Gardeners’ World 2011

Gardeners’ World episode 7 2011: Celebrating the arrival of the holiday season.At Longmeadow, Monty ensures that there will be late summer colour by propagating some of his favourites from the fantastically diverse salvia family. He also divides irises and reveals what has gone wrong with his onion crop.     Joe finds seasonal inspiration at historic Newby Hall in North Yorkshire, home to the longest double herbaceous border in Europe. Carol is at home showing how she keeps her flower beds looking their best at this time of year. Then she heads to the heart of London and discovers some […]

Gardeners’ World episode 6 2011: An hour-long episode of the gardening programme. At Longmeadow, Monty Don shows which plants to choose for sensational borders right through the summer – from ornamental grasses to late flowering perennials. He also plants out squashes and pumpkins, as well as making his own comfrey feed.     Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage giving advice on the best hardy geraniums for different situations and sharing tips on how to lift, divide and propagate them. She also visits the remarkable gardens of Waltham Place where the landscape is deliberately left untamed and even weeds are

Gardeners’ World episode 5 2011: By the first week of June, plants are growing with such speed that some have a tendency to flop. Staking is the answer. As well as sharing his tips, Monty Don shows how to make stakes that can be used for many years to come. Now the nights are guaranteed to be frost free, Monty plants out the tender annuals he’s raised from seed.     Carol Klein visits a Wiltshire gardener and bee keeper who wants to make the most of a shady area by planting nectar rich plants. Carol helps by choosing plants

Gardeners’ World episode 4 2011: As May gets under way at Longmeadow, Monty Don turns his attention to his ‘dry garden’, an area of his garden where the soil is particularly thin and baked by the sun. Rachel de Thame visits the gorgeous gardens of Coton Manor in Northamptonshire, where the owner has planted inspirational combinations in unpromising areas.     Meanwhile, Carol Klein meets a woman who loves gardening, not for plants, but for the creatures they attract to her South Devon garden.And back at Longmeadow, Monty introduces an area of his garden which regularly floods and demonstrates, through

Gardeners’ World episode 2 2011: At Longmeadow Monty Don introduces us to the coppice, a woodland area where his favourite flower, the primrose, is in bloom. As well as enjoying the seasonal colours of spring, it’s time to plan the summer display. Monty sows sweet peas and gives his recommendations of what to grow to give you for colour in the garden and cut flowers for the house.     Carol Klein journeys to Levens Hall in Cumbria, where she discovers that some of the oldest and finest topiary in the country is under threat from box blight. But far

Gardeners’ World episode 1 2011: Gardeners’ World returns with Monty Don back at the helm, but this time in the garden at his own Herefordshire home – a place that he has lovingly nurtured for the last 20 years. With winter receding, Monty, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame are preparing for spring.     As well as showing us round his garden, Monty lifts and divides snowdrops. He also gets his vegetable garden started by sowing beetroot and planting onions. It is also the perfect time, before the burst of spring growth, to prune his apple trees