Carol communicates the excitement of fresh growth in spring. Beneath her still-bare trees Carol finds 'Cinderella plants' - wood anemones, celandines and other spring flowers.
Carol shows how providing nectar and pollen as forage and food for bees is not only the best way to support these vital insects, which are fast disappearing from the countryside, but also makes a glorious display in the garden. She also demonstrates how to create an auricular theatre - a traditional way of showing off collections of little plants that dates back to the 19th century, when rival enthusiasts competed in shows held in pubs in the North and Midlands.
Carol shares top tips on bulbs, reveals how to cultivate a fine display of nerines, and offers advice on crocosmia. Plus, everything you needed to know about growing shallots.
Carol catches up with a few of the projects she started at the beginning of the season. There's a progress report on the new cut flower garden, the rapidly sprouting potatoes and the unruly beans and peas which are now ready to be tied in before their fruits begin to weigh heavy.
The gardening expert reveals some of the seasonal changes since the last trip to Glebe Cottage in the spring. The mood has shifted into misty and mellow - colours and light are changing, the temperature is dropping and everything is slowing down. Not everything is ready for cropping yet - the Jerusalem artichokes still need a few more weeks before their roots will be ready for soup making.
At Glebe Cottage, Carol is shining a light on grasses in all their autumnal glory. She also takes viewers on a tour of her favourites, demonstrates how easy they are to cultivate, and how they make a magnificent addition to even the smallest garden.
One of the most enjoyable tasks of autumn gardening is the annual planting of spring-flowering bulbs. From daffodils to a particularly delightful iris, and from tulips to camassias, Carol Klein reveals how, where and why to plant some of her favourites. Plus, the best way to plant garlic.
The weather adds another seasonal dimension, with heavy showers demanding a retreat to the cosy potting shed, where Carol demonstrates how to divide ranunculus before giving advice on choosing and cultivating peonies. Carol takes a trip to the local train station to have a look at its clematis, known as Traveller's Joy, comparing it with the variety she has growing in her garden.
Carol advises on choosing and planting evergreens that can give year-round colour and structure, and explains why they don't lose their leaves for winter. She also provides a fresh take on ivy, which are wildlife friendly and versatile plants, showing how they can benefit even the tiniest outside space.
The green-fingered expert welcomes viewers back to her garden at Glebe Cottage, in Devon, and discusses her favourite spring flowers - pulmonarias. Carol also introduces a seasonal experiment in intensive veg growing, especially relevant to those with small gardens.
Carol celebrates some of the season's most beautiful - and tiny - flowering treasures, looking at how to choose them, how to plant them and how to care for them. She also visits one of her favourite spring wildflowers in a local wood - the humble celandine - to see how it grows in its natural habitat.
At Glebe Cottage in Devon, the most regal of all the summer bulbs are the regalia lilies, and now is the time to plant them. Many buy them as expensive cut flowers, but Carol reveals how to grow them from bulbs. She also explains the best ways to sow beetroot and brassicas.
Carol is planting onions in her veg garden, and she shows viewers the first shoots of her ornamental allium bulbs, which she planted in pots last autumn. In the greenhouse, there's also a progress report on some of the seeds sown so far this season.
Carol reveals the differences between English and Spanish bluebells, and explains how to rid your garden of this good-looking but thuggish competitor to ensure our lovely native species has a fair chance. The presenter also ensures pond wildlife can get safely in and out of the water.
Carol is now harvesting the first of her carrots and has been dining off an abundance of chard for weeks! A visit to some native foxgloves thriving in a nearby hedgerow reveals the secrets to success with growing these wonderful plants, and kicks off a look at the whole family of plants to which they belong. This includes snapdragons, verbascums and penstemons — some of our most useful garden plants, all well loved by gardeners and insects alike.
The horticultural expert shows viewers how her garden has both a sunny side and a shady one, and takes the opportunity to look at how plants have adapted to one or the other. Carol also gives a useful lesson in choosing plants that will thrive because they've been planted in the right place.
Summer at Glebe Cottage sometimes means changeable weather — sultry, showery and altogether typically British! But this never daunts Carol, who takes the opportunity to investigate one of our richest plant habitats: watery wetlands and bogs. The pond at Glebe Cottage is now lush with rich green foliage. Back in the spring, Carol added plants that would thrive in this shady, boggy area. Now, these are living up to their promise, and none will be more spectacular than the native yellow flag irises she had dug up and moved from elsewhere in the garden. Ubiquitous and easily recognised in the wild, she shows us how it frequents waterways throughout the British Isles. This moves Carol to celebrate the iris family — a group of plants that brings elegance and drama into the garden, from the uncanny hues of ‘Katharine Hodgson', which flowered in the garden in January, to Carol's new planting of bearded iris on her shed roof. Other members of the same family get a look in, including advice on h
The horticultural expert welcomes viewers back to Glebe Cottage garden in north Devon, where, despite the challenging mix of intense hot, dry days and torrential stormy downpours, the garden is showing off a magical sea of flowers and foliage. Carol also discusses geraniums, and presents tips on how to care for pelargoniums.
Carol Klein welcomes us back to Glebe Cottage garden, where the hot summer weather is parching the open, sun-bathed parts of the garden while the shady areas remain enticingly cool. Many gardeners struggle to get to grips with those dusty, exposed, dry areas that never seem to work. But for Carol, these can be rich planting opportunities. She's even created a special raised bed at Glebe Cottage specifically designed to allow her to grow plants that need very open, sun-baked conditions. A quick visit to nearby Exmoor National Park makes the point. Here, amid one of Britain's harshest, most rugged natural environments, grows one of our most familiar and wildlifesustaining plants: gorse. This prickly shrub, festooned in globes of scintillating chrome-yellow, and emitting one of the most delicious plant perfumes ever, is a member of the pea — or legume — family. Back in the garden, Carol plants a less well known, but very beautiful shrub — a lespedeza, which, in spring, will complement her
As summer reaches its climax at Glebe Cottage garden in Devon, Carol Klein introduces us to a group of plants that really provides the drum roll to peak summer time: the daisy. Whether it be the bold, hot colours of heleniums and dahlias, or others, like early flowering asters that display themselves more quietly, daisies thrive in the most surprising spots and mingle brilliantly alongside other summer treasures. There's a daisy to suit all types of conditions. Carol makes a visit to the wild and gorgeous north Devon coast to have a look at one particular wild daisy to find out more about its native roots, and she spots a few other fascinating wild plants that thrive in this dry, exposed and harsh seaside habitat. Among them is the brilliantly named Hottentot fig, with its succulent, flashy leaves and dazzlingly coloured flowers, as well as contrastingly spikey sea hollies. Back in the garden, Carol introduces us to the raised ‘seaside bed' she's constructed to allow her to grow a rang
