|
|
May 13, 2019 There is plenty of advice and inspiration on this week’s Gardeners’ World with Monty at Longmeadow and Adam Frost, Carol Klein and Frances Tophill at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. At Longmeadow, Monty plants out his tomatoes, continues work in his paradise garden plus reveals plans for a new project. We travel to Peterborough to visit a city garden where lack of space has not proved a problem for a couple who have created a woodland garden, and we meet a Cambridgeshire man who has devoted his gardening life to the preservation of rare and heritage plants, and at the Malvern Spring Festival Adam, Carol and Frances explore the show gardens and bring us the very best of the plants and flowers in the floral marquee.
Continue Reading »
May 13, 2019 Millie meets a special gardener who proves you’re never too young to get in the garden, Jane shares some spectacular native plant solutions for shady spots in any garden, and Josh shares a few different ways to “crack” seed dormancy when growing native plants from seed.
Continue Reading »
May 6, 2019 With Monty away for a week, this episode of Gardeners’ World is based at Adam Frost’s garden in Cambridgeshire and 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 makes the case for why we should be planting trees for bees in our gardens, and Mark Lane visits Denmans Garden, the home of the late landscape designer John Brookes, to find out about the next chapter in its history. And we meet an enthusiast who gives us a masterclass in interior design with houseplants.
Continue Reading »
May 6, 2019 Meet a plant collector and nurseryman who shares his wonderland of rare and intriguing plants, visit Adelaide’s Museum of Economic Botany to discover an intriguing botanical collection, and an avid insect photographer shares how a fascination for entomology has inspired her to learn more about the plant world around her.
Continue Reading »
April 28, 2019 Tino learns the perfect way to prune grapes from a pruning expert, his Dad! Jane meets up with a master grafter at his home garden to snag a few tips, then sit back and enjoy one of Peter Cundall’s last stories in ‘The Patch’ for some timely seasonal inspiration.
Continue Reading »
April 28, 2019 With warmer weather on the horizon, Monty makes a start on getting some tender veg underway, recommends plants which thrive with very little water and gives tips on the spring maintenance of houseplants. With the increasing popularity of houseplants, Nick Bailey spends the day at Kew exploring their cacti and succulent collection to find out more about how we should take care of them, Adam Frost is in Lincolnshire helping a family transform their front garden into a more interesting and usable space, and Arit Anderson travels to Faversham in Kent, to find out how the town has used innovative ideas to reduce their plastic use. And we visit a nursery in West Sussex to get expert advice on how to get the best results from growing citrus in pots.
Continue Reading »
April 21, 2019 It’s Easter at The Patch and Tino has some great tips to get you in the garden this long weekend, Sophie and her girls deal with a pressing Easter job in the garden – flower pressing that is! and Jane visits a highway interchange that has reconnected the two halves of Ballarat’s historic Avenue of Honour, and created a new memorial for the community.
Continue Reading »
April 21, 2019 Gardeners’ World has a full hour of gardening this Easter weekend and Monty gets going with a new planting project, as well as giving plenty of tips on getting our lawns and plants into tip top condition for the season ahead. And Monty has a surprise guest visiting for Easter, Rachel de Thame. If you have dry shade, dappled shade or deep shade, Carol Klein is on hand to show us the spring planting partners which grow happily together, Adam Frost meets a woman who has created seven individual gardens around her home in Worcestershire, and Joe Swift and Florence Headlam are on a Walsall allotment helping out on a community growing project for children with special needs.
Continue Reading »
April 14, 2019 While no one was looking, MG quietly turned 9 years old last week 🙂
I believe that equates to about 147 in 'internet years'
A personal thank you to Max who's been here helping since the very beginning, also to NTTL - our super poster who disappeared along the way.
And a very special thank you to all those that have donated, especially the half dozen or so that have been with us from the start - Thank you !
JD 🙂
April 14, 2019 Jerry meets a champion hibiscus grower to learn all about cultivating these flamboyant flowers, Tino shows the tricks of the trade for how to build a gabion wall, and Jane shows how to get bang for your buck by propagating your indoor plants!
Continue Reading »
|
|
Recent Comments