Gardeners World episode 24 2012: In this special programme from the Royal Horticultural Society’s gardens, Monty Don visits the RHS garden at Wisley in Surrey and Carol Klein visits Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire to get practical gardening advice from their experts and to find solutions to viewers’ gardening dilemmas.
At Wisley, Monty looks at the vegetable garden to find out how it has fared over the difficult gardening year of 2012 and discovers what the RHS gardeners have been growing to excite the taste buds. He also gets a few top tips from the RHS fruit experts on the best grapes to grow for eating and the best for producing wine here in the UK.
At Harlow Carr, the northernmost garden of the RHS, Carol Klein discovers the plants which grow well in their harsher climate and along with the RHS experts, answers a few dilemmas from our northern viewers on choosing hardy plants for exposed conditions, what lawns need now to ensure a great sward in spring and how to propagate a favourite magnolia.
Gardeners World episode 24 2012
Carol layers magnolia stellata
Leaving behind a much-loved tree or shrub when we move on is often the cause of great sadness; gardens hold memories that make it hard to let go. Carol, in response to one viewer’s request who is about to sell a property, shows us how to propagate a magnolia by layering. This technique can also be used to propagate wisteria, camellia, hamamelis, and forsythia.
Magnolia stellata
Magnolia stellata, sometimes called the star magnolia, is a slow-growing shrub or small tree native to Japan. It bears large, showy white or pink flowers in early spring, before its leaves open. This species is closely related to the Kobushi magnolia (Magnolia kobus), and is treated by many botanists as a variety or even a cultivar of that. However, Magnolia stellata was accepted as a distinct species in the 1998 monograph by Hunt.
