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00:35Hello, and welcome to Gardner's World.
00:39Yes, I am pulling bineweed off the fence and from beneath this hornbeam.
00:47So the roots are not competing.
00:50And as sad as it sounds, I really enjoy it.
00:55Especially if you've got pernicious weed, you know, just if you have to go out,
00:58little and often, I think, is the key.
01:04So, that's enough of that for the moment.
01:10If I'm honest with you, this is not going to be the most colourful gardener's world you have ever seen.
01:18The reason is, we moved in in October.
01:21First of all, it was understanding the space, then designing it,
01:25and then starting the building, the paths, the terraces.
01:29Then over the winter, very much the hedges and the trees.
01:34It's all about early days, getting the soil right and the structure of the garden.
01:40But I will promise you one thing.
01:42There is plenty for us to get on with.
01:45And on that note, we best crack on.
02:09So, before we get on with the first job,
02:13it would be an idea, I think, just to sort of give you a bit of a recap.
02:17Now, ultimately, I've got four gardens.
02:18This first one being, let's call it the family garden.
02:21Some nice big lawn, deep borders, terrace area, pathway down one side,
02:27places to pause and sit.
02:29And you go down a level, but that will be divided.
02:31There will be a hedge across there, down a couple of steps,
02:34into what I'm going to call my sort of fruit and herb garden.
02:36And at the back, they'll sit this greenhouse,
02:40then another hedge and then down another couple of steps.
02:42And then you'll go into a species rose, a few magnolias
02:47and a lot of sort of perennial planting
02:49with a big circular pool in the middle,
02:52which will probably just be full of lilies.
02:55So that'll be a really romantic space.
02:58And then after that, another hedge across just to divide the space.
03:02And you'll go through to an area that's got my shepherd's hut,
03:05which I inherited, and an outside kitchen down there,
03:09two sort of large sort of deck areas,
03:12somewhere to entertain, relax.
03:15It sounds good, doesn't it?
03:17Only thing is, I've now got to get on with it and make it happen.
03:24You might remember, back in spring, I was prepping this boarder.
03:28And I've since then kept it free of weeds,
03:31but also I put the canes in, where the shrubs were going to go.
03:35I'd normally wait until the autumn,
03:37but I'm itching to get some in the border.
03:40So I'm going to pop in just three today.
03:44I think the first thing to say is,
03:46when I'm buying these plants,
03:48I'm not necessarily thinking about them as plants.
03:52I know that might sound strange,
03:54but it's about shapes, forms,
03:57how they connect with what's around them.
03:59If you imagine this viburnum,
04:01it's going to grow probably to about three metres.
04:03I'm going to lift the canopy,
04:05so I'm going to prune all those lower stems.
04:07So you're going to see those, they'll be exposed.
04:09You've got a spring flower,
04:10and you've got a real leathery leaf.
04:13And then next to it,
04:14this is a good old dogwood.
04:16So Cornus siberica,
04:18quite relaxed in its growth.
04:21When I said spring flower,
04:23and think about it,
04:23fantastic winter stems,
04:26but also good autumn colour and a little flower.
04:30So you're starting then to join
04:32these sort of ornamental interests together.
04:34Then as we move down the border,
04:37you come to the amelanchia,
04:39multi-stemmed, really doned.
04:41Flower, berry, autumn colour.
04:48Now we get to the Cotinus cogria flammissiol.
04:52The smokebush are amazing plants,
04:56quite mounded in its habit.
04:58This beautiful sort of dark leaf
05:00with this smoky flower,
05:02it gives a pop of colour
05:04to the shrubs in the border.
05:06But again, you can just see the two leaves together.
05:09So that will go in there.
05:11Now, last but not least,
05:14this is a rye leaf,
05:16so ornamental current.
05:18It's called Ribes Oregon Snowflake.
05:21It gets up to about 1, 1.5 metres.
05:24But in my head,
05:25I'm going to sort of keep it
05:27slightly really in a dome.
05:29It will sit under the corners.
05:30Mass, multi-stemmed,
05:32beautiful bark as it gets older,
05:34winter flower,
05:35followed by a berry.
05:37Even pretty good autumn colour.
05:39So you can see that all the time,
05:41all I'm doing is a little jigsaw,
05:43and I'm putting it together.
05:45So, let's get it in.
05:46I'm not going to put any manure in the bottom
05:48because I've already prepped the soil
05:50earlier in the spring.
05:52The next thing I am going to do, though,
05:55is really soak this hole.
06:02Right, there we go.
06:03That's sitting in there nicely.
06:05And then as I take the shrub out,
06:07you just start to break that up.
06:09It's not bad at all.
06:10It's quite fine.
06:11There's lots of white root in there,
06:13which is ultimately what we want.
06:16I'm gently teasing the roots apart
06:19to encourage them to grow into the soil.
06:23And now I'm just going to push that soil back
06:26around.
06:29What I've done
06:31by watering that hole before
06:33is create myself a bit of a sump.
06:36By creating that sump,
06:38our water's going to sit in there,
06:40which will benefit that plant hugely.
06:42When it does come to watering
06:44this time of year,
06:46what I would say is
06:47rather than little and often,
06:49things like trees and shrubs,
06:52they're better off having a good soaking
06:54you know, every two or three days.
06:58There we go.
06:59Slowly, slowly,
07:01it will come together.
07:03While I get the other two shrubs in the ground,
07:06Jamie went to Westingards in Chichester
07:09to enjoy some summer colour.
07:17In early summer,
07:19so many flowers are singing.
07:21The sweet peas climbing skywards.
07:24Love in the mist.
07:26Salvias full of bees.
07:30There is a classic bloom
07:32for cottage gardens
07:33and borders alike
07:34that will add height,
07:36theatre,
07:37and a variety of colour.
07:39They can be tricky to grow
07:41and they can be spectacular.
07:48Chantelle Spower
07:49is the deputy head gardener
07:51who looks after one very special display.
07:59Oh, wow.
08:01Oh, wow.
08:03They're incredible.
08:04My goodness.
08:07It's not often,
08:08I'm lost for words,
08:10but they're staggeringly beautiful.
08:12I have delphinium envy right now.
08:17This amazing array
08:19of delphinium alatum.
08:20There's 35 varieties here
08:22given to the garden
08:24five years ago
08:25with the aim of testing them out,
08:27learning about how they grow best
08:30and showcasing their blooms.
08:39Chantelle,
08:39why alatum?
08:41And why so many alatums?
08:44Well, other than the sheer beauty,
08:45they're more perennial
08:46than a lot of other delphiniums.
08:48And they're available
08:49in so many different colours.
08:51Well, you can see
08:52this sort of vast array
08:54of different shades.
08:55And their sheer size,
08:56you don't get any
08:57quite as high as alatums.
08:59They're the biggest delphiniums
09:00I think I've ever seen.
09:01Is that specific
09:02to the alatum group
09:03that they're more branching
09:05and clint forming
09:05and almost multi-stem?
09:07Huge multi-stem plants, yeah.
09:12Alatum is a species
09:13that originates
09:14from the chilly alpine meadows
09:16of Europe and Asia,
09:17which is why they're
09:18more perennial here
09:19in our winters.
09:20They've been hybridised hugely
09:22over the last 400 years.
09:24But, like most delphiniums,
09:27they're still tricky,
09:28or fussy, or both.
09:34You've clearly got
09:35the magic touch
09:35when it comes to delphiniums.
09:37These are magnificent.
09:39What have you learnt
09:40in growing these?
09:41Well, the first and foremost,
09:42they really like their own space,
09:43make a real feature of them
09:45in a bed of their own.
09:46They don't want
09:46that root competition
09:47from other plants,
09:48which can also lead
09:49to great hiding spaces
09:50for slugs.
09:51I've always put them
09:52in amongst roses and daily,
09:54that sort of typical
09:55cottage, country garden
09:56sort of vibe.
09:57No, that's when
09:58they don't tend to thrive so well.
10:00So they want to be by themselves?
10:01They want to be by themselves.
10:03And what about the soil?
10:04They really need free draining.
10:05They really don't like
10:06having their feet wet.
10:07That's their biggest killer.
10:08And then the third thing
10:09that always happens with mine,
10:11which I guess might be
10:12because they're in a mixed border
10:14with bad drainage,
10:15is mildew.
10:16Yeah, very common.
10:17You really want that good air circulation
10:19around the plant.
10:20Space is critical.
10:20Space.
10:21They really need a big bit of space.
10:22That's the most important thing.
10:31And then in terms of deadheading,
10:33do you cut these down at all?
10:35We deadhead them
10:36and then when they finish flowering,
10:38we'll cut them right down
10:39to the ground.
10:40But they'll reshoot?
10:41They'll reshoot.
10:42They'll be reinvigorated,
10:43give them a bit of blood,
10:44fish and bone.
10:45And they'll reemerge
10:46with another wonderful display,
10:47if not as tall.
10:48That's brilliant.
10:49It is wonderful.
10:50In the winter,
10:51do you lift and divide them?
10:52Do you propagate them?
10:53We're going to be lifting
10:54and dividing them this autumn.
10:55So extra plants.
10:57And that'll just increase
10:58their vigour again as well.
10:59Can I come back
11:00when you do that?
11:01Please do.
11:01Because then I can fill my cardan
11:03up with all those
11:04spare dope in here.
11:07All right.
11:12Chantelle has also
11:13been taking basal cuttings,
11:15which involves removing
11:16a section of the stem
11:17and the woody crown.
11:19These were done in the spring
11:21and have developed
11:22into healthy new plants.
11:24And some are even flowering
11:26just three months later.
11:34The luxury of having
11:35so many different cultivars
11:38of delphiniums
11:39all growing side by side
11:40means I can work my way through
11:43and choose which one's
11:44my favourites,
11:45which is really difficult
11:46when they're all
11:47this magnificent.
11:49But this one
11:50has really caught my eye.
11:52This is called
11:53Rosemary Brock.
11:54And it's this lovely
11:56dusky, soft, romantic pink.
11:59I'm a huge fan
12:01of this sort of colour.
12:02But also,
12:02as you've probably noticed,
12:04it rained a lot
12:06through the night.
12:07And so some of the
12:08delphiniums here
12:09have started flopping
12:11the rain,
12:11but this one
12:12has stayed fully upright.
12:14And these buds
12:16that haven't quite opened yet,
12:17they're like little
12:18pearls of joy
12:19that are waiting
12:20to unfurl.
12:21And the way
12:21these water droplets
12:22are just dangling off them
12:24are like little icicles.
12:25I think these are
12:27as beautiful,
12:28if not more so,
12:29than the flowers themselves.
12:30This is one
12:31that I'd
12:32definitely have
12:33in my own garden.
12:48This delphinium
12:49is striking.
12:50But in a very different way.
12:52It's regal.
12:53It's velvety.
12:55It's sort of rich and royal.
12:57And using deep, dark,
13:00bald colours like this
13:01in a flower border
13:02or in a container
13:03or even alongside
13:04other delphiniums like this
13:05adds real depth
13:06into a border.
13:08We had 33 millimetres
13:09of rain last night.
13:10And even so,
13:12they're still standing
13:13erect and tall and proud.
13:15Just go along
13:16and shake the droplets
13:18off them.
13:19like you would do
13:20sort of picking apples
13:22off an apple tree.
13:22It takes the weight
13:23off the branches.
13:24It alleviates them
13:25of that weight pressure
13:26and makes sure
13:27they won't flop.
13:28Not that this one is.
13:41There are not many plants
13:42in the garden
13:43that are blue anyway,
13:45but this,
13:47this blue,
13:48these are electric blue.
13:49This is more of an azure.
13:51This is a sky blue.
13:52This one's called
13:53blue dawn.
13:54I think this one's
13:54one of my favourites.
13:55It would add a zing
13:57to any border.
13:59It's uplifting.
14:00It's joyful.
14:01It's smile-inducing.
14:02And it's not just
14:03this brilliant,
14:04beautiful blue
14:05that's so special
14:06about this delphinium.
14:07It's the size of it.
14:08These delphiniums
14:09tower well above me.
14:12They're huge.
14:13They're vast.
14:14The other really clever thing
14:15about this plant
14:16in particular,
14:17each stem
14:18as it comes up
14:19actually then also
14:20breaks again
14:22into all these
14:23separate side shoots
14:24of flowers.
14:25So as the main flower
14:26finishes and fades away,
14:28you've got all these
14:29other buds and flower stems
14:31waiting in the wings.
14:32This is going to give you
14:33weeks,
14:34if not months,
14:35of enjoyment.
14:46I challenge anybody
14:47to walk through
14:49this bed of delphiniums
14:50and not just feel
14:52inspired and happy
14:53and joyful.
14:54They're just
14:55fountains of happiness.
14:57And what Chantel's
14:59done here
14:59has not just
15:01infused and excited
15:02and sort of reignited
15:04my passion for delphiniums,
15:05but she's shown me
15:06how to grow them properly
15:08which is something
15:09I've never been able to do.
15:11I'm on really heavy clay
15:12and I now know
15:13I need to build
15:14a little raised bed
15:15to give them
15:16really good drainage
15:17but more so
15:17put them
15:18centre of attention,
15:20make them the main
15:21feature in the garden,
15:22give them plenty of space
15:23and then hopefully
15:24I'll also be rewarded
15:26with something
15:26this beautiful.
16:00one day
16:01I might possibly
16:03have to get delphiniums
16:05as beautiful
16:07as that.
16:08My offering
16:09at the moment
16:10are those
16:11which are literally
16:12two delphinium
16:14recuenei
16:15which is
16:15a biannual
16:17that I grew
16:17in the other garden
16:18have rocked up here
16:20in a plant
16:21that I brought
16:21with me.
16:22On the bright side
16:23I can collect
16:24the seed
16:24and maybe
16:26next year
16:27I'll be in a place
16:28where I can
16:28actually
16:29sow them
16:30but
16:31as we've already
16:32worked out
16:33I've got an awful
16:34lot of building
16:36to do.
16:37So here
16:38which is going to be
16:39a gravel path
16:40bricks either side
16:41is going to run
16:42down to some steps
16:43and then drop away
16:45into that lower garden.
16:47This is quite simple
16:48as far as
16:49the actual
16:50construction process
16:51so
16:52if I come down
16:53imagine straight away
16:55I've got a path
16:56it's sloping
16:57so I've got a fixed
16:58point at the top
16:59there
17:00a fixed point
17:01right down there
17:01where I meet the step.
17:03So
17:03I've squared everything
17:05off the house
17:06and then I've run
17:07a string line
17:08really tight
17:09from point A
17:10down
17:11ultimately
17:11to point B.
17:13So
17:13when you're excavating
17:15you're working
17:16out your levels
17:16you've got to allow
17:18for that sub base
17:19or
17:19let's call it
17:20hardcore
17:20I've allowed
17:21about 100ml there
17:23then you've got
17:23your mortar bed
17:24that your brick's
17:25going to sit on
17:26that I've allowed
17:27about 30-40ml
17:28and then I sit
17:29my brick
17:29on top
17:30which is
17:31about another
17:3250ml
17:32so
17:33if you add
17:34all those together
17:34you know
17:35you're not
17:36very shy
17:37of about
17:38200ml
17:39so once you've
17:40dug it out
17:40taken it away
17:41then you'll start
17:43to fill back in
17:43so the hardcore
17:44goes in first
17:45then you
17:46compact that
17:47and then you're ready
17:48to start your building
17:49when it comes
17:51to edging
17:51any path
17:52you could do it
17:53in sort of timber
17:54steel edgings
17:56I've chosen a brick
17:57you know
17:58there's lots
17:58of different options
17:59although this is
18:01a clay brick
18:02it is a paving brick
18:04so
18:04a lot of the bricks
18:05that we build
18:06our houses with
18:07they can't use them
18:09on the ground
18:10in the gardens
18:11because what will happen
18:12is they suck up
18:13too much moisture
18:14and then in the winter
18:16if the frost comes
18:16they'll blow
18:17the surface of them
18:18with these
18:19these have actually
18:20been what we call
18:21fired
18:21to a temperature
18:23that will deal
18:24with the cold conditions
18:25and if we sort of
18:26talk about the
18:27mortar mix
18:28this is
18:30one part
18:31cement
18:31and then
18:32six parts
18:33sharp sand
18:34all I'm doing
18:35now really
18:36is laying myself
18:38the mortar underneath
18:40working that down
18:41with my trowel
18:43and then I'm just
18:44going to offer
18:44my bricks in
18:47and I'm working
18:48to my line
18:49so nice
18:50simple
18:51and level
18:52and then what we do
18:54is as we're
18:55working down
18:57we're sort of
18:57haunching
18:58as we go
18:59that's going to
19:00hold the brick
19:01to stop it moving
19:02so it really is
19:04that simple
19:15so I will top
19:16this up
19:16probably with a
19:17bit more sand
19:18and leave
19:19about 30
19:2040 mil
19:21for my gravel
19:22finish
19:23but I will not
19:24do that to
19:25really
19:26the last sort
19:27of knockings
19:27when the garden's
19:28getting to the
19:29point where
19:30you know
19:31I'm not bringing
19:32in dirty
19:33wheelbarrows
19:34and lots of
19:35mud on my
19:36feet
19:37because I don't
19:38want my gravel
19:38being ruined
19:39so the next
19:39thing really
19:40finish the
19:41pathway
19:41sand through
19:43and then I
19:44can prep
19:44the beds
19:45finish off
19:54now we're
19:55off to
19:55Norfolk
19:56to meet
19:56Raghile Shah
19:57who has
19:58put a modern
19:59twist on
20:00a cottage
20:00garden
20:09I describe
20:11my garden
20:11as light
20:13and airy
20:14filled with
20:15plants
20:16that dance
20:20delicate
20:21wafty
20:23grasses
20:23succulents
20:25tumbled together
20:27they make
20:27they make
20:27for quite
20:27charming
20:28cottagey
20:29look
20:31putting a
20:32plant in
20:32the ground
20:33and watching
20:33it thrive
20:34and flower
20:35is just
20:36so special
20:38it's been
20:39like medicine
20:40for me
20:44my name's
20:45my name's
20:45ragel
20:45and this
20:46is my
20:46contemporary
20:47cottage
20:47garden
20:48in
20:48Norwich
20:53a lot
20:53of the
20:54plants
20:54that I
20:55think of
20:55as
20:56traditional
20:57cottage
20:57garden
20:58plants
20:58won't
20:58necessarily
20:59thrive
20:59here
21:00we
21:01have
21:02very
21:02sandy
21:02soil
21:03and it
21:03gets
21:04very dry
21:04very
21:05quickly
21:05I've
21:06never
21:06ever
21:07had
21:07a
21:07squidgy
21:07lawn
21:08or puddles
21:09doesn't
21:09matter
21:10how heavy
21:10it rains
21:11so I've
21:12had to
21:12choose
21:12plants
21:13that
21:14cope
21:15with
21:15that
21:19so this
21:20is the
21:20big
21:21south
21:22facing
21:22border
21:23the
21:23hottest
21:24driest
21:25toughest
21:26part
21:26of the
21:27garden
21:27here
21:27I wanted
21:28a great
21:29depth
21:29of border
21:30to really
21:30have an
21:31impact
21:31and so I
21:32can have
21:32plants
21:33coming into
21:34their own
21:34through the
21:35year
21:35the ones
21:36that will
21:37thrive
21:37here
21:38are
21:38drought
21:39tolerant
21:39they can
21:40cope
21:40with this
21:41very dry
21:41sandy
21:42soil
21:42so there's
21:43verbena
21:44bonariensis
21:46there's
21:46gauras
21:49agapanthus
21:50and back
21:51here is a
21:52really special
21:53plant called
21:54althea
21:54cannabina
21:55which is in
21:55the mallow
21:55family
21:56if you like
21:57hollyhocks
21:58but can't
21:59grow them
21:59it's the same
22:00flower shape
22:00but much more
22:01delicate and
22:02pretty
22:02so I'm
22:03picturing a
22:04sea of pink
22:04airy flowers
22:05all around
22:06me
22:08lots of
22:09cottage gardens
22:09can start to
22:10feel quite
22:10tired and
22:11faded at this
22:12time of year
22:13so I think
22:14foliage is really
22:15important
22:15particularly
22:17when flowers
22:18are a little
22:19scarce
22:19so lovely
22:20shiny foliage
22:21from something
22:22like this
22:22pitosporum
22:23tenufolium
22:24golf ball
22:24the coloured
22:25foliage from
22:26the beautiful
22:26sambucas
22:36I moved here
22:38back in 2012
22:39with my
22:40husband
22:41both the
22:42children were
22:42under three
22:44and it was
22:45pretty hard
22:50gradually I
22:51just got more
22:52and more
22:52stressed and
22:54tired and my
22:55self-esteem went
22:56down, down, down, down, down
22:59I felt I wasn't good
23:01at being a mum
23:03and in the end I did
23:04leave my job
23:05and was finally
23:08diagnosed with
23:08postnatal depression
23:15when I was at my lowest
23:17I couldn't face going out
23:19but the garden was safe
23:21I could still be outside
23:26as I started to feel
23:28a bit more functional
23:30the garden became
23:31a refuge
23:33and I just started
23:35picking away at it
23:37planting things
23:40I think the physical
23:42element of gardening
23:44was a big factor
23:47in my recovery
23:50seeing things grow
23:52and getting those
23:53wonderful rewards
23:55for your efforts
23:55was something I could
23:56do and feel safe
23:57doing
24:00you just get
24:01immersed in this
24:03world of sounds
24:04and smells
24:05and sights
24:05and textures
24:06your mind is just
24:08focused on that
24:11in a way it was like
24:12I was prescribing
24:13myself
24:14gardening
24:19I'm always looking
24:21for spaces
24:23where I can squeeze
24:24more in
24:24hence it being
24:25quite cottagey
24:26I want it full of life
24:28it thrills me
24:30when there are
24:31butterflies
24:31and bees
24:32and dragonflies
24:33and other weird
24:34and wonderful creatures
24:34around
24:51so the way I made
24:53the garden
24:54more contemporary
24:56is by having
24:56these linking elements
24:58I've used repeating
25:00materials or structures
25:02to connect the garden
25:07behind me
25:08it's this
25:09ROM steel
25:11reinforcement
25:11which is used
25:12to reinforce
25:13concrete
25:13and it goes
25:14naturally rusty
25:15so you get
25:15this beautiful
25:16colour and texture
25:17behind the plants
25:18the shape
25:20is ideal
25:21for screens
25:22and climbers
25:22this is
25:23Trachylus firma
25:24it's an evergreen
25:25climber
25:26that twines
25:27the most wonderful
25:28fragrance
25:28when it's in full flower
25:29and will eventually
25:30screen the greenhouse
25:32beautifully
25:35I couldn't be more
25:36grateful to have
25:37found gardening
25:38in my life
25:38the garden
25:40gave me a chance
25:41to experience
25:42success
25:43and things going
25:44right
25:45when everything else
25:46in my life
25:47was going wrong
25:48and it continues
25:50to heal me
25:51whenever I need it
26:17I think
26:18I think
26:19using that word
26:22safe you know a garden being a safe place I think so many people are going to resonate with your
26:28story look just sort of creating a little courtyard for the time being with a lot of the containers
26:37that I bought from the other house so yes we have some color absolutely stunning but I want to
26:44arrange the pots but make the most of the walls which are south facing what I want to grow here
26:52is a fig but figs it's not just about digging a hole and popping it in what you want to
26:59do is
27:00actually contain the roots so by doing that you've got to just stress the plant slightly and then
27:06hopefully that kicks it into delivering more fruit so I've dug a hole probably about 50 to 60
27:13centimeters and about the same wide and these these were slabs that were already here to be
27:20fair when we when we moved in just going to bring these in so in a way I'm making a
27:28planting box
27:29so height wise I just want to be just above soil level so you don't want the sort of any
27:35chance
27:35of the roots coming out and over so now I've got a wonderful little sort of planting container
27:41I'm just going to put a little bit of this rubble that I've dug out back around just to hold
27:47the paving slabs
28:05right I've backfilled the hole I'll be honest with you this is hot if the figs don't ripen here
28:14they've got no chance now what I want to do is I'm going to wire the wall so I'm going
28:20to grow
28:20up against the wall I'm going to fan it out and then tie it in as we go
28:30what I'm going to create is is some horizontal wires first one's about 50 centimeters off the
28:36ground and then I'll repeat that working up the wall
28:44and I've allowed about 70 centimeters between each eye but that'll vary depending on what you're trying
28:52to support
28:56so when it comes to the wire this is about two two and a half mil galvanized wire
29:01so what we're going to do now really is start to work this through the holes this is the fun
29:12bit
29:14pulling that along
29:23so we just pull that through that last hole and I've got about 10 centimeters to play with
29:31and all I'm going to do then is start to wind it back around the wire you might find it
29:39easier
29:41with a pair of pliers so once that's pulled back around then what you want to do is then go
29:47back to the other end
29:50now what I'm doing is tensing that wire I'm not that worried about it being really really tight
30:00I mean it is but you know I could possibly pull on it and pull on it because what you'll
30:05find is that wire
30:06is already warm so what will happen as weather changes the wire would actually tighten itself
30:25like the shrubs earlier on I'm going to water this whole well
30:30before we drop the fig in the fig that actually is highly recommended for outdoors
30:37you will see mention a lot is brown turkey but this Osborne's prolific
30:45I'm hoping the second part of that is right it's been recommended to me
30:49good cropper and a friend has said to me they taste really good frosty so I'm hoping that they do
30:59when it comes to planting against a wall really anytime don't put anything too close whether it's
31:08a climber a wall shrub you're always better off bringing it you know a foot away and what we're
31:16going to do is we're just going to tilt this back in right let's get this soil in I've literally
31:23just dug it out the back garden so I'm not putting in a lot of compost take the cane out
31:31if I just tease these apart carefully you can see as I tie them in to the wires above
31:38I can create a beautiful fan so hopefully in time not only will I have beautiful feeks but as that
31:50covers
31:50that wall those fantastic architectural leaves against that backdrop I think will look absolutely
31:59stunning talking about stunning we are now off to Cowell's garden in Devon
32:24about eight weeks or so ago I started this little plot and it is little it's about eight feet by
32:31five feet about one and a half by two meters I just wanted to show that not only can you
32:38grow beautiful flowers but alongside them you can grow all sorts of wonderful produce even in a really
32:46small space like this everything in here has been grown from seed and already I'm beginning to harvest stuff
32:58look at that
33:02this is a beetroot called boltardi boltardi just means it doesn't run to seed it doesn't bolt
33:08and it's my favorite beetroot it tastes really good and quite frankly when you're growing vegetables
33:15the only thing that really matters is the taste that's what you grow them for to eat
33:21one of the first flowers I planted was cosmos easy to raise from seed it's a half hardly annual
33:29it's been flaring its socks off for weeks all flowers try to set seed but if you want to keep
33:37them flaring it's vital to cut off their dead heads as soon as the petals fall I trace the stem
33:44back to
33:45the next bud and snip off just above it if you carry on doing this regularly and keep them well
33:53fed and
33:53watered you'll be rewarded with a glorious show of blooms right through to the first frosts so that's it
34:02with the cosmos for now but I shall keep on deadheading because I want them to flower I don't want
34:07them to go
34:08to seed but I do want this lettuce to go to seed unusually I want it to flower set seeds
34:16and I'm
34:16going to save the seed for next year now this is a little gem and I had a whole row
34:21of them through
34:22here and we've eaten most of them you can eat it either as a salad vegetable or you can even
34:28cook it but
34:28only when it's young by the time it's done this these leaves are very very bitter
34:39right that's the last of my lettuce out apart from the one that's going to go to seed and what
34:43I'm
34:44going to replace it with is some rainbow chard now this is a mixture that's called bright lights for
34:53obvious reasons the stems are lots of different colors yellow red some of them are white and the
34:59reason I want this in here is even when everything else has been taken out it'll carry on through the
35:05winter and it's delicious one quirky feature of rainbow chard is that the color of the roots
35:15corresponds with the color of the stems I'm alternating the chard with Brompton stocks so I'll have handsome
35:25foliage and glorious scented flowers several weeks ago I sowed some basil seed directly into the ground
35:35in a big circle and the whole idea was that eventually I was going to put a tomato in the
35:41middle of that and there's this old saying what goes together grows together or the other way around
35:47and it's great to grow basil with tomatoes sadly although the seed germinated the slugs got every
35:55single one now I've sown some more basil seed but I'm afraid they're really tiny plants so I'm going to
36:02cheat been to the supermarket and got a pot full of basil but what they do when they sow this
36:09basil seed is put
36:10loads and loads and loads of seed on the top which means I've got a whole multitude of little separate
36:17basil plants while they will be separate when I finish with them so thumbs in and you've got to go
36:26for it
36:26you've got to be brave now I could separate that even more but I'm not going to and I'm just
36:38going to
36:39plunge this whole thing into here of course especially on a hot day like this it'll need a really really
36:48good watering and I'm going to finish it off with a bit of grit this will keep out any weeds
36:56it will
36:57retain the moisture once I've watered it and with a bit of luck we'll have several really established plants
37:13well this little plot is abuzz with all sorts of insect action there are bees and hoverflies butterflies
37:21all sorts they particularly love the cosmos and the rubeckia these big open flowers I'm sure you know
37:28that I garden organically I wouldn't dream of using any kind of pesticides and insecticides and so far
37:35this plot is just about pest free but it's just the time of year when a fish start to move
37:42in and start
37:43gobbling up your crops and I want to do a bit of companion planting and the plant I'm using is
37:49stagetes it's sometimes called French marigolds sometimes African marigolds it's got sort of very
37:57pungent kind of foliage so that itself will deter some things on one of the insects that's going to
38:04come into here and be attracted by this is the hoverfly hoverflies lay their eggs on the stems of
38:11different plants now when those eggs hatch into larvae they don't eat the plants because they carnivorous
38:18so what they're going for is a fish and they'll gobble them up and keep your plants really clean and
38:25this one's called harlequin you can see why because it's got these alternate mahogany and bright golden
38:32yellow petals I've also planted up a container with ornamentals and edibles this cosmos purity
38:45amaranth and aurac so far everything's heading for the sky it needs something shorter to grow over
38:54the edge some squeezing in some nasturtiums they satisfy both criteria not only do they have showy
39:02flowers but you can eat them too just look at that never mind look at them smell them oh that
39:18fragrance is it's just summer personified the sweet peas of course and they're one of the first things
39:25that I planted in here I planted them up this wonderful structure and alternated them with
39:32three different kinds of climbing beans of course the more you cut them the more sweet peas you get
39:40and who wouldn't want a bunch of those on the table they're just lovely and they're going to carry on
39:45producing those flowers all summer long
39:51we're halfway through the season already and yet we've got masses and masses of beautiful flowers and
39:58gorgeous produce and there's so much more to come
40:20I do love that interplanting of veg and flower but that for me is a little bit further down the
40:29road you might see look
40:32I've had a bit of a rethink the fix it's there at the back you know the one plan i
40:38cannot do without
40:41his herbs you know i love my cooking so i've got loads of them in containers and i'm growing them
40:48on
40:49and ultimately they will make it into the garden long term but i'm just sort of playing about i've sort
40:55got this really sunny side things like the times and the sages and my sort of mints and things like
41:04that sit back in this space there you go i can mess about with that when i come out with
41:10a cup of tea
41:12but i've got a couple more a few little times that i bought i just want to pop those on
41:18and i have a mint that needs a little attention
41:24first this is a lovely little lemon thyme which is incredible beautiful flower
41:32but straight away two herbs completely different conditions you know my mint will love damp
41:41even take a bit of sort of semi-shade whereas the time you're all happy
41:46basking out in the sunshine so what i'm going to do is put three in this little pot you know
41:54i want
41:55this to be free draining so my mix really is peat free compost i've got a little bit of topsoil
42:02in
42:02there some horticultural sand and then grit so if i actually hold that together falls apart straight
42:10away so you know that is going to be free draining put some of that in the bottom there
42:17and then let's tease these out of here what you'll find with times as well when you buy them
42:23especially this time of year they're normally well and truly rooted through so i'm going to be quite
42:29brutal literally just going to use the back of my secateurs and just knock that down that will really
42:39encourage that plant another one in now right so there you go that's the second one so really the key
42:52to this
42:55you know growing well is me putting in a nice sunny little spot yeah keep an eye on the watering
43:03over the rest of the summer but that drainage is key so really good free draining mix
43:15and keep the plants apart good air circulation
43:24and there's one little bit i'm going to do i know hold your breath take that off
43:38that's that'll be used in tonight's tea cutting those flowers off and now the way those plants are water
43:47that in that'll do the world of good because it will concentrate on putting that root growth in
43:52and then actually it will start to sort of restock itself from the bottom so there we go now for
44:00something completely different a lot of you grow your mince in pots what happens is eventually
44:06your center starts to die out it shoots and runs it shoots and runs that's ultimately what it does
44:12so what we're going to do is i'm going to cut straight down through the middle of this
44:21and then just where i can't get through there i'm just going to take the secateurs
44:26and just cut through those then if we bring our pot back up what i want now as you think
44:33about it i want
44:34to hold that moisture in to what i'm going to do here so the mix i've got here has got
44:40peat-free
44:40compost but some topsoil so what i'm trying to do in my head is is get to as close as
44:47possible to
44:48where this would be happy you know growing in a in a garden environment so it now sits back to
44:57back
44:57in the middle and then we're going to work in that compost in around if you think about the compost
45:07i've picked up with the time now if i pick this up give it the same squeeze stays together so
45:14you
45:14instantly know that is going to hold more moisture so all i'll do with that is give it a really
45:21good
45:21soaking just keep it slightly sort of in the semi-shade keep an eye on that watering that will soon
45:28root away
45:32so i said i couldn't live without herbs well we're now off to the west midlands to meet tracy west
45:41and i'm not sure she could do without her roses
45:49of course i love roses can you see them all around you
45:55you call it a bit of an obsession i would think some people when they look in the garden see
45:58how
45:59many there are you wouldn't have this many if you didn't love them
46:04i'm tracy and this is my rose garden in birmingham
46:08we moved into this house 26 years ago the garden was a very mature garden there wasn't much colour
46:14it was quite overgrown it was unkempt really now obviously the garden is very very different
46:20it's packed to the rafters with colour roses everywhere all different colours different types different breeders
46:32i've always liked gardening but probably around 2018 i started to join a few social sites and then
46:42there was actually one person that invited me to join a site that was just for roses i started getting
46:49more and more drawn into it i could feel myself thinking i think i want to go more down that
46:54route
46:58one of the things that i love is the names of the roses and the history behind them
47:03it always gives them a bit of interest this rose is named gertrude jekyll and she's named after a famous
47:09garden designer born in victorian times it's a beautiful electric pink and it's got a lovely scent
47:15quite thorny very known for thorns and the flowers are a lovely rosette shape
47:26so the name of this rose is desdemona she's one of my favorites she has beautiful pink buds
47:33that open up into these lovely white cup shaped blooms you don't have to do too much to keep a
47:38rose
47:39looking this good the main things are really to prune in january and make sure you feed twice a year
47:45before the first and the second flush and mulch to suppress weeds and protect the base of the plant
47:52if you do those things that they're not that difficult you will be rewarded in full with these
47:58beautiful blooms and this lovely glossy green foliage
48:08so this is floribunda rose the name is absolutely fabulous very pretty rose it's a standard um which
48:16means that it's been grafted the the trunk and the roots come from the host rose which they call the
48:23root
48:23stock and then they will graft three shrub roses onto this stem you can see one there another one here
48:32and another one there having three shrub roses grafted onto one stem does make them quite top heavy so it's
48:39very important to make sure that you use a a good stake and a good strap to keep the head
48:45supported the
48:46other thing is because they have a lot of height it means there's a lot of space underneath them so
48:51you
48:51can under plant with companions here we've got oxide daisies geraniums foxgloves the lovely thing
48:58about most of these they self-seed i don't even have to collect the seeds on them they just sprinkle
49:03themselves over the garden then pop up again the next year
49:11so this rose here is called roldal it produces an abundance of blooms and for those people that aren't
49:19very happy working with thorns it is virtually thornless you can really handle it without getting
49:25snagged or anything like that
49:31so we decided to put potted roses in here yeah so these these have probably been here now about
49:37five or six years um did our homework and looked at the size of the pots that you would need
49:43to grow
49:44roses in and um it was around 50 centimeters wide 50 deep for a shrub rose to survive in a
49:51pot if the
49:52roots become congested in a small pot very quickly the rose will tell you that it's not very happy
49:57you'll look at it and it'll look sad and it'll start wilting and so if you can look at them
50:03and
50:03they're saying to you i'm happy then you know you're doing something right if you don't get any rainfall
50:07in summer you probably need some water pots every other day so that you can literally almost see
50:13it coming out the bottom of the pot and you know then it's gone all the way down to the
50:16roots
50:21so as you're watering try and make sure that you only water the base of the plant
50:26because fungus um can reside in the soil and if you if you splash the leaves and the soil
50:34splashes back up onto leaves you can end up with black spots or other things that might be harboring
50:40in the soil at the time this is black spots on this rose roses are susceptible to several diseases
50:50most common ones are black spot mildew and rust yeah so what i tend to do is um just pick
50:57the leaves
50:58off and you find they do come off quite easily because they're already starting to die it's a fungal
51:02disease so you don't want to put that into your compost um you want to bin it and get rid
51:07um
51:08because if you put it into your compost you're putting it straight back into the ground again
51:12and that you know defeats the object doesn't it really
51:18when we moved in here the top part of the garden was basically a dumping ground
51:23there was just a load of rubbish and rubble up there so we decided to start tidying that up
51:28put in some borders and some plants various plants and roses and some ramblers
51:35we had these um ladders lying up here rather than throw them away we could use them as climbing
51:40supports for the roses this one is a rambler called paul transon this rose is morven hills and
51:50uh this rose here is gardenia they're ramblers they've been here about three three and a half years
51:58now and they've just starting to get to the top of the hoops and put on quite a nice display
52:03the hope
52:04is that these two then will mingle so you'll get the pink and the yellow all mingling together giving
52:11lots of color because that's how i like it really i'm a bit random with my colors i like different
52:16pops of
52:16color all over the place it is hard work looking after this many roses but when they start blooming
52:25and that's payback time and that's that's what you work for i think that roses chose me
52:33somehow they crept into my life and i'm glad they did
52:38so
52:54tracy beautiful who doesn't love a rose
53:18i'll be honest with you i've been looking forward to doing this job all day long
53:26all facing wall so this stays lovely and cool so what i want to do here really is start to
53:33cover
53:34some of the wall and an ideal plant that i can let go up the wall is this hydrangea ptolaris
53:41so what i've done here is i've put in top soil with a lot of sort of well rotted manure
53:48and what's lovely about the hydrangea is i don't have to put wires on the wall because it will just
53:55clean and it's not evergreen but i really do love i love the structure that it creates if you look
54:06in
54:06there closely what i love is as it clings and then it loses its leaves in the winter it sort
54:13of reveals
54:14this sort of skeleton which i think looks absolutely incredible and then you've got
54:21as with so many other hydrangeas beautiful flower sort of late spring really early summer probably
54:2915 20 foot up there but at the same time it could be clipped and controlled so root system lots
54:35of
54:35wonderful white fibrous root let's just loosen that all up a bit i think if you are planting anything
54:43back against the house i've come about a foot so about 300 mil away
54:53let's just throw that in around there really is a lovely plant for a north facing wall i'll still
55:00keep an eye on it you know especially over the first 12 18 months but i'm sure that will soon
55:09get away
55:11so i'll give this beautiful hydrangea a drink and maybe treat myself to one here's a few things you
55:19could be doing at the weekend birds hedgehogs and even insects need a regular supply of water and
55:36in hot weather this is even more important to give them a helping hand i like to fill a shallow
55:44tray with
55:44a few rocks and stones from the garden place somewhere cool out of the way and keep topped up with
55:52water if the weather stays dry
55:59there's still time to sow lettuce
56:03i'm using an old metal container but you could use anything provided it's got a few holes in the bottom
56:12fill with multi-purpose peat-free compost
56:16level off and water sprinkle the seeds over the surface i've chosen a mix of salad leaves
56:26which are dead easy to grow cover with a fine layer of compost and within a few weeks you'll be
56:34picking
56:34your own salad fresh from the garden
56:41planting containers will be romping away now and over the next few weeks we'll use up a lot of nutrients
56:49to help keep them ticking over it's worth giving them a weekly feed i like to use organic seaweed feed
56:56which will give them everything they need for the best results apply last thing at night or first thing
57:03in the morning wetting the roots rather than the leaves
57:25i think this garden i know it's early days and at the moment i feel like i'm ultimately doing a
57:33lot of building that early planting
57:34but there's an incredible atmosphere in the space that even from the first time you know when i arrived it
57:43was just grass
57:45but it felt something and i think that is so important and now the levels are cut the trees are
57:53in
57:53and i'm starting to sort of add the places to be and eek more out of the atmosphere
58:03it's i know it's going to be a special place
58:07and after a good day in the garden myself and her ladyship here we come down here sit on this
58:14little
58:15bucket and just have a moment and i'm not sure life gets any better
58:24so i'm afraid that is it from us this week next week will be a rhs badminton flower show myself
58:33rachel and ashley
58:35we'll be having another round in the meantime look after yourselves bye-bye you're gonna say bye-bye
58:42look at you
58:43you