Monty Don is back in his garden, Longmeadow, Rachel de Thame is at RHS Wisley and Carol Klein visits a lady with bees. By the first week of June, plants are growing with such speed that some have a tendency to flop. Staking is the answer. He demonstrates how to make wire supports and also shows other methods already in his garden - canes, sticks and string or using pruned wood like hazel or maple.
In the herb garden at Longmeadow Monty plants out culinary herbs including rosemary, four varieties of mint - spearmint; peppermint; applemint and moroccan mint, also dill and cherville, and in the richer soil of his vegetable garden Monty plants parsley and corriander.
From her garden at Glebe ...
There are plenty of timely midsummer jobs to be getting on with this week and at Longmeadow, Monty revels in the sweet peas he grew from seed earlier in the year and shows how to keep their display going on into the weeks ahead. He also takes softwood cuttings from herbs, including lavender and ...
Monty Starts the show at a part of the garden that has been least 'gardened'. It's the wet meadow where his Writers' Shed is.
He shows us how he is cutting back the long grasses ready to turn it into a Wet Wildflower Meadow.
As the weather takes a turn for the worst Monty goes into the Potting ...
