In Gardeners World episode 9 2019: with Monty away for a week, this episode of Gardeners’ World is based at Adam Frost’s garden in Cambridgeshire and he gets to grips with planting up his gravel garden with spring colour, sows some unusual vegetables and starts work on a new project.
Carol Klein is in Surrey where she is in the midst of a dazzling display of thousands of tulips. Frances Tophill makes the case for why we should be planting trees for bees in our gardens, and Mark Lane visits Denmans Garden, the home of the late landscape designer John Brookes, to find out about the next chapter in its history. And we meet an enthusiast who gives us a masterclass in interior design with houseplants.
Gardeners World episode 9 2019
Preparing your soil
Soil cultivation or digging may be hard work but, if taken slowly, it need not be back-breaking. In fact, here we describe how it can often be omitted or at least minimised.
Tulips
Tulips are amongst the most popular of bulbs, valued for their brilliant flower colours and shapes. Plant in autumn for a show of spring flowers. Choose from a large range to suit the situation. Whether used in formal or informal beds and borders, tulips make ideal bedding plants combined with annual or biennial planting. Tulips can also be useful for containers, and some varieties can be naturalised in grass.
Getting bees in your garden
Bees visit flowers to collect nectar and pollen, which they use as food for themselves and the larvae in their hives or nests. By moving from flower to flower, they are vital pollinators of many garden and wild flowers. Insect pollination which can be carried out by any insect that visits flowers including many flies, beetles, butterflies and moths is essential for the cropping of most fruits and some vegetables.
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