As we slide into autumn, the hot garden is still looking really good but it is the miscanthus flowers that has really caught Monty's eye. These grasses show that they have flowers that hold their own with anything else around them. Carol Klein also visited RHS Rosemoor to get seasonal inspiration from their extensive sedum collection, all nestled within the stunning borders in the garden. Sedums take their name from the Latin sedere - to sit - and that's precisely what it does. Carol also meets Team Leader, David Squire who has been working at Rosemoor for the last 25 years and has got to know the sedums intimately. Joe Swift paid a visit to a RHS Partner Garden, Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire to find out how a ten year experiment in naturalistic planting, by garden designer Piet Oudolf is shaping up. Joe spoke to Lady Caroline Hegard, who along with her husband Charles, commissioned Piet Oudolf to design the garden and to Paul Smith, the Head Gardener, who maintains the garden currently.
Monty is in his orchard harvesting his apples in readiness to store them. Monty treats the apple harvest as a process. This is due to the apples ripening over a period of about a month. The ones that get the most sun come first and then the last ones will follow four or five weeks later, so he te...
Monty is in the Lime Walk which is the main link from the house to the garden. It changes across the seasons and over the twenty years since its creation, the roots have grown and it's not only got darker because everything's got bigger, but also it's got much much drier, so the planting has chan...
Monty is in the Lime Walk. Last week, as part of the revamp and simplification of the planting in the Lime Walk, he moved the white cyclamen from there to the White Garden and left the pink cyclamen, to which he added more. His plan is to plant a simple strip of plants along the narrow path that ...