This week on Gardeners' World, Monty Don is at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey. He'll be getting the latest advice about how best to look after orchids, along with some top tips on how to create a mini-meadow from scratch. He's also keen to find out more about alpines with a view to growing some back home at Longmeadow. Carol Klein helps a Britain in Bloom volunteer who's determined to bring colour to the former mining town of Easington Colliery. First time gardener Michael Welsh has begged and borrowed plants from all over to start a community garden. Carol uses her expertise to help him get even more plants for free. Joe Swift gets an early taste of summer colour at the National Botanic Garden of Wales where they're hard at work conserving some of the rarest plants in the world.
This week on Gardeners World, Monty Don is searching for signs of our long-delayed spring in his garden at Longmeadow. Taking inspiration from his trip to RHS Garden Wisley last week, he will be planting up an alpine trough. Carol Klein is out and about looking at native celandines, Wordsworth's ...
Monty makes a start on turning his ornamental veg garden into a cottage garden. He now wants to fill the space with flowers and veg. He's already made a start on it with roses but today is planting foxgloves digitalis - a variety called 'Excelsior'. He also decides on the colour scheme - he is th...
This episode comes from the Malvern Spring Gardening Show at the Three Counties Showground. Monty Don, Joe Swift and Carol Klein go behind the scenes to meet the show garden designers and the nursery men and women who make this event so special. Monty takes a sneak peak at the floral marquee befo...
