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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.
