Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers are off to Farnham in Surrey to meet James and his fiancé Laura, a young couple with a long, thin garden that's a total disaster. It's completely bare apart from the remains of an old bathroom suite - not a plant or flower in sight. They've renovated their house but with a wedding to plan haven't got time to tackle the garden. Added to that their budget is tight - the designers only have £1500 to transform it from a barren wasteland to a flower filled haven - it's a massive challenge. The designers have to use their imaginations as much as their skills in this garden – to stretch the budget they come up with some great ideas to upcycle and recycle as well as cost effective ways of adding impact to a space and fabulous ideas for making the most of a long, thin plot.
Gardeners' World returns with Monty Don back at the helm but this time in the garden at his own Herefordshire home - a place that he's lovingly nurtured for the last twenty years. This week, with winter receding Monty, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame are preparing for Spring.
But their love affair has yet to reach their back garden.The neglected plot is only 8 metres by 4 metres and is on two levels with a 1 metre drop. How do you make a tiny garden look and feel bigger? And on a budget of just £1,200?
On his journey through four hundred years of Britain's garden history, Monty Don arrives in the eighteenth century, an age that gave rise to the landscape garden, created on a scale that had never been seen before. Using Lancelot 'Capability' Brown's first commission, Croome Court in Worcestershi...
