Gardeners World episode 25 2016 – September is the perfect time for planting and Monty adds some autumn flowering asters to his borders, as well as refreshing his strawberry beds with new stock. Carol Klein continues her series on plant families and this week, she takes a close look at one of the largest plant families in the […]
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In Gardening Australia ep. 9 2018, Sophie Thomson explores the world of wormwoods, Millie Ross makes some seed bombs, Tino Carnevale explains crop rotation, and Jerry Coleby-Williams makes the ultimate vertical garden – an aquaponic green wall! Gardening Australia ep. 9 2018 FAQs – Pruning lavender | Harvesting potatoes | Storing autumn leaves Gardening Australia presenters answer
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Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sorolla, Sargent, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art. These great artists, along with many other famous names, feature in an innovative and
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In Gardeners World 2018 episode 4, it is the busiest gardening weekend of the year and Monty has plenty of ideas and inspiration, from planting summer bulbs to sowing perennials. New projects are on his mind as he begins to mark out a brand new area at Longmeadow. Carol Klein profiles the bravest and most colourful of spring flowering
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Gardeners World episode 26 2016, there is plenty of advice from Longmeadow this week as Monty starts to tidy up the garden for autumn and reviews this year’s display in the jewel garden.  In the final part of Carol Klein’s series on plant families, she looks at the Apiaceae family, which includes not only stalwart and wildlife-friendly
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In Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 9, Monty Don visits the world’s 80 most inspiring gardens: this time, in Northern Europe. Monty is spoiled for choice in an area he knows so well. He views the floral wonders of Britain’s Sissinghurst Castle and the vivid palette of impressionist painter Monet at Giverny. He enjoys the quirky
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In Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 8, Monty Don visits Cape Town’s famous Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens he sees the King Proteus, South Africa’s national plant. In the Drakensberg Mountains he sees some native flora in its natural environment. Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 8 His favourite garden is a school vegetable patch in
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In Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 7, Monty Don continues his extraordinary journey in the Mediterranean – the cradle of European civilization. In Italy, Monty visits some of the elaborate high Renaissance gardens of stone and water which have hugely influenced western garden design. Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 7 He also visits the remains
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In Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 6Â Monty Don visits the world’s 80 most inspiring gardens, this time in China and Japan, two of the world’s oldest gardening cultures. In China he visits the ancient scholars’ gardens of Suzhou and the awesome Yellow Mountains of Huangshang that inspired them. He visits the Imperial Summer Palace Gardens of Beijing. In
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In Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 5 –Â Monty Don continues his extraordinary journey to see the world through 80 of its most inspiring gardens with a visit to the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America. He meets garden guerrillas in New York, visits a Virginian garden that reflects the birth
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On Around the World in 80 Gardens ep 4 –Â Â Monty is in South America, a continent twice the size of Europe and the home of more than 50,000 endemic plant species. In Rio de Janeiro, Monty visits the private garden of Brazil’s most famous artist, Burle Marx. He views the ingenious floating gardens of the Amazon. He visits a crumbling
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For eons, stretching back billions of years, our magnificent planet remained barren, an expanse untouched by the magic of life. However, an incredible transformation occurred, turning this once lifeless rock into a thriving, pulsating sphere of life. The unsung hero behind this metamorphosis? Soil.
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