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00:13Hello and welcome to Beech Rove Garden just outside Aberdeen.
00:17Coming up, the next step in growing your own veg and the competition plot takes shape.
00:27Back to our new heather garden for pruning and propagating.
00:32Kirsty starts her competition plot focusing on plants with taste.
00:38And it's down to leaving to Callum's allotment.
00:43But first Kirsty, this is something I'm quite excited about.
00:46You're going to be popping in the ground a plant that I reckon the vast majority of our viewers have
00:51never grown before.
00:52But I bet you a blooming good percentage of drunk the end product.
00:55I think they will.
00:56So this is hops, which is the main ingredient in beer.
00:59So you're planning on a Beech Grove brew this year?
01:02Definitely.
01:02Kirsty.
01:03Get your bottles ready.
01:06So we've got three different varieties to try.
01:08Our summers are getting hotter.
01:10Whether this works up here in Aberdeen, we'll see.
01:13But we want a sort of hot summer for them to scramble up the structure of an old polytunnel.
01:18We've got some twine.
01:20They are a perennial, so they'll come back year after year.
01:23And they need all that because, as you say, they're quite a vigorous grower.
01:26But the first variety you've got is more suited for the northern climate?
01:29Yeah.
01:30So this is one that's been specifically bred for growing in the north.
01:33So it's Norbrew.
01:36And hopefully it'll get to six to eight metres tall.
01:38I like how the plant breeders are thinking about, you know, the growers in the north of the country.
01:44We all want to have a better breed, don't we?
01:46We do, we do.
01:47And we've got a couple of other varieties because they're also good for, you know, decorating the house.
01:51Yeah, so the one closer to you is a golden foliage one called Golden Tassels.
01:56But it's also a dwarf form one.
01:58So if you've not got a huge space, this is quite useful.
02:01But it is ornamental too.
02:03So people are now using hop flowers in floral arrangements or along their mantelpiece as a dried flower arrangement.
02:10Yeah.
02:11They're attractive tassels, aren't they?
02:13Yeah.
02:13What about the place we've got here for growing them?
02:15Open site, sunny?
02:16Sunny, fertile soil, free draining, so as much sun as possible.
02:21They will grow in part shade, but we're going to get more hops, you know, more beer if we put
02:25them in full sun.
02:26Kirstie, you had me at beer.
02:30But we know what motivates you, Brian.
02:44So in this series, I'm focusing on veg grown.
02:47Now a few weeks ago under the protection of glasses, I sowed some spring onions, spinaches and lettuces.
02:54Now's the next step in back to basics.
02:59So this is one of the varieties of lettuce that I sowed a few weeks ago under glass.
03:03And I think you can see the advantages already.
03:06Four weeks of growth here, I've got little plants to put in the ground rather than starting from scratch.
03:12Now the weather's still that wee bit of unpredictable.
03:15So as you can see, I've got my lettuce in the ground, but I've got this other little trick.
03:18This is called a cloche.
03:20And all we do, it's basically like a mini polytunnel.
03:24Once I'm all planted up, I can get this folded over.
03:28So during those cold nights, it's going to give me a wee bit of protection and make my plants grow.
03:32I reckon in a couple of weeks time, I'll be able to start picking off the leaves and putting them
03:36on my dinner plate.
03:38It is an exciting time of year. We just want to get on with it.
03:41But before we do, and you start planting out in the ground, you start sowing directly, you want to do
03:46a wee bit of planning.
03:47So we've got our traditional plot here at Beechgrove.
03:51We've got them divided into four groups.
03:54So all our veg is divided up.
03:56Up here, we've got our root crops, which is our potatoes, our parsnips, our carrots.
04:01Over my shoulder here, we've got our leafy crops, our brassicas, you know, our cauliflowers, cabbages, sprouts, kales.
04:07The garden team already, they've got the nets up for the legumes.
04:11That's your peas and beans.
04:13And then the fourth plot we have here, it's a bit of a miscellaneous.
04:16That's where our onions are going, our lettuces.
04:19So the reason why we have our crops divided into these little groups,
04:22if we were to plant in the same spot year after year, then we risk the chance of a build
04:27-up of pests and diseases.
04:29So we want to have them spread about.
04:30And then what we're going to do next year, well, our potatoes, they're going to be growing on this plot
04:36and so on.
04:37Everything's going to move around in a clockwise direction.
04:40So really, we're going to have four years between growing the same crop back in the same pot of land
04:45again.
04:46Now, I don't have an area this size in my own back garden.
04:49This is more like what I've got.
04:51The same principle still applies.
04:52I just divide it up into those four areas and I keep moving them on.
04:58There's so much we could be getting on with just now.
05:01Under here, I've got a lovely reveal.
05:04We have our onions.
05:06We've got our red and our white varieties.
05:09So this, we can still pick these up just now.
05:11We're still in good time.
05:13I've got an onion set here.
05:15So instead of sown from seed, I'm able to buy these sort of smaller onions.
05:19They're already started growing.
05:21Now, when you want to plant them, just make sure your soil's nice and forked over and then gently pop
05:27them in.
05:28Just making sure that the nose, that the tip is just above the soil.
05:33You notice I didn't screw it in like a light bulb because there's every chance it'll damage the basal plate.
05:39Now, always look at the back of the packets of whatever you want to grow.
05:42You'll get all the instructions there, maybe on the depth that you've got to sow them or the distance between
05:47the rows.
05:49One of the things that you want to look out for is we always want to keep on top of
05:52the weeds in your veg plot
05:53because they're going to be competition for all the moisture.
05:56And if we have another dry summer, then they're going to steal it up
05:59and we're going to have to maybe do a lot more watering than what we need to.
06:02And one of the things you're wanting is in between your rows of plants,
06:06you've got enough room just to get the whole in between them.
06:09So that's a nice handy wee trick for you there.
06:13Looking across, programme one with Carol, we planted our first early potatoes.
06:19So four weeks on, it's great to see that the foliage is now starting to poke through the soil.
06:25So we know that they're growing away quite the thing.
06:27And again, we've got a lovely big back garden here, a plot here.
06:30If you've only got room for say a patio or a small back garden,
06:35you can be growing potatoes in containers and little sacks that we have there.
06:39And already they're poking through the ground as well.
06:41So everything's going to plan so far.
06:44At this end of April, beginning of May period, this is our last chance really
06:48to get our second earlies and our main crops in the ground.
06:52So pretty much once you've finished eating your first earlies,
06:54you can move on to the second and then the main crop.
06:57Again, I only grow first earlies.
06:59I must admit that's all the room I've got for.
07:02And then the last job that we're going to do today.
07:04Now's the time where we can get out and do seed sowing.
07:07So you can be sowing your lettuce directly to the ground, your spinaches, your beet roots, etc.
07:12We're going to go for carrots.
07:15Now on the plot here, we've got four different varieties.
07:18We've got a couple of the old tried and tested, the ones that we know are going to be reliable.
07:21But we want to try a couple of new varieties that are out there.
07:24So the one that we have here is called Yellow Moon.
07:27As you can imagine, it's yellow.
07:29Not all carrots are orange.
07:30You can get them in all sorts of colours, whites to purples.
07:33Lovely way of decorating your dinner plate, make it a bit more interesting for the kids to eat.
07:39For sowing carrot seeds, they're going to be one centimetre deep.
07:42So I've kind of worked out from the tip of my finger to my knuckles one centimetre.
07:46Prepare the soil, get all the stones out and you can just run your finger.
07:51I know George is watching me and he'll be watching me to do it properly.
07:55So I've got my drawhoe and that's what the things we can be using this for.
07:59And you just very carefully follow your string line down.
08:06So once we've done that, you can see how dry the soil is at the base there.
08:10Just where the seed's going to be making contact with the soil.
08:14So I'll just very carefully run my watering can up through this.
08:22And then I'm going to get the seed.
08:25Now there's 300 seed in this packet.
08:27I don't need to sow them all at once.
08:29I could actually wait another two or three weeks and sow another row.
08:33But just very carefully running the seed through your fingers.
08:38Just go up the line, make sure they're nice and evenly spaced.
08:43And I better make sure I do this job properly too,
08:45because George will be back here in a few weeks' time and he'll be inspecting my work.
09:03OK, today I'm inside the polytunnel, which has had a bit of a winter makeover with a new skin.
09:08But we've got this bed that's empty and we're going to plant asparagus.
09:11So asparagus is a perennial vegetable, meaning it will come back year after year compared to a veg crop that
09:18we might typically grow,
09:20which would just give us a harvest after one season.
09:22So we've got three different types of varieties to try in this asparagus bed.
09:27So they have these amazing fleshy roots.
09:29We've been soaking them in a bucket of water so they don't dry out prior to planting.
09:33So this one is called Raffiello and it is a late season asparagus.
09:39So it will even crop into July and it's a lovely green spear.
09:43So that will be a nice one to try and extend the season of asparagus.
09:47Our next one is Ginlin, which is a variety which is a heavy cropper.
09:52It's a nice green asparagus and that will produce spears at this time of year about April.
09:59The next one is Erasmus, which is a lovely deep purple asparagus, which is quite unusual and you can't quite
10:05buy that colour of asparagus in the supermarket.
10:08That again will crop in April time.
10:10So we've got these three different types to try.
10:13So what it is is an asparagus crown.
10:17It has these fleshy roots and we're going to split them in half.
10:20And you can see the eye at the top.
10:22You just want to be careful with that and not damage that as that's where the spear of asparagus will
10:27come out.
10:27Now in this bed, what we've created is sort of like a trench.
10:32So it's about 15 centimetres on either side.
10:34Then we have this mound of soil, which the asparagus crown is going to sit on.
10:39And then you're just going to put the roots on either side of that mound.
10:44And they are very hungry vegetables.
10:47So anything like well-rotted organic matter, so farmyard manure.
10:52This is just pelleted bone meal.
10:54We're going to sprinkle that in and that will just give it a boost.
10:57As you'll want to feed these asparagus plants every year.
11:01You're then just going to gently cover the roots and that crown.
11:07Just with a few centimetres of soil.
11:11And just place that around the plant.
11:14And then we'll put the next one 30 centimetres away from the original crown that you've planted.
11:21So we'll take this next one.
11:23So again, splitting the roots 30 centimetres apart.
11:29And then just gently backfill.
11:31But I'm going to add the bone meal into the trench and then just cover it over.
11:39Now I'm going to dot this all along this bed.
11:43And the great thing with growing it in a polytunnel is you'll have more protection.
11:47And you should get more asparagus spears and also earlier in the season.
11:52But you could grow your asparagus outside.
11:54You might want to force it on with a little cloche too.
11:57So you could grow them in either of these environments.
12:01So I'm going to get on with planting the rest of this asparagus.
12:04But now it's time for an update from Callum in his allotment in Leaven.
12:17We're back on the allotment and I've been very busy since you were last here.
12:21I've had quite a bit of bother with some rabbits.
12:24So I've rabbit-proofed the fence and I'm making some other changes just to help me at the plot.
12:29Starting with these two raised beds.
12:31So I've raised them up to keep the rabbits away.
12:33And I'm trying to make it as cost-efficient as possible.
12:36So like we've been practicing up at Beech Grove, the Hugo bed method.
12:39That's how I'm going to fill these beds.
12:49Last year, with my plum tree, I only had about seven plums on it.
12:53When the year before, I had about 70.
12:55Now you get that some years with your plum trees where you get better harvest than others.
13:00But I think it was down to poor pollination.
13:04And I'll admit to you, I've only seen one bee pollinating.
13:08So we're going in with the paintbrush and just giving them a wee hand.
13:11Now all I'm doing is, is I'm taking the pollen from the male part of the flower and brushing it
13:18onto the female part.
13:19Now you want to do this either early morning or late afternoon.
13:24And the great thing about this tree is, is it's self-fertile.
13:28So it doesn't need another plum tree, but it does need a hand with the pollination.
13:36Now I keep this tree to a manageable height.
13:39But if you've got a really tall tree, just take your paintbrush, stick it on the end of a cane
13:44and no ladders are needed.
13:46Then you can get up to the higher blooms to pollinate them.
13:52And you know, you don't just need to do this with your plum trees.
13:56You can do it with other fruit trees.
13:58I even do this with my tomatoes.
13:59And something else I'll do, just to help with the harvest and get a better tree,
14:05is I'll maybe just throw a bit of a well-balanced fertilizer on once I've finished pollinating.
14:14But I'll be here a wee while, because there's quite a lot of blooms.
14:19And yes, it'll take time, but come August during the harvest, it'll all be worth it.
14:35Three weeks ago, I had a busy time at home, I was starting to sow quite a lot of plants.
14:40Now they're ready to take on to the next stage, the pricking out stage.
14:43And I've got quite a few things.
14:44I've got some African marigolds, cosmos, and also some zinnias.
14:50Now this variety of zinnia is Orange King, this is a nice tall variety.
14:54And I've been very careful, decided choosing the heights,
14:57because I want to create a nice border at home that's all different heights.
15:00So at the back, I'm going to have some nice tall sunflowers,
15:02then down to 100 centimetre cosmos, and then the zinnias, 60 centimetres.
15:07So there's been quite a bit of planning into this.
15:09The compost that I've got with the mixture is 50% compost, 50% topsoil.
15:15The reason I've added some topsoil in, I feel that it's going to get the roots used to some topsoil
15:21when we get to plant them out into the borders, hopefully get them a better start.
15:24But also, I feel it doesn't dry out as much, the peat-free compost.
15:28But again, I did add in some vermiculite, just so the water doesn't hold on too much.
15:34Now the pots, you'll see, no two pots are almost the same, because they're just old pots that I've recycled
15:40over the years,
15:40and washed them and we keep using them, I'll just fill that up.
15:44Then we'll take our plant label, we'll just hold on to one of the leaves, and then we'll just prick
15:49out the zinnia.
15:51And then I'll take my pencil, and just make a nice planting hole.
15:56Again, holding on to the foliage, and I'm planting at the same depth that it was in this pot.
16:05Don't want to plant it any deeper, same depth, and then just push that back.
16:12Then, just press that in gently.
16:15It may be a bit wonky when you first put it in, but as the roots start to grow into
16:19that compost,
16:19it'll straighten up again.
16:21Now, zinnias are great for cut flowers and pollinators.
16:27If you're growing just for colouring the border, I'd be spacing these out about 12 inches apart.
16:32But if you're wanting cut flowers like I am, well, bring them in just a wee bit closer together at
16:409 inches apart.
16:42That's going to support them a wee bit better, but also help get longer stems,
16:47which is what you're wanting for cut flowers.
16:50But I've also got some cosmos here.
16:52When I go to prick this out, see the centre two leaves?
16:56I'll let that grow a wee bit more, and then I'll pinch them out.
16:59By pinching them out, it's going to encourage side shoots.
17:01We'll get a bushier plant, hopefully more flowers.
17:06Now, if seedlings scare you a wee bit, but you're still wanting to save some money and get a real
17:11choice of variety, buying some plug plants.
17:15And all the plug plants are, yes they are smaller plants, but somebody's done the hard bit for you.
17:20They've sown the seed and they've grown them onto this stage, and you get them at the potting up stage.
17:25Now this is Begonia's Apricot Illuminations.
17:29Take your pencil, and you'll see this tray's been carefully designed, that all you do is put the pencil through
17:35the bottom,
17:35again holding onto the leaf, and then they'll just pop out of the tray quite easy.
17:42The compost mixture with this is just all compost, but I have added in some vermiculite just for good drainage.
17:50Because Begonias don't like their feet in water.
17:56We'll just make our planting hole, plant that in.
17:58And if you find one that's got a bloom on it, just break the bloom off.
18:06That's going to produce a better plant, so in four weeks' time when I'm potting up my Begonias,
18:11I'll put three Begonias in one hanging basket, and we're going to get a really nice display this summer.
18:27Last year, one of our major projects in the garden was to plant up this heather garden,
18:32in memory of our friend and former Beechgrove garden colleague, Jim McCall, who had sadly passed away.
18:39Now, heathers, they were one of Jim's favourites. He absolutely adored them.
18:43So what we wanted to do, we wanted to plant up a whole load of different varieties,
18:47the different colours of foliage that you can get from each, and the different flower times.
18:51So basically, we've created this tapestry effect of colour, which pretty much can last all year round.
18:57That's the beauty of heathers.
18:59He was also a big fan of the dwarf bulbs, and we've just got the Narcissus elk going over.
19:05I can't go past this one here, the Miscari, grape ice.
19:09Look at all the different tones that you're getting in there in that one bulb.
19:12Definitely a favourite, I think he would love that one too.
19:15But to keep our heathers looking good, this is the time of year where we want to get in and
19:19do a wee bit of maintenance.
19:21If we want them to look good for the foliage, we want to keep the plants nice and compact.
19:25We don't want them to get all straggly and sprawly and a few bare patches within them.
19:30So I've got a Kaluna in front of me.
19:32This one flowered late August, early September last year.
19:36I remember planting it, it was one of my favourites.
19:38This one's H-E-Beal, and I love these sort of long, wiry stems.
19:42We left them on the plant over the winter, just to give us a wee bit of winter interest.
19:46But what we want to do now is to take some of these flowering spikes off,
19:50just to keep our plant nice and compact.
19:53So if I start here, and if you look at the flowering spike,
19:56what we want to do is we just want to go take off the flowers,
20:00and so we're left with all that lovely green foliage.
20:04And then from there, over the summer months, the plant's just going to grow away.
20:10And then, come late August, early September again,
20:12we're going to get more and more flowers from that plant.
20:16We've got the Bell heather as well, the Erika cinnerea.
20:20Any varieties of these, you want to give them a wee trim just now,
20:23you know, just as the flowers are starting to go over.
20:26But you've also got these group that are also flowering just now, late winter time.
20:30So we've got Erika darliensis, Darleydale, I think George planted that one last year
20:35at the end of the series, and it's looking good just now.
20:38We still want to prune it in this spring window,
20:41but we don't want to ruin the flowers, so we'll just wait till they're over.
20:44And then we'll give them a wee trim after that.
20:47And then afterwards, once you've given everything a wee trim,
20:49it's just like us when we go to the hairdressers,
20:51we're maybe going out for a drink at night or a lovely meal.
20:54So we're going to top dress the ground, keep the garden looking nice and good.
21:01But all this ericaceous compost here, that's going to slowly filter through,
21:06and that'll give the plant a wee boost over the summer months as well,
21:09keeping them nice and healthy.
21:11Now it doesn't matter how hard we try,
21:15sometimes we just forget to do these little jobs,
21:17and then what happens is we'll get a wee sort of bald patch.
21:22Now this one's actually happened from a bit of foliage from another plant
21:25leaning on top of here,
21:26and it's stopped the light from getting in,
21:28and it's basically killed it off.
21:30There's a wee trick we can do, especially if it's a plant,
21:33sometimes we get a nice one from a gift,
21:35as a gift and we want to keep it, we don't want to lose it.
21:38So I've dug it out the ground,
21:41and then I've dug my hole just a wee bit of deeper.
21:44So this is called dropping the heather.
21:47So it's going to go in the hole,
21:49and it's about two thirds deeper now.
21:52Now I'm going to use some of this soil just to backfill around the roots.
22:00But as you can see, we've still got a wee bit more to go.
22:05And before I do the next step, we'll just give it a wee drink,
22:08because we've given the plant a wee shock.
22:11So it's always good to give the roots a wee drink.
22:14Now, this last bit here, I've got a bucket full of ericaceous compost,
22:20and it's mixed 50-50 with a grit, so that makes it a lovely cutting mix.
22:26And then all we're going to do is just put it around,
22:34and in amongst all their lovely green stems.
22:40And we're going to keep this compost moist over the summer months.
22:45And then, fingers crossed, last programme of the series in September,
22:50we'll come back and we'll have lots of lovely little roots out of these plants.
22:53We'll be able to sever them off.
22:55We can either pot them up or transplant them to other parts of the garden.
22:58And the main thing is, we're not going to lose it.
23:15Well, Kirsty, we're back in the competition plot,
23:18where this year's presenters challenge...
23:20Actually, I think it's quite a good one this year.
23:22Basically, all you presenters have got to develop a garden based around the senses.
23:27Mm-hm.
23:28And I've got to think that you've been quite lucky this year,
23:31because you've landed...
23:32Taste.
23:33Taste.
23:33So, I think someone was looking after me.
23:35This is quite a good one.
23:37You rigged the draw, I think you did.
23:39And I'm pretty used to growing veg and produce.
23:42Carol loves to eat too, so...
23:45Well, don't we all?
23:45But, you know, Carol, she's the judge at the end of the year in September.
23:49Now, that's quite a challenge, because that's at the back end of the year,
23:52so do you think you'll be able to have enough produce full of fruits
23:55ready for eating back at that point in the year?
23:57Yeah, we're going to have chard.
23:59We're going to have lovely yellow courgette.
24:01We're going to have edible flowers as well,
24:03so nasturtium calendula to make it colourful.
24:06We're going to have runner beans that are just going to be hanging off these supports.
24:09So, these supports came from my allotment in Edinburgh,
24:11so I'm just reusing them.
24:13And we've got strawberries.
24:15We're going to have Romanescue.
24:17We're going to have globe artichokes that are going to...
24:20the foliage is going to contrast with the nice structures here,
24:23and they produce these amazing, attractive heads
24:26that you can then dip in butter and eat then.
24:28Okay, okay.
24:29So, I'm starting to get a wee vibe.
24:31That's a lot to pack in here, so good luck with that one straight away.
24:35But, I must admit, I'm a wee bit of worried for you.
24:37It all sounds pretty simple, straightforward.
24:41Remember, Carol's going to be looking for something that just sets you that wee bit of above everybody else.
24:46The showstopper is going to be an outdoor tomato about a metre tall,
24:51and it's going to be bearing lots of tomatoes
24:53and just fruiting away up here in Aberdeen.
24:56So, Carol is going to be shocked by that one.
24:58Well, I reckon if you do pull that one off, yes, you'll have done well.
25:01Right, I can see some strawberries laid out on the ground.
25:04So, obviously, that's going to be a key part of your design.
25:07Garden centres are full of them at this time of year.
25:09They're a great little plant.
25:11Yeah, so this is a variety that's ever bearing.
25:13So, it's called Favoury, and it's going to have fruit in September, I'm pretty sure.
25:19You're pretty sure, so you...
25:21I'm not sure.
25:22I think I would like to have heard you a wee bit of more confident, but I like your style.
25:26It all depends on the weather as well, Brian.
25:27But, of course, we're going to add lots of organic matter onto this plot.
25:32A lot of the seedlings are coming on well in the greenhouse as well.
25:35And, you know, strawberries, you want to be kind of renewing them every four to five years.
25:41And this is a nice opportunity to plant a nice new batch.
25:45And this is a great time to do it. Kids absolutely love them.
25:48Pop them in the ground.
25:50The fruits, if they touch the soil, maybe it's a bit damp, makes them go rot.
25:54So, you could put a wee bit of straw around them, or you could be putting some black membrane on
25:59the ground,
26:00cut little slits, plant between that.
26:03But, God, you can't go wrong with a strawberry.
26:04And we might need to put a wee bit of netting.
26:07Birds like to eat the strawberries.
26:08But I'm sure Carol's going to love a strawberry, isn't she?
26:11Who doesn't?
26:22Now time for some handy hints.
26:27Alpine gardens make wonderful and colourful low-maintenance gardens,
26:32the gravel that we use to set off the rocks help to suppress all the weeds.
26:36But this is the time of year, just before it bursts into life,
26:39that you want to get into a wee bit of maintenance.
26:41Any plants with some old flowering stalks, you want to nip them off.
26:45Any bare patches on your gravel, give them a wee freshen up.
26:48Then the best thing you can do, get a low-nitrogen feed like bone meal,
26:53give it a wee sprinkle around the gravel.
26:56If it hasn't rained within a couple of days, give it a wee drink.
26:58And in a few weeks' times, this little plot is going to be a riot of colour.
27:05I've got some lovely new delphinium plants here,
27:08but sadly they're always prone to slug and snail damage,
27:10particularly at this new young stage.
27:12So what I've got today is some wool to try.
27:15So this is just sheep's wool, which comes in a pellet form,
27:19but it's said that the sheep wool is meant to help as it has lanolin oil
27:23and that will deter the slugs and snails.
27:25So on this delphinium, I'm going to try the wool pellets.
27:28So I'm just going to put that carefully around this one.
27:31Then on this delphinium, I've got just straight sheep's wool,
27:34almost just straight off the sheep.
27:36And we're going to place that around this plant.
27:40Just delicately put that.
27:41And this one, we're not going to put anything on it.
27:44Now sheep wool is a sustainable product
27:46and we have plenty of sheep in Scotland,
27:48so it's a great one to try.
27:57Well Kirsty, what do you think of this cherry tree we're standing under just now?
28:00It's beautiful, isn't it?
28:01Look at these flowers and the bumblebees are just all over this tree
28:04and it looks magnificent against the blue sky in spring.
28:07Yeah, brilliant genus of plants, eh?
28:09Yeah.
28:09Well, next week Lizzie's going to be joining me
28:12and she's going to be in her cut flower plot
28:14doing the first sowing in there.
28:16And we'll be at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
28:18visiting their world-famous Alpine collection.
28:21And I'll be here in the garden
28:22where I'm going to be working on a border
28:24that's in much need of sun colour.
28:26Well from the two of us, it's bye for now.
28:45The Royal Botanic Garden
28:46The Royal Botanic Garden
28:59You
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