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Gardeners World 2018 episode 23

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Monty gives advice on how to deal with overcrowded clumps of summer flowering bulbs and plants yew to make a start on creating a topiary Nellie. This post is moved here: https://hdclump.com/gardeners-world-2018-episode-23/ Frances Tophill travels to Somerset to the garden of a woman who grows a huge collection of unusual vegetables used in Thai cooking, Carol is in Devon celebrating one of the brightest additions to the late summer border - the rudbekia - and Mark Lane gives design tips on the main elements of a formal garden. Gardeners World episode 23 2018

Gardeners World 2018 episode 22

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Monty Don catches up on his vegetable garden and harvests potatoes as well as dividing perennials. Frances Tophill is on her shared allotment making the most of the year's fruit harvest, Joe Swift visits a classically designed garden with a contemporary edge in Northamptonshire, and Juliet Sargeant goes to Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex to see how the hot summer has caused a rare tree to flower for the first time in 30 years. This post was moved here: https://hdclump.com/gardeners-world-2018-episode-22 We travel to Wales to meet a seed guardian whose passion is growing all kinds of vegetables and collecting their seed, and we meet a woman who has been successfully growing melons and pineapples in her garden in Lancashire.          Gardeners World 2018 episode 22

Gardeners World 2018 episode 16

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Whether there is a heatwave or a downpour, this week Monty has plenty of jobs to be getting on with, from pruning and propagating to planting pots. Adam Frost meets Prince Charles in his garden at Highgrove to talk about the issue of bio-security, an issue which is of great concern to him and which could have a big effect on our gardens and landscape. Adam also talks to the prince’s head forester to find out what gardeners can do to help. Carol Klein profiles one of our summer stunners for both borders and containers – the agapanthus – and we catch up with Frances Tophill on her shared allotment. We also meet a gardener whose passion for planting has spilled out from his garden onto the roundabout outside his house. Gardeners World 2018 episode 16 Grow your own leeks Leeks are a flavoursome winter vegetable that can be steamed or boiled, braised in a cheese sauce and used in soups and stews. Leeks are easy to grow, but need looking after – you need to sow them in co