Summer Gardening with Carol Klein episode 6: As summer reaches its climax at Glebe Cottage garden in Devon, Carol Klein introduces us to a group of plants that really provides the drum roll to peak summer time: the daisy. Whether it be the bold, hot colours of heleniums and dahlias, or others, like early flowering asters that display themselves more […]
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Summer Gardening with Carol Klein episode 5: Carol Klein welcomes us back to Glebe Cottage garden, where the hot summer weather is parching the open, sun-bathed parts of the garden while the shady areas remain enticingly cool. Many gardeners struggle to get to grips with those dusty, exposed, dry areas that never seem to work. But for Carol, these can
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Summer Gardening with Carol Klein episode 4: The horticultural expert welcomes viewers back to Glebe Cottage garden in north Devon, where, despite the challenging mix of intense hot, dry days and torrential stormy downpours, the garden is showing off a magical sea of flowers and foliage. Carol also discusses geraniums, and presents tips on how to care for pelargoniums.
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Summer Gardening with Carol Klein episode 3: Summer at Glebe Cottage sometimes means changeable weather — sultry, showery and altogether typically British! But this never daunts Carol, who takes the opportunity to investigate one of our richest plant habitats: watery wetlands and bogs. The pond at Glebe Cottage is now lush with rich green foliage. Back in the spring, Carol
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Summer Gardening with Carol Klein episode 2: The horticultural expert shows viewers how her garden has both a sunny side and a shady one, and takes the opportunity to look at how plants have adapted to one or the other. Carol also gives a useful lesson in choosing plants that will thrive because they’ve been planted in the right place.
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Summer Gardening with Carol Klein episode 1: Carol is now harvesting the first of her carrots and has been dining off an abundance of chard for weeks! A visit to some native foxgloves thriving in a nearby hedgerow reveals the secrets to success with growing these wonderful plants, and kicks off a look at the whole family of plants to
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Spring Gardening with Carol Klein episode 6: At Glebe Cottage in Devon, it’s all froth and laciness, now that the flouncy cow parsley is flowering. Carol revels in her bluebell display-one of the highlights of spring. Carol Klein VMH is an English gardening expert, who also works as a television presenter and newspaper columnist. In this new series,
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Spring Gardening with Carol Klein episode 5: Carol is planting onions in her veg garden, and showing us the first shoots of her ornamental allium bulbs, which she planted in pots last autumn. Carol Klein VMH is an English gardening expert, who also works as a television presenter and newspaper columnist. In this new series, we will be
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Spring Gardening with Carol Klein episode 4: This week, more delightful and inspiring plants and tasks from Carol Klein, as spring really gets under way at her lovely country garden at Glebe Cottage in Devon. Carol Klein VMH is an English gardening expert, who also works as a television presenter and newspaper columnist. In this new series, we
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Spring Gardening with Carol Klein episode 3: This week, at her delightful garden at Glebe Cottage in Devon, the host takes the opportunity to introduce us to an absolute gem: the Dog’s Tooth Violet. Carol Klein VMH is an English gardening expert, who also works as a television presenter and newspaper columnist. In this new series, we will
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Spring Gardening with Carol Klein episode 2: Carol celebrates some of the season’s most beautiful – and tiny – flowering treasures, looking at how to choose them, how to plant them and how to care for them. She also visits one of her favourite spring wildflowers in a local wood – the humble celandine – to see how it grows
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Spring Gardening with Carol Klein episode 1: This week, more delightful and inspiring plants and tasks from Carol Klein, as spring really gets under way at her lovely country garden at Glebe Cottage in Devon. The green-fingered expert welcomes viewers back to her garden at Glebe Cottage, in Devon, and discusses her favourite spring flowers – pulmonarias. Carol also introduces
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