It's Easter and the biggest gardening weekend of the year so even if you haven't yet dusted off your lawnmower there's plenty of advice and inspiration from large projects to tackling weeds.
Monty begins by explaining that he is now able to add Summer color to his beds in the Walled Garden by planting out perennials grown from seed - Aquilegia 'Lime Sorbet', Columbine; Verbascum bombyciferum 'Polarsommer' Mullein; Verbascum 'Spica'; Geum 'Mrs J. Bradshaw'; Papaver orientale, Orienta...
At Longmeadow, Monty is in the Spring Garden which is full of weeds, so rather than take the weeds out, he plants woodland perennials amongst them.
Rachel de Thame joins Monty at Longmeadow to give a helping hand, and with plenty of advice and tips on how and what to plant in a pond.
They plant marginal plants which are those that live in or on the water's edge, their roots either fully under the water level or partially submerged.
Monty ...
