garden

Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2016

The Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2016

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 / 2 minutes of reading / / By

In Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2016: Carole continues with her windowsill gardening and sows herbs and salad leaves, which can be used to produce tasty, foodie salads for weeks.     In Garden on a Budget, Carole is with Mieke Guijt in rural Kennethmont, helping to mould a garden out of almost nothing. Carole takes Mieke on a budget shopping trip to buy materials for easy-to-make compost bays and shows her how to have plants for ‘free’. George visits the painterly garden of Broughton House in Kirkcudbright. The house and garden belonged to EA Hornel, artist, collector and ‘Glasgow boy’. […]

The Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2016 Read More »



Beechgrove Garden episode 5 2016

The Beechgrove Garden episode 5 2016

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 / 3 minutes of reading / / By

In the Beechgrove Garden episode 5 2016, Jim is hoping that the soil is now warm enough to plant tatties in the main veggie plot, while on the decking garden Carole is also planting tatties on a tiny scale.     Chris and Carole are going on very different fungal forays in Beechgrove this year. Chris is creating a whole Jurassic Park fungal valley with ancient timbers and all manner of edible mushrooms. Again on the other end of the scale, Carole tries out some windowsill mushroom-growing kits. George visits Alan Shamash’s impressive hillside garden full of an extensive collection

The Beechgrove Garden episode 5 2016 Read More »

Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2015

The Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 3 minutes of reading / / By

In Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2015: the whole Beechgrove team are travelling ‘doon the watter’ to the Buteiful island of Bute and to Rothesay for a Beechgrove Special Roadshow. The Pavilion in Rothesay is the venue for a Beechgrove Q&A evening.     The historical venue will be full of locals and their gardening questions which Jim, Carole, George and Chis will hope to have answers for. Bute has a favourable climate for growing and is known for Bute tatties, Bute dahlias and most recently Bute truffles. Jim and Carole will also visit some of the gardens of Bute to

The Beechgrove Garden episode 21 2015 Read More »



Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2015

The Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2015

The Beechgrove Garden 2015 / 2 minutes of reading / / By

In Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2015: Jim is on his own in the garden, taking on all his special subjects, including monitoring the progress of the tomatoes and reviewing his hydrangea pruning observation to see which of his three methods of pruning is working best and resulting in most flowers.     Meanwhile, Carole and George are helping out with the last stages of the creation of a new community garden with the good folk of Inverbervie. The new community garden will be the central feature to a garden trail around the village, designed for locals to enjoy as a

The Beechgrove Garden episode 20 2015 Read More »

Beechgrove Garden episode 26 2017

The Beechgrove Garden episode 26 2017

The Beechgrove Garden 2017 / 1 minute of reading / / By

It’s the final programme of the Beechgrove series, and Jim, Carole, George, Chris and Brian are all battening down the hatches, preparing the garden for winter but with a barrowload of hopeful hints to anticipate spring.     Jim and Carole have succumbed to a little tulip fever as they go a little crazy with bulbs, planting in containers, in spring displays and naturalising in the lawn. Sandy has a lifetime of experience to impart from how to keep tartan patterns on the lawn, through to keeping your shrubs in beautiful shape.

The Beechgrove Garden episode 26 2017 Read More »



Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2017

The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2017

The Beechgrove Garden 2017 / 1 minute of reading / / By

The whole Beechgrove team are on the road again, this time to the Fife county town of Cupar. Renowned for its award-winning floral displays, the Cupar in Bloom team have invited Beechgrove to come and take a look at their efforts, as well as hosting a Beechgrove Gardeners’ Question Time in the Corn Exchange.     Jim, Carole, George and Brian attempt to answer as many Cupar gardening questions as possible. The team also visit some of Cupar’s outstanding gardens and tee off with a visit to Elmwood Golf Course.

The Beechgrove Garden episode 22 2017 Read More »

Beechgrove Garden episode 19 2017

The Beechgrove Garden episode 19 2017

The Beechgrove Garden 2017 / 2 minutes of reading / / By

The whole team travel deep into Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song country, to the Howe of the Mearns village of Arbuthnott. For anyone who drives the A90, the red clay soils of one of the most fertile and productive areas in the country will be familiar and are the dominant feature of the area.     Jim, Carole, George and Chris explore the area horticulturally and also solve some gardening problems for the gardeners of Arbuthnott gathered in the Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Centre for a Q&A. Jim and George visit one of the oldest gardens in Scotland at Arbuthnott House,

The Beechgrove Garden episode 19 2017 Read More »



Scroll to Top