Garden with Monty Don
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Garden Rescue
Charlie Dimmock and the Rich Brothers are tasked with bringing a tropical vibe to a sparse garden in Lincolnshire. Lizzie and Mike want the colours and feel of an island getaway, so which design will they choose?
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Gardeners' World
Monty sows rocket, harvests chillies and tomatoes, and demonstrates how to take semi-ripe cuttings. Frances Tophill meets a head gardener in south London who's started gardening sustainably.
Gardeners' World
Monty undertakes more seasonal jobs at Longmeadow. Arit Anderson meets a garden designer in Somerset who has worked in harmony with nature to create a garden on a former brownfield site.
Big Dreams, Small Spaces
Monty Don is asked to rescue two nightmare outside spaces. In Salisbury, newly engaged Glenn and Zoe want a brand-new garden and most of all they are desperate to produce flowers for their wedding. Currently, their steeply sloping garden is completely unusable.
Big Dreams, Small Spaces
In Oxford, two neighbours, Anne and Fliss are set on breaking down boundaries. They want to combine the front gardens of their semi-detached houses into one wonderful space filled with all their favourite grasses and perennials. The big question for Monty is... can two gardening enthusiasts with definite ideas of their own, work together to achieve one goal?
Big Dreams, Small Spaces
Monty helps two pairs of amateur gardeners who want to create dream gardens in very different urban spaces. In Bromley, Mei and Gerard have ambitious plans to turn their narrow, split-level garden into a Japanese paradise.
Monty Don's Italian Gardens
Monty Don conducts a personal grand tour around Italy's magnificent gardens from the luxurious retreats of the moneyed north to the lavish hideaways of the romantic south. In this episode, he's in and around Rome, a power base of emperors and popes, to explore gardens that are among some of the most extravagant and flamboyant ever created in history.
Monty Don's Italian Gardens
Monty Don is on a grand tour around Italy, this time visiting gardens both in Florence and around the sun-scorched Tuscan countryside. Monty discovers how, like a piece of sculpture, renaissance gardens were created as works of art, and how a group of Edwardian ex-pats mistakenly reinforced the idea that formal Italian gardens were flowerless.
Monty Don's Italian Gardens
Monty Don continues his grand garden tour of Italy. This time he is in Naples to visit some of the most sublime, romantic retreats in southern Italy. After all the formality of the green gardens around Rome and Florence, Monty seeks out idyllic horticultural gems set against the dramatic scenery of the Amalfi Coast to discover why, in the south, gardens are informal and, above all, filled with flowers.
Monty Don's Italian Gardens
Monty Don concludes his garden tour of Italy in the wealthy north where, in the Veneto and Lucca, extravagant pleasure gardens were created for flirtation and fun. In the Lakes, Monty meets up with the garden society, the Grandi Giardini Italiani, to peer over the fence at luxurious creations of the rich and famous. The journey ends on Lake Maggiore to see the most theatrical horticultural gem of Italy.
Monty Don's Japanese Gardens
Monty continues his travels to learn about the art of Japanese stonemasonry and the famous tea ceremonies and their accompanying gardens, before finally taking a lesson in the delicate art of traditional flower arranging.
Monty Don's Japanese Gardens
Monty Don returns to Japan during the fiery blaze of autumn. He visits the three great gardens of Japan to learn how they protect the garden from the coming winter and learns how the Japanese are weaving nature into their concrete urban jungle.
Gardeners' World
At Longmeadow this week, Monty reaps a harvest from the vegetable garden, plants up a seasonal pot and gives a masterclass on how to make the perfect compost. Adam Frost travels to York to meet a couple who took on 20 acres of land and filled it with flowers.
Gardeners' World
With autumn on the horizon, the seasonal planting of bulbs for spring-flowering begins at Longmeadow. Frances Tophill meets a gardener whose allotment is filled with both traditional and exotic vegetables and Toby Buckland visits The Newt in Somerset to find out about its chequered garden history and to explore its emergence as one of the UK's most exciting gardens.
Gardeners' World
Monty welcomes spring at Longmeadow with plenty of changes in the garden to share. As well as getting on with some essential pruning, he lifts and divides perennials, starts sowing chillies and begins growing this year's vegetables.
Gardeners' World
With the clocks going forward this weekend, there's an extra hour of gardening to enjoy. Monty makes the most of this as he begins to sow dahlia seeds for summer flowers, reveals a new project and shows what to plant now in the vegetable garden.
Gardeners' World
It's the Easter weekend, which means extra time to get out and enjoy the garden. At Longmeadow, Monty plants out sweet peas for summer colour, gives advice on what to use for mulching borders and has plenty of ideas for jobs to get on with this long weekend. Carol Klein is at RHS Rosemoor to revel in the floral spring sensations that epitomise the season. In Scotland, JJ Chalmers explains how important his local park was in helping both his physical and mental rehabilitation.
Gardeners' World
It's all about plants for free at Longmeadow this week as Monty adds self-sown ornamental grass seedlings to the paradise garden. He also divides ferns for planting elsewhere in the garden. Advolly Richmond explores the history of lawns.
Gardeners' World
In the cottage garden at Longmeadow, Monty gives advice on what to plant under shrubs and roses, while in the vegetable garden, now that the soil has warmed up, he sows seeds for summer crops. In East Sussex, the show visits a nurseryman with a passion for orchids to get his tips for growing success, and in Oxfordshire, there's a couple who share an enthusiasm for gardening and growing vegetables.
Monty Don's Adriatic Gardens
Monty travels to Europe and explores the influence of the Venetians on gardening. To begin with, he explores Venice on one of the city's famous barges, stepping out to visit green spaces large and small that are often hidden from view behind high walls.
Monty Don's Adriatic Gardens
Monty begins in the city of Trieste, close to Italy's border with Croatia, to visit a public garden first created by an obsessive royal plantsman more than 150 years ago, which is now being carefully restored. He then heads down the Adriatic coast through Croatia to pick up the trail that the Venetians followed, ending his journey on the beautiful island of Lopud, near Dubrovnik.
Monty Don's Adriatic Gardens
Monty begins the last leg of his journey in Corfu, a Greek island with strong Venetian links, including olive trees planted by them that are still grown today. Here, Monty visits a spectacular garden made by an Englishman with Greek connections.
Gardeners' World
As summer marches on, Monty gets stuck into more seasonal jobs at Longmeadow. Adam Frost revels in the range of produce growing in a Victorian walled kitchen garden in Somerset.
Gardeners' World
Arit Anderson discovers a paradise garden in Cambridge which has become a focal point for the local community, and Frances Tophill shares the joy of collecting and saving heirloom vegetable seeds on a visit to Pembrokeshire.
Big Dreams, Small Spaces
Monty Don helps two sets of amateur gardeners with very definite ideas and very different approaches to creating their dream gardens. In Clapham, a young couple, Jack and Chris want to turn their tiny urban backspace into a Victorian-inspired plant collector's paradise with a high-tech twist.
Big Dreams, Small Spaces
Monty Don meets two sets of gardeners who are desperate for his help and advice to turn their outside spaces into dream gardens. In Worthing, Emma and Josh want to create a family garden for their little boy, Noah, who has Down Syndrome. Currently, the space is totally overgrown, but Monty gets them going by helping them clear the site.
Big Dreams, Small Spaces
In Teddington, Jennifer enlists the help of her sisters to create an Italian-themed garden in memory of their parents. She has great ideas and a budget to match, but growing citrus trees, olive trees and vines in a leafy London suburb is easier said than done. Will Monty be able to guide the sisters to a Mediterranean style success?
Garden Rescue
The team is in Liphook with a challenge on their hands. Anne and Shaun have a big garden, and a daughter who has her own ideas on what makes a perfect outdoor space. Can the Rich brothers save the day, or will Charlie's design suit the family best?
Garden Rescue
Tracey and Rob's Newport home has it all: dangerous sloped banks, a multi-level space full of wild weeds, overgrown hedges and too many trees. For those brave enough to make it to the top, however, the garden offers a magnificent view.
Garden Rescue
Charlie and the brothers go head to head to win the right to make over the garden of Christine and Tony, who were shot in a terrorist attack in Tunisia in June 2015. If ever a couple needed the peace and consoling virtues of a garden, it is this one.
Garden Rescue
Charlie and the Rich brothers are in Northampton at the garden of Theresa and Martyn. The couple have retired and with their children moved out and providing them with grand children, they would like to enjoy a formal cottage garden.
Monty Don's Spanish Gardens
Monty travels across Central Spain. He begins at the vast, imposing palace and garden of the Escorial before heading for Madrid, Toledo, other parts of Castile and finally Valencia.
Monty Don's Spanish Gardens
Monty Don is in the south of Spain, visiting gardens that show how this part of the country has evolved thanks to influences from visitors and settlers from ancient to modern times.
Monty Don's Spanish Gardens
Monty Don travels across northern Spain, visiting gardens across this vast and diverse landscape that changes from an Atlantic to a Mediterranean climate as he journeys from Galicia to Catalonia.
Gardeners' World
Monty goes through the next steps of chilli seed growth and plants out some of the evergreen cuttings he has propagated. There's also plenty to be getting on with in the vegetable garden, including planting beans.
Gardeners' World
At Longmeadow, Monty presents a masterclass on growing Mediterranean herbs, plants lily bulbs for summer scent, and in the vegetable garden, he begins to sow seeds for salad root crops. Carol Klein is in Devon, where she has a close look at late summer planting combinations. Meanwhile, in Cumbria, there's a gardener whose passion for exotic plants and dahlias has taken over his family garden and spilled over onto his allotment.