Gardeners World episode 22 2012: For many gardeners, the beginning of September is the start of a new gardening season and, with this in mind, Monty Don recommends vegetables to sow now for winter cropping. He also plants out the rose cuttings he took last year and takes more from another of his favourite roses.
Carol Klein takes a look at one of our most common wild plants, the daisy, and finds out from nurseryman Graham Gough how bereft of colour our September gardens would be without the bright colours of late-flowering daisies.
In a sheltered valley in west Cornwall, a new garden is taking shape with exotic plants and contemporary art installations at the heart of its design. James Alexander-Sinclair finds out more and gives his view on this new destination for garden visitors.
And back at Longmeadow, Monty lifts and divides early-flowering perennials in the Spring Garden.
Gardeners World episode 22 2012
Lifting and dividing perennials
With the inevitable slide of the season into autumn, many early spring flowering perennials are now beginning to stir. Monty Don lifts and divides clumps of woodland loving plants, Tiarella and Pulmonaria in the Spring Garden.
Perennial plants provide flowers in our gardens year after year. They are planted together to create herbaceous and mixed borders, which peak in interest in summer and early autumn. However, they can provide colour through much of the year (except the depths of winter) with careful planning and planting.
The term ‘perennials’ is used loosely by gardeners to indicate those plants which grow in beds and borders, which are not trees, shrubs or bulbs. They are the ‘summer colour’, the ‘border flowers’ and make up a ‘flower garden’.
Monty’s winter veg
To keep the succession of vegetables going Monty Don plants out kale ‘Jagallo Nero’, direct sows spinach ‘Giant Winter’, then pricks-out his spring cabbage into trays to grow them on. That way Monty will have an ample supply of fresh greens throughout the winter and on into next spring.
Pulmonaria
Pulmonaria (lungwort) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, native to Europe and western Asia, with one species (P. mollissima) east to central Asia. According to various estimates there may be between 10 and 18 species found in the wild.
