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00:13Hello and welcome to the new series of Beech Grove Garden.
00:17It's been a long cold and wet winter but the garden is finally warming up.
00:23So ahead of us we've got a great season of growing.
00:26So from beginner to expert we'll have something for you so stay with us for all types of gardening advice.
00:32Right well we better get started then eh. Here's what we've got coming up on the programme.
00:39Coming up, some Easter planting and all you need is room for a container.
00:44It's time to get the tatties in, we show you how.
00:48We're off to Joppa for George's start to the season and some handy hints for jobs to do right now.
00:57Well Brian I think before we start the planning and the planting,
01:00we really should as always talk about the season before and what's happened.
01:04Oh well, I think it's good for any new viewers to the programme to understand that we're just outside Aberdeen.
01:11We've been gardening this area since 1978 and next year's going to be our 50th series.
01:16Yeah I've seen quite a few of them, I think I've seen about 43 of them.
01:20But anyway, so let's start with the winter.
01:23Unbelievable.
01:24Aberdeen made the news, 21 consecutive days without any sunshine and in fact on record I think in Scotland since
01:311910 it's one of the tenth dullest winters that we've had.
01:36And then what about the rain? In Aberdeenshire it's also one of the top ten wettest winters since 1837.
01:43So that's a lot of records there and it was a heck of a lot of rain so it's going
01:46to take a while to dry out and then what about the snow?
01:50Where do we stop? And I think this is interesting with the snow because I think it's very different for
01:54you where you garden.
01:55Yeah, so I'm just at Perthshire, I could look north and I see all the hills at the back of
01:59Blair Gowdy etc covered in snow but we barely had a single thing.
02:03Yet I'm on the telly watching you guys, I mean it must have been incredible.
02:06Well we were hibernating, we couldn't get out, I couldn't get the car out of the drive.
02:10So much snow and plant damage as well, I mean there has been a bit of damage here in the
02:14garden.
02:14I know, that beautiful juniper in the back of the garden but the habit of it, the way it just
02:19sort of splays out and flat, it was just asking for the snow to sit on top of it.
02:23And unfortunately with that heaviness, it's basically just snapped a couple of branches.
02:28So again you've kind of got to look at that now, will it stay, will it go?
02:31But at the same time, let's be positive, snow can actually be an insulator for plants, it can protect them
02:35can't it?
02:36Yeah, it's good. All these challenges us gardeners have to go through with the weather eh?
02:40It's great fun though. And then talking about that, I think it's about time we started off with some planting.
02:52You know Brian, I think it wouldn't be Beech Grove without us planting our tattoos, I think it's really important
02:58isn't it?
02:58It's a tradition isn't it?
02:59Yeah, and I think as well we need to talk about the weather conditions because you can be too early
03:03with planting.
03:04Yeah, it's easy to get carried away, I mean look at today, I know it's got a cold wind but
03:08the sun's out, there's a bit of warmth, but listen the weather's so fickle.
03:12We could even get snow tomorrow, wouldn't surprise me, so we've got to be careful.
03:15So temperature is one thing to maybe look for, so a wee thermometer and I'd be saying about sort of
03:21six degrees at least.
03:22Yeah, and I would say for about a week, not just the one night, you've got to make sure it's
03:26steady now.
03:27And then also the weeds, I see they're starting to poke up as well.
03:29Yeah, so that's a good sign to say, yep, we're okay.
03:32But you know, if there is a touch of frost, I'm going to say the variety that you're planting, a
03:36first early epicure, it doesn't mind, it does recover.
03:40I know, this is a really good variety, also known as air showers.
03:43They love it down that part of the country, but I just say a touch of frost, they can take
03:48it, but if you are worried,
03:49we've got a bit of ground cover there, you can always cover up your tatties during a spell of frost
03:53or wet weather as well.
03:54Tatties don't like that wet weather either.
03:55And that's a nice flowery potato, isn't it?
03:57Whereas I've got a very modern, new variety, never grown it before, have you Francis?
04:02No, that's a new one for me.
04:03So, meant to be really disease resistant as well, so you know, it avoids the blight.
04:08But I mean, having said that, first early is mature quite early anyway and can avoid that.
04:13Yeah, which is good. And again, good point to note as well, now you also get second early tatties,
04:18and you also get main crops, so you're going to kind of stagger your plant over the next, what, month?
04:23But that means you could get a crop of potatoes from late June, early July, right the way through the
04:28winter.
04:28So, early's about 12 weeks, main's, what, 17, 18 weeks?
04:33Yeah, a little bit longer, eh?
04:34Now the gardeners, also with these first early's, have done a little bit of, like, chitting,
04:39in other words, sprouting them, so they've left them in the light.
04:43And that means, with this little bit of growth, we maybe can still get an earlier crop.
04:48I know. They reckon sometimes up to about ten days, if all the conditions are correct.
04:52So, yeah, it's a handy wee thing to do.
04:54Yeah, and the other thing is to maybe look for what we call the rose end,
04:56and you normally see that there are more little eyes in it.
04:59Although this is the modern variety, I'm going more the traditional method,
05:03taking out the trench, and old money for me, this dahlia stick that I marked up,
05:09that is 12 inches or a foot apart.
05:12Well, I'm going to plant the modern way, and I'm going to plant mine
05:15maybe 30 centimetres apart and round about 15 centimetres deep,
05:19and all I'm using is a trowel, space them out over the line,
05:22and then plant them in the ground.
05:23Well, that's a very simple way to do it, and especially if you've got good ground.
05:26And then with this one, you know, using the draw hoe,
05:30OK, so look, Brian, I'm going to maybe push the soil like that,
05:32but the best way to draw a hoe is to draw it to you, isn't it?
05:37And this little tool, this is going to come in handy as the summer goes on,
05:40because we're going to want to earth our potatoes up,
05:43and that's to protect them, all the potatoes that grow over the summer,
05:46so you're going to use this.
05:47Well, earthing up, you usually can get more tatties, can't you?
05:50And also, we like to plant in containers,
05:53because, I mean, not everybody has a garden.
05:55No, and this method is perfect.
05:57You've only got a patio or a balcony, you can plant totties in bags,
06:00and OK, you're not going to get a bigger crop as what you do in the ground,
06:03but you can still get a good crop for a few meals.
06:05And it's your turn to do a wee bit of a trial this year.
06:07I know, I know it's always been your thing,
06:09but I've been reading up quite a bit lately,
06:12and they say the closer you plant your tatties in the ground,
06:15or the more you put in a bag, they say the smaller the potato is.
06:19I mean, have you tried that before? Have you seen that?
06:21No, I haven't seen that.
06:23So, you know, I'm going for the traditional three in a bag,
06:27that's normally what they recommend,
06:29whereas how many are you going to go for?
06:30I'm going to go for five,
06:31which is generally about the maximum that you would put in a bag.
06:34So it'll be interesting to see come, what, early July,
06:37just to see what the difference is.
06:38OK, so a little bit of compost in the bottom,
06:41there's a slow-release fertiliser.
06:42All we've got to do is cover these up,
06:45and then as they grow, just like the ground,
06:47you keep birthing them up, we've got an extra bag as well.
06:51Yes, so, as we were saying, this is a very early variety.
06:56Now, George's birthday is at the beginning of June,
06:59so what we're hoping is...
07:00Don't tell anyone.
07:01No, and I'm sure he wouldn't want everybody
07:02to know it's his birthday early June,
07:04but what we're hoping is we could have a bag of tatties
07:06ready for his birthday.
07:08Just, I'm going to drop a hint, I'd rather have a Porsche,
07:10but if he wants a bag of tatties, let's get him a bag of tatties.
07:13And they're going to go undercover, aren't they?
07:15They're going to have to have the warmth well-watered.
07:18We'll see what happens.
07:19Yeah.
07:19So, we're going to come back over the summer
07:22to see how our potatoes are getting on,
07:23but for now, I'm going to go to a part of the garden
07:26that's actually celebrating its 10th anniversary.
07:40So, now we're in a part of the garden we call the stem bank,
07:44and it's not an area that we're usually in,
07:46because it's always looking at its best over the winter months
07:48when we're off air.
07:50But as you can still see, we've got the crimsons,
07:53the oranges, the yellows and the greens of these winter stems.
07:56You can imagine how they're going to brighten up this spot
07:59on the greas day over the winter months.
08:02Now, there's two groups of plants that we're looking at here.
08:04The cornice. These are the dogwoods.
08:06We've got the wonderful mid-winter fire here,
08:09or the lovely crimson elegantissima at the back.
08:13And then also the willows.
08:15And they get cracking stems as well,
08:17but I like some of the unusual features you get from these.
08:20So, look at the contorted stems here we have from the dragon's claw willow.
08:25Now, both are perfect for growing in Scotland.
08:27They can take pretty much all the toughest conditions
08:29that we can throw at them.
08:31The salix in particular like that wetter bit of ground,
08:34and they can even take the salt spray from the sea air.
08:37Now, to keep them looking this good,
08:40there's a bit of maintenance that us gardeners have to do each year.
08:45We've got a couple of options.
08:47If you don't want a big hole every year,
08:49then what you're doing is you're looking for some of the thicker, older stems.
08:53So, no more of a quarter of the plant,
08:55and we're going to chop them as far down to the ground as you can possibly get.
09:00And then from there, the new, young, vigorous shoots that are full of colour,
09:04that's where they're going to emerge from.
09:06But there's no doubt to get the most striking display is
09:09you want to chop the whole plant down to the ground each year
09:13in a process called coppicing.
09:16So, if we take a look at this plant here,
09:18if we look at one of the previous cuts,
09:21we're going to count one, two buds,
09:24and then you'll probably need a pair of loppers for this,
09:28and you just give them a good chop down.
09:31And then you just go around the whole plant.
09:38And there you go, simple as that,
09:40but it's going to have a brilliant effect for us this time next year.
09:43Now, don't just chuck these to waste.
09:46They could go on your dead hedge,
09:48but as you can see from the colourful bundle that we have here,
09:51some of them have lovely thick supports there,
09:54which would be perfect making little obelisks for plants to grow up over the summer.
09:58Or if you even do this job maybe late November, early December,
10:02you could be using these to make some lovely winter reefs.
10:05Time now for our first visit to George in Joppa.
10:10Joppa's in Edinburgh, and like us, it's been an awfully wet winter.
10:14But the weather is changing.
10:23Well, hello, and welcome to Sonny Joppa,
10:26on what is a bright, shining spring day.
10:30Now, since you were here last autumn, a lot has been going on.
10:34I've got a lot to show you. It's a busy day.
10:45Over winter, I looked at what was the old scree area here.
10:51And over the years, it's kind of deteriorated,
10:54whether it's my fault or the plants, I don't know.
10:57Anyway, I thought, well, I think I'd like to change that.
11:00At the same time, we were having the roof redone on the house,
11:03and there was lots and lots of old slate available,
11:06and I thought, I know what I'll do.
11:08I will create a little crevice garden.
11:11So I dug everything up, saved one or two of the plants that I could save.
11:15I added a lot of gravel to it,
11:16and we can see the grit and gravel that's on the surface.
11:20And then, after cultivating the soil,
11:22all I needed to do was just to knock the slates in.
11:26Okay, bruises them on the top, maybe,
11:28but that doesn't matter, because what you're creating
11:31are these little crevices between the slates,
11:35which then allow water to drain down to a greater depth.
11:39It doesn't just run off the top.
11:41So, what was I going to plant?
11:44Well, go off to your local nursery and see what alpines have got.
11:48Get a selection.
11:49Possibly go every month or something like that
11:53and get some that would be flowering at different times of the year.
11:56You know what it's like when you go to a nursery to select some alpines?
12:01It's like going to a sweetie shop
12:03and having all your pocket money to spend at the one time.
12:06And that's what it was like.
12:07So, I've got a reasonable selection.
12:09And I've got things which are in flower at the moment,
12:11like this polygala.
12:13And that is one which is going to be put down the front,
12:16where I can admire it there.
12:17And I'm just going to set them out just now.
12:19A wee nod to Scotland.
12:21We've got Primula scottica.
12:23Look at that.
12:24That's the Scottish native Primula.
12:27And that will go near the willow,
12:28because this willow is found in the Scottish Highlands as well.
12:31And then we've got a soldanella.
12:34Look at that.
12:34Isn't that just a wonderful little flower?
12:36Look at that.
12:38Soldanella spring symphony.
12:40That's superherm.
12:41Right, that going in here.
12:43And then things like this.
12:44This is a Campanula which has yellow foliage,
12:47but it's got blue flowers.
12:49It's called Dixon's gold.
12:52Now this is a wee bit of a thug.
12:55So what will have to happen with this one is,
12:57it's going to have to go somewhere where it can spread by itself
13:00and not come to any harm, not overtop other plants.
13:03And now, something from Australia.
13:08This one has little yellow flowers.
13:11It's in the same family as the daisy.
13:14In New Zealand, this would be called the vegetable sheep,
13:18because they have these whitish mounds that they create.
13:22And shepherds and farmers used to think
13:25they'd left a sheep up the hill and go and investigate
13:27and find that it was just this plant.
13:30This one is Australis,
13:31and it is one which has a wonderful honey scent,
13:35like many of them do.
13:36So this has got to be put somewhere at the edge
13:39where it can be smelled every time you go past.
13:43And that's, again, going to go down at the front.
13:46So if I reach over, it's going to go right down into there.
13:50Now, we're going to start planting.
13:52Much against my better judgment, I'm going to take my gloves off.
13:54I don't really like working in the soil,
13:57but we'll just do it for the benefit of education.
14:01Now, what we're going to do here is that we're going to think about
14:04how the alpines would grow and what they need.
14:07So if we take this saxifrage here,
14:09and we're going to plant it in this area here,
14:11what I want to do is take out a reasonable hole for it,
14:18knock it out of the pot carefully.
14:21Now, when I put this in, I've got to keep it just proud of the soil.
14:28See how that's sitting high?
14:30Now, if I was planting bedding plants or something like that,
14:33I would give you a row if you were doing it like that.
14:35But here, I want it high so that when I then get my gravel,
14:42I put that round the edge of the plant with a good layer of gravel round it.
14:49And that keeps the water away from the neck of the plant.
14:54Now, look at that.
14:55It looks as though it's always been there.
14:58And that's the idea.
14:59You want to be planting it so that it looks natural when you're finished.
15:02And in these crevices like that,
15:04all you need to do afterwards is just to, you know, fill in between.
15:08This acts as a mulch, it keeps moisture in,
15:11and it also helps to prevent weeds growing.
15:14Now, I did say that we had this nod to Scotland
15:17by producing this one here, which is Primula scotica.
15:22Now, that grows way up in the north of Scotland, on Shetland, on Orkney,
15:26and then on the north coast.
15:28Its problem is it will flower, it will produce seed,
15:33and then the little blight there has got the tendency to die out.
15:36So what you've got to remember to do is to save seed of it
15:39and sow that seed in the same area or close by
15:42so that you get a continuation of these wonderful little bird's eye flowers
15:47which you get on the Primula.
15:49Wonderful little thing.
15:50So that's it.
15:51As you can see, I've got plenty to be getting on with
15:54and you know what's exciting?
15:56I'll have to go back to the nursery and buy some more
15:59because there's plenty space here, so I'll get on with this.
16:19I'm just going to lift our clump of snowdrops here.
16:22It's maybe getting late in the season, but if you've got snowdrops
16:25which still have the foliage on them,
16:27then it's possible to do what I'm going to do now
16:30which is lift and split and replant.
16:33And this is a variety here which I planted about four years ago
16:38and if I just ease these out,
16:43we'll see what they're like inside.
16:45So here we go.
16:45Just gently lift them up.
16:50Give it a shake.
16:53What I want to do is just tease out these bulbs a bit.
16:59Now I can take them out to doubles or singles.
17:02I mean I could do them too, but I take them out like that into single bulbs.
17:07Keep the label there.
17:09I'll just lay them out on there.
17:11And this can be done at any time when they are in flower really.
17:16You can do it when they're in flower.
17:17You can do it when they're just finished flowering.
17:19The thing is, you see, after a while the snowdrops become very congested.
17:24Because what they do is, if you look at this one, they split off.
17:30See how that one is split off like that?
17:33So that's what they do.
17:34And that's what you're trying to increase them by.
17:38OK, so we've lifted the clump of snowdrops.
17:40And what we're going to do now is to replant them in the same place.
17:44Because they don't have any disorders if you do that sort of thing.
17:47Not like some other plants.
17:49And we're going to plant them in what's called in the green.
17:52Now you can see here exactly how deep they've been before.
17:57That's the bottom of the bulb.
17:58There's the green coming through.
18:00And they've been planted at somewhere around 50 to 60 millimetres deep.
18:05So that's the depth that we're going to put them back in it.
18:07And what will happen then is that that foliage will die back.
18:10I'll need to stick the label into the place where they are,
18:13because otherwise I'll have forgotten and I'll try and plant something else on top of them.
18:16So they just go in to here.
18:18You can plant them directly back into the soil.
18:22Or you could put them into pots.
18:24And in that way, you can wait and see where you want to plant them later on.
18:29So there we go.
18:30Just planting them back into the same place.
18:33That's him, replanted.
18:36So the thing to do is have a walk round the garden,
18:39your early morning cup of coffee perhaps.
18:41See if you've got any snowdrops that are congested,
18:43still got their foliage on.
18:45Get the fork underneath them, lift them up, ease them,
18:48spread them out a bit, replant them.
18:50That's the way.
19:05Well, it's really good to see George in his garden,
19:07and he's going to be here at Beech Grove in a couple of weeks' time.
19:10Now, Easter weekend, fantastic.
19:13I think it's the time of year when you want to get out in your garden and have a few
19:16projects.
19:17And here, a very simple project is all about creating some Easter containers for instant impact.
19:24So my first one is really all about the spring bedding and using some bulbs.
19:29And this, I think, is a beautiful dwarf daffodil.
19:33The variety is snipe.
19:35It's got the reflex petals.
19:37Just absolutely beautiful.
19:38And what I'm doing is I'm just going to plunge this in the pot because once it finishes flowering,
19:44you could then quite easily take the pot out and then you can lift up the bulbs,
19:51divide them once the foliage has died back and plant them in your garden.
19:55When it comes to the spring bedding, well, I think you can't beat the range of colours in polyanthus.
20:01And I don't know why, but I associate Easter with yellow.
20:04I think it is so cheerful.
20:06These are beautiful plants.
20:07And I reckon, I mean, I'm not going to actually plant these.
20:10I'm just going to place them at the moment.
20:12I reckon I could probably get three of these around the edge of the narcissus there.
20:19Now, do remember as well, polyanthus, a lot of people think of them as temporary plants.
20:24But actually, they're perennial.
20:26So, you know, once they finish flowering, there's nothing wrong with lifting those plants and popping them into a nursery
20:32bed.
20:33So, three of those.
20:35And then pansies, they're fantastic as well.
20:37They flower and flower.
20:39If you keep deadheading them, you will actually probably get these flowering right into the summer.
20:45And I think that's a nice contrast of the purple and yellow.
20:48And then alongside that, well, I love the violas.
20:53They're like little faces.
20:54So, I think what I'm going to do is go every other one.
20:57I'll go the purple and then I will go the yellow.
21:03And just keep going around like that.
21:05And I think that is going to look so fantastic.
21:09Now, that's more temporary, but you could also think about planting up something a little bit more permanent.
21:16And, you know, when it comes to containers, yes, you've got pots, you've got window boxes, you could even do
21:21a hanging basket.
21:22And this time I'm going to go for bulbs and alpines.
21:25But before I plant it up, I think it's always worth talking a little bit about the compost that we're
21:30using.
21:30And this is the gardener's mix because what we have is our own garden compost and that's two buckets of
21:37compost.
21:38One of leaf mold, which I love.
21:40I mean, that's got fantastic texture to it.
21:43And we also have half a bucket of topsoil along with half a bucket of sharp sand.
21:50So that kind of helps to open up the compost.
21:53And then what we've done is added a little bit of slow release fertilizer to keep the plants going.
21:58So, tete-a-tete, the daffodil, this is a very popular variety.
22:04It's nice and dwarf, the most brilliant yellow, and I'm going to set that in the middle.
22:11And you'll notice this time, yes, I'm taking them out of the pots because I hope that these will spread
22:17and we'll have this container for at least two or three years.
22:22I'm teasing out the roots as well.
22:25That helps for them to spread in the compost.
22:28And my last one.
22:30And then you are spoilt for choice, I think, when it comes to alpines.
22:34And this time my colour theme, yes, it's still the yellow, but I'm going for a bit of white as
22:39well.
22:40So we've got arabis, lovely perfume.
22:44I think that could sort of form on the end there.
22:47Then I think it's quite important to perhaps have a little bit of trailing.
22:50And this is a time, and you know, if you use your fingers, perfume, fantastic.
22:57Then a little bit of splash of yellow.
22:59We've got a perennial wallflower here.
23:03And although it is perennial, I'm going to say it's short-lived, so it might last just maybe two or
23:07three years and then you can take cuttings.
23:09And then another arabis, but this time with the variegated foliage.
23:14So we're still keeping that yellow.
23:17A obresia.
23:18I mean, you get all colours with this, but this is a white one.
23:21It's florado white, and that is going to trail over.
23:25And then my final one is a mossy saxifrage.
23:29Loads and loads of flowers, sort of cushion forming.
23:33Pop it in there, and I'm hoping that this might last at least a couple of years, maybe three years.
23:38And then if the plants get too big, well, if you've got a garden, you can pop them into the
23:42garden.
23:42But you know, I think there's definitely one thing missing here.
23:45You know that I've got a sweet tooth.
23:48And you've got to have a little bit of chocolate.
23:51Chocolate bunnies are okay, and you know, you could have an Easter egg hunt, couldn't you?
24:09Well, Brian, here we are, a wee reminder that this area was the competition plots last year for our four
24:16presenters,
24:16and they were a competitive lot, weren't they?
24:18They were. It was great fun, so we gave Kirsty, the roof, Callum and Lizzie.
24:23They all got a plot each.
24:24And basically the winner was the one that's planting was the most successful.
24:27Simple as that.
24:28Absolutely, and it was Callum that was the winner, wasn't it?
24:30The winner is... Callum!
24:34Yay!
24:36Emporos!
24:37And we gave him his trophy in the last programme.
24:39You can remember how modest and graceful he was when he accepted it, isn't it?
24:43And he's going to have to hand it back now.
24:44Well, no pressure, Callum.
24:46So, you know, we're doing a different competition this year, because last year it was all about growing vegetables.
24:51And we've chosen the senses, so four of the senses, touch, taste, smell and sound.
24:58And obviously what they're going to do is be planting up to the appeal of that particular sense.
25:04I like it. It's going to have to make them think, isn't it?
25:06Yeah, well, I mean, it might not just be about the plants.
25:08I think there might be a few props there as well, so it'd be interesting.
25:11It is.
25:12OK, so we're going to decide now which scents each presenter gets.
25:16So we're going to go in order here.
25:17So the first one's Lizzie, would you like the honour of the first scent?
25:19OK, I'm going to have to close my eyes or I won't look anyway.
25:22Let's dig down.
25:24And the first label, touch.
25:27That's good.
25:28OK.
25:29Next up we have Kirsty.
25:32Taste.
25:33Oh, she'll like that one.
25:35Ruth.
25:36Well, it has to be smell or sound, doesn't it?
25:39Sound.
25:39Sound.
25:40Well, then we know what Callum's got.
25:43I hope so.
25:44It's smell.
25:45Brilliant.
25:45Here you go.
25:46I like it.
25:47I wonder if they'll be happy.
25:49I'm sure they will.
25:49I'm pretty sure they've started the planning right now,
25:52so it'll be good fun to see what they come up with.
25:53Mm-hmm.
25:59Now time for some handy hints.
26:01Multi-stemmed plants are becoming quite popular in design
26:04because they add a touch of naturalistic and sculptured look
26:07to the garden, say, over a single-stemmed version of the plant.
26:11Now, to buy a mature specimen, it can be quite expensive,
26:15but we can create our own by buying three younger, smaller plants
26:19and grouping them together.
26:21So I've got these white-stemmed birches here.
26:24I've got one a wee bit to the side, one twisted.
26:27It may look a bit obvious just now, but in five years' time,
26:30you'll never notice the difference.
26:36I think springtime is when you need to do a little bit of housekeeping
26:40with your houseplants.
26:41Now, whether it's repotting, maybe a bit of top dressing,
26:45also a bit of propagation and feeding as well.
26:48But when it comes to propagation, now Tradescantias are one of the easiest.
26:52All you need to do is look for a nice cutting,
26:56and what I'm going to do is cut that just underneath what we call the node,
27:01or where the leaf comes out.
27:02I remove roughly a third to two thirds of the leaves,
27:08and then literally pop it in water.
27:11And these have been in water just for two weeks.
27:15And look at the length of the roots already.
27:17I've got three different varieties of Tradescantia here.
27:20I'm going to leave them maybe for another week,
27:22and then they'll get potted on,
27:24and then the mother plant will just get discarded.
27:32Well, that's just about us from the garden here.
27:34It's been lovely filming with you today in the garden,
27:37but this series, you're going to be out on your travels again, aren't you?
27:39You're going to do a great tour of some Scottish gardens.
27:42I'm really looking forward to it, Brian.
27:43And the first one has got a great rodent endring collection.
27:46So, you know, there should be really good spring colour, early summer colour.
27:51But I am going to be back for the end of the series,
27:54for back here in the garden, to judge the competition,
27:56and I'm really excited about that.
27:59And also, I think it's going to be a really good growing season.
28:01Yeah, can't even wait.
28:03Well, next week in the garden, I'm going to be joined by Lizzie,
28:06and she's going to be up at her setutere that we first saw last year.
28:10And we'll also be paying a visit to Colin Crosby down in Dunfreesa.
28:14We'll get to see his wonderful garden again.
28:15And if you want to do some planning and planting for this season,
28:19don't forget we've got the whole of last year's series on the iPlayer,
28:22which I hope you'll find useful.
28:24And then look out for us on social media,
28:27where we're going to be putting out some updates and jobs to do each week.
28:31So, from the two of us, bye!
28:33Bye!
28:45Bye!
28:46Bye!
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