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It is the first day of spring and Monty has sharpened his tools in readiness to open the gardening year, accompanied, of course, by Nigel and Nellie, in the first episode of the series. Monty reflects on how Longmeadow has fared during an extraordinarily wet winter and gets going on a few essential tasks to get the garden into gear for the seasons to come.
Gardeners’ World celebrates the snowdrop and visits one of the world’s largest collections, lovingly nurtured in a suburban back garden and Monty gives tips on what to do once they have finished flowering.
At Longmeadow it’s time to get dahlias into growth and, for inspiration, last summer we visited a field full of dahlias in Sussex to get tips from a professional grower.
Nick Bailey revels in the beauty of magnolias and Monty has plenty of jobs for us all to be getting on with this weekend.
Monty has advice on what to sow and grow now for fresh vegetables, while Rachel de Thame introduces her plans for growing her own this year.
The episode also celebrates the daffodil at the Daffodil Society’s annual show, held last year at Pershore in Worcestershire, and joins Carol, who is focusing her attention on a favourite seasonal flower – the primrose.
As the days get longer and warmer, the Gardeners' World team returns to guide enthusiasts through seasonal highlights from across the country visiting stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success. This week, Adam Frost heads into his garden to offer inspiration for viewers' own patches along with all the essential gardening jobs for the coming weekend.
The team present seasonal highlights from across the country, visiting stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success. At Longmeadow, Monty, Nigel and Nellie discuss the essential gardening jobs for this weekend.
The team present seasonal highlights from across the country, visiting stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success.
At Longmeadow, Monty, Nigel and Nellie discuss the essential gardening jobs for this weekend.
Monty, Nigel and Nellie are at Longmeadow, providing inspiration for gardens and discussing all the essential gardening jobs for this weekend.
Monty, Nigel and Nellie are at Longmeadow bringing inspiration for gardens and discussing all the essential gardening jobs for this weekend.
At Longmeadow, Monty plants out some tender plants, takes cuttings from herbs and sows carrots.
From her garden in Devon, Carol Klein goes back to the basics of propagating your own plants when she shows how to take cuttings.
Advolly Richmond, whose love of garden history is reflected in her own garden, shares her passion for a flower with a surprising past. Joe Swift has a large plant in his London garden that is due for some timely remedial work, and the episode shows a garden in Brighton that is packed with exotic plants grown in raised beds and containers.
Join Monty at Longmeadow for an indulgent, horticultural romp through the Gardeners’ World archives and a joyous riot of colour as the show celebrates some of the most beloved summer flowers. From delphiniums to clematis, irises, orchids and dahlias, expert growers share their passion, along with hints and tips.
Carol Klein visits a garden in Shropshire, where she discovers picture-perfect plant combinations. Adam Frost travels to the Cotswolds and finds out what happens when plants are brought together with imagination and daring, and Nick Bailey guides us through the world of Britain’s favourite flower, the rose.
If you have been growing tomatoes along with Monty, join him at Longmeadow as he shows how to pot them on to the next stage of their growth, and as well potting up tender vegetables, he is planting containers for summer colour.
Adam Frost is enjoying the seasonal plants in his garden and has ideas of transforming a part of his plot into a seating area using a few logs and plants. In London, Arit Anderson and her family have been making the most of their time at home by filling a range of imaginative containers with a variety of plants. Frances Tophill explores spring flowering trees and their benefits for bees, and the episode goes indoors to discover how one man has designed his home around his love of houseplants.
And there are also more viewers’ videos of what people have been getting up to in their own gardens.
At Longmeadow, Monty adds a variety of herbs that thrive in shade to the herb garden. Nick Bailey gives tips on how to plan and lay out a path, and Carol Klein celebrates the hardy geranium.
At Longmeadow, Monty plants out tender vegetables for late summer harvests and gives tips on plants that thrive on a minimum of water when he plants up a pot of succulent plants.
Frances Tophill demonstrates an unusual method of reducing weeds in her allotment, and the team meet a gardener in Wales who has dedicated years to breeding some very special varieties of rhododendrons. Joe Swift is in Devon finding out about the design and planting challenges faced when creating a coastal garden, and in Staffordshire, a gardener has filled every inch of his garden with spectacular plants. And more viewers have their own gardening tips to share.
Monty gives tips on growing tomatoes and has ideas of how to fill gaps in the garden once the flowers of spring are past their best.
The team meet an extraordinary gardener from Swansea, whose upper limb difference has not deterred her from growing and creating a garden which is both productive and beautiful.
On the eve of reopening, the show goes behind the scenes of Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset to find out how the head gardener has managed this historic landscape whilst the garden has been closed over the last few months.
Joe Swift visits the small city garden of an interior designer, where some unusual plants have been used to add an element of surprise to the outdoor space, and in Kent, Arit Anderson meets a community of gardeners who have all been prescribed gardening as part of their recovery from physical and mental illness.
At Longmeadow, Monty shows how to prune spring-flowering roses. Adam Frost gives tips on helping plants cope with drought conditions and shows how to save precious water.
Monty adds plants which give shelter to insects and invertebrates to his wildlife pond, and Carol Klein gives a comprehensive and seasonal guide to getting plants for free.
At Longmeadow, Monty checks the progress of the potatoes he planted earlier in the year and recommends plants for dry shade under trees.
The team travel to Somerset to get water-saving tips from a water scientist, who uses a variety of techniques to save as much water as possible in her own garden, and meet a head gardener, who manages a garden in Dorset dedicated to growing plants for their aromatic properties both in leaf and flower.
Nick Bailey gives a masterclass on how to grow summer flowering clematis, and Arit Anderson takes a boat trip to meet a group of people who are planting up the Birmingham canal sides for both wildlife and the wellbeing of city dwellers.
And there are a few more hints, tips and stories from viewer’s gardens.
Adam Frost is in his garden, bringing viewers up to date on how it has been developing over the summer, as well as giving plenty of advice on looking after and growing hydrangeas.
In Devon, Toby Buckland shares his tips on dealing with damaged shrubs, tree pruning and transplanting perennials, while Frances Tophill travels to West Sussex to meet a gardener and professor of biology whose garden has been planted with the conservation of insects in mind.
There is a second chance to see Carol Klein’s in-depth profile of a national collection of hydrangeas at Darley Park in Derby, and a couple of years ago, the team met Charles Dowding, whose unique method of growing vegetables results in bumper crops.
And there is a selection of films made by viewers from their own gardens.
If you have been growing tomatoes along with Monty, he shows what you should be doing now that they have been planted out and gives advice on the summer maintenance of ponds.
Nick Bailey travels to South Africa, where he searches for the wild cousins of one of the most vibrant of summer flowers, the Crocosmia, and garden historian Advolly Richmond goes to Alton Towers to take a close look at the Victorian trend of creating theme parks in their gardens. There’s a second chance to meet a couple in Staffordshire who are very particular about the colours of the plants they use in the borders of their cottage garden, and last year we travelled to Kent to meet a gardener who filled her garden with pots full of vibrant colour.
At Longmeadow, Monty refreshes a container of overgrown herbs, plants alpines in a pot and revisits the shrub and perennial cuttings he took a few weeks ago.
Arit Anderson travels to Kent to meet a designer who is placing sustainability and the environment at the heart of the gardens she designs, and the team discovers a garden in Dorset that has been laid out specifically with scent in mind.
There is a look back to 2019 as Frances Tophill visits an allotment on the Isle of Man to meet a grower who uses plants to make cosmetics, and on the Isle of Wight there is a second chance to meet an enthusiast who has filled his garden with daylilies.
And there are more viewers’ videos showing what people have been getting up to in their own gardens.
With the summer garden in full swing, Monty shows how to stake dahlias, sows seeds of perennials and celebrates an abundant vegetable harvest.
The team meet a landscape designer in Cornwall who creates gardens that are not only sustainable but also beautiful and edible and go to Wales to meet a gardener whose garden reflects memories of her childhood home in Jamaica.
There is a second chance to see Carol Klein visit Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire to look at their stunning collection of summer flowering thalictrum, and Mark Lane shows the adaptive tools he uses for planting and weeding in his garden in Kent.
And there are more viewers’ videos showing what people have been getting up to in their own gardens.
This week, Adam Frost is at home sharing his love of ornamental grasses, tackling the problem of building a patio on a slope and giving some inspiration on what to plant at the base of a wall.
In Margate, the team visit a man who has come up with a unique way of using a shed roof to grow vegetables, and they travel to Swansea to meet inspirational gardener Sue Kent, who shows how she has designed her garden to enable her to garden successfully despite her upper limb difference.
There is a second chance to see Joe Swift visiting a garden in Devon, where the planting combinations have been inspired by world travel, and in Hampshire, a sea captain explains how he has created a low-maintenance garden using foliage and structural plants.
And there are more films from viewers in their own gardens.
At Longmeadow, Monty plans for next spring when he plants some early-flowering wildflowers and gives his recipes for the different compost mixes he uses to take successful cuttings.
Nick Bailey continues his quest for the South African origins of our much-loved summer bulbs, and in the heart of London, we meet a keen gardener who has filled her houseboat with ornamental and edible plants.
From the archives, we meet a man who took on a barren Lincolnshire field and turned it into a haven for wildflowers, and we travel to Preston to visit a woman who is passionate about propagation and, in particular, pineapples.
And find out what viewers have been doing in their own gardens.
From giant gooseberries and growing the perfect sweet pea to flamboyant dahlias and plants pollinated by a single human hair, Monty Don celebrates the plant passions of some of the extraordinary people that the programme has met over the last few years. He also has plenty of hints and tips of his own to keep enthusiastic gardeners busy over the weekend ahead.
A visit to Adam Frost's garden, catching up on his new patio project and finding out what his plans are for the autumn. Arit Anderson travels to Somerset to meet landscape designer Dan Pearson, to hear about the design and planting principles he has used to create his own garden. In London, film director and musician Don Letts and his wife reveal how they have combined their different tastes for plants and culture in their town garden. Plus, another chance to see Frances Tophill meet a gardener who grows most of the vegetable ingredients needed for Thai cooking in her back garden and the two enthusiasts with a passion for air plants at their nursery in Lancashire.
At Longmeadow this week, Monty reaps a harvest from the vegetable garden, plants up a seasonal pot and gives a masterclass on how to make the perfect compost.
Adam Frost travels to York to meet a couple who took on 20 acres of land and filled it with flowers, and in Walsall, the team visit a garden planted with exotic palms and foliage which has made a positive contribution to the owner’s mental health.
There is another chance to see Carol Klein as she finds a collection of late-summer-flowering bergamot plants in Wales and gives her advice on how to grow and propagate them. In Lancashire, Nick Bailey meets a zoologist who has spent his life exploring the microscopic insects that live in the soil.
And there are more films sent in by viewers.
With autumn on the horizon, the seasonal planting of bulbs for spring-flowering begins at Longmeadow.
Frances Tophill meets a gardener whose allotment is filled with both traditional and exotic vegetables, and Toby Buckland visits The Newt in Somerset to find out about its chequered garden history and to explore its emergence as one of the UK’s most exciting gardens. There is another chance to see Mark Lane travel to Oxfordshire to look at how ornamental grasses, perennials and annuals can be used in planting design to create exciting combinations, and the team meets a gardener in Northamptonshire who uses the plants in her garden to extract natural dyes for fabrics.
And there is a selection of films from viewers' gardens.
Join Adam Frost in his garden for a special programme celebrating some of the most glorious gardens the team have visited over the last few years, with plenty of seasonal hints and tips for what we can be doing in our own gardens this weekend.
Frances Tophill visits a lochside retreat, Joe Swift finds lots of take home tips from a city garden, Carol Klein is inspired by plant combinations in West Yorkshire, and Advolly Richmond shows how a historical landscape was designed for fun and frolic.
The team also meet a couple who let nature be their gardening guide and a gardener who makes containers her focus of attention.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don revels in the early autumn colour in his garden, reviews how the tomatoes he grew from a late sowing have got on this season and gives advice on planting onions for next year. Rachel de Thame reveals how the new garden project she started in the spring has developed over the summer and Fish, of the rock band Marillion, gives a tour of his garden and reveals how it has helped his mental health as well as the creative process of making music. Plus, in Germany, Arit Anderson finds out about the transformation of a disused industrial site into a thriving and beautiful park.
As autumn gets underway, Monty fills pots with bulbs for spring colour, plants garlic and gives advice on autumn lawn care.
Joe Swift visits presenter and journalist Kate Garraway in her London garden to discuss how it has been a sanctuary over recent months, and Nick Bailey shows the results of the design project he started in his own garden earlier in the year.
In Kent, there is another chance to meet a woman who has filled her garden with exotic and tropical plants, and the team meet a nurseryman in Devon who specialises in growing unusual woodland plants from Asia.
At Longmeadow, Monty prepares his pond for the season ahead, prunes a climbing rose and celebrates the garden as it moves into autumn.
Adam Frost is in his garden, giving ideas and inspiration for a winter display of containers, and the show travels to Kent to visit Frances Tophill on her allotment to find out about her growing year.
There is a second chance to enjoy an autumnal visit to Hidcote Gardens with Carol Klein, and the team meet a couple whose garden has been inspired by their travels in the Far East.
And the show joins viewers in their own gardens to find out about their gardens and their gardening tips.
At Longmeadow, Monty gives tips on how to look after wildlife in the months ahead, shows how to look after and protect tender garden plants and plans ahead for next year’s harvest of fruit.
Joe Swift finds out what it takes to look after a historic garden with a collection of heritage fruit trees in Hampshire, and Arit Anderson meets Fergus Garrett – head gardener at Great Dixter - to discover how the planting and garden management have increased biodiversity.
The team meet a couple in Staffordshire with a particular fondness for Japanese maples and a man whose love of dahlias has taken over his back garden in Stockport. And the show catches up with what viewers have been doing in their gardens.
In the final programme from Longmeadow this year, Monty harvests his pumpkins and has plenty of inspiration for jobs we can be getting on with over the coming winter.
Frances Tophill travels to Winkworth Arboretum in Surrey to celebrate the season and to explain the science behind the golden and red tones of autumn leaves. For winter inspiration, Adam Frost is at a garden in Doncaster where water, grasses and seedheads all add to the design.
There is a second chance to meet twins Stuart and Ian Paton to find out what it takes to grow the biggest pumpkin in the UK. And the team revel in the films of the gardens and gardeners viewers have shared with us this year.
