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July 3, 2018 As the borders at Longmeadow hit their stride, it is time to take stock of what is looking good and what needs replacing. Monty shares his tips on how he keeps his displays going all summer long. There is plenty to do on the vegetable plot too, and things are looking promising in the fruit garden. Adam Frost meets an extraordinary woman who runs a community project in the centre of Birmingham, while Frances Tophill catches up with her allotment. Joe Swift travels to Devon to a garden which has been designed around a challenging landscape, and Nick Bailey visits the restored Temperate House at Kew Gardens.
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July 3, 2018 Millie introduces some of the many Australian rainforest plants and ferns that would make excellent indoor plants, Jerry visits a gardener who specialises in Tillandsias – fascinating plants that can literally survive on thin air, and for gardeners who are too busy to fuss over annual plants that need replacing each season, Tino has a suggestion – try perennial vegetables that will keep going for years.
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June 30, 2018 At Longmeadow Monty celebrates the midsummer glory of roses in all their forms, plants some statuesque shrubs in pots for year-round interest, and deals with a pesky rabbit problem in the veg patch. Carol Klein revels in one of our most flamboyant seasonal flowers - the peony. Adam Frost finds inspiration for his own garden from the wild flowers that grow near to his Lincolnshire home, and Arit Anderson takes a look into gardens of the future when she visits a garden in Derbyshire designed to capture and use rainwater. Flo Headlam gets involved with a community project that can totally transform a garden in a single day, and we visit an iris enthusiast in Gloucestershire who is attempting to collect all the varieties created by one of her ancestors.
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June 30, 2018 The eye-dazzling colour of Western Australia’s spring wildflowers are world famous for a good reason – Josh heads outback to share some of the dramatic plants and landscapes, Sophie meets an artist who is inspired by her Fleurieu Peninsula home and the plants that thrive in her garden, despite the tough coastal conditions, then learns all about growing date palms. Deep in the far north Queensland rainforest lies a ruined castle set in glorious tropical gardens; Jerry visits to discover who built it and why.
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June 22, 2018 The team head to Gardeners' World Live this week to bring you the highlights in plants and design. 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 and Carol and Nick explore the floral marquee. We also 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, meet a woman who has travelled from the Isle of Skye with her plants and reveal the winner of our Every Space Counts competition.
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June 22, 2018 Jerry travels to far north Queensland to visit a couple who have scoured the equatorial regions of the world to collect and cultivate their own extraordinary garden, Costa meets a family in inner-city Sydney who have made the most of their limited garden space by blurring the lines between indoors and out, and Millie shares her tips for choosing plants, finding containers, and growing your own food in a rental property. Jane visits a stunning garden in Victoria that is a triumph of colour and design, with a generous helping of rare and unusual plants.
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June 22, 2018 It may be winter but there’s a plant for every season; Millie offers some ideas to get flowering colour in your garden for 12 months a year. Get inspiration for your garden with this beautiful collection of plants from our story ’A Passion for Perennials', and Jerry’s sugar-bag bees need more space so he calls in an expert to help split his hive and harvest some honey.
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June 22, 2018 Sophie visits Adelaide’s biggest music festival, WOMADELAIDE, and discovers the festival has been growing its own carbon offset forest at Langhorne Creek for over a decade, then follow the progress of Millie’s chook run from digging the first holes through to installing the little Lay-dies in their new home. Costa visits an intriguing garden in the tightest of tough spaces, created with ingenuity and lots of great ideas.
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June 10, 2018 It's warm enough for all the tender plants to go out into the garden now and at Longmeadow Monty finds places in his borders for bananas and dahlias, whilst in the vegetable garden, courgettes and tomatoes are planted out. Then pay a visit to the RHS Chatsworth show in Derbyshire where Nick Bailey, Carol Klein and Joe Swift explore the show ground to show the best of the plants and gardens that the exhibitors have to offer. Adam Frost is in London where he finds plenty of tips on how to bring tiny garden spaces to life, and we review the finalists' gardens in our Every Space Counts competition and open the vote.
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June 9, 2018 Tino meets two gardeners who became friends through a program that matches older residents with volunteers to share the garden load. Some plants self-seed best when left alone, and Jerry has found a way to work with this natural habit to fill the gaps in his garden for free, and Christine Williams loves her job landscaping a Sydney cemetery, where the gardens are designed with both the dead and the living in mind.
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