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May 31, 2014 Monty offers advice on what to do with spent tulips and shares some tips on how to make the perfect herb garden, There’s an interview with Carrie Thomas in Swansea, who holds the National Collection of aquilegias, and celebrate all that this theatrical, delicate flower has to offer. Carol is with new gardeners […]
May 20, 2014 With the growing season well and truly underway, Monty turns his attention to planting out his sweet peas and sowing sweetcorn. Carol 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 […]
May 10, 2014 This 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 […]
April 26, 2014 Carol 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 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 […]
April 19, 2014 The long Easter weekend offers lots of opportunities to really get cracking in the garden. Monty has suggestions for beautiful climbers that thrive in shady spots and gets on with planting up his vegetable garden. Carol returns to help first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique, and guides them in what to look for at […]
April 12, 2014 At Longmeadow, Monty 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 is in the […]
April 5, 2014 Monty gives his ornamental grasses an overhaul, and has tips on how to lift and divide ones that have grown too large, plus advice on which ones should be cut back now for the best display in the autumn. He also wants to bulk up his grass borders and gets the ball rolling […]
March 29, 2014 Carol 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. Theres a visit to dahlia enthusiast Darren Everest on his allotment in Kent. In his own garden at Longmeadow, Monty pots up his own […]
March 22, 2014 In this weeks show Monty gives the pond a spring clean and adds some much-needed colour to his Jewel Garden pots, Carol meets a young couple 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 […]
March 15, 2014 March 14th 2014.
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 and she meets one of the country’s leading experts in this […]
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