegetables are given attention to ensure maximum cropping. Monty gives advice on the summer pruning of fruit trees, as well as showing how to get the best from tomatoes and chillies. He also recommends plants which will carry on flowering into autumn.Carol Kleinmeets one of her gardening heroes, Roy Lancaster, and joins him as he reminisces on his life and explains his passion for plants. Nick Bailey is on the trail of some more alien invaders to our gardens, and we travel to Wales to meet a chef who has taken on a field in which to grow vegetables. Monty pays a visit to an extraordinary garden in Berkshire and we continue our 50 year celebrations when Rachel de Thame reflects back on how we used to garden 50 years ago.Joe Swiftand Flo Headlam begin an exciting new project to celebrate our golden anniversary when they help a community create a garden in Wiltshire.
There are plans for propagating and planting at Longmeadow this week when Monty Don plants up a new bed of irises and takes pelargonium cuttings. Nick Bailey brightens up a dull and shady space at the side of a terraced house and gives advice on plants that will thrive, Carol Klein pays the first of two visits to West Yorkshire to meet a couple whose outstanding planting has resulted in a garden full of late summer interest and Joe Swift takes a close look at a sloping and shady town garden to find out how the owner has designed this difficult space. We also meet a gardener in Dorset who took on the challenge of an overgrown coastal garden to create an Italianate idyll and take an in-depth look at one of the most colourful of summer stalwarts - the pelargonium.
Monty Don gives advice on how to cut and maintain hedges as well as ideas on growing fruit in pots, while Adam Frost uncovers the secrets of successful planting combinations in an Oxfordshire garden. Carol Klein chooses varieties of late flowering clematis as her plant of the month, Nick Bailey travels to the southern tip of Cornwall to seek out a plant which escaped from our gardens and is now threatening rare and native plants, and Mark Lane joins the enthusiasts who have lovingly restored a walled garden in Warwick.
Monty Don plans ahead, giving advice on what to sow now to keep the crops coming up to the end of autumn. He also looks ahead to next spring, offering tips on saving money by propagating perennials. Carol Klein visits a viewer with deteriorating eyesight to help sort her confused border and give her recommendations of plants that will be a feast for her senses, Joe Swift takes a close look of the design of a contemporary country garden and Nick Bailey travels to an Essex village to meet a bunch of enthusiastic villagers involved in the revival and preservation of the historic Pemberton rose.
Monty Don revisits his container vegetable garden, offering advice on how to get a good crop of pumpkins. He also meets Jake Hobson, one of the UK's leading cloud pruning and topiary experts. Adam Frost looks at a newly planted garden at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex, which has been designed to display both hardy and exotic vegetables. Plus, Rachel de Thame visits a garden in Wiltshire where vibrant colours are the key to the success of its summer borders and Flo Headlam returns to Potterne to check on the progress of the new community space.
As the plants in the jewel garden reach the peak of their late summer glory, Monty Don starts planning for the spring by planting ferns and offering advice on the care and maintenance of wildlife ponds. Carol Klein pays a second visit to Dove Cottage in West Yorkshire to see the garden at its summer peak, while Frances Tophill travels to Portsmouth to find a man whose passion for ferns has spilled out from his garden and onto his allotment. Plus, Arit Anderson finds out that even rubbish skips can be used to grow all manner of plants in an inner city space.
Monty Don demonstrates how to harvest and store potatoes, and also adds late summer colour to the cottage garden and prunes shrub roses. He is also joined at Longmeadow by renowned plantswoman Helen Dillon. Carol Klein travels to Norfolk to meet a member of a horticultural dynasty, Adam Frost takes a close look at the design of an outstanding small garden in Oxford, and Frances Tophill meets a man in Scotland who is passionate about potatoes. Plus, Joe Swift and Flo Headlam pay a visit to Potterne in Wiltshire to check on the progress of the community garden. Including Weather.
Monty Don prunes summer-fruiting raspberries and gives his recommendations for bulbs to plant now that will thrive in pots and bring much-needed colour next year. Frances Tophill meets a Norfolk gardener who, at 97, still gardens every day, while Adam Frost takes a look at a new garden at RHS Wisley that has been planted up with tropical plants. Plus, Carol Klein helps a Buckinghamshire viewer struggling with heavy clay soil, Alan Power outlines seasonal spring highlights at Stourhead and the programme visits a tiny Essex garden packed with plants, ponds and seating areas.
As the Autumn Equinox arrives, along with celebrating the season's apple bounty Monty Don plans for Christmas by planting bulbs to brighten the dark winter days ahead. He also offers advice on planting garlic for next year. Carol Klein celebrates the sedum, one of the autumn season's highlights, while Adam Frost provides an update on the development of his Lincolnshire garden. The programme also visits a garden in Gloucestershire, which is a haven for moths and butterflies, while Alan Power handles the summer work at Stourhead.
Monty Don shows how to prune and train the exuberant summer growth of climbing roses and makes the most of remaining warmth by planting perennials and sowing annuals for next year. Frances Tophill visits a viewer's garden to give advice on how to prune unruly shrubs, while Nick Bailey investigates a new way of combating one of the UK's most invasive weed species. Stourhead in autumn is a horticultural highlight of the year and Alan Power offers a behind-the-scenes tour, while Arit Anderson travels to Yorkshire to find out how scientific research has uncovered the `super-powers' of plants.
As part of his plans for next year, Monty Don begins taking out plants that are in the wrong place and either moving or dividing others. He also gives advice on making leaf mould from fallen leaves and how to use it. Frances Tophill helps a gardener whose plants are not thriving where they are planted, while Joe Swift visits a small garden full of great design tips. Plus, Nick Bailey meets a zoologist to find out about the abundance of life contained in soil, while Adam Frost visits a community allotment in Manchester where growing food is providing solace and support to refugees.
Monty Don adds gooseberries to his fruit garden, divides and moves herbaceous perennials and advises on the best bulbs to plant for cut flowers next year. Frances Tophill meets a couple who have devised a meticulous method of protecting tender plants over the winter, while Adam Frost gives design tips on placing and planting trees. Nick Bailey explores a myriad of colour in leaf, bark and berry when he travels to Bluebell Arboretum in Leicestershire, and Arit Anderson is in Yorkshire where she finds out about a project using innovative techniques for producing food.
As the nights become colder, Monty Don advises on what plants need protection and how to nurture tender plants over the coming months. He also plants tulips and wallflowers for late spring colour. Carol Klein celebrates ornamental grasses, Adam Frost travels to Peterborough to find out about the work of a Children in Need project for disadvantaged and vulnerable youngsters, while Nick Bailey gives a guide on how to build a cold-frame for an affordable price. Plus, a visit to an enthusiast in Surrey who grows thousands of South African succulents in his back garden.
Frances Tophill helps a viewer whose overgrown pond needs some renovation, while Adam Frost visits a garden in Nottinghamshire where the season of winter highlights its design. The programme also celebrates the humble snowdrop and pays a visit to Eunice Mcghie who, at 83, still teaches gardening to young people in her back garden in Handsworth, Birmingham. Monty Don rounds up the series with ideas for pots that will remain colourful throughout winter and gives tips on how to protect tender banana plants and harvests pumpkins. Last in the series.
The imminent arrival of spring heralds a new gardening year at Longmeadow, as Monty Don reveals his new plans for the year and takes stock of any winter damage. As well as offering seasonal hints and tips, the presenter embarks on a mission to reduce the use of plastic in his garden, starting by exploring alternative containers to use for seed sowing. Adam Frost brings his design expertise to a tiny back yard to demonstrate that, with a bit of ingenuity, every inch of space can count. A Wolverhampton couple show off their inspirational garden, packed to bursting with surprises.
Monty Don makes plans for a bumper harvest of fruit when he adds raspberries to his fruit garden, and gives advice on how to plant bare-root trees. Carol Klein explores one of the unsung heroes of the spring border, the daphne, while Joe Swift shares designs on brightening up dull and uninteresting spaces with pots full of colour that can be planted now.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don makes plans for the summer by starting dahlias and other tender perennials and sowing annual climbing plants hoping to light up his borders with colour. Adam Frost heads to Dorset to meet a tropical plant enthusiast who has filled his small back garden with unusual and rare exotic plants, many of which he has grown from seed. Plus, a visit to a garden in the Isle of Wight, which is filled with daylilies. Includes Weather.
On the busiest gardening weekend of the year, Monty Don has plenty of ideas and inspiration from planting summer bulbs to sowing perennials. New projects are on his mind as he begins to mark out a brand new area at Longmeadow. Meanwhile, Carol Klein profiles the bravest and most colourful of spring flowering plants when she delves into the botany of the hellebore. The programme also pays a visit to Sheffield to view a garden crammed full of colour and new ideas. Includes Weather.
Monty Don gets to grips with a new project, beefs up his borders by dividing perennials and celebrates spring-flowering shrubs. Frances Tophill prepares her vegetable plot on an allotment, while Nick Bailey has tips on how to get everything shipshape for the season ahead. Plus, Adam Frost explores a tropical garden in Dorset and meets a man who is passionate about growing unusual and exotic plants from seed and Carol Klein profiles the camellia.
Monty Don gets going in his vegetable garden, sowing seeds for a bountiful summer and growing some more unusual species. Mark Lane creates a floral celebration in a container and shares his recommendations for great planting partners for seasonal colour, while Flo Headlam joins the arborists at Westonbirt Arboretum to find out how they manage their collection of trees from around the world. Plus, Nick Bailey goes out and about enjoying that most seasonal of flowers, the daffodil.
Monty Don begins to divide ornamental grasses, offering advice on what to do with containers that are past their best. He also plants up a colourful alpine trough and gives tips on what to sow now in the vegetable garden. Nick Bailey travels to Shropshire to assist a viewer whose border has become a tangle of shrubs. Plus, Frances Tophill makes progress on her shared allotment in Bristol as she prepares the beds for sowing her first crops and Arit Anderson visits an extraordinary high-rise building in Milan that has been designed as a living forest.
The programme pays a visit to the RHS Malvern Spring Festival to see this year's hottest garden designs and the season's must-have plants. Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Adam Frost explore the event, sampling the best from the floral marquee and show gardens. Meanwhile, at Longmeadow, Monty Don plants herbaceous perennials for summer colour and gives timely advice on how to care for carnivorous plants. Plus, Frances Tophill catches up with the growing trend for greening up indoor spaces with house plants.
Monty Don adds plants to give height and drama to his cottage garden borders, while Carol Klein's plant of the season is the delicate dog's tooth violet. Joe Swift travels to the Trellisick garden in Cornwall to meet a special garden volunteer and Adam Frost returns to Leicestershire to monitor the progress of the new-build garden.
With summer on the horizon, Monty Don plants up pots for summer colour, as well as giving his box hedging a seasonal cut. Frances Tophill offers an update on her shared allotment as she checks on the progress of crops, Mark Lane heads to Suffolk where he gives advice on the elements of successful woodland planting design and Nick Bailey travels to a garden in Cheshire to answer a viewer's query about how to plant up a rocky area of their garden. The programme also visits Worcestershire where a garden has been given a tropical twist and the final garden in the Every Space Counts competition is revealed.
At Longmeadow Monty Don finds places in his borders for bananas and dahlias, while in the vegetable garden courgettes and tomatoes are planted out. At RHS Chatsworth show in Derbyshire, Nick Bailey, Carol Klein and Joe Swift highlight the best of the plants and show gardens that the exhibitors have to offer. Adam Frost is in London where he offers tips on how to bring tiny garden spaces to life, and the programme reviews the finalists' gardens in our Every Space Counts competition and opens the vote.
At Gardeners' World Live, Adam Frost and Joe Swift take a close look at all the show gardens for fresh ideas as well as inspiration. Mark Lane finds planting ideas around the showground, while Carol Klein and Nick Bailey explore the floral marquee. The presenters meet the designers whose innovative ideas have resulted in a show garden made from scrap iron and junk shop finds, go behind the scenes to visit the nurseries who bring their best specimens to the show and meet a woman who has travelled from the Isle of Skye with her plants. Plus, the winner of the Every Space Counts competition is announced.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don celebrates the mid-summer glory of roses in all their forms. He also plants some statuesque shrubs in pots for year-round interest, and deals with a pesky rabbit problem in the vegetable patch. Carol Klein revels in seasonal flower the peony, Adam Frost finds inspiration from the wild flowers that grow near to his Lincolnshire home, and Arit Anderson visits a garden in Derbyshire designed to capture and use rainwater. Plus, the iris enthusiast in Gloucestershire who is attempting to collect all the varieties created by one of her ancestors.
Adam Frost meets an extraordinary woman who runs a community project in the centre of Birmingham, while Frances Tophill catches up with her allotment in Bristol. Joe Swift travels to Dorset to a garden that has been designed around a challenging landscape and Nick Bailey visits the restored Temperate House at Kew Gardens. Monty Don shares his tips on how to keep displays going all summer long, there is plenty to do on the veg plot too and things are looking promising in the Longmeadow fruit garden.
Monty Don gives advice on water lilies as he catches up with maintaining his pond. He also has tips on planting herbaceous clematis and harvesting potatoes. Nick Bailey begins a guide to demystifying roses, Arit Anderson finds out how volunteers are bringing plants and wildlife back into Birmingham and Mark Lane reveals how to produce a cottage-style garden. There is also a tour of Woburn Abbey to explore the restoration of the Humphrey Repton landscape.
Adam Frost meets Prince Charles The Prince of Wales in his garden at Highgrove, to discuss the issue of biosecurity, an issues which could have a big effect on our gardens and landscapes. Plus, Monty Don demonstrates pruning, propagating and planting pots, regardless of the weather, and Carol Klein profiles the Agapanthus.
Monty Don advises on plants for a late summer display, tackles his overgrown wildlife pond and shows which roses to prune now to ensure a repeat flowering before autumn. Frances Tophill travels to Birmingham where she proves that every space counts by transforming three tiny balconies into spaces full of colour and scent. Adam Frost shares ideas for planting around a seating area, while Nick Bailey continues his journey through the world of roses. Plus, the couple who have filled their Staffordshire garden with a collection of dierama, commonly known as angel's fishing rods.
With one of the driest summers in years, Monty Don responds to viewers' questions on how to contend with drought conditions for vegetables, fruit, flowers and containers. Carol Klein celebrates flamboyant summer shrub the hydrangea, Joe Swift views a garden that has tranquillity at its heart in both design and planting, and there is a return visit to Adam Frost's garden, where he offers tips on how to plant up a seating area. Nick Bailey concludes his guide to roses by exploring the most recent introductions, and there is a look at a garden planted up on a tiny budget, where more than 200 containers have been filled with plants that have been either been rescued, bought cut-price or swapped.
Monty Don looks at how his autumn crops are faring as well as giving tips on how to keep the garden looking at its best. Adam Frost returns to Leicester where he has been helping to create a garden from scratch on a new build estate, Frances Tophill celebrates the summer harvest on her shared allotment, and Mark Lane takes a look at the Mediterranean planting at Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of Wight. The programme also visits Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where an immaculate and tiny garden is packed with colour.
As part of the BBC's Big British Asian Summer, the team celebrates South Asian influences on British gardens. Monty Don visits a Hindu temple in Neasden, to learn more about the melding of the traditional Hindu Mandir and north-west London suburbia. Frances Tophill and Nick Bailey pick up growing advice from allotmenteers in Bradford and Birmingham. Plus, Joe Swift visits gardeners in Middlesex who have created a garden celebrating their Indian roots and the programme meets botanical horticulturist Bala Kompalli, who runs the orchid unit at Kew Gardens.
Monty Don offers plenty of advice from pruning blackcurrants, taking cuttings and planting bulbs for flowering this autumn. Carol Klein finds a collection of plants that are at their peak right now and gives her advice on how to grow one of the late summer garden stunners, the Monarda. Meanwhile, Adam Frost adds the finishing touches to the Leicestershire couple's garden that he helped them start from scratch earlier this year, Joe Swift meets Peter Moore, who has spent his working life breeding plants for gardens and Nick Bailey shows how to use colour to the best effect in pots and borders.
Monty Don catches up on his vegetable garden and harvests potatoes, before seeking advice on how to install a water feature in his paradise garden. Frances Tophill helps to erect a greenhouse out of recycled materials on her shared allotment, Joe Swift visits a classically designed garden with a contemporary edge in Northamptonshire, and Juliet Sargeant heads to Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex to see how this year's hot weather caused a rare tree to flower for the first time in 30 years.
Monty Don gives advice on how to deal with overcrowded clumps of summer flowering bulbs and plants yew to make a start on creating a topiary Nellie. Frances Tophill travels to Somerset to the garden of a woman who grows a huge collection of unusual vegetables used in Thai cooking, while Carol Klein is in Devon celebrating one of the brightest additions to the late summer border - the rudbekia. Plus, Mark Lane gives design tips on the main elements of a formal garden and Adam Frost puts the finishing touches to the new build garden in Leicester he started earlier in the year.
Monty Don makes plans for a colourful spring by planting bulbs and nectar-rich wildflowers for an early and welcome feast for insects. Frances Tophill travels to a Birmingham allotment to meet an enthusiast who has filled his plot with dahlias, which he grows for competitions, and Nick Bailey is at Powis Castle in Wales to find out what it takes to trim their centuries-old, 14-metre-tall yew hedges. Adam Frost visits Sezincote Garden in Gloucestershire to find out about its history, and Toby Buckland takes a look at a garden in Cheshire where different sections have been designed with small gardens in mind.
Monty Don celebrates fruits of the season by planting crab apples in his paradise garden and bulbs in pots for early spring colour. Carol Klein travels to Yorkshire where she takes a look at the enormous colour range and form of the late-season perennial the salvia, while Mark Lane is in Oxfordshire looking at how ornamental grasses can be used in planting design to create exciting combinations. Arit Anderson tackles growing concerns about the use of plastics in the horticultural industry and Environment Minister Michael Gove is quizzed about government plans for improving recycling.
Frances Tophill makes a final visit to her shared allotment and joins in with the festivities at an annual show. Adam Frost visits the RHS garden at Wisley, Surrey, where he meets its curator to find out which plants have fared well and which have suffered during the hot, dry summer. Plus, Nick Bailey investigates knotweed, Arit Anderson provides inspiration for colourful late-season containers and a visit to Northamptonshire to meet a gardener who extracts natural dyes from the plants she grows in her garden.
Monty Don makes additions to his spring garden, offers advice on how to dry and preserve herbs for winter and plants up a container to give interest for the next six months. Carol Klein celebrates one of the plant successes of an extraordinary summer - the Canna, while Frances Tophill tackles a viewer's garden and suggests plants that will perform throughout the winter. Plus, Toby Buckland visits a garden in Devon with Japanese influences and Nick Bailey visits a garden where nature has taken over and produced the conditions where a proliferation of different types mushrooms are thriving.
Monty Don gives advice on what to plant now for spring and finds out more about the mysterious world of earth worms and why they are vital for the garden. Adam Frost shares plans for his own garden, while Toby Buckland discovers a garden in Scotland where contemporary planting has been the solution to challenging climactic conditions. Flo Headlam visits a project where gardening has been prescribed by a doctor to help improve mental health, Joe Swift attends the Malvern Autumn show, and the programme visits a small garden in Kent transformed into an exotic jungle paradise.
Monty Don continues work on the water feature in his paradise garden and makes a start on the planting. He also has tips on how to protect tender plants over the winter as well as making use of fallen leaves. Adam Frost travels to Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham, to meet an eight-year-old with a passion for gardening and invention, Nick Bailey gives advice on how to choose the right tree for small gardens, while Carol Klein is at Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire explaining the science behind autumn colour and revelling in the plants that produce the best seasonal display. Last in the series.
Finally the gardening season has begun and it’s back to Longmeadow to join Monty, Nigel and Nellie for the first programme of the series. This week there’s advice on how to plant spring flowering perennials for instant impact and recommendations for planting bare root roses full of fragrance in borders and pots. Monty will also begin planning the vegetable garden for the year ahead. Carol Klein visits Norfolk and the stunning Winter garden at Bressingham where she celebrates the beauty of conifers and discovers their perfect planting partners. We find an inspirational and small garden in Kent bursting with colourful flowers and foliage, most of which are grown in pots.
Monty Don recommends varieties of seeds to sow now for months of summer colour, and with conifers enjoying a revival, also plants up a pot to give interest all year round. Adam Frost visits York Gate in Leeds, a place famed for the use and manipulation of plants to give structure to the garden, and feeling inspired shows how to replicate parts of its design for domestic gardens. Annual climbing plants are an easy and inexpensive way to fill gardens with colour, and the head gardener at Parham House in Sussex reveals which varieties have proved to be a success in his trial at the gardens there.
As spring begins, it is not just the borders that need a boost - it is the wildlife too. Monty gives tips on what to do now, as well as planting a tree to provide a nectar source for bees and other insects. In Cornwall, Nick Bailey revisits a first love as he celebrates the fleeting beauty of one of the most ancient flowering plants. With champion-sized trees and goblet-shaped flowers, magnolias are one this season’s star performers. And meet a woman who has maximised the growing space available in her small garden and created her very own piece of prairie-inspired planting.
Monty Don gets busy on the vegetable plot and takes the next step in planting up his new Paradise Garden. With Mothering Sunday around the corner, he also provides some timely inspiration for planting up a spring pot as a present. Frances Tophill is thrilled to have her own allotment this year, and here shares her plans for the season ahead, making a start on getting it shipshape. The programme also visits the alpine house at RHS Garden Wisley to find out from the experts how they care for some of the smallest and most colourful spring gems.
Monty Don turns his attention to the pond at Longmeadow, adding a splash of colour to the planting with some perennial springtime favourites, as well as giving advice on pond maintenance that can be carried out now without disturbing wildlife. Nick Bailey travels to Lincolnshire to meet a family of daffodil growers celebrating 100 years of growing one of the nation's most iconic spring flowers. The programme also meets a Somerset woman, passionate about peonies, to hear her tips on on how to grow them in borders and in pots.
Monty Don inspects the annual climbers he has been growing from seed, as well as planting out sweet peas. He also gives his recommendations on perennial plants that can be grown from seed now for late summer colour. Joe Swift is in West Sussex visiting one of the nation's iconic Victorian gardens, which has undergone a major restoration after being closed to the public. Plus, the programme catches up with a couple from Norfolk who transformed an uninteresting space into a garden full of tropical plants enhanced by scrap metal objects washed up on the nearby coastline.
Monty Don gets going with a new planting project as well as giving plenty of tips on getting lawns and plants into tip-top condition for the season ahead. For those viewers with dry shade, dappled shade or deep shade, Carol Klein is on hand to show the spring planting partners that grow happily together, Plus, Adam Frost meets a woman who has created seven individual gardens around her home in Worcestershire, and Joe Swift and Florence Headlam visit an allotment in Walsall to help out on a community growing project for children with special needs.
With warmer weather on the horizon, Monty Don makes a start on getting some tender vegetables underway, recommends plants which thrive with very little water and gives tips on the spring maintenance of houseplants. Nick Bailey spends the day at Kew Gardens exploring its cacti and succulent collection, Adam Frost helps family members in Lincolnshire transform their front garden into a more interesting and usable space, while Arit Anderson travels to Faversham in Kent to find out how the town has used innovative ideas to reduce its plastic use.
With Monty Don taking a well-earned week off, Adam Frost presents from his home in Cambridgeshire, where he gets to grips with planting up his gravel garden with spring colour, sows some unusual vegetables and starts work on a new project. Carol Klein is in Surrey where she is in the midst of a dazzling display of thousands of tulips, Frances Tophill gets inspiration from the allotmenteers on a site exposed to the elements in Anglesey, north Wales, while Nick Bailey makes the case for trees should be planted with bees in mind. Plus, Mark Lane visits Denmans Garden, West Sussex.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don plants out his tomatoes, continues work in his paradise garden and reveals plans for a new project. At the Malvern Spring Festival, Adam Frost, Carol Klein and Frances Tophill explore the show gardens and highlight the very best of the plants and flowers in the floral marque. The programme also visits a city garden in Peterborough where lack of space has not proved a problem for a couple who have created a woodland garden, and hears from a Cambridgeshire man who has devoted his gardening life to the preservation of rare and heritage plants.
With the arrival of mid-May it's time to get tender plants out into the garden at Longmeadow, so Monty Don plants out his dahlias as well as dividing ornamental grasses. Frances Tophill is in Anglesey, north Wales, getting tips and hints from a group of allotmenteers, Adam Frost finds design inspiration in a garden in Leicestershire, and Joe Swift and Flo Headlam travel to Darlington, Co Durham, to help transform an unpromising space into a garden to benefit people whose lives have been changed by head injuries. The programme also meets a gardener in Kent whose passion is foliage.
Monty Don gets going on a new project as he begins planting a colour-themed, fragrant border and he offers on successional planting in the vegetable garden. Nick Bailey begins his ultimate guide to growing clematis, while Arit Anderson visits a new, free, public roof garden in London, which soars above the city space below. Plus, Carol Klein travels to Arundel Castle in West Sussex where alliums are taking centre stage and Joe Swift finds out about the restoration of one of country's most historic woodland gardens.
At Longmeadow this week, Monty Don turns his attention to the tender annuals he has grown from seed, including climbers and sunflowers and plants out beans for a bountiful summer harvest. Nick Bailey celebrates the rhododendron, one of our most colourful spring flowering shrubs and, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, there's a feature on the Second World War veteran who has planted an orchard for peace to commemorate those who lost their lives during the war. Carol Klein, Frances Tophill and Joe Swift travel to Derbyshire to focus on the floral highlights from the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show.
Monty Don, Joe Swift and Adam Frost tour the annual Gardeners' World Live event in Birmingham, gleaning design tips from the show gardens. Carol Klein seeks out the best plants in the floral marquee, while Frances Tophill, Nick Bailey, Arit Anderson and Mark Lane look at inspirational planting ideas. Plus, the team addresses gardening and planting problems brought to them by visitors to the show.
Monty Don revels in the roses in his garden, harvests honey from his bees and gives advice on the maintenance of hardy geraniums as well as planting others for summer groundcover. Rachel de Thame shows how the most ordinary of spaces can be transformed by adding seasonal containers, Joe Swift heads to Cornwall to meet musician and actor Will Young who reveals his love of gardening, and Frances Tophill visits an allotment in Oxfordshire to meet a gardener who is growing her crops alongside plants attractive to pollinating insects and other wildlife. Plus, the programme catches up with a garden historian who has incorporated elements of period gardens into her own town garden.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don cuts back and divides spring flowering plants, gives advice on the pruning, dead-heading and staking of roses and shows how to keep ponds looking good. Joe Swift and Adam Frost meet up in Leicestershire to see how they can help a couple of novice gardeners turn a neglected area of their garden into a usable and useful space. Plus, Nick Bailey reports on the problems posed by box tree caterpillar, Arit Anderson finds out about the concept of rewilding and how cultivated and wild plants can be combined harmoniously and Mark Lane shows how he adapts tools to garden.
Monty Don catches up with summer maintenance in his wildlife garden and recommends plants for dry shade under trees. Carol Klein travels to Aberglasney Gardens in south-west Wales to explore the best planting partners for that most ephemeral of perennials, the Thalictrum, while Joe Swift is in Devon meeting a plantsman who has used plants from all over the globe to create an extraordinary garden. Plus, Adam Frost joins a group of gardeners in Worksop where gardening has helped to create a sense of community and wellbeing, and Nick Bailey finds out more about the lily beetle.
Monty Don and the team focus their attention on the loss of wildflower habitats in the UK and the part that gardeners can play in averting the resulting loss of wildlife. In Lincolnshire, Adam Frost finds out how crucial meadows are to supporting the ecosystem, Arit Anderson visits East Sussex to discover the results of a recent wildlife survey carried out in the gardens there and Nick Bailey travels to Staffordshire where meadows are being grown in gardens for the benefit of wildlife. Plus, Carol Klein identifies plants that can help increase insect and bird populations.
Monty Don demonstrates how to produce a medley of vegetables from a small space. He also lifts and divides irises and adds spires of summer colour to his borders. Frances Tophill visits an allotment on the Isle of Man where plants are grown and harvested as ingredients for cosmetics, while Adam Frost is in Northamptonshire finding out about the design and planting at Cottesbrooke Hall. Plus, an interview with a woman whose passion for bees is inspiring young beekeepers at a school in Huddersfield.
Adam Frost dispels the confusion of the summer pruning of wisteria, and demonstrates an ingenious solution to planting in dry shade under trees. Arit Anderson is in Germany finding out about the incredible transformation of a disused industrial site into a thriving and beautiful park, beloved by visitors and the local community. Rachel de Thame heads to Gloucestershire to find out about the 100-year history of the gardens at Kiftsgate Court, and Nick Bailey profiles the many varieties of summer flowering clematis.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don catches up on jobs to keep the garden looking good all summer long. Adam Frost visits Sledmere Gardens in East Yorkshire where the borders have been planted with specific colour schemes in mind. The programme also catches up with a family in the Vale of Glamorgan whose members pack their small garden with colourful bedding plants for maximum impact.
Monty Don advises on essential summer pruning, and offers tips for preparing the garden for time spent away on holiday. Plus, Nick Bailey breathes in the beauty of evening scented plants and finds out why they are so important for moths, and Kate Bradbury discovers more about solitary bees.
As Longmeadow radiates colour in the height of summer, Monty Don takes a range of cuttings to get plants for free and also shows how best to prune lavender. Carol Klein visits a garden in Devon to revel in its eryngiums, while the programme also meets a passionate gardener and his partner in Wiltshire who use their garden as inspiration for art.
With the bank holiday weekend looming, Monty Don has plenty of inspiration for gardeners from planting for late summer colour to tidying up herbs and pruning soft fruit. Nick Bailey concludes his journey into the clematis world by looking at the late summer-flowering varieties and the programme travels to Devon to meet a retired biology teacher with a passion for houseleeks.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don adds some ornamental grasses to his borders for late summer impact and gives advice on how to look after pumpkins for a bountiful autumn harvest. Adam Frost discovers a colourful garden in Gloucestershire where hardy, tender and tropical plants jostle for space in both borders and containers, while Frances Tophill visits an allotment in north London where the main harvest is flowers for floral displays.
Adam Frost gives advice on how to prune overgrown evergreen shrubs and adds to his borders to create height. Rachel de Thame shows how to maintain containers and refresh with plants that will extend the display into autumn, and there's a feature on a gardener whose frequent absences from home have influenced the design and planting of his garden.
An extended edition sees Monty Don add autumn perennials to his borders, show how to take root cuttings and reveal plans for next year when he plants bulbs for spring colour. On her Kent allotment, Frances Tophill catches up on some seasonal sowing and invites a special guest to help her with a small building project. Nick Bailey visits Cambridge University Botanic Garden, where he finds out how and why some plants produce their scent at the end of the day. The programme also returns to the wildlife garden of Kate Bradbury to find out about the lives of solitary bees.
Monty Don assesses the progress, successes and failures of the paradise garden he planted at the start of the year. He also sets about sowing a meadow of wildflowers in the orchard and gives advice on what to plant now in the vegetable garden. Frances Tophill travels to Glasgow to meet a gardener whose hands-off approach to his garden has reaped rewards for wildlife, Adam Frost visits a garden in Wales where a potentially unpromising and rocky site has been transformed, while Mark Lane explores Nymans in West Sussex to find out how the garden is managed with sustainability at its heart.
A look at the role that plants and gardening play in people's mental and physical wellbeing, exploring the idea that gardening is a good and positive pastime. Arit Anderson travels to a medical centre in Kent where gardening is prescribed by doctors, to help patients cope with long-term mental and physical problems. Adam Frost is at a community garden in Oxfordshire, created to provide ongoing support for sufferers of Parkinson's disease. Back at Longmeadow, Rachel de Thame joins Monty Don as they plant bulbs for spring and catch up on some seasonal tasks.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don is celebrating the berries of the season and plants up potfuls of colour for spring. Frances Tophill meets the gardeners on an allotment site in Birmingham and harvests some unusual vegetables, while Adam Frost and Arit Anderson join forces to transform a front garden in Hampshire into a haven for the owners as well as wildlife. In Nottinghamshire, we meet an enthusiast who has amassed a collection of over one hundred varieties of rhubarb and in Scotland we find out why we should all grow herbs from a grower with over six hundred different types.
Monty Don gives tips on moving plants which are in the wrong place or have outgrown their space, shows how to store chillies and harvests the last of his tomatoes. Rachel de Thame heads to Longmeadow to talk to Monty about her return to health and to plant up pots for spring colour, while Nick Bailey travels to the Highlands in Scotland to find out about a project which is contributing to worldwide plant conservation.
Monty Don plants out berried shrubs to help feed wildlife in the winter, harvests pumpkins and shows how to make use of fallen autumnal leaves. Carol Klein shows the planting partners still making an impact in the borders of the Bishop's Palace and Gardens in Somerset, while Adam Frost is in the Cotswolds finding out about some surprising planting schemes designed with animals in mind. Frances Tophill summarises her first season on her allotment in Kent and Rachel de Thame updates her containers to ensure that they give interest for the upcoming seasons ahead. Last in the series.
It is the first day of spring and Monty has sharpened his tools in readiness to open the gardening year, accompanied, of course, by Nigel and Nellie, in the first episode of the series. Monty reflects on how Longmeadow has fared during an extraordinarily wet winter and gets going on a few essential tasks to get the garden into gear for the seasons to come.
Gardeners’ World celebrates the snowdrop and visits one of the world’s largest collections, lovingly nurtured in a suburban back garden and Monty gives tips on what to do once they have finished flowering. At Longmeadow it’s time to get dahlias into growth and, for inspiration, last summer we visited a field full of dahlias in Sussex to get tips from a professional grower. Nick Bailey revels in the beauty of magnolias and Monty has plenty of jobs for us all to be getting on with this weekend.
Monty has advice on what to sow and grow now for fresh vegetables, while Rachel de Thame introduces her plans for growing her own this year. The episode also celebrates the daffodil at the Daffodil Society’s annual show, held last year at Pershore in Worcestershire, and joins Carol, who is focusing her attention on a favourite seasonal flower – the primrose.
As the days get longer and warmer, the Gardeners' World team returns to guide enthusiasts through seasonal highlights from across the country visiting stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success. This week, Adam Frost heads into his garden to offer inspiration for viewers' own patches along with all the essential gardening jobs for the coming weekend.
The team present seasonal highlights from across the country, visiting stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success. At Longmeadow, Monty, Nigel and Nellie discuss the essential gardening jobs for this weekend.
The team present seasonal highlights from across the country, visiting stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success. At Longmeadow, Monty, Nigel and Nellie discuss the essential gardening jobs for this weekend.
Monty, Nigel and Nellie are at Longmeadow, providing inspiration for gardens and discussing all the essential gardening jobs for this weekend.
Monty, Nigel and Nellie are at Longmeadow bringing inspiration for gardens and discussing all the essential gardening jobs for this weekend.
At Longmeadow, Monty plants out some tender plants, takes cuttings from herbs and sows carrots. From her garden in Devon, Carol Klein goes back to the basics of propagating your own plants when she shows how to take cuttings. Advolly Richmond, whose love of garden history is reflected in her own garden, shares her passion for a flower with a surprising past. Joe Swift has a large plant in his London garden that is due for some timely remedial work, and the episode shows a garden in Brighton that is packed with exotic plants grown in raised beds and containers.
Join Monty at Longmeadow for an indulgent, horticultural romp through the Gardeners’ World archives and a joyous riot of colour as the show celebrates some of the most beloved summer flowers. From delphiniums to clematis, irises, orchids and dahlias, expert growers share their passion, along with hints and tips. Carol Klein visits a garden in Shropshire, where she discovers picture-perfect plant combinations. Adam Frost travels to the Cotswolds and finds out what happens when plants are brought together with imagination and daring, and Nick Bailey guides us through the world of Britain’s favourite flower, the rose.
If you have been growing tomatoes along with Monty, join him at Longmeadow as he shows how to pot them on to the next stage of their growth, and as well potting up tender vegetables, he is planting containers for summer colour. Adam Frost is enjoying the seasonal plants in his garden and has ideas of transforming a part of his plot into a seating area using a few logs and plants. In London, Arit Anderson and her family have been making the most of their time at home by filling a range of imaginative containers with a variety of plants. Frances Tophill explores spring flowering trees and their benefits for bees, and the episode goes indoors to discover how one man has designed his home around his love of houseplants. And there are also more viewers’ videos of what people have been getting up to in their own gardens.
At Longmeadow, Monty adds a variety of herbs that thrive in shade to the herb garden. Nick Bailey gives tips on how to plan and lay out a path, and Carol Klein celebrates the hardy geranium.
At Longmeadow, Monty plants out tender vegetables for late summer harvests and gives tips on plants that thrive on a minimum of water when he plants up a pot of succulent plants. Frances Tophill demonstrates an unusual method of reducing weeds in her allotment, and the team meet a gardener in Wales who has dedicated years to breeding some very special varieties of rhododendrons. Joe Swift is in Devon finding out about the design and planting challenges faced when creating a coastal garden, and in Staffordshire, a gardener has filled every inch of his garden with spectacular plants. And more viewers have their own gardening tips to share.
Monty gives tips on growing tomatoes and has ideas of how to fill gaps in the garden once the flowers of spring are past their best. The team meet an extraordinary gardener from Swansea, whose upper limb difference has not deterred her from growing and creating a garden which is both productive and beautiful. On the eve of reopening, the show goes behind the scenes of Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset to find out how the head gardener has managed this historic landscape whilst the garden has been closed over the last few months. Joe Swift visits the small city garden of an interior designer, where some unusual plants have been used to add an element of surprise to the outdoor space, and in Kent, Arit Anderson meets a community of gardeners who have all been prescribed gardening as part of their recovery from physical and mental illness.
At Longmeadow, Monty shows how to prune spring-flowering roses. Adam Frost gives tips on helping plants cope with drought conditions and shows how to save precious water.
Monty adds plants which give shelter to insects and invertebrates to his wildlife pond, and Carol Klein gives a comprehensive and seasonal guide to getting plants for free.
At Longmeadow, Monty checks the progress of the potatoes he planted earlier in the year and recommends plants for dry shade under trees. The team travel to Somerset to get water-saving tips from a water scientist, who uses a variety of techniques to save as much water as possible in her own garden, and meet a head gardener, who manages a garden in Dorset dedicated to growing plants for their aromatic properties both in leaf and flower. Nick Bailey gives a masterclass on how to grow summer flowering clematis, and Arit Anderson takes a boat trip to meet a group of people who are planting up the Birmingham canal sides for both wildlife and the wellbeing of city dwellers. And there are a few more hints, tips and stories from viewer’s gardens.
Adam Frost is in his garden, bringing viewers up to date on how it has been developing over the summer, as well as giving plenty of advice on looking after and growing hydrangeas. In Devon, Toby Buckland shares his tips on dealing with damaged shrubs, tree pruning and transplanting perennials, while Frances Tophill travels to West Sussex to meet a gardener and professor of biology whose garden has been planted with the conservation of insects in mind. There is a second chance to see Carol Klein’s in-depth profile of a national collection of hydrangeas at Darley Park in Derby, and a couple of years ago, the team met Charles Dowding, whose unique method of growing vegetables results in bumper crops. And there is a selection of films made by viewers from their own gardens.
If you have been growing tomatoes along with Monty, he shows what you should be doing now that they have been planted out and gives advice on the summer maintenance of ponds. Nick Bailey travels to South Africa, where he searches for the wild cousins of one of the most vibrant of summer flowers, the Crocosmia, and garden historian Advolly Richmond goes to Alton Towers to take a close look at the Victorian trend of creating theme parks in their gardens. There’s a second chance to meet a couple in Staffordshire who are very particular about the colours of the plants they use in the borders of their cottage garden, and last year we travelled to Kent to meet a gardener who filled her garden with pots full of vibrant colour.
At Longmeadow, Monty refreshes a container of overgrown herbs, plants alpines in a pot and revisits the shrub and perennial cuttings he took a few weeks ago. Arit Anderson travels to Kent to meet a designer who is placing sustainability and the environment at the heart of the gardens she designs, and the team discovers a garden in Dorset that has been laid out specifically with scent in mind. There is a look back to 2019 as Frances Tophill visits an allotment on the Isle of Man to meet a grower who uses plants to make cosmetics, and on the Isle of Wight there is a second chance to meet an enthusiast who has filled his garden with daylilies. And there are more viewers’ videos showing what people have been getting up to in their own gardens.
With the summer garden in full swing, Monty shows how to stake dahlias, sows seeds of perennials and celebrates an abundant vegetable harvest. The team meet a landscape designer in Cornwall who creates gardens that are not only sustainable but also beautiful and edible and go to Wales to meet a gardener whose garden reflects memories of her childhood home in Jamaica. There is a second chance to see Carol Klein visit Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire to look at their stunning collection of summer flowering thalictrum, and Mark Lane shows the adaptive tools he uses for planting and weeding in his garden in Kent. And there are more viewers’ videos showing what people have been getting up to in their own gardens.
This week, Adam Frost is at home sharing his love of ornamental grasses, tackling the problem of building a patio on a slope and giving some inspiration on what to plant at the base of a wall. In Margate, the team visit a man who has come up with a unique way of using a shed roof to grow vegetables, and they travel to Swansea to meet inspirational gardener Sue Kent, who shows how she has designed her garden to enable her to garden successfully despite her upper limb difference. There is a second chance to see Joe Swift visiting a garden in Devon, where the planting combinations have been inspired by world travel, and in Hampshire, a sea captain explains how he has created a low-maintenance garden using foliage and structural plants. And there are more films from viewers in their own gardens.
At Longmeadow, Monty plans for next spring when he plants some early-flowering wildflowers and gives his recipes for the different compost mixes he uses to take successful cuttings. Nick Bailey continues his quest for the South African origins of our much-loved summer bulbs, and in the heart of London, we meet a keen gardener who has filled her houseboat with ornamental and edible plants. From the archives, we meet a man who took on a barren Lincolnshire field and turned it into a haven for wildflowers, and we travel to Preston to visit a woman who is passionate about propagation and, in particular, pineapples. And find out what viewers have been doing in their own gardens.
From giant gooseberries and growing the perfect sweet pea to flamboyant dahlias and plants pollinated by a single human hair, Monty Don celebrates the plant passions of some of the extraordinary people that the programme has met over the last few years. He also has plenty of hints and tips of his own to keep enthusiastic gardeners busy over the weekend ahead.
A visit to Adam Frost's garden, catching up on his new patio project and finding out what his plans are for the autumn. Arit Anderson travels to Somerset to meet landscape designer Dan Pearson, to hear about the design and planting principles he has used to create his own garden. In London, film director and musician Don Letts and his wife reveal how they have combined their different tastes for plants and culture in their town garden. Plus, another chance to see Frances Tophill meet a gardener who grows most of the vegetable ingredients needed for Thai cooking in her back garden and the two enthusiasts with a passion for air plants at their nursery in Lancashire.
At Longmeadow this week, Monty reaps a harvest from the vegetable garden, plants up a seasonal pot and gives a masterclass on how to make the perfect compost. Adam Frost travels to York to meet a couple who took on 20 acres of land and filled it with flowers, and in Walsall, the team visit a garden planted with exotic palms and foliage which has made a positive contribution to the owner’s mental health. There is another chance to see Carol Klein as she finds a collection of late-summer-flowering bergamot plants in Wales and gives her advice on how to grow and propagate them. In Lancashire, Nick Bailey meets a zoologist who has spent his life exploring the microscopic insects that live in the soil. And there are more films sent in by viewers.
With autumn on the horizon, the seasonal planting of bulbs for spring-flowering begins at Longmeadow. Frances Tophill meets a gardener whose allotment is filled with both traditional and exotic vegetables, and Toby Buckland visits The Newt in Somerset to find out about its chequered garden history and to explore its emergence as one of the UK’s most exciting gardens. There is another chance to see Mark Lane travel to Oxfordshire to look at how ornamental grasses, perennials and annuals can be used in planting design to create exciting combinations, and the team meets a gardener in Northamptonshire who uses the plants in her garden to extract natural dyes for fabrics. And there is a selection of films from viewers' gardens.
Join Adam Frost in his garden for a special programme celebrating some of the most glorious gardens the team have visited over the last few years, with plenty of seasonal hints and tips for what we can be doing in our own gardens this weekend. Frances Tophill visits a lochside retreat, Joe Swift finds lots of take home tips from a city garden, Carol Klein is inspired by plant combinations in West Yorkshire, and Advolly Richmond shows how a historical landscape was designed for fun and frolic. The team also meet a couple who let nature be their gardening guide and a gardener who makes containers her focus of attention.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don revels in the early autumn colour in his garden, reviews how the tomatoes he grew from a late sowing have got on this season and gives advice on planting onions for next year. Rachel de Thame reveals how the new garden project she started in the spring has developed over the summer and Fish, of the rock band Marillion, gives a tour of his garden and reveals how it has helped his mental health as well as the creative process of making music. Plus, in Germany, Arit Anderson finds out about the transformation of a disused industrial site into a thriving and beautiful park.
As autumn gets underway, Monty fills pots with bulbs for spring colour, plants garlic and gives advice on autumn lawn care. Joe Swift visits presenter and journalist Kate Garraway in her London garden to discuss how it has been a sanctuary over recent months, and Nick Bailey shows the results of the design project he started in his own garden earlier in the year. In Kent, there is another chance to meet a woman who has filled her garden with exotic and tropical plants, and the team meet a nurseryman in Devon who specialises in growing unusual woodland plants from Asia.
At Longmeadow, Monty prepares his pond for the season ahead, prunes a climbing rose and celebrates the garden as it moves into autumn. Adam Frost is in his garden, giving ideas and inspiration for a winter display of containers, and the show travels to Kent to visit Frances Tophill on her allotment to find out about her growing year. There is a second chance to enjoy an autumnal visit to Hidcote Gardens with Carol Klein, and the team meet a couple whose garden has been inspired by their travels in the Far East. And the show joins viewers in their own gardens to find out about their gardens and their gardening tips.
At Longmeadow, Monty gives tips on how to look after wildlife in the months ahead, shows how to look after and protect tender garden plants and plans ahead for next year’s harvest of fruit. Joe Swift finds out what it takes to look after a historic garden with a collection of heritage fruit trees in Hampshire, and Arit Anderson meets Fergus Garrett – head gardener at Great Dixter - to discover how the planting and garden management have increased biodiversity. The team meet a couple in Staffordshire with a particular fondness for Japanese maples and a man whose love of dahlias has taken over his back garden in Stockport. And the show catches up with what viewers have been doing in their gardens.
In the final programme from Longmeadow this year, Monty harvests his pumpkins and has plenty of inspiration for jobs we can be getting on with over the coming winter. Frances Tophill travels to Winkworth Arboretum in Surrey to celebrate the season and to explain the science behind the golden and red tones of autumn leaves. For winter inspiration, Adam Frost is at a garden in Doncaster where water, grasses and seedheads all add to the design. There is a second chance to meet twins Stuart and Ian Paton to find out what it takes to grow the biggest pumpkin in the UK. And the team revel in the films of the gardens and gardeners viewers have shared with us this year.
In the first of four special programmes, Monty and the Gardeners’ World team look back at the horticultural highs of the latest series and celebrate the very best inspirational gardens and gardeners up and down the country. There's also another chance to see what viewers were getting up to in their gardens throughout the year when they shared their own home videos.
In the second of four special programmes, Monty and the Gardeners’ World team look back at the horticultural highlights from the latest series and celebrate the very best inspirational gardens and gardeners up and down the country. There's also another chance to see what viewers were getting up to in their gardens throughout the year.
In this special episode, Monty and the team look back at some of the floral highlights of 2020. It’s a celebration of some of the star flowers of our gardens, from tulips and roses to salvias and dahlias. There’s also another chance to see what the Gardeners’ World audience were getting up to in their gardens last year.
In this special episode, Monty and the team look back at more floral highlights from the series, including alliums and auriculas, houseplants and creative containers, as well as the scented stars of the summer garden. There’s also another chance to see what the Gardeners’ World viewers were getting up to in their gardens last year as they share their horticultural adventures.
Monty welcomes spring at Longmeadow with plenty of changes in the garden to share. As well as getting on with some essential pruning, he lifts and divides perennials, starts sowing chillies and begins growing this year’s vegetables. Last autumn, Joe Swift travelled to Swansea to join Sue Kent and find out about her new plan to grow vegetables on her allotment. There's a meeting with a passionate gardener at Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire who curates a national collection of over 100 different varieties of rhubarb, and in Leeds there's a look at how a shady back yard has been transformed using containers and lots of ingenuity. There's also another chance to join Carol Klein as she shares the highlights of the plants that shine out in winter at Bressingham Gardens in Norfolk, followed by some of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
With the clocks going forward this weekend, there’s an extra hour of gardening to enjoy. Monty makes the most of this as he begins to sow dahlia seeds for summer flowers, reveals a new project and shows what to plant now in the vegetable garden. Adam Frost is in his own garden as he extends the planting in his gravel garden and reveals his plans for the coming year. Meanwhile, there's a passionate grower in north London who has filled her home with cacti and succulents. Last year, Frances Tophill met ecologist and professor of biology Dave Goulson, who has planted his garden with the conservation of insects in mind. And there's a second chance to meet Poppy Ocotcha as she discusses how she utilises every available space to grow vegetables on her barge.
It’s the Easter weekend, which means extra time to enjoy the garden. Monty plants out sweet peas for summer colour and gives advice on what to use for mulching borders.
Monty adds self-sown ornamental grass seedlings to the paradise garden, Advolly Richmond explores the extraordinary history of lawns and Adam Frost explores the front gardens in a London street.
Monty gives advice on what to plant under shrubs and roses, Carol Klein celebrates a spectacular display of tulips and Kate Bradbury takes us through the first stages of creating a wildlife garden.
Monty takes us through the next steps of chilli seed growth and plants out some of the evergreen cuttings he has propagated. There’s also plenty to be getting on with in the vegetable garden, including planting beans. Joe Swift gets some garden design and planting inspiration when he visits a shady courtyard garden in London, and from Dorset, there's expert advice from a woman who grows chillies from all over the world. In central Wales, there's a gardener whose back garden has been planted to remind her of her childhood home in Jamaica, while Nick Bailey finds out about what can be done about an annoying pest which is spoiling box hedges. Our viewers have also been busy with their own hints and tips from their gardens.
At Longmeadow, Monty gives us a masterclass on growing Mediterranean herbs, plants lily bulbs for summer scent, and in the vegetable garden, he begins to sow seeds for salad root crops. Carol Klein is in Devon, where she takes a close look at late summer planting combinations. Meanwhile, in Cumbria, there's a gardener whose passion for exotic plants and dahlias has taken over his family garden and spilled over onto his allotment. In Milan, Arit Anderson visits an extraordinary high-rise building which has been designed as a living forest, and in Kent is a man with a collection of over 80 different varieties of wisteria. Meanwhile, viewers give hints and tips from their own gardens.
In Adam Frost’s garden, he gives his tips on lawn repair, grows some unusual vegetables and plants a seasonal container. Meanwhile, Advolly Richmond brings us up to date in her history of lawns.
At Longmeadow, Monty revels in seasonal blossom and flowers, plants out his tomatoes and demystifies the myriad of different plant foods by showing us what we can feed our plants and when we should be doing it. Arit Anderson visits the peatlands of Cumbria, where she begins her journey looking into the use of peat in the horticultural industry. We catch up with Sue Kent to find out about the progress she has made on her allotment and in her garden this spring. Meanwhile, in Cornwall, we discover a garden designer with a unique approach to combining edible and ornamental plants, and in Wales, we meet a gardener who has amassed a collection of over 400 different rhododendrons.
At Longmeadow, Monty adds flowers for pollinators to his wildlife garden, creates an alpine trough and plants out tender veg in his vegetable garden. Adam Frost uses the wonders of technology when comedian Susan Calman contacts him for advice with her garden in Glasgow, and we travel to Devon to visit an enthusiast who has discovered a passion for collecting different varieties of a highly scented spring-flowering shrub. Nick Bailey shows us how we can all attract wildlife into our gardens by making a simple a pond in a barrel, and we explore some new ideas of planting in the Sheffield garden of Professor James Hitchmough.
Monty gives advice on plants to use for foliage with tropical proportions and shows us how to plant them to suit their needs, gives a masterclass on herbs to grow in shady areas of the garden and sows sweetcorn and cucumbers for summer harvests. Arit Anderson continues her investigation into the use of peat as she talks to the people involved in the manufacture of compost as well as growers and consumers. In Cheshire, an enthusiast aims to have a clematis in flower every day of the year in his garden and has amassed a collection of over 150 plants in his quest for floral abundance. One of the most vibrant of spring flowering plants is the euphorbia, and Carol Klein is at Oxford Botanic Garden to explore their national collection. We also find out what viewers have been getting up to in their own gardens.
Arit Anderson and Frances Tophill introduce a special Gardeners’ World from Wakehurst, Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex. They not only explore the gardens but also meet the gardeners, joining in on their planting projects and finding out more about the UK’s largest conservation project, the Millenium Seed Bank. There's also a houseplant enthusiast whose passion for monstera has taken over most of the rooms in his flat in Cheltenham, and in London, we visit the garden of a designer who has made the most of the limited space in his outdoor courtyard - but who still finds room for the odd weed or two. And in Cornwall, we discover a gardener with a unique approach to planting meadows by combining edible and ornamental plants.
At Longmeadow, Monty turns his attention to containers, planting them up for drama and summer colour in the jewel garden and showing us how to repot citrus plants. In Hampshire, Joe Swift meets the designer of an award-winning contemporary garden to explore the techniques and the plants she has used to seamlessly integrate both house and garden. Meanwhile, we catch up with the three extraordinary sisters from Dorset who we met last year to find out about a whole new growing project they have started. In Cheshire, we visit a garden where lack of space has not deterred the gardener from packing it full with tropical plants, and in Staffordshire, we get expert growing tips from the holder of a national collection of one of summer’s most delicate flowers, the angel’s fishing rod. We also find out what our viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.
As midsummer approaches, it’s the perfect time for Monty to place succulents outside at Longmeadow, as well as planting out dahlias and tender vegetables. Carol Klein visits Trebah Garden in Cornwall, where she finds plants which can add early summer pazazz to our borders. Nick Bailey is at RHS Wisley to look at a variety of shrubs that can be used as alternatives to traditional box hedging. We travel to the seaside in Kent to meet a group of gardeners who have transformed an unloved public space, and in Wales, we find a garden packed with unusual and prehistoric plants.
We join Adam Frost in his garden, where he will be giving tips on laying turf, planting succulents and adding perennial plants to his kitchen garden to grow as cut flowers. Joe Swift travels to Marwood Hill Gardens in Devon to explore plants that thrive in moist conditions, and in Buckinghamshire, we uncover the story of a hidden collection of iris accumulated over a period of 45 years. In Midlothian, we visit a nursery where the Himalayan blue poppy is a speciality, and Frances Tophill meets a florist who has a passion for growing cut flowers on her allotment. Carol Klein visits Trebah Garden in Cornwall, where she finds plants which can add early summer pazazz to our borders. Nick Bailey is at RHS Wisley to look at a variety of shrubs that can be used as alternatives to traditional box hedging. We travel to the seaside in Kent to meet a group of gardeners who have transformed an unloved public space, and in Wales, we find a garden packed with unusual and prehistoric plants.
Adam Frost adds tall plants for shady conditions to his borders, shows us how to make a window box for growing vegetables and herbs, and gives his tips on how to grow plants successfully in peat-free compost. Nick Bailey is in Worcestershire exploring a garden where peonies are taking centre stage, and we return to the urban garden of Kate Bradbury to find out how she ensures that visiting wildlife is kept well fed throughout the summer months. We travel to the Isle of Man to a garden where a range of exotic plants are thriving in the micro-climate on the island, and we meet a nurseryman in Kent with a passion for hydrangeas.
We are back with Monty at Longmeadow this week, where he catches up with all his summer jobs in the border and the vegetable garden. Carol Klein gets inspiration for planting combinations when she explores the garden rooms at Cothay Manor and Gardens in Somerset, and Arit Anderson goes to RHS Wisley to find out about their research into the variety and function of the different slugs and snails found in our gardens. We celebrate an iconic summer flower when we travel to Staffordshire to meet a family who specialise in growing a huge variety of sweet peas, and in Kent, we meet a gardener who fills an abundance of pots with seasonal and vibrant colour.
At Longmeadow, Monty gives a masterclass on the summer pruning of fruit, has advice on maintaining ponds, and plants up a pot to give colour and interest to last into the autumn months. Adam Frost travels to Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire to meet a head gardener who has been set the challenge of restoring the gardens to their 19th-century glory, and we meet a young couple at a nursery in Devon to find out about plants that thrive around water. In Essex, we visit a gardener who loves vibrant colours and changes her plants to suit the season, and in Cornwall, Frances Tophill finds out how one couple manage to maintain a garden situated on a very steep slope.
Monty gets going on a new planting project, gives advice on planting for east- and west- facing borders, starts reaping summer vegetables and sows seeds for autumn harvests. Sue Kent finds inspiration for her own garden when she explores the glorious Aberglasney Gardens in Wales, while Nick Bailey travels to Scotland to investigate a disease which is affecting trees and shrubs in both woodlands and gardens. We meet a gardener in Kent who fills every space in her garden with the different textures, colours and shapes of foliage, and we visit a school in West Yorkshire where their garden has been planted for the benefit of wildlife and bees.
Monty is at Longmeadow, keeping on top of seasonal maintenance as well as enjoying the plants of high summer. Adam Frost travels to Sissinghurst Castle Gardens to view a new area of the garden which was inspired by a visit to the Greek island of Delos, and in Berkshire we find out how one enthusiast keeps her garden full of interest in every season of the year. In West Sussex, we get tips on producing the perfect dahlia from a grower with over 50 years of experience, and we travel to Kent where we meet a gardener with a passion for colourful containers. We also get plenty of inspiration and tips from our viewers' gardens.
In a special programme, Carol Klein and Nick Bailey celebrate gardeners throughout the country who have created some truly unique gardens and made every space count. Carol meets a couple in Dorset whose garden is full of inspirational features, and Nick is in his own city garden, giving his design and gardening tips for making the most of limited spaces. Frances Tophill travels to the Isle of Man to find out how a community of gardeners cope with extremes of weather, while Joe Swift is in Cardiff visiting an extraordinary water-filled front garden. In Sheffield, one man’s garden is given over to homes for wildlife, and we discover the challenges of gardening on the balcony of a high-rise in Manchester. And, of course, there’s plenty of inspiration from our viewers's own gardens. Adam Frost travels to Sissinghurst Castle Gardens to view a new area of the garden which was inspired by a visit to the Greek island of Delos, and in Berkshire we find out how one enthusiast keeps her garden full of interest in every season of the year. In West Sussex, we get tips on producing the perfect dahlia from a grower with over 50 years of experience, and we travel to Kent where we meet a gardener with a passion for colourful containers. We also get plenty of inspiration and tips from our viewers' gardens.
Monty welcomes a special guest - the Duchess of Cornwall - to Longmeadow, where she shares her love of gardening. Also in this programme, Monty carries out some seasonal maintenance on the mound, demonstrates how to plant a fragrant lavender hedge and catches up on the progress of his aubergines and chillies in the greenhouse. Nick Bailey visits Knoll Gardens in Hampshire and gives his tips on the tall perennials which give a burst of colour in borders towards the end of the season, when other flowers have started to fade. JJ Chalmers heads to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and discovers the vital role it plays in the local community. And we get plenty of inspiration and tips from our viewers' own gardens.
Monty is at Longmeadow, enjoying the colours of late summer in the garden. He also has plenty of tips to keep gardeners busy over the bank holiday weekend. Adam Frost, Carol Klein and Frances Tophill get an exclusive preview of Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC, where they explore the show gardens and floral delights on offer. We also meet an inspirational gardener who lost her sight as a child and shows us around her garden in Leicestershire, and we visit a couple in Lincolnshire who are passionate about ferns. We also get plenty of inspiration and tips from our viewers' own gardens.
Monty is at Longmeadow with plenty of seasonal advice to keep us busy and our gardens colourful. Will Young shows us around his south London courtyard garden and reveals why it has become an absolute joy in his life, and Joe Swift helps him create some seasonal pot displays for sunny and shady spots. We also visit an inspirational garden in Essex filled with beautiful summer flowers, and its owner explains why it has become increasingly important for her health and wellbeing. And we get plenty of ideas and tips from our viewers' own gardens. Adam Frost, Carol Klein and Frances Tophill get an exclusive preview of Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC, where they explore the show gardens and floral delights on offer. We also meet an inspirational gardener who lost her sight as a child and shows us around her garden in Leicestershire, and we visit a couple in Lincolnshire who are passionate about ferns. We also get plenty of inspiration and tips from our viewers' own gardens.
As we head into autumn, it’s time for Monty to get some shrubs in the ground and plan ahead for spring with some bulb planting. Meanwhile, Frances Tophill joins Sue Kent on her allotment near Swansea to find out how her growing year has been. We also meet a man in Bedfordshire to learn about his passion for salvias and pay a visit to a beautiful garden in Gwent where a sloping garden has been transformed. And, as always, we share some of our favourite films sent in by viewers.
We join Adam in his garden for a seasonal catch-up. Toby Buckland gives timely tips on summer and autumn maintenance for your borders, and we join singer-songwriter Billie Marten as she shares her passion for growing vegetables. In North Yorkshire, we meet a couple who have developed a colourful garden on a sloping site, and we also catch up with more viewers' gardens.
With autumn fast approaching, Monty is preparing the borders for the change of seasons and looking ahead to spring. Adam Frost and Advolly Richmond visit a glorious historic garden in North Yorkshire - Scampston Hall. Advolly will be delving into its fascinating history whilst Adam immerses himself in the design. He reveals how it has changed over the years and meets the head gardener, who is the current custodian of the garden. We also visit an allotment in Warwickshire without a vegetable in sight. And we get lots of ideas and suggestions from our viewers own gardens.
In a special programme, Monty and the team celebrate the wonder of trees and explore the vital role they play in our gardens and the wider landscape. Zoe Ball joins Toby Buckland on a visit to a tree project in North London which is all about engaging children with nature, growing and sustainability. Advolly Richmond uncovers the history of trees in garden design at Longleat House in Wiltshire, while Nick Bailey gives us his ultimate guide to the top trees for your garden. We visit a ground-breaking project in Staffordshire, which is using living experiments to monitor the crucial part trees play in mitigating climate change, and Arit Anderson finds out how planting more trees can support both humans and the planet.
Monty is back at Longmeadow, getting stuck into more seasonal tasks. Joe Swift heads to Houghton Lodge Gardens in Hampshire, renowned for its walled kitchen garden and heritage fruit collection. We visit Rachel de Thame’s garden, where she has been experimenting with growing different and unusual cut flowers. She is joined by floral artist and designer Hazel Gardiner as they both create their own unique flower arrangements. Plus lots of ideas and suggestions from our viewers' own gardens.
In the final episode of the series, Monty is preparing for spring colour as well as harvesting pumpkins and squashes. Carol Klein visits comedian Joe Lycett at home. He only discovered gardening last year during lockdown, so what will Carol make of his garden? Together, they plant up a container packed with layers of colourful bulbs. Toby Buckland visits Sue Kent’s garden near Swansea to help out with autumnal maintenance, we head to Norwich and the UK’s only national collection of muscari, and in Nottinghamshire a couple share their bright ideas for a shady woodland garden. Plus lots of suggestions from our viewers' own gardens.
Monty and team share the best practical gardening advice, meet passionate plantspeople up and down the country, and provide inspiration with visits to some of the UK’s most remarkable gardens. At Longmeadow, Monty embarks on an exciting new project, sows perennial seeds and gives a tree planting masterclass. Adam Frost visits a garden in Suffolk, where an imaginative selection of evergreen planting creates structure and interest all year round, and Frances Tophill celebrates a national collection of cyclamen in a garden on the edge of Dartmoor. At Exbury Gardens in Hampshire, we meet the head gardener who shares his love of camellias, and we visit an extraordinary garden in Kent inspired by the famous borders at Great Dixter. Viewers also share what they have been getting up to in their gardens.
With spring just around the corner, Monty makes a start on his bog garden and demonstrates how to divide perennials and get plants for free. Rachel de Thame visits a garden in Kent, a labour of love where meticulous planning, discipline and precision have cleverly extended the season, and Arit Anderson plants up a seasonal container inspired by the colours of spring. We meet an allotmenteer in north-west London who loves to experiment with growing unusual and heritage vegetables to use in her cooking, and a couple of plantaholics with a passion for rare and unusual plants show us around their garden, created on the site of a former nursery in Cambridgeshire. Viewers also share their gardening exploits.
Monty gets stuck into some seasonal jobs at Longmeadow. Nick Bailey heads to Bodnant Garden in north Wales to find out how the team are tackling the recent storm damage and what new planting opportunities have been created. Frances Tophill meets a couple new to gardening who have created a garden that is both productive and ornamental in a long, narrow plot at their home in Somerset. GP Amir Khan shares the health benefits of gardening and spending time in green spaces at his wildlife friendly garden in Leeds. In Lincolnshire, meanwhile, we visit a grower who champions the hollyhock, as custodian of the national collection of this cottage garden favourite. Viewers also share what they’ve been up to in their gardens.
In this week’s episode, Monty gets involved in more seasonal tasks at Longmeadow. Carol Klein celebrates the spring highlights at Beth Chatto’s Gardens in Essex, and Toby Buckland is in Cornwall to meet a gardener who fell out of love with gardening but has recently rediscovered his passion for plants through texture and sound. We meet a gardener in South Yorkshire who is fanatical about ferns and we discover there is an alpine for any aspect on a visit to a garden in Hampshire. Gardeners’ World viewers also share what they have been up to in their gardens.
Monty continues planting up perennials in his recently extended orchard beds and begins a redesign in the dry garden. Toby Buckland explores the impressive collection of heritage daffodils at Cotehele in Cornwall, and we visit JJ Chalmers at home in Scotland as he gets stuck into some seasonal jobs. A couple in Birmingham share their experimental garden, which has been curated like a living art gallery with cacti, ferns and air plants at the heart of its design. With over 600 plants in her collection, we visit a passionate pelargonium grower in Hertfordshire. Gardeners’ World viewers also share what they’ve been up to in their gardens.
It’s the Easter bank holiday, and at Longmeadow, Monty turns his attention to planting up his new bog garden and sows cucumber and melon seeds. Adam Frost heads to a beautiful walled garden that is both ornamental and productive in West Sussex. It’s the first visit of the year to Sue Kent’s garden near Swansea as she reveals news about an exciting new project. In Lancashire, we meet a national collection holder of hepatica, and a houseplant enthusiast shares his passion for indoor gardening. Gardeners’ World viewers also share the joy that their gardens bring them.
Monty continues his revamp of the dry garden, repots succulents and plants up a window box ideal for a shady spot. Adam Frost goes back to basics and gives advice for viewers who are starting a garden from scratch, and Frances Tophill visits a garden in north London which has growing produce sustainably at its core. We meet a gardener in Manchester who has combined his love of pottery and plants, and an aeonium enthusiast from Shropshire shares her collection of over 300 varieties. There’s also another chance to see what Gardeners’ World viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.
Monty plants tender perennials, including salvias and gingers, in the Jewel Garden, brings his citrus plants out from their winter protection and plants primulas in his new bog garden. As tulip season reaches its glorious peak, Rachel de Thame visits a dazzling display of this spring favourite at a garden in Gloucestershire, and Joe Swift checks out a pub garden with a difference in East Sussex. We meet a gardener who loves to experiment on his allotment in Bristol and a GP in north London with a passion for growing citrus plants. There’s also another chance to see what Gardeners’ World viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.
Gardeners’ World comes from the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Adam Frost and Arit Anderson reveal the highlights of the show gardens and this year’s must-have flowers and plants on display in the Floral Marquee. We meet a pond plant specialist in Lincolnshire who is exhibiting at the festival for the first time, and in the run-up to the show, we visit a family nursery with a passion for the jewel-like auricula. Carol Klein celebrates the range of blossom on show at this time of year at Batsford Arboretum in the Cotswolds, and in Worcestershire Nick Bailey revels in one of the stars of the early summer garden – the peony.
There’s been a huge surge of interest in houseplants over the last couple of years, so Frances Tophill and Nick Bailey celebrate the joys of indoor gardening in a special programme from Oxford Botanic Garden. Rachel de Thame visits a nursery in Devon which specialises in growing the ever-popular orchid. We meet an interior designer in London, whose use of houseplants at home has allowed him to reconnect with nature. A self-confessed plantaholic gives us a tour of the indoor jungle he’s created at home in Worcestershire, and we meet a gardener in Manchester who gardens on his balcony 18 floors up. We also look at the latest trends and must have houseplants of the moment, giving the best practical advice on how to care for houseplants and showing how to grow your own for free.
Monty shows the range of vegetables that can be easily grown in containers if you are short on space, moves ornamental grasses and sows zinnias. Nick Bailey gives us an insight into the bearded iris in Buckinghamshire, and Sue Kent shares an update on the progress of her first ever show garden, destined for the Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. We meet a gardener in Lincolnshire with a passion for tropical plants, and there is another chance to see what Gardeners’ World viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.
Monty Don shows how to get the best from tomatoes planted in grow bags and demonstrates how to divide agapanthus, and we catch up on developments in the recently revamped dry garden. Adam Frost shares the progress at his new plot and tackles planting in a shady border against a north-facing wall. Frances Tophill meets a couple in Worcestershire who’ve created a garden inspired by their travels around the world. We visit an allotmenteer in Lancashire who has a productive and bountiful harvest of vegetables all year round. In Cornwall, we meet a window cleaner on a mission to champion trees, and more Gardeners’ World viewers share the joy that gardening brings them.
Monty turns his attention to the containers in the jewel garden, plants courgettes and clematis and checks up on his bees. Arit Anderson meets a woman on a mission to green up unloved and neglected outdoor spaces in west London, and Nick Bailey continues his journey through the world of the iris - this time turning his attention to Siberian and water irises. We also meet a gardener in Somerset who has created the cottage garden of her dreams, and more Gardeners’ World viewers share the joy their gardens bring them.
The team head to Birmingham for one of the highlights of the horticultural calendar - the annual Gardeners’ World Live event. Monty Don, Arit Anderson, Nick Bailey, Adam Frost and Rachel de Thame inspire us with the best design tips from the show gardens and explore the wealth of plants on offer in the floral marquee. We catch up with Frances Tophill, who has designed and created her very first show garden, and we also meet expert growers who share their passion for penstemons and hydrangea.
Monty plants out annuals in the jewel garden, adds agapanthus to the mound and finds a new home for his pelargoniums. Adam Frost visits an innovative kitchen garden at the Tottenham Hotspur training centre in north London, which provides fresh produce for its players, coaches and staff. In Wiltshire, Carol Klein is at a glorious garden where alliums are the stars of the late spring border. Plus a gardener in Leicestershire who loves her high maintenance garden and more Gardeners’ World viewers sharing what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
Monty plants out sweetcorn, checks in on his container veg and creates a display with fuchsias. Nick Bailey visits a nurserywoman and gardener in Cheshire who uses perennials as the stars of the garden to provide interest throughout the year. With only a few weeks to go, Sue Kent shares an update on the progress of her first ever show garden, destined for the Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. And there's a gardener in Somerset who couldn’t live without roses in her garden. Also tonight, more Gardeners’ World viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
This week, in a special programme, Gardeners’ World comes from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. Adam Frost, Carol Klein and Joe Swift reveal the highlights of the show gardens, meet the designers and growers and share the season’s must have flowers and plants on display at the biggest flower show in the world. We also catch up with Gardeners’ World presenter Sue Kent, who has designed and created her first ever show garden.
Monty is back at Longmeadow, getting stuck into some seasonal jobs. Arit Anderson and Nick Bailey present highlights from RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in Cheshire. They share the latest design advice from the show gardens and the must-have plants of the season from the flower-filled floral marquee. Also, Carol Klein salutes the floral glories of high summer when she visits a garden in Somerset, and we meet another tree champion as we continue our celebration of the Queen’s Green Canopy.
Monty shows how to deal with drought, takes fuchsia cuttings and demonstrates how to summer prune fruit trees. Advolly Richmond reveals the important role that trees have played in gardens throughout history on a visit to Longleat. There's also a catch-up with three sisters in Dorset who developed a love of gardening during lockdown - this time, they plant up two beds, one for sun and one for shade. Also, there's a look at a national collection of heleniums in Berwickshire, and more Gardeners’ World viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
Monty sows rocket, harvests chillies and tomatoes, and demonstrates how to take semi-ripe cuttings. Adam Frost shows how his new garden is shaping up, Frances Tophill meets a head gardener in south London where gardening sustainably in response to climate change is high on the agenda, and there's a self-confessed 'plantaholic' in her flower-filled garden in Kent. The celebration of the Queen’s Green Canopy continues with a visit to a tree champion in Worcestershire who holds the national collection of gingko biloba, and more viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
Monty undertakes more seasonal jobs at Longmeadow. Arit Anderson meets a garden designer in Somerset who has worked in harmony with nature to create a garden on a former brownfield site, and Rachel de Thame explores the London garden of hairstylist Sam McKnight. A grower from Suffolk shares her obsession with tomatoes, and there's a gardener who has created a Japanese-inspired garden at his home in Bristol. And more viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
As summer marches on, Monty gets stuck into more seasonal jobs at Longmeadow. Adam Frost revels in the range of produce growing in a Victorian walled kitchen garden in Somerset, Joe Swift visits a garden in West Sussex that has been completely redesigned to make the most of views over the South Downs, and The Repair Shop’s resident horologist Steve Fletcher shares his passion for gardening We also meet a gardener from Lancashire who loves growing clematis, and Gardeners’ World viewers share what they have been getting up to in their gardens.
This week’s Gardeners’ World comes from Adam Frost’s garden. Arit Anderson discovers a paradise garden in Cambridge which has become a focal point for the local community, and with climate change in mind, Frances Tophill looks at the role coastal plants can play in our gardens. There's a passionate grower in Somerset who has a unique take on companion planting in his productive plot, and in Wolverhampton is a gardener who, through clever design and planting, has transformed a long narrow plot into a magical space to get lost in. Also, more Gardeners’ World viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
Adam Frost and Advolly Richmond celebrate the horticultural genius of William Robinson in the gardens of his former home, Gravetye Manor in Sussex. Fresh off the back of her success at Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, Sue Kent gives her own garden some TLC and creates a special container display using small pots. There's also a passionate grower in London who uses every available space in his garden to grow a vast range of vegetables, and in Manchester is a gardener who is inspiring his local community after transforming the alley behind his house into a floral paradise.
In this special episode, Rachel de Thame and Arit Anderson explore the role gardeners can play in having a positive impact on wildlife in their gardens, allotments and communal green spaces. Nick Bailey meets an entomologist on a mission to change our perceptions of common garden pests, Kate Bradbury shows how she gardens in harmony with wildlife on her allotment, and there's a look at a city garden where the wildlife is flourishing. Ther's also meet a gardener in Kent who wants to share her plot with as many creatures as possible, and viewers share the joy that wildlife brings to their gardens.
After a short break, Monty’s back at Longmeadow. With a change of seasons, he demonstrates how to prune summer fruiting raspberries, divides perennials and plants daffodils and hyacinths in containers. Carol Klein visits a glorious walled garden in Shropshire, where self-seeding plants have been used to great effect. The celebration of the Queen’s Green Canopy continues as JJ Chalmers heads to North Yorkshire to meet two people for whom trees have played a significant role in their lives. There's also a couple who have created a tropical garden paradise in Lincolnshire. In south London, a gardener shares the huge array of unusual vegetables she’s been growing on her allotment, and Gardeners’ World viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
Monty plants garlic, demonstrates how to divide crocosmia and sows ornamental grass seeds. Adam Frost visits Lowther Castle in the Lake District and finds out about its garden restoration project, Toby Buckland meets a passionate gardener in Devon who has created and nurtured her garden over the last sixty years, and a dahlia enthusiast in Cheshire shares the joy of drying her blooms. In Bristol is a garden where the wildlife takes centre stage, and more viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
Adam Frost shares the progress that's been made in his garden. Frances Tophill heads to the beach to reveal what gardeners can learn from the coastal plants which have evolved to cope with more extreme conditions. She also meets a head gardener in East Sussex who’s experimenting with drought tolerant plants in our ever-changing climate. There's a tree champion in Gloucestershire who has planted and cared for hundreds of fruits trees on a mission to revive lost orchards, plus a wildlife gardener in Bristol with a passion for birds. Also in the programme, more viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
Monty plants mahonia for winter colour and scent, demonstrates how to take salvia cuttings and introduces a special addition to Longmeadow. Toby Buckland visits an allotment in Bristol to find out how gardening is helping to improve the quality of life for people with dementia and their carers. Advolly Richmond explores the origins of the historic Japanese Garden at Cowden in Clackmannanshire. There's a back garden in Leeds which has been transformed into a tropical oasis, and a grower in Ceredigion shares her passion for salvias. Also, more viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
Monty starts work on revamping the writing garden, plants crocus bulbs and harvests pumpkins. Frances Tophill visits a plant conservation centre responsible for preserving key historical plants.
Monty plants a mix of white flowers in the writing garden, demonstrates how to prune a climbing rose and reviews what’s been happening in the vegetable garden. Adam Frost celebrates seasonal colour on a visit to a garden in Essex, and Sue Kent pots up allium bulbs in readiness for spring and replants a tricky border with lavender she’s grown from cuttings. A gardener in Surrey shows an exotic oasis in his back garden, inspired by travels abroad, and a grower in Ceredigion shares her passion for salvias. Also, more viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
Monty harvests his loofahs, plants tulip bulbs in pots, gives a masterclass in making leafmould and reflects on the gardening year. Carol Klein joins a special autumn colour tour at the National Arboretum in Gloucestershire, an indoor gardener shares their passion for terrariums, and from north Somerset comes a look at the work involved in creating a spectacular autumnal display from seasonal produce. Also, more viewers share what they’ve been getting up to in their gardens.
In the first of four special programmes celebrating the joy that the gardening year brings, Monty harvests his favourite winter veg, demonstrates how to take hardwood cuttings and plants up a container with tulips for a display of spring colour.
Frances Tophill and the team continue to celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings throughout the seasons.
Adam Frost demonstrates how to build a rose arch, mulches his beds and plants a blackcurrant to train up a fence.
Monty Don gets stuck into some winter jobs and demonstrates how to store dahlia tubers, plants out a clematis and plants up a container for winter colour and scent. Nick Bailey shows that a conifer is not just for Christmas on a visit to Great Dixter in East Sussex. Rachel de Thame joins gardener and florist Arthur Parkinson as they create some spectacular seasonal table decorations using plant material sourced from the garden. And at Spetchley Park in Worcestershire, Advolly Richmond reveals the intriguing story of influential plantswoman and gardener Ellen Willmott. Joe Swift visits a garden in Cumbria designed to shine in winter through its inspirational planting that favours structure over colour, and there's a masterclass in growing food for a year-round harvest from a gardener in Ceredigion. There’s also a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.
The team celebrates the joy that gardens and gardening can bring by looking back at some of their seasonal highlights. Monty Don harvests tomatoes from the greenhouse and plants out some of his favourite flowers for long-lasting summer colour, heleniums. Carol Klein pays an inspirational trip to an early summer garden in Wiltshire, Toby Buckland meets a passionate gardener in Devon who has created and nurtured her garden over the last 60 years, and Rachel de Thame visits the garden of hairstylist Sam McKnight. There's also a young gardener in Cumbria with a passion for dahlias and a dedicated grower whose allotment is towering with structural plants, as well as another look at films from viewers' own gardens.
Monty Don plants tender annuals for high summer colour, as well as sharing his tips for growing cherries and pruning blackcurrants. Arit Anderson discovers a paradise garden in Cambridge that has become a focal point for the local community. Adam Frost heads to a beautiful walled garden in West Sussex that is both ornamental and productive, and Frances Tophill meets an enthusiast in Devon who grows a huge variety of perennial veg. Also, how one gardener transformed the alleyway behind his house into a relaxing space full of plants, as well as a grower from Suffolk sharing her obsession with tomatoes. There's also another look at some viewers’ films from their own gardens.
Monty Don grows a plant he’s never tried before – loofahs. He also celebrates some of his favourite tulip combinations and plants out crocosmia. Joe Swift visits a garden, created by an award-winning designer, where contemporary and traditional meet in perfect harmony, and Nick Bailey is in Dorset showcasing perennial plants that bring late summer colour to borders. There's a look at the curious array of vegetables on Rekha Mistry’s allotment, and Advolly Richmond discovers a stunning Japanese-inspired garden in Clackmannanshire. There's also a grower who adores all kinds of citrus plants and a gardener who has created his own plant paradise indoors. Plus a look at viewers’ films from their own gardens.
Monty Don shows us how almost anything that holds soil and drains water can be used to grow seasonal veg, salad crops and herbs. Frances Tophill visits some hardy gardeners on the Isle of Man whose beachfront plots are at the constant mercy of the sea. Arit Anderson meets a woman on a mission to ‘green up’ neglected urban spaces. Kate Bradbury shares her tips for attracting wildlife into our gardens, and Toby Buckland helps Sue Kent tackle some tricky jobs in the garden. There's also a tech-savvy grower in Bristol who loves to experiment on his allotment, and a gardener in Manchester who grows an interest array of plants on his 18th-floor balcony. Plus another look at viewers’ films from their own gardens.
Monty and the team return with a celebration of spring. There’s been plenty going on over the winter and lots of new projects in the garden to share. As well as getting on with some essential rose pruning, Monty plants clematis and rocket, cuts back grasses and makes a start on sowing annuals for colour this summer. Carol Klein visits Colesbourne Gardens in Gloucestershire to revel in their vibrant displays of spring colour. There's also a skateboarding gardener who has created a haven for wildlife - and herself - in her forest garden in Sheffield. Adam Frost discovers which plants will be best suited to the changing climate at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex. Also, there's the remarkable story of a family who bought a botanic garden in Scotland on impulse. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
As plants begin to show their early growth, Monty gets plenty of plants for free when he demonstrates how to make the most of herbaceous perennials. He also cuts back pelargoniums that have overwintered in the greenhouse and makes a start on sowing vegetables. Nick Bailey shares plans for his new garden in Cambridgeshire and shows us how to create a container garden ideal for those on the move. Frances Tophill discovers more ways to use cut flowers as she visits a florist in Dorset. Sue Kent has plenty to do to start the growing season in her Swansea garden as she creates a white border and experiments with an unusual way to grow container vegetables. And Rachel de Thame celebrates the majestic hellebore. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
With spring gaining momentum, Adam Frost gets to work on his veg plot and plants his first lot of potatoes. He introduces roses to his borders, and in a quest to increase biodiversity, has a radical plan for his lawn. Joe Swift meets a garden designer who, facing the challenge of two awkward, adjoining plots, transformed them into wonderful, cohesive spaces. And Rekha Mistry demonstrates how to grow the perfect onion from seed and has a go at growing cotton. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
Monty adds some interest to the spring garden. He also sows peas and shallots, has some thrifty tips for petunias, and plants lilies in pots. Carol Klein visits Mothecombe Gardens in Devon, which has been designed specifically for pollinators, with swathes of nectar-rich daisies and lavender. Arit Anderson joins a group of young carers at a community garden in West Sussex, where they go for respite, friendship and fun. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
Monty prepares for late spring and summer, sowing poppies and planting cornflowers for colour and interest in the paradise garden. He also harvests rhubarb and shares tips on moving shrubs. Toby Buckland revels in some fabulous spring planting on a visit to the magnificent landscaped gardens of Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire. Rachel de Thame meets a passionate dahlia grower who was once a florist working at the White House for the Obamas. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
Frances Tophill reveals some exciting news. After years of dreaming, she finally has her very own garden and can’t wait to share her plans and get to grips with bringing this compact space to life. Toby Buckland meets a man who’s planted his plot with a wonderful array of fruit and nuts. There's a gardener in Gloucestershire who is potty about the 500 pot plants she’s designed specially to produce a floral firework display. In west London, a community champion is growing a range of unusual produce in the heart of an urban jungle. And there are also more inspiring viewers' videos.
Monty is busy planting umbellifers and making some changes to the dry garden. He also sows peas and pots on his dahlias. Carol reveals exciting plans for an ambitious show garden she’s designing for the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. And with a ban on peat in compost on the way, Arit investigates what that means for the industry and gardeners alike. In Lytham St Annes, there's a gardener who grows so much veg on his allotment he gives it away to friends and neighbours. Plus the garden of a professor who takes a scientific approach to gardening for wildlife. Also, there are more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
To mark the coronation weekend, this episode celebrates the people who give up their time to help others. Adam visits a walled garden in Somerset to meet a group of volunteers who are gardening alongside those who need help to transform their lives. At Longmeadow, Monty creates two different planting schemes for pots for shady spaces, transplants grasses in the jewel garden, and plants out his favourite varieties of tomatoes. Rachel revels in the superb seasonal displays of azaleas in Shropshire. As peat-based composts for gardeners will be banned in 2024, Arit finds out what’s being done about the peat used in container-grown plants. Plus a husband-and-wife design team who are about to create their first garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and a gardener with a passion for tulips who loves to create colourful displays. And there are more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
A special programme from the first big flower show of the season – the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Rachel de Thame and Nick Bailey explore show gardens packed full of ideas and discover the newest varieties of plants and flowers that are hot off the potting bench. There are the herb specialists from Gloucestershire who believe that edibles are just as important as ornamentals in the garden, and a nursery famed for its foxgloves that also has an impressive collection of tree peonies. Toby Buckland celebrates spring colour at Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire, and Arit Anderson spends the day with a charity group that gives horticultural work experience to vulnerable people and those with learning difficulties.
It’s a good time to get tender plants in the ground now the risk of frost has passed. Monty is busy planting out tropical gingers and sweetcorn and direct sowing beans. Joe Swift visits a stunning walled garden in Denbighshire, designed and planted by owners who love to recycle and repurpose as much as they can. Rekha Mistry shares the secrets of her success for growing aubergines on her London allotment. There's a re-visit to farmer turned nurseryman Barry Proctor as he makes final preparations for his first RHS Chelsea Flower Show. And to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, journalist Rosie Kinchen explains how horticulture helped her deal with postnatal depression. Plus, more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
Monty creates colourful planting schemes with trailing plants. He also plants out cabbages in the vegetable garden and shares a clever tip for dealing with your spent tulips. Toby Buckland revels in the superb displays of roses at Mount Ephraim Gardens in Kent. And there's a return visit to the Linn Botanic Gardens in Argyll and Bute, where owner Matthew Young gets some sage advice about the precious and rare trees in his collection. Carol Klein visits a nursery that is growing thousands of plants for her show garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. Sue Kent discovers heirloom vegetable varieties that are easy to cultivate and harvest at the Heritage Seed Library in Warwickshire. And there's a passionate houseplant enthusiast who has created an indoor garden in her living room. Also, more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
This episode features Ramona Jones, who was diagnosed with autism in her twenties and discovered how she can find her true identity when she’s in the garden. Meanwhile, Monty makes some changes to his pots in the Jewel Garden, harvests gooseberries and plants out squash. Adam Frost checks out a wonderful arts and crafts garden in North Yorkshire and finds much to inspire and surprise. Rekha Mistry reveals her brand new garden in the Peak District and begins to make plans for this challenging plot. Plus a national collection of eryngiums, whose owners think sea hollies are misunderstood, and more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
The team are Birmingham-bound for one of the highlights of the horticultural year - the annual Gardeners’ World Live event. Monty Don, Arit Anderson, Adam Frost, Sue Kent, Carol Klein, Joe Swift, Rachel de Thame and Frances Tophill bring us the best the gardening world has to offer. From design inspiration in the show gardens to the latest plants and flowers in the floral marquee, they meet expert growers who share their passion for cacti and hydrangeas as well as gain tips on how to design with foliage and create a garden that offers both an abundance of food and a feast for the eyes.
With summertime at its peak, Adam plans to extend the season with plants for evening scent and shares the results of his wild meadow turf experiment. In North Yorkshire, Nick Bailey discovers the range of floral beauty of Cornus kousa, the dogwood tree. Toby Buckland visits a back garden near Milton Keynes with seven ponds. There's a lady in Gloucestershire who loves to share her garden passion with friends. And with RHS Flower Show Tatton Park approaching, there's a visit to a grower as they prepare for the event. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
Monty gives a masterclass on rambling, climbing and shrub roses. He also plants out tender annuals in the jewel garden, and with hot, dry summer days ahead, shares tips for water saving and harvesting. With the Hampton Court Garden Festival just around the corner, Carol Klein is at home immersing herself in some of the plants she’s growing for her highly ambitious show garden. Wildlife champion Kate Bradbury discovers a fascinating array of moths in her garden and shares tips on how to encourage these intriguing night-time pollinators into our gardens. There's also a gardener who has a passion for roses and a couple in Worcestershire who spend their life growing miniature fuchsias. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
In a special programme, Gardeners’ World comes from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. Arit Anderson, Toby Buckland and Adam Frost reveal the latest in floral fashions and share highlights of the show gardens and floral marquee. This year’s RHS Hampton Court iconic horticultural hero is our very own Carol Klein. Over the past 3 months we’ve been following Carol on her journey to create a very special garden, and in this programme we’ll be celebrating all of Carol’s efforts and revealing the end result.
This episode comes from the biggest horticultural event in the north – the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park. Joe Swift and Frances Tophill reveal the latest in garden design, as well as bringing plant perfection from some of the best nurseries and growers in the country. Joe shows us how to turn the smallest of spaces into a green haven, and Frances looks at the best plants to cater for nocturnal pollinators. Also, Nick Bailey shines a botanical spotlight on begonias, and Toby Buckland visits a community in Liverpool who have regenerated their streets through collective gardening.
Monty harvests his spuds and sows seeds for autumn veg. He also shows how to get plants for free by taking cuttings. Adam Frost meets a couple who’ve spent decades creating a garden on the exposed chalk hills of the Yorkshire Wolds. Sue Kent is busy refreshing her garden to extend the colour and interest into late summer and autumn. There are the windswept challenges faced by the gardeners working in an extraordinary location on a cliff edge in Penzance, as well as a gardener in Sussex who has taken the idea of outdoor living to a whole new level. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
A celebration of people who are growing their own, from vegetables to flowers, across the UK. At Longmeadow, Monty shares tips and advice on how to get the most out of the bargain plants available at this time of year. He also looks at how some of the tropical plants have coped with 2023's weather. Joe visits an extraordinary community food growing project in Bristol. There's a grower who pushes the boundaries and shares his innovative ideas on how to create a productive allotment all year round. Rachel meets a remarkable cut flower grower who started her own flower farm with no prior knowledge of growing at all. And on the west coast of Scotland, a couple have restored a run-down walled garden into a beautiful and bountiful plot despite the remote and harsh terrain. There's also a couple who have creatively restored a walled garden filled with flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Frances Tophill is in her very first garden for a summer catch-up and an update on her progress since moving in. She’s excited to share a brand new structure designed especially for her compact plot, and there’s trouble afoot at her allotment when she visits for a tidy-up. Adam Frost meets a kindred spirit who explains how gardening saved his life. In the Cotswolds, Advolly Richmond showcases one of the finest examples of gardening in the arts and crafts era. There's a visit to Mr Pelargonium (not his real name!), an oracle on this colourful and versatile plant, and to a man who has revolutionised his back garden with a perennial meadow. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
Monty plants for pollinators in the Wildlife Garden and trims his box topiary cones. He also takes succulent leaf cuttings and continues the summer veg harvest. Carol Klein visits stunning Italian-influenced gardens in Gloucestershire. Rekha Mistry reveals the latest triumphs and disasters in her new garden in the Peak District. There's a couple whose garden is designed around their devotion to moths and butterflies, and a shared garden in London whose owners have divided the space to suit the needs of all the properties that use it. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
Monty shows us how to take cuttings from herbs and prunes summer raspberries. He also plants daylilies and gives topiary Nigel a timely trim. Adam travels to Whitstable on the Kent coast to see how gardeners cope with the wild, wet and windy weather. There's another look at York Gate in Leeds, where Frances discovers unusual and diverse plant combinations created by the head gardener. Champion community gardener Tayshan Hayden-Smith goes to Somerset to see how an inspirational gardener has created a pioneering allotment space for local children to experience the joy and magic of gardening. Also, there's a gardener who loves to salvage and upcycle a range of unusual objects and make them a feature in his garden, as well as a grower who is devoted to daylilies.
With autumn just around the corner, Adam Frost takes stock of his garden and plans ahead for some late-season interest under the supervision of Ash the cat. Frances Tophill visits a garden in Kent where the plants provide a non-stop buffet for insects, while Nick Bailey travels to Cornwall to revel in the glory of hardy palms. There's a chef-turned-gardener who loves to grow all manner of unusual tasty crops. And there’s a visit to a sloping garden in Swansea for some top design tips. Plus more of the amazing films that have been sent in by viewers.
Monty plants bulbs in pots, including hyacinths and daffodils. He shares tips and advice on what to do when apples and pears have been affected by diseases such as canker and brown rot. And he also gives a timely guide on how to collect and save seeds. Toby discovers an eco-home in Rye which has been cleverly designed to incorporate a unique garden, with wildlife in mind. Errol Reuben Fernandes visits The Hepworth Garden in Wakefield, an inclusive public space which has become an oasis for local people and pollinators. There is a singer-songwriter who gains inspiration from her garden sanctuary, an immersive space full of colour, texture, and form. And the team visits a gardener who has created an exotic and tropical paradise in his Yorkshire garden. Plus more of the amazing films that have been sent in by viewers.
This week, Monty considers a revamp of his Cottage Garden, divides perennials to get new plants for free and plants bulbs in pots for Spring. He also harvests his sweetcorn, and gives advice on looking after flowering house plants over winter. Adam Frost discovers an inspiring project in Manchester that is breathing new, green life into the city’s industrial past. Frances Tophill visits a nursery in Kent that is brimming with colourful salvias. Nick Bailey explores a garden in Herefordshire that integrates its stunning countryside setting into its design. We meet a gardener in Southampton who’s garden has played a vital role in his physical and mental wellbeing. And we visit a garden in Nottinghamshire which weaves it’s owners cultural heritage into its planting designs.
In a special programme coming from York Gate in Leeds, Adam Frost, Rachel de Thame and Frances Tophill celebrate a garden for all seasons and tackle some seasonal jobs for September. In London, there's a head gardener who fell in love with horticulture at a very young age, while plantsman Jamie Butterworth pays a visit to the magnificent walled garden at Scampston Hall. There’s a man with a lifelong passion for breeding hibiscus, and a gardener who is determined to grow as much produce as possible in her rented property.
A catch-up with three sisters in Dorset to discover how their fallen down greenhouse turned into an opportunity to transform part of their garden. Monty plants garlic and onions, adds camassias to his Bog Garden and plants bulbs in pots for spring. He also transplants foxgloves and tidies up his strawberry bed for winter. Joe Swift visits a gravel garden in Kent, where the gardener has used plants which can withstand very little watering whilst maintaining colour and texture all year round. Tom Brown travels to RHS Garden Bridgewater in Salford to see their plant trials and explores the criteria as to how plants gain an award of garden merit. There's a look at the benefits of permaculture to both people, and wildlife, in a kitchen garden in Hertfordshire, and more films sent in by viewers.
It’s apple harvest time, and Monty shares tips on what to do with windfalls before planting a container to give a colourful boost for winter insects. Adam Frost visits a designer who has overcome extreme weather conditions and difficult terrain to create the garden of her dreams. Nick Bailey meets two landscape designers pushing plants to their limits to see how they cope in extreme conditions. Sue Kent harvests some interesting crops from her garden, including daikon radish and almonds, before planting a spring flowering climber in her new-look seating area. A passionate plantsman shows us around his coastal garden sanctuary which has a rich array of drought loving plants. And there's a gardener whose garden has become a place of solace and hope.
Frances Tophill has an autumn catch-up in her new garden as she assesses the tomatoes in her upcycled greenhouse. She also has work to do on her allotment with perennial vegetables to rejig before heading to a specialist nursery to buy plants for her revamped pond. Rekha Mistry shares her successes and failures in her new vegetable garden in the Peak District. Errol Reuben Fernandes heads to a contemporary garden in the centre of Wakefield that’s bringing a community together. In London, there's a plantaholic who has turned his backyard into a botanic garden, and in Devon, there's a head gardener looking for different ways of coping with our changing climate. Plus more of the films that have been sent in by viewers.
Monty replants his bearded iris in the Dry Garden, clears the greenhouse ready for winter salad crops and harvests quince. As part of his big Cottage Garden revamp, he transplants a shrub to the orchard and shows how to save money by collecting and storing seed from plants around the garden. Arit Anderson explores some of the arguments, both for and against, artificial grass. Toby Buckland discovers a rich and tranquil Japanese-themed garden deep in the beautiful Welsh countryside. There's a look at the garden of Andrew Clifton, who repurposes and recycles a whole variety of materials to create a beautiful ‘secret garden’ in Nottingham. Plus gardeners Steve Edney and Louise Dowle, who have created a whole border of plants whose structure and forms not only create a striking winter scene but from which they harvest new seed every year. And there are more viewers' films.
With Halloween approaching, Monty takes stock of his pumpkins and squashes, plants up alpines and shows how to divide a large fern to create new plants. Adam Frost and Advolly Richmond visit Hever Castle in Kent to learn more about the fascinating history and grand garden design, created by a man wealthy enough to build whatever he wanted. Frances Tophill visits the gardens of the oldest Franciscan friary in Britain, where all the plants are grown for a practical purpose. Nick Bailey travels to Newcastle to celebrate chrysanthemums, and there's a man growing a plethora of fruit and veg on a rooftop car park in Stockport.
Monty continues with his revamp of the Cottage Garden by planting bare-root roses and starts preparing for winter. He also sows broad beans and plants tulips in pots for a colourful display in spring. Adam Frost visits a challenging garden built on an exposed slope high above Coniston Water in the Lake District. Joe Swift takes in a stunning garden in East Sussex, admiring not only its magnificent array of water features but also its rich display of plants. There's a tropical paradise in a back garden in Surrey, as well as a garden newbie in North Yorkshire who has transformed the back of her rented house into a cornucopia of fruit and veg. Plus more films sent in by viewers.
Monty has advice on how to pot up one of the stars of the festive season - amaryllis. Carol Klein surrounds herself with colour and scent in Kent as she champions one of winter’s most spectacular shrubs – witch hazel. In South Yorkshire, Arit Anderson visits Professor Nigel Dunnett to find out how the man responsible for transforming many public green spaces tends his own garden. Toby Buckland joins Sue Kent on her allotment in Swansea to share tips on how to prepare for the growing season ahead. There's also a couple in Cornwall whose allotment is the ultimate ‘secret garden’, perched on the side of a cliff, plus a gardener in Herefordshire who preserves the spirit of summer throughout the darkest days of winter by pressing flowers.
Adam Frost visits Mary Berry at home to hear about another of her great passions in life, gardening. Mary shares her love of cut flowers and some tips on freezing herbs, while Adam shows her how to sow the tiniest of snapdragon seeds with a cocktail stick - something Mary has an abundance of! Meanwhile, Rachel de Thame visits a ‘cut your own flower' field in Dorset; Frances Tophill joins garden designer Tom Massey to look at the ways urban greening projects can breathe new life into our towns and cities; Nick Bailey visits a garden near Dorchester bursting with more that 350 different rose varieties; and there's some home-grown produce on the menu as Joe Swift visits the kitchen gardeners at Le Manoir Hotel in Oxfordshire.
Monty Don and the team are not only celebrating the joy of the gardening year but also Christmas! Monty has tips on how to clean garden tools before putting them away for winter. Rachel de Thame marvels at some magical topiary at a garden in Lincolnshire. Frances Tophill revels in the beauty and versatility of willow in Carmarthenshire. Carol Klein embraces the festive spirit with some home-harvested decorations. There's a head gardener in Northamptonshire who prunes, bends and weaves roses into amazing sculptural forms, and a visit to an impressive low-budget allotment in Lancashire that reaps rich rewards. There’s also a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.
Frances Tophill and the team celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings throughout the seasons. Frances is at Wildside Garden in Devon, inspired to make the winter gardens sparkle and do jobs to get them ready for next spring. Nick Bailey visits a garden in Bedfordshire that blends soft grasses with textural trees and crisp topiary to create a space full of winter interest. Advolly Richmond reveals the fascinating history of greenhouses along with the enormous challenges involved in engineering those early designs. Adam Frost gets stuck into some winter jobs, including chitting potatoes and planting up a container for seasonal interest. In Northamptonshire, there's a collection of snowdrops with more than 650 varieties, and there's a man from Somerset whose world has been rocked by lithops - also known as living stones.
Monty and the team bring a bit of colour to these dark winter days by looking back at some seasonal highlights of Gardeners’ World.
Monty and the team celebrate the dawn of another gardening year by revisiting some recent Gardeners’ World highlights.
Monty and the team bring a welcome splash of colour to the depths of winter by looking back at some Gardeners’ World highlights.
In the last of four compilations, Monty Don plants out sweet peas, and Frances Tophill meets a grower looking at alternative ways to use cut flowers. Sue Kent goes in search of heritage veg that are easy to cultivate, and Nick Bailey visits a garden in Herefordshire designed to make the most of its glorious rural setting.
Monty and the team are back with a new series, full of the very best practical tips and advice for all gardeners of all levels. Monty’s been busy at Longmeadow over the winter, and there are lots of new projects in the garden to share. As well as planting summer bulbs in pots, he’ll be getting some sweet peas underway and adding some space-saving fruit to his veg garden. Adam Frost visits a stunning Japanese garden that has undergone a major restoration to return it to its former glory. And there's a gardener who has recycled and repurposed lucky finds from her local tip to create a beautiful garden packed with peaceful seating areas. Frances Tophill discovers how a disused council depot site in Liverpool has been transformed into a green oasis. And we travel to the Peak District to explore a walled garden full of seasonal planting that makes the most of its spectacular setting.
As the days are getting longer, Monty is busy preparing his dahlia tubers ready for planting, cutting back fuchsias and planting out shallots. And as an alternative to box topiary, he’s on a mission to champion privet. Sue Kent travels to Hidcote in Gloucestershire in search of some inspiration for her new hot border at home. We visit an abundant kitchen garden in Whitby, where the no-dig method yields an array of unusual veg. Plus, a gardener on the south coast who, despite 56mph winds, has created his own green oasis, where he challenges his plants to survive. And Carol Klein is in her own garden in Devon, where this year she will be sharing her passion for growing plants for free. She makes a start by sowing seeds for a brand new border.
To kick off the Easter weekend, Monty is refreshing the planting on the Mound, sowing seeds for cut flowers and planting out potatoes. Frances Tophill goes to Helmsley Walled Garden in North Yorkshire to revel in the spring colour and meet the volunteers who work there. We join a couple in Cornwall who have been gardening together for over half a century and visit the home of a passionate grower of houseplants in Surrey. While in rural Northamptonshire, Nick Bailey gets started on a garden design for his new ‘forever’ home.
With warmer days just around the corner, Adam Frost takes stock of his borders and plans ahead for some year-round interest. He also adds some soft fruit to his veg garden and gets some seed sowing underway. Joe Swift travels to Birmingham to meet an allotmenteer who is passionate about growing all things Italian, whilst Arit Anderson visits Charleston in East Sussex, designed as a living painting by artist Vanessa Bell. There's a couple in West Yorkshire who laugh in the face of slugs and snails to successfully grow hundreds of varieties of hostas in their garden. Plus a head gardener who, in his mid 20s, is juggling the management of not one but two arts and crafts-inspired gardens in Somerset.
With summer in mind, Monty plants up a seating area filled with night-scented plants and begins preparations to sow a new lawn. He also takes dahlia cuttings and sows squash for an autumn harvest. Toby Buckland visits The Vann Garden in Surrey, a springtime botanical paradise designed by Gertrude Jekyll. Sue Kent is in her own garden in Swansea as she makes a start on planting up her new hot border. There's a look at the coastal garden of celebrated author Patrick Gale and how he has transformed a farmyard into a writing oasis in Cornwall. Plus an enthusiastic collector who can’t get enough of geums, a colourful and easy to grow perennial. And there’s a chance to see another film sent in by viewers.
Monty is repairing turf, sowing sweetcorn and planting pots for evening fragrance this summer. Adam travels to Dublin to meet musician Adam Clayton, from the rock band U2, who, when not playing bass guitar, prefers to spend time in his garden - especially when his precious collection of camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons are in full flower. There's a visit to Arundel Castle in West Sussex to marvel at their stunning tulip display, whilst in Devon, Carol continues to show how everyone can grow plants for free - this time through division. Plus a delphinium lover near Bristol for whom the colours of plants are much more important than their names.
Adam Frost continues to develop his new woodland border, ably assisted by Ash the cat. He also gets to work on his veg plot and has a few tips on how to get the best out of the native bluebell. Frances Tophill travels to Buckinghamshire to explore a beautiful garden appropriately called Wind in the Willows. And Rekha Mistry prepares for the season ahead in the Peak District. There's a champion grower in Manchester whose life is dominated by daffodils. Plus a couple who have created their own slice of paradise on a balcony in north London, which they plan to showcase at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Toby Buckland introduces a special programme following a year in the lives of passionate gardeners Tony and Marie Newton. Seventeen years ago the couple began transforming their traditional suburban garden in Walsall, West Midlands into a stunning Yellow Book garden. Tony hated weeding but loved building things. Marie loved plants. Together they began an incredible journey to create their dream outdoor space. Gardeners' World spent a year with Tony and Marie to discover why they are so passionate about their garden and to reveal the lengths to which they will go to achieve their perfect garden.
In 2009 Gardeners' World left its Warwickshire home to move to a brand new garden. Greenacre was the programme's first inner city garden and for presenter Toby Buckland that meant the challenge of creating a stunning garden from a former playing field. Twelve months on and Toby's garden is taking shape. With new projects planned for 2010 it's time for Toby to reflect on the incredible journey the garden has made. Toby looks back at his favourite moments during Greenacre's first year - from the creation of a stunning twilight border to tips on encouraging wildlife and the first successes of the vegetable gardens.
Monty Don, Alan Titchmarsh and a host of other celebrity gardeners look back on the programme that has become a national gardening institution. This one hour celebration takes a nostalgic walk down memory lane concluding that for the Great British gardener Friday nights mean a date with Gardeners' World.
Garden designer Joe Swift has a dream of city streets completely dominated by nature. But with Britain’s green space actually being relentlessly squeezed, it takes the vision of France’s pioneering botanist and designer Patrick Blanc to offer a truly original solution with his unique and stunning vertical gardens or ‘murs vegetals’. Joe believes these gorgeous living tapestries offer hope even where there are no grounds for gardening.
Carol Klein is addicted to plants. The former nursery woman and Gardeners’ World presenter has been passionate about them since she was a small child. In this nostalgic journey, Carol retraces her life through the plants that have meant the most to her, meeting friends who share her obsession.
In this film, gardening expert Chris Beardshaw explores where soil comes from, what it's made of and what makes it so essential to life. Using specialist microphotography, he reveals it as we've never seen it before - an intricate microscopic landscape, teeming with strange and wonderful life-forms.
Toby Buckland explores the use of peat and its alternatives in gardening. The government has a target that growing media should be 90 per cent peat-free by 2010. Toby talks to gardeners who are passionate about using the material, and also meets the environmentalists who campaign for preserving peat bogs.
This episode Monty Don visited Rousham Park & Garden that was designed by William Kent; Sissinghurst Castle Garden that designed by Vita Sackville West with 10 different cottage gardens; Chateau Villandry that designed by Joachim Carvallo & Jean Le Breton with boxwood hedging; the Claude Monet Garden that designed by Monet; Jacques Wirtz's Garden designed by Jacques Wirtz with formal and contemporary garden; Het Loo Palace designed by Daniel Marot; the Boon Family Garden designed by Peter Oudolf with modern and contemporary concept; Arctic Alpine Botanic Garden designed by Troms County & Elve Bakk.
James Wong designed a Malaysian garden in Chelsea Flower Show. James travelled back to Malaysia for inspiration and ideas.
Sarah Raven explored the medicinal properties of plants from exotic species to common weeds. She grows her own `living first aid kit', and reveals the therapeutic remedies it provides in forms of treatment that have been administered throughout the ages.
In the first of three special programmes, Monty and the team celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories. Adam Frost finds a world of inspirational planting designed to shine in winter when he visits Cambridge University Botanic Garden; Joe Swift heads to a garden in north London that was inspired by a holiday to the Grand Canyon; Nick Bailey extols the virtues of evergreen planting, which come into its own at this time of year; and Kate Bradbury shows us how we can look after the wildlife in our garden over the winter months. We catch up with the three sisters from Dorset we met last year, who share the joyful highs and occasional lows of their gardening year; we head to Somerset to see how a garden designer achieves not one but two glorious peaks in her own garden; and we get tips on growing perfect peonies from a passionate plantswoman in the Welsh borders.
Adam Frost and the team celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories. Nick Bailey visits the winter garden at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire; Frances Tophill discovers the large Adam Frost finds a world of inspirational planting designed to shine in winter when he visits Cambridge University Botanic Garden; Joe Swift heads to a garden in north London that was inspired by a holiday to the Grand Canyon; Nick Bailey extols the virtues of evergreen planting, which come into its own at this time of year; and Kate Bradbury shows us how we can look after the wildlife in our garden over the winter months. We catch up with the three sisters from Dorset we met last year, who share the joyful highs and occasional lows of their gardening year; we head to Somerset to see how a garden designer achieves not one but two glorious peaks in her own garden.
Monty celebrates the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories, and the team get into the Christmas spirit. At Longmeadow, Monty creates a winter interest container filled with seasonal favourites. Rachel de Thame is joined by florist Arthur Parkinson as they spend a festive day making Christmas decorations with plant material sourced from the garden. Carol Klein meets comedian Joe Lycett at his home in Birmingham and talks to him about his new-found love of gardening. And Adam Frost looks at the ground cover plants which are the perfect backdrop to the border at this time of year. Advolly Richmond heads to Cumbria and uncovers the fascinating history behind the topiary gardens at Levens Hall, while Sue Kent digs out her Christmas jumper and prepares for the big day as she creates some festive gardening gifts. We visit a nursery in Yorkshire who specialise in growing one of the most popular house plants at Christmas – the poinsettia.
