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00:18hello and welcome to gardeners world it is a beautiful spring day here at damson farm and
00:23the bulbs are just looking absolutely magnificent but everywhere I look as I pick through this meadow
00:29and having to avoid seedlings there are so many plants but that's the wonderful thing about plants
00:33they really do come up everywhere
00:52even here on this little bit of gravel on the edge of the driveway there are so many different
00:57seedlings coming up but this time of year one of the things that I really love is primrose as a
01:04kind
01:04of herald of spring and they do seed themselves everywhere so I'm actually going to dig some of
01:09these up because as beautiful as they are here they're possibly not in their best position and
01:14it's just a case of of prizing those roots out as intact as you can and now is the perfect
01:20time to
01:20divide them up a bit and plant them in other places so you have that spring herald all around the
01:26garden
01:26wherever you can it's just a gentle case of prizing rather than yanking and then hopefully there's a
01:36good root system on these there we go that's a healthy seedling now primroses have a really
01:42interesting way of sharing genetic material making seedlings basically they have male and female parts
01:49within the flowers but you get two distinct kinds of flowers there are pin eye flowers they're the female
01:54flowers and the thrum eye flowers which have got the male parts nearer the front so this is a thrum
02:01eye
02:01and if you look carefully inside that flower you can see the anthers at the front the female parts will
02:07still be in there but they'll be much further back whereas this one
02:13is a pin eye so that's the stigma there that you can see right in the middle of the flower
02:17like a pinhead and that's the female part of the flower so that just means that the plant isn't
02:23going to pollinate itself it will be pollinated with a different plant which gives it more genetic
02:28diversity and hopefully makes healthier seedlings
02:37one of the great things about primrose is as a very early spring flower they're great
02:42for emerging wildlife so things like card bees or hairy footed flower bees or even butterflies that
02:48have overwintered will feed off the nectar in these because they are full of nectar so it makes them just
02:53really valuable if you're trying to extend your pollinator season
03:02now i'm going to leave the rest here because they do look beautiful but there is a spot in the
03:06garden i have in mind to put these i think they're going to look lovely
03:29this is the area where my primrose is going to go but there's a bit of clearing to do first
03:34so i have been asked by allison who owns damson farm to sort of take on this space
03:40and what i want to do with it is really turn it into a wildlife focused area of the garden
03:45already she has put a hedgehog house and insect habitat in this space so it's doing it a little
03:51bit but there's so much more that we can do here so you can see the road is just there
03:56and obviously
03:57for wildlife that's not good because they have the risk of being run over there so if we can create
04:01instead a hedge or a corridor along this edge where they can move through and that will also baffle
04:08the sound of cars as they go by and make the garden feel more peaceful
04:14with this sort of thing whatever you choose whether it's hedging climbers or the plants in the beds
04:19it's all about maximizing the potential for different wildlife so choosing things that have
04:24berries that have flowers that have leaves that are food sources so within this space it's a huge
04:30untapped potential
04:42now my instincts as a gardener would be to clear this whole area get all of the ground cover up
04:48turn the soil mulch the soil have a lovely blank canvas and then plant into that but as a wildlife
04:54gardener i have to overrule all of those instincts and recognize these plants what they are which is
05:00lovely native wildflower so there's celandine even this dandelion is so fantastic for bumblebees
05:09so instead i'm going to let this ground cover stay and just carve out little holes into which i can
05:15plant
05:15my primroses you could at this stage also if you wanted divide them into ones that you can spread
05:23all over which i think i'll do because then next year there might be a bit more of a carpet
05:26here
05:29wildlife doesn't like neatness
05:48this is a hazel seedling which is a really beneficial tree to wildlife but there's a big one here
05:54and i really in this space i'm looking to target bird species now we gardeners love to feed the birds
06:03in our gardens but actually the rspb have been looking at this and they've slightly updated their
06:10advice on it the advice now is to feed them safely and feed them seasonally so that means that in
06:16the
06:17spring and the summer rather than putting out seeds and nuts instead it means growing as much of
06:22the wild food sources as you can so berries seeds and even planting things that will bring in the
06:28insects that many birds like to feed on this is particularly important for birds like finches who
06:34are experiencing a lot of disease and that comes from when they all gather on one feeder and green
06:41finches have now been put on the red list and rather than having seeds where they can all gather in
06:45one space and spread disease having things like rose hips and teasels planted through the garden allows
06:52them to feed at a nice safe distance and hopefully to start to recover and here i really want to
07:00make that difference
07:04what i am going to plant in this space instead of the hazel is
07:10a gelda rose viburnum opulis it's a really really beautiful shrub it's covered in white flowers which
07:17then turn to the most beautiful iridescent red berries perfect for things like red wings and
07:22field fairs and blackbirds i've got three or four of these which i can spread through this space and
07:28create a lovely hedgerow even if you have a very small garden this is a really nice choice
07:46there that should settle in now this area is not going to be one big quick sort of makeover but
07:52slowly over the air i'm going to keep adding and adding more wildlife friendly species here so it'll be
07:57lovely to see it transformed by the end of the season now for all of us spring brings this lovely
08:11energy
08:12to the garden but for mina wilson in birmingham it heralds the beginning of a very special flower season
08:22hi my name's mina and welcome to my garden here in the west midlands around these parts
08:27we love a daffodil when i got this garden it was just a patch of green lawn and i knew
08:36i wanted just
08:37to have flowers everywhere i discovered my love of daffodils and i decided i'll just get one daffodil
08:43and before i knew it i had over 120 pots and eight beds filled with daffodils they come in so
08:51many
08:51different shapes and sizes you've got the really small delicate ones and then you've got big trumpets
08:58and then you've also got the ruffles and doubles they're just so many different shapes and sizes
09:04it's not all just a trumpet yellow daffodil that you see on the roadside
09:12so this is a particular favorite of mine is called ballroom bell and probably to most people doesn't look
09:18like your average daffodil when you look at a big boy like this one with its yellow trumpet and yellow
09:23petals and then you've got something as delicate as this with its little hoops and its creaminess
09:30and i think this is really a good one for growing in pots so whether you have a big garden
09:35or just a
09:35balcony there's definitely a daffodil available for everyone
09:42so i just want to share some of my top tips with you and the first one
09:45is after you've watered your daffodils because daffodils love to be in well-drained soil but with
09:52moisture you want to make sure that they're fully drained now i know this might look a little bit
09:57extreme but if you tip the pots onto the side it helps drainage it means they can't get waterlogged as
10:04easily
10:10well squirrels don't always like daffodil bulbs to eat unlike tulips they do like to dig so what i do
10:16with my daffodils that are in pots i just cover them with a cage like this if you're not fancy
10:21like me
10:22you can just use a cage and put it on like that or an upturn basket
10:30so this beautiful daffodil here is called fencourt jewel and it's a multi-headed daffodil
10:38it's got such a delicate scent to it which is absolutely beautiful in the morning like when
10:44i have it in the greenhouse and i open the door up and it hits me full in the face
10:48there's just
10:49nothing better sets me up for the working day so after a long wet winter in the uk to see
10:59their
11:00trumpets it's like it sounds the horn of spring it brings me such joy and they're just a happy flower
11:09i hope you've enjoyed seeing my daffodils today and i hope you find one to fall in love with really
11:14soon
11:32i love how happy those daffodils made me and i totally understand it at the end of winter oh
11:37the relief of seeing spring flowers if it brings you joy i think then grow it
11:56hi alison hiya it's so nice to see your garden in the spring all the structures and everything
12:03just looks so beautiful so what are you doing here so i'm just digging up some of this this is
12:09quite established um hackna cloa macra right um and i've got some new beds on the other side of the
12:14house
12:15so um i thought it would work there hackna cloa is such a good grass it's a really nicely performing
12:22one quite neat and quite small and this is the green form isn't it yeah and it's it's a really
12:28long
12:28seasoned performer as well yeah perfect all right should we carry it through
12:57so this is your redevelopment area yes yeah i'm quite excited about this having a new area to plant
13:04up yeah what made you want to do it well i think it was the successive hot summers we've been
13:10having
13:10because because there's quite a lot of paving here i've got quite a few metal containers but
13:15i think last summer having to water almost every night it just didn't seem sustainable either from
13:22a time point of view and also from a water point of view the more increasing hose pipe bands in
13:27some
13:27parts of the country means you can't actually yeah water so i guess you're now planting in the ground
13:32instead of in pots yeah exactly there were big slabs and a lot of concrete underneath so this beautiful
13:39soil that's here presumably it took a lot of work to get to that stage yeah so we just used
13:45soil that
13:46came from the garden it's mostly mostly topsoil and brought in a little bit of manure
13:58okay that's the spiraea okay i'm guessing that will go sort of near the back because that'll get
14:03quite big yes it will i wanted the beds to be winter and early spring focused particularly as this area
14:10is near the house okay so that's a daphne white queen so that winter scented as well that'll be beautiful
14:18yeah this is a brunnera called betty bowering a brunnera is a perennial forget-me-not normally
14:29they're blue so things like jack frost are fairly common but this is a lovely white one and in that
14:34bed it should really bring a sparkle in the spring and then go very very quiet and fade into the
14:40background through the summer they'll be a really good performer and they're very good in shade so if you
14:45have a difficult shady spot in the garden they're great plants to get hold of if you can
14:56this is a daphne which is a really lovely late winter flowering shrub in this form this is called
15:03white queen what daphne does is it fills the whole air with scent at a time of year when there's
15:09very
15:09little else in flower so it's really really precious for that but they can be a bit tricky
15:14to establish and i have had them die on me before and when you spend a lot of money on
15:19them that's
15:19heartbreaking so when you first plant it just make sure you really look after it for that first year
15:24they don't like to be too wet so don't plant it somewhere that's going to get waterlogged
15:29they also don't like to get too dry so especially for that first year just water it in long dry
15:34periods um and they don't like to get too cold so somewhere sheltered and protected like this one by
15:41the wall and i think allison will fleece this and keep it covered until the spring really warms up
15:47and they don't like to be in really hot baking sun either
15:56there we go grow well
16:29taking plants from containers and putting them in the ground will save you work on watering
16:33in the summer but some of us don't have a chance to do that and if you have a garden
16:37like a balcony
16:37or just some decking or paving that you can't dig up because you rent the property then you will need
16:42to grow in pots and to stop watering becoming a huge problem or the soil from heating up too much
16:48there are simple tricks that you can use insulating is basically what you're going to try to do and
16:55mulching as well there are really nice environmentally friendly ways of doing this so this is hessian
17:01that you can pick up for free from coffee shops that can be placed on the inside of the pot
17:08itself
17:08so that could work really well another thing that you can use is coir which is used for lining hanging
17:15baskets now that's a really good insulation and quite good structurally as well but what i think
17:22i'm going to use is some sheep's wool so this is material that you can get in packages a lot
17:27more
17:27companies using sustainable packaging now but you can also buy this as a product and that has an amazing
17:34insulating effect and you can also use it as a mulch as well so really help to prevent moisture loss
17:41from the surface of the soil and keep the temperatures cooler in there but what you don't
17:45want to do is go into a field and collect sheep's wool from the ground because it could have been
17:49treated with dewormers and all kinds of chemicals so really avoid that and go for something that you
17:55know is chemical free and in that vein don't use things like dyed wool because you don't know what
18:01that chemical might be newspaper has ink on it so just think about microplastics think about chemicals
18:07that might leach into the soil especially if you're growing food but cardboard paper wool will all do
18:13a really good job
18:26there we go now that's full i'm going to be planting some peas in there this is a dwarf pea
18:35which is
18:35specifically bred for growing in containers so it should be very very happy here and it will fill
18:40the space through the spring right up until the end of june early july i love peas they're one of
18:48the nicest things to grow because they're really easy they're really beautiful the flowers are lovely and
18:54then they're obviously delicious this is a mange two style so you eat everything right so i'm going to
19:00sow these quite densely about three times the depth of a seed is how deep it goes if you're unsure
19:06but
19:06it's always written on the packet so check that and that's going to be really quite filled the idea
19:13being that hopefully we'll get good germination if we do get good germination we can thin and pick
19:18the shoots and eat them because they make a good salad crop and if we don't get good germination we'll
19:23still
19:23have enough to fill this pot and because it's vegetables my instinct is to make them slightly
19:29neat and symmetrical you don't really need to do that it might look a little bit excessive having
19:35such a big pot just for little seeds like this but that's very intentional and the idea is it saves
19:41me
19:41having to water a bigger pot will hold onto more water a smaller pulp will dry out more quickly so
19:47by
19:47putting these in a nice big generous container hopefully it means i won't need to water it anywhere near as
19:52often still with a vegetable you wouldn't want it to dry out so probably if the weather is very warm
19:57i would still water this every day or every other day but if it was a small pot it might
20:03be twice a
20:03day that you're needing to keep on top of that the other thing about a big pot is it won't
20:09warm up so
20:10quickly either so the temperatures stay a little bit cooler now ordinarily if you were sowing peas you'd
20:16want to put some sort of obelisk in for them to grow up but these are dwarfing peas so they're
20:20not climbing
20:21so this is now done we'll just cover it over give it water to start the germination process keep it
20:27watered until you see the first shoots coming and then these will be harvested by about june and from
20:34then on you then pull the peas out when they've all finished producing their pods and replace it with a
20:38crop that can take a little bit higher temperatures there we go
20:52it's lovely to be thinking of warm summer days with the cold wind
20:58but last august joe went to cornwall lucky man to visit a garden where the planting has specifically
21:04been designed to withstand the elements we may like to be beside the seaside but our plants don't
21:13always feel the same a sea view may be a dream but get it wrong and gardening on the coast
21:20can be a
21:20nightmare there's quite a bit to think about strong winds and salt laden air can destroy your dahlias and
21:29wreak havoc with your haemera callus so creating wind breaks and choosing plants for the right
21:35conditions is absolutely key to successful gardening in this part of the country
21:42a crooksillic manor in truro annie agnew has mastered this to create a garden that can take
21:48anything the cornish coast can throw at it hi annie beautiful hedges i've got to say yeah they're coming
21:54on what do you mean coming on they're pretty maturey how long have they been in they're 10 years old
21:59so they're not fully grown yet we right at the beginning designed this to try and break up the
22:05space and break up the wind because we live in cornwall and cornwall has got wind cornwall has
22:13wind from every direction possible and particularly here we've got problems with the wind coming up the
22:20valley from the sea and it causes a lot of damage we've lost massive trees i turn up on one
22:26of the
22:26calmest days of the year totally calm but i can imagine in the winter it must just rip through here
22:32and these hedges they're fantastic because they filter the wind don't they you need this filtered
22:37wind to protect big perennial beds so making the hedges into whirling forms and ovals and long
22:47extensions that wrap around parts of the garden really sorts the wind out but also with the
22:52topography of the the local area you know the hills beyond these sort of rolling shapes of the hedges
22:57they just work beautifully and the different heights they're doing a lot of things these hedges
23:02aren't they they're separating the planting areas too into really distinct planting zones
23:06and you've got lots of other evergreen structural plants here we've used a lot of pitosporum
23:15we've placed them fairly close together so that they make a pseudo hedge but without clipping
23:21it without putting them into one line and we've used them in the borders as structural elements to
23:27hold the border together visually and these hoherias those are fantastic they're one of my favorite
23:34plants that's hoheria sextylosa beautiful white starry flowers that the bees love the whole tree hums for
23:41about five weeks what about the rest of the planting what's the rationale behind that the color schemes
23:47what you want to grow yeah well plant greed just wanted i wanted plants from everywhere in the world
23:54and all kinds that's why the evergreen structures are so important because it controls the mess basically
24:05what's striking here is the sheer diversity of plants not just growing but thriving and as you move
24:12through each carefully designed environment the character of the planting shifts the colors the forms
24:19the entire mood of the garden evolves around you revealing a new story at every turn this is annie's
24:28hot garden and you can tell there's a microclimate in here it's a walled space and out there the breeze
24:34is picking up but in here it's incredibly still and there's a lot of exotic plants that are really
24:40thriving we've got hot reds we've got oranges we've got yellows all working together beautifully and things
24:47like this dahlia one of my favorites chat noir really doing its thing it's a lovely cactus form and
24:53it's looking very happy and deep it looks great sitting above this foliage just hovering through this border here
25:08over in this corner we've got a very strong color theme coming through we've got yellows and oranges
25:14and whites and beautiful foliage all mixed in together very exotic planting things like this canna
25:22this is called ra i love the simple yellow flowers the glaucus foliage and this is a ginger lily next
25:29to
25:30it again it's got a really impressive foliage and the flower is just starting to open up here in cornwall
25:37the
25:37climate is incredibly mild so annie can leave these plants through the winter in the ground mulch over them and
25:44they'll come up in spring but in a lot of parts of the uk you won't get away with that
25:49but you can
25:49grow them in containers and then put them into a protected spot over winter and bring them on next
25:56spring and one plant i just have to mention while i'm here is that tetrapanax rex at the back the
26:04rice
26:04paper plant now it shows again how mild it is here because it's developed a trunk like a tree or
26:11a large
26:11shrub in colder areas it'll die back you cut it down to the ground and it will come back up
26:16again but
26:17it looks absolutely stunning at that height
26:37now annie calls this her silver border but i'm going to call it her silver green blue and white border
26:45she's really gone with this theme and it works and it's very different to the exotic garment she's
26:51full of vibrant colors it's energizing this is calming it's a very tranquil space and she's chosen plants
26:58with small leaves so there's not big drama small leaves that just work really nicely together and
27:05create a lovely textural balance throughout and it's that that creates the calming mood of this space so
27:12things like this veronic castrum we've got the econops in front there there's some lavender down
27:18there and we've even got pitosporums and they're all working really nicely together and the bees are
27:25just all over these veronic castrums so the wildlife loves it too
27:36beyond the wall garden annie has created another haven for flora and fauna carved out of the hillside
27:43and sheltered by trees wow this pond is stunning and a magnet for wildlife and when you think a wildlife
27:52pond you think oh maybe they're a bit amoebic shaped a little bit messy around the edges a bit scrappy
27:58but here annie has shown that they can be incredibly stylish too and what i like is she's gone really
28:05big with it it fills this space and if you're making a pond go as big as you can once
28:11you've dug
28:12the hole and put the liner in it might look enormous but once you fill the water and put some
28:17pond plants
28:18in the whole space will shrink and annie has been really restrained with the planting we've got aquatics
28:25like the water lilies just covering the water surface there's oxygenators in there and then
28:30marginals around the outside breaking the edge of the pond and one of my favorites talia del bartha over
28:36there with architectural foliage it looks wonderful
28:43yeah this is how to do it
28:55as a designer i find annie's process so interesting it started with the hedges that she put in sinuous
29:03lines cutting through the landscape to reduce the wind but also to link with the landscape beyond
29:09and to divide the whole garden up into separate rooms those rooms are all different shapes but she's
29:16created environments in which to grow her favorite plants and it's all about the plants and she said
29:23strong cornish winds no problem at all
29:53i know from experience myself that gardening right by the sea
29:56is not always a holiday but having a greenhouse like this just gives you the luxury of protecting
30:03your plants from all of those elements and this one's full of beautiful things
30:08oh and look
30:11these are the brad's atomic grape tomato seeds that i soaked last year to get all of the jelly off
30:17them
30:17so that they'd be ready to re-sow and look here they are coming up beautifully ready to be pricked
30:23out i reckon it's nice to see it all happening isn't it in the spring and then by the end
30:28of this year
30:29there'll be more tomatoes to harvest more seeds from but what many of us have actually is packets of
30:34seeds we buy them if you're like me you'll buy way too many you'll use some and there'll be lots
30:39left
30:39over and you're not always sure whether they're viable or not now some like tomatoes have quite a
30:45long viability but others like salads lettuce brassicas are much shorter and if you've got lots
30:53of packets that you're not sure they'll work rather than spending a whole tray of compost on sewing them
30:59only to find them failing there's a much better way of testing viability which is sewing them in very
31:05small rows like this so you have five different varieties just in this one tray
31:11it's very simple to do and you can prick out the big healthy ones if you want to
31:23so what i have is three separate seeds of brassicas two kale and one broccoli there are
31:32just a few left in each so i'm going to mix them up there we go and then the last
31:43kale
31:47there you go look brassica seeds are so lovely they're tiny little round spheres
31:54and they need quite a deep root run so if you are sewing them into modules
31:58give them nice deep modules and this pot is perfect for that so they should grow really nicely into here
32:05normally you'd start any brassica off in a module or a seed tray but when you're eventually planting
32:10it they want to be at least 30 centimeters apart because they get pretty big but here they'll be
32:15perfect for seedlings so really quite a dense sowing because as i said we don't know how many of them
32:21will
32:21come up they may not all be viable still that's that so i'll just put a little more compost over
32:30the top of this to cover them and then firm it nicely so that they make good contact that will
32:36greatly help their germination now you could do this with salad as well like mustard got rockets lettuces
32:43there's some really interesting kinds of salad leaf as well and what we'll do is just water this and
32:49then watch it once they start to come up you would pick the best the strongest ones and you would
32:55carefully pick them out taking the roots and potting them into something like this and growing them on and
33:03then eventually planting them out into the veg garden for everything else that's left behind
33:07you just let that grow up it becomes a mix and then you can just snip it off and it
33:12will regrow
33:12and hopefully last for a good few weeks as a cut and come again micro green now micro greens are
33:18essentially any vegetable that you would eat the leaves off so you could use herbs you could use
33:23coriander parsley basil mixed salad brassicas cabbages anything like that you can just keep chopping
33:31and eat the greens what you wouldn't use is obviously any kind of cut flower that you're growing from
33:37seed or trying their viability or vegetables that you actually eat the fruits of so cucumbers squashes
33:44tomatoes peppers tomatillos anything like that i wouldn't use as a micro green but if you know you
33:49can eat the leaves then they taste delicious when they're tiny there we go that's done
33:59now starting any plant whether food or flower on its journey is so enriching
34:04and there's a whole kingdom to choose from but for liz carter in cheshire one particular species
34:11is out of this world
34:17some flowers are in your face
34:21erythroniums aren't you've got to get down there and and look at them they're so ethereal
34:30they're so delicate and there's such variation from the yellows that are bold
34:35through to the very pale pinky ones and if you're walking on a slightly breezy day you can see them
34:42all
34:42dancing i'm liz welcome to my woodland garden in the world where i've been since 1963
34:56i'm sitting here surrounded by erythronium revolutum which is one of the species the display here is a
35:06a pleasure every time i open the garden gate and walk in
35:12and it gets better every year because the more i spread them the better it gets
35:18just collect your dried seed and scatter it in your garden then all you need is patience because
35:24they'll germinate the next year and you have to wait three to five years for them to flower but it's
35:30well worth it at the back of my mind it reminds me that this is a bit of californian glamour
35:38in the spring
35:44it was 1961 and 62 i was living in california
35:51my husband went out to do a post-doctoral fellowship and i flew out to join him
35:58i had a job working on stage four of saturn which was the the business went to the moon
36:04so you were part of the space race i was part of the space race yes
36:12fondest memories are definitely to do with being in the mountains
36:18we could walk up to probably about 10 000 11 000 feet
36:25and there's the intrepid couple
36:29as the snow melts up in the sierra the erythroniums were coming through
36:35we had enjoyed being i suppose in the in the wild country and we came back and were looking to
36:44find somewhere to live we were desperately looking for a house buried in the country somewhere
36:52and we finally found not only was the house derelict but the garden was derelict as well of course we
36:58had
36:58absolutely no money to buy plants so we started propagating filled the garden and as the years
37:05went past we couldn't stop propagating
37:15this area which is backed by the wood pile which i'm very keen on for getting beetles and insects
37:21it has just got numerous woodlanders in it and they're all seeding around and intermingling which
37:28is rather nice
37:32from the the trillium avata right up at the top through trillium albidum which is the one that's a
37:40bit of a weed and it's just seeded all over the place and we've got simile i can see a
37:47lovely maroon in
37:48the center sometimes similarly hangs below and sometimes it comes up above the leaves
37:57and interspersed we've got the pink erythronium revolutum which is everywhere in the garden
38:09this garden is on the south facing sandstone hill and it's an acid sand they love being in woodland
38:18conditions because of the leaf fall so lovely rich soil and they get the drainage during the summer
38:26because the trees are taking all the moisture out of the soil
38:32here we have erythronium white beauty it's one of the hybrids and it's very prolific it divides
38:40beautifully and you get wonderful clumps like these and it shows how erythroniums
38:45grow in tree roots and it's a very good example of the silver veining in the leaf
38:59these are my nursery beds this is erythronium toluminense it's from yosemite park from the high meadows
39:08it has several flowers on a spike and it's always very early it's the first one to be out usually
39:15of
39:15the mainstream north american bulbs they're very promiscuous you know erythroniums so breathe
39:22with one another really quite freely this was a cross that i found in in the garden it has a
39:31huge
39:32flower power you can see here that you're getting what's on average three flowers per stem but they're
39:39a good sized flower and you've got the greeny color backing here from oregonum and you've got the pink
39:47coming from the revolutum they're special to me because they were found it was this hybrid was found
39:52in my garden and then gradually over the years i isolated it and and bulked it up
39:59it's called erythronium elizabeth
40:04they hate being in pots i keep them in pots for the shortest possible time
40:12if you're going to divide your erythronium clump when it's got too congested
40:17don't do it now i'm just doing this to demonstrate it to you so let's see what we find
40:26and here's a lovely example of next year's bulb you'll see very clearly why they've got the common
40:32name of dog's tooth violet this new growth this will get bigger and bigger so please don't divide
40:40your plants until they're very very dormant in august
40:46if i were to start i would start where i started the yellow hybrids and pagoda is a commonly available
40:56and the white beauty this year's bulb will probably give you two bulbs next year
41:01and so it's really quite easy to get a clump and then you can divide the clump and and walk
41:07them
41:07around the garden
41:14they're like a newborn baby they're just perfect i think in every way
41:21well they calm me down you know you can just look at them and feel everything relaxing because
41:27they're covering the ground and they're drifting off into the distance yes
41:32they're good for my well-being they're very fashionable term
41:41ah
42:04i loved that garden and i loved that story how that space was built over a lifetime together and i
42:11think that says everything about our gardens they really are a part of who we are and it's lovely to
42:16see
42:30come on
42:32there's so many here but it does make it slightly problematic sometimes when you want to do some
42:38pruning in the garden because this is the time of year when they're most actively nesting now between
42:43the first of march and the 31st of august it is strongly recommended that you don't do any hedge pruning
42:51but if you have one shrub that might need shaping you just need to be absolutely sure that you're not
42:57disturbing any nesting birds because that is against the law so what you need to do is you need to
43:02observe that shrub for a couple of days and make sure no birds are coming and going because that
43:06would be a sure sign of active nesting activity if there are no signs of any birds then when you've
43:12decided to give it a prune before you make any snips just ever so gently look inside the structure and
43:19make sure you can't see any nests so this is a lovely fillaria the garden is full of them and
43:25they give a
43:25beautiful shape this has got very very delicate leaves a great alternative to box you can use a
43:31hedge trimmer if you like but i like to use a clean sharp pair of shears like this and just
43:36go in gently
43:37you can always take more off you can't stick it back on
43:42and make sure you regularly step back just to observe the shape you've created
43:59that pruning is my favorite gardening job there's something really really mindful about it because
44:04you observe whatever it is you're cutting whether it's a rose or some topiary like this
44:10you think about its shape you can really change the feel of the garden by doing one simple job
44:15it makes everything feel neater but it's just like the sound
44:21of the shears and the feel of it going through it's just a really really pleasant job to do
44:30what you want to do with anything like this is take off the wooliness now with the box actually quite
44:36like it being left a bit unkempt and woolly because it's a nice dense structure but here it would turn
44:42into
44:42a really big shrub whereas obviously what you're wanting is this set of three lovely spheres
44:51and i have found that box that aren't clipped have been more resilient to attacks by the caterpillars
44:57because you're not putting them under unnecessary stress so taking off the wooliness without going
45:04too far back into the wood especially as we still do have risk of cold nights and these can get
45:10damaged
45:11by frost if they've just been clipped so it's gentle but enough to give it that definition and shape
45:20pruning like this is one of those timely jobs that helps the garden stay in check and really helps your
45:24view of the garden as well but toby is sharing some of his best gardening tips from his garden down
45:32in devon
45:48gardening is so life affirming every day i do it i make new discoveries have surprises and there's
45:55always so much to learn whether you've got window boxes or acreage to look after you're always on a
46:01journey of finding out more
46:11i've been gardening here for 20 years and it's on a sloping site it's quite difficult to deal with
46:19the thing about sloping sites is that soil always goes downhill and i built these retaining walls to
46:25hold it back but over the years as i've added compost the soil levels have built up and it's still
46:31falling over the wall and that's where agapanthus comes in you see this stuff is like a palisade a
46:38retaining wall that grows that will hold back the earth and now is the ideal window of opportunity to
46:44lift divide it and turn it into a living wall here in devon i'm using evergreen agapanthus but any tough
46:52evergreen herbaceous plant would do the same job lifting and dividing agapanthus isn't for the
46:59faint-hearted because the roots are really fleshy and they just grab hold of the soil you've got to
47:06be cruel to be kind you've got to be rough to get them out the soil you always know you're
47:11winning when
47:11you hear this sound victory i'll just get this out where we can work on it
47:27now ideally when you're lifting and dividing plants you use back-to-back forks or your fingers to tear
47:34it looks very brutal but it's better than using the spade because you actually maintain more of the
47:39root so the regrowth and establishment is so much quicker and look at that the perfect clump loads
47:44of growing points and buds and a tangle of roots at the base
47:52into the soil same depth as it was before
47:59this looks a bit beat up now but with the growing season ahead
48:03this will bounce back and we'll probably flower this summer
48:06i love this little corner of the garden in a dappled shade i walk past it all the time because
48:25it's at the junction of two paths summer and winter and it's in winter i get the most pleasure from
48:30it
48:30because i grow plants that flower right at the bee of the bank the start of the growing season there's
48:36crocus and there's snowdrops long gone now but also hellebores glorious things just go into seed
48:43now these things are expensive to buy but once you've got one they're so easy to propagate
48:48if you use this trick what i've got in my bucket is leaf mold and this is the perfect medium
48:56for getting
48:56woodland plants like hellebores to sprout and grow on their own and set their seed
49:02all i do over here is just chuck it on the soil as a mulch it locks in moisture and
49:07oriental hellebores
49:08need that in summer but it also acts as a little bed for when the seeds from the flowers tumble
49:14out
49:14and then fall onto the ground and honestly they come up like cress i like this type of garden because
49:19it's wow it's not just working with mother nature it's kind of giving her a helping hand
49:26and if you don't believe me have a look at this look at the clutch of free plants i've got
49:30in there
49:30all you do is get in there gently lever them up from the soil
49:38look at that an oriental hellebore for free
49:52lots of us love cats this is richard parker and rich does cause problems loitering around certain
49:59parts of the garden but there are ways to keep our feline friends off bare soil and they're also
50:05good for keeping down the weeds which we all have isn't that right rich i knew you'd agree
50:15a great plan to quickly cover bare soil and keep rich and his mates away
50:19is iberian comfrey cats don't like its brissy leaves but bees absolutely love it
50:27you can lift and divide it at any time of year just cut back the tops
50:30and keep it well watered after planting and an easy way to cover a lot of ground fast is to
50:37plant
50:37the stems horizontally creating a matrix across the soil that connects together they root so quickly
50:45and establish before you know it instant ground cover sorry rich
50:57i spend a lot of time in the greenhouse in spring because what's humming a tune in spring in the
51:02greenhouse is singing a song in summer that's how i look at it and i save a lot of seeds
51:07from year to
51:08year keep the seed from your plot from one year into the next and then from that year into the
51:13one that
51:13follows you develop what's known as a land race which is a postcode specific strain of seeds that
51:21suits your garden and that's what i've been doing with tomatillos now back in the autumn the last of
51:26the plants i just put the fruits on top of this pot of compost tomatillos right they look like tomatoes
51:33we've got a net curtain casing around the outside of them and inside you see the net cans are full
51:39of seeds
51:40seeds but the seeds with a difference because the fruit as it rots it strips away the waxy cuticle
51:48from those seeds and makes them incredibly easy to sprout come the spring given just a splash of water
51:58to wash that seed into the compost i kid you not those kernels you'll see them sprouting almost within a
52:06day
52:06here just to prove the point is a pot of tomatillos that i watered last week look at those beauties
52:15now these tomatillos will need to go into individual pots and be grown on frost free until the cold
52:21weather clears because they're cheap but jowl it would be a game to get in there and prick them out
52:26but
52:26there is a quicker and easier method give the pot a shake
52:30and then the whole lot comes out onto my potting bench in one go like that but because i've opened
52:37up the compost you see they'll peel out as individuals even when they've got long and forked
52:44roots which is something you would never be able to do if you're pricking out conventionally using a
52:57dibber it's a really satisfying method and part of that is because at the back end of the year when
53:03the growing season is coming to an end and i'm putting the fruit on the compost i know that it
53:08won't be long before i'm watering them again and spring will be out of the blocks wonderful
53:33i think the lovely thing is that as the garden wakes up so does the gardener you get all that
53:38energy of spring yourself which you do need because there are so many jobs to do at this time of
53:43the
53:45year oh look a bee fly on the forget-me-nots oh really is spring they're magical to watch what
53:54i'm
53:54doing here is actually dividing some lily of the valley it's not the ideal time to do that because
53:58it's about to flower you'd really do it later in the year and it's finished that but there's a big
54:05clump of it here and it's spreading they have some fairly aggressive rhizomes that can take over a space
54:10if they're happy and the kinds of conditions that will make them happy are partial shade
54:15particularly shade in the spring because they're woodland plants so dry shade before the canopy comes
54:22out will get them very happily flowering and then they'll go dormant later in the year but what i'm
54:28going to do is i'm going to put some gloves on because they are very poisonous lily of the valley
54:33and also it's an irritant to the skin
54:38all right there we go oops casualty but you can see that's a really really healthy clump of them
54:46and they are about to flower these are the flower buds here now those flowers are tiny little white
54:51bells and they smell absolutely incredible i'm actually going to put it into a little pot
54:58that i can place by the door or by an open window or a regularly opened window so that you
55:05can get
55:05that scent in the house and i'm just gonna use the soil from the ground here rather than getting lots
55:10of compost now it's a really nice way of using them you get the best of their season at this
55:17point
55:17up at eye level and somewhere you can see and smell them and then once they've gone over you can
55:23take
55:23this empty it out and then plant them somewhere else in the garden where they can begin to do this
55:30and spread around
55:53there that's one thing off the list but here are some other jobs that you can be getting on with
56:11it's time to remove these winter salads that have started to go over in the greenhouse
56:17once they go to flower the leaves turn bitter and the plants take up precious space that we'll
56:21need for spring sowings but don't be too quick to clear the lot leaving a few to flower is brilliant
56:27for insects and adds a lovely touch of color and later you can harvest the seeds for next winter's
56:33crops
56:39you can make the most of fallen branches and twiggy bits left after cutting back herbaceous plants
56:46rather than throwing them out build little habitat piles
56:49deadwood is brilliant for insects and the nooks and crannies give small creatures somewhere to shelter
56:56you can even weave branches into a simple dead hedge it's a lovely way to tidy the garden
57:00while creating a home for wildlife
57:09with the start of warm spring days it's safe to take the salvias i put into the greenhouse for a
57:14bit
57:14of winter protection out to start hardening off i like to give them a trim to encourage fresh
57:21bushy growth they'll enjoy the extra light and airflow but do keep an eye on temperatures if there's a
57:27hit of late frost pop them back under cover or throw a fleece over them
57:53it's lovely to be back at damson farm in the spring and seeing the damson blossom and that little reminder
57:58to get out and enjoy those fleeting moments whilst they're here at this time of year
58:05but next week monty is back with a special program from regents park in london where he'll be joining
58:10the royal parks team as they work to finish a brand new public garden designed to commemorate what would
58:16have been our lake queen's 100th birthday see you then
58:20so
58:46so
58:47you
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