The Beechgrove Garden 2018

In the penultimate programme Beechgrove Garden episode 23 2018, Jim is cropping kale and looking forward to red brussels sprouts for Christmas, while Carole continues the succession by planting hardy garlic to crop early next year. Chris attempts to spread the colour interest in the rose garden by underplanting with some more unusual bulbs.     Meanwhile, Carole makes her last visit of the year to Tap o’ Noth permaculture farm near Rhynie to see the last of the harvest and takes a look at the worm farm. George visits the magnificent Dawyck Botanic Gardens near Peebles to see the

The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2018 looks ahead to spring, with Carole planting a bedding scheme based on the spokes of a colour wheel. Jim and George start the process of battening down the hatches for winter and prepare plants against the weather to come, while Carole visits Attadale Gardens in Lochcarron, Rosshire.     Although the garden dates back to Victorian times, Attadale owners Nicky and Ewen Macpherson have recently added contemporary features of particular interest to fern fanatic Carole – a sunken fern garden in a geodesic dome.   The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2018   Summer Bedding

The Beechgrove team are on the road to Callander, the scenic gateway to the Trossachs. George and Carole visit Greener Callander’s colourful community initiatives as well as discovering some hidden gems of gardens right in the middle of the town.     Jim, Carole, George and Brian tee-off with a Beechgrove Gardener’s Question Time held in the picturesque surroundings of Callander Golf Club, as they try and answer as many questions as they can from the gardeners of the surrounding area.   The Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2018   The programme comes this week from Callander, the largest town within

Lawns have taken a bit of a hammering this summer between drought and deluges and Beechgrove’s lawns are no exception, so Jim gives some timely tips on autumn lawn care. George continues to revamp the Woodland Garden at Beechgrove by lifting the canopies of mature trees to provide new planting pockets below. George also visits Andrew Skea’s family farm near Dundee. Andrew has been supplying gardeners with a range of unusual and specialist seed tatties and is also working on developing the perfect multicoloured crisp.     This week It was a cooler early autumn filming day at the Beechgrove

Jim is dreaming of jam tomorrow as he harvests plums and blueberries, while Brian assesses the success, or otherwise, of the ruby-themed annuals that he planted in between his box-hedging trial. Meanwhile, Carole mentions the C word as it’s already time to force bulbs for a Christmas display, Chris creates a new white garden at Beechgrove, and we learn how white plants in a garden can change perspectives and enhance moods.       The Beechgrove Garden episode 17 2018   The White Border Chris followed on from the colour theme in last week’s programme and planted up a white

In Beechgrove Garden episode 16 2018 – The ideal for all gardeners is to have year-round colour in the garden. Carole talks to Martin Barker from Aberdeen University School of Biological Sciences about the science of colour, finding out how and why plants are the colour that they are and how plant colour affects us.         Meanwhile, the harvest continues, and Jim’s big beef tomatoes are bearing heavy fruit. Colin and Catherine Lockhart in Carnoustie are no longer able to keep their garden the way that they would like, so Brian steps in to make their garden

The Beechgrove team is on the road to Dumfries, where Jim, George and Chris discover the origins of horticultural therapy. They also take in the extraordinary rock garden on the Crichton Estate, which was designed and built in the 1920s, as well as visiting a tiny but packed bedding plant garden in nearby Collin.     Jim, George and Chris also host a Beechgrove Gardener’s Question Time in Dumfries’s magnificent Easterbrooke Hall and answer as many questions from the good gardeners of Dumfries as they can. The Beechgrove Garden episode 15 2018 comes this week from Dumfries, the largest town