Gardeners' World - Episode Guide

A new weekly series for gardeners, advanced and beginners, throughout the British Isles
An outside broadcast from THE UNIVERSITY BOTANIC GARDENS OXFORD with Kenneth Burras
Superintendent Modern glasshouse design alongside Magdalen Bridge Tropical water lilies, luffa, banana, gourds, and pineapple

Spring is nearly upon us and Gardeners' World is back. As usual, Monty Don is at Longmeadow where he sets out his plans for the coming year. This week, Monty reviews the effects the winter weather has had on his garden.

Carol Klein visits a Welsh hillside garden and delves into the botany of bulbs with a couple who have used a scientific approach to plant their garden with the earliest of spring flowers.

It is the perfect time of year to plant trees and Joe Swift gives us his guide to choosing the best ones for our gardens. And there is a glimmer of hope for gardeners who have had to cope with copious amounts of rainfall this year when we visit a garden which, last year, was John Buckland Wright rought back from the brink of destruction with spectacular results.

In this episode, Monty begins to sow annual climbers and gets started on tidying his borders. Joe Swift learns how and when to prune them, and why. Nick Bailey, head gardener of the Chelsea Physic: Garden, discovers a hidden tropical oasis.

In the first big gardening weekend of the year, Monty divides perennials and gives plenty of tips for how we can kick-start the garden for the season ahead. Elsewhere Joe Swift visits a major grower to find out how bedding plants are produced and what drives the demand. Rachel is at the garden centre to look for the top plant trends this Easter.

For the first time this season, Monty gets to work in his wildlife garden to ensure that there are plenty of plants in flower for early pollinators. Carol Klein meets Stuart Donachie, who has embraced every planting opportunity in his shady garden in Herefordshire, and Frances Tophill invites viewers to grow easy summer vegetables along with her as she trials varieties for taste and productivity at RHS Rosemoor.

Monty starts a new project - a cutting garden - and gives advice on what to grow to provide plenty of cut flowers for gorgeous summer bouquets. We visit Cumbria to meet Jack Gott, who has been passionate about that most flamboyant of flowers, the dahlia, for more than 40 years and has over a thousand plants in his garden. James Alexander-Sinclair celebrates a harbinger of spring, the ephemeral cherry blossom, at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.

Monty gets his new vegetable garden underway by making raised beds. He also offers advice on how to cut back herbs. Nick Bailey marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare when he investigates the fact and the fiction behind the bard's potions and poisons at the Chelsea Physic Garden, and we visit Pashley Manor in East Sussex to unearth the story behind the planting of over 25,000 tulips.

Monty visits the RHS Malvern Spring Festival where he is joined by Carol Klein and Chelsea gold medal winner Adam Frost. With over 70 floral displays on show, Monty is on the lookout for scented plants to take back to Longmeadow, Carol advises on plants to buy for problem places in the garden and Adam Frost takes a tour of the show gardens to find the best take-home design tips.

As the growing season picks up a pace, Monty is sowing vegetables and planting out the scented plants which he brought back from the Malvern Spring Festival. Carol is delving into the hedgerows and rooting at the bases of walls, fences and trees as she begins her journey to investigate why plants thrive in challenging conditions and we return to Sissinghurst to find out about the changes Troy Scott-Smith is making to the world famous white garden.

At Longmeadow, Monty's focus is on summer when he plants up containers for colour in the Jewel Garden. He also turns his attention to overcrowded ornamental grasses which, now they are beginning to put on growth, need to be split and replanted. Continuing her search for finding the right plant for the right place, Carol takes a close look at why plants survive in the cracks and crevices of walls and gives her recommendations for garden plants that will thrive in similar conditions. Zephaniah Lindo takes a trip to Wales to meet a fellow primula enthusiast.

This week we are celebrating the work of the army of volunteers who keep gardens up and down the country looking their best for visitors. Frances Tophill continues her vegetable trials at RHS Rosemoor in Devon when she plants out her allotment with the help of RHS volunteers and we visit the Bodnant Garden in north Wales to find out how the volunteers there guide visitors through the world-famous Laburnum Arch. Back at Longmeadow, we catch up with Monty's progress in his cutting garden and, now that plants are growing apace, he gets on with seasonal maintenance tasks in the Jewel Garden.

Tender vegetables, bedding plants and bees are the focus of Monty's gardening at Longmeadow as he plants out squashes and scented annuals and harvests honey. Adam Frost is in London looking at how small spaces in the metropolis can be utilised to make gardens for wildlife, food and relaxation; and we visit north Wales to meet a man with a passion for prehistoric plants.

More handy horticultural tips from the gardening experts.

Monty is reaping the rewards of the summer when he begins to harvest crops from the vegetable garden and gives tips on extending the flower season in the borders.

Carol takes a trip to the seaside to discover why some plants thrive despite being assaulted by salt-laden winds and we make a final visit to Sissinghurst to catch up with Troy Scott-Smith and see the changes that have been made to the garden.

Monty demonstrates that it is not too late to start growing vegetables by showing which types to sow now, and he adds some summer colour to the Spring Garden by sinking plants in pots into the borders.

A hosta National Collection holder shares the secrets of his propagating success, and Rachel de Thame pays a visit to the garden of theatre impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh.

Gardening magazine. Earlier in the year, Monty put aside a patch of his garden to grow his own cut flowers, and this week he returns to assess the results and harvest his first crop of colourful blooms. We pay a visit to an organic flower farm to find out how, from seed to harvest, the process of growing plays a large part in improving wellbeing, and Joe Swift explores the Savill Garden in Windsor to see how the traditional rose garden has been reimagined into a contemporary design.

As summer gets into full swing, there is plenty for Monty to be doing at Longmeadow, and this week he gets to grips with summer pruning as he tackles his espaliered pear trees. Nature's bounty is very much in evidence at Lord Rothschild's garden at Waddesdon Manor, where we get an exclusive look behind the scenes, and Joe Swift ponders ways of putting a contemporary twist on traditional bedding plants.

Now that rambling roses have finished flowering, Monty turns his attention to pruning and tying in new growth for a good display next year. On the 20th anniversary of the death of Geoff Hamilton, Adam Frost returns to the famous Gardeners' World location, Barnsdale, to pay tribute and to revisit some his own early gardening memories. And there is a visit to the garden of a sweet pea enthusiast in Abergavenny, for her top tips for growing the best blooms.

Whether you are staying at home or going away on holiday, Monty has plenty of tips for how to keep the garden looking good and remaining productive during August. Joe Swift pays a visit to the Northumberland garden of Chris Mullin who, after over 20 years as a member of parliament, has turned his attention to the renovation of his walled garden. And National Trust head gardener Alan Power catches up with the transformation of Shakespeare's New Place garden in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Now that birds are no longer nesting in hedges, it is the time to get them looking trim and neat and Monty has plenty of tips on how to cut them so that they grow well.

Alan Power visits Croome Park in Worcestershire to discover more about one of the first great landscapes of Capability Brown, and we visit a couple in Gloucestershire whose ornamental grass garden was inspired by the Far East.

With the bank holiday ahead, there is plenty of opportunity to catch up with some essential jobs in the garden and Monty gives a masterclass on how to look after and prune soft fruit to ensure maximum production next year.

Frances Tophill is at RHS Rosemoor, where she is catching up on her vegetable trials which she started earlier in the year, and Alan Power visits Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset to find out more about the discovery of a long lost gladiolus, which was originally included in the planting plans of Gertrude Jekyll over 100 years ago.

Gardening magazine. Monty is at Longmeadow catching up with some seasonal jobs, and also gets out and about for an inspiring visit to the longest herbaceous border in the world. Adam Frost lays out plans for his new garden in Lincolnshire, while newcomer Flo Headlam visits a small city front garden in Liverpool to get underway with her mission to green up Britain's grey spaces. Nick Macer will be in Sheffield, exploring the ways in which Britain's climatic conditions can be exploited for growing some surprising plants, and Carol Klein is in Devon, getting to grips with some of the members of the extraordinary buttercup family, which include clematis and delphiniums.

Gardening magazine. In another full hour of gardening, Monty is at Longmeadow giving advice on how to deal with unruly roses, taking cuttings of herbs and planting a new tree. Carol Klein continues her series on plant families, exploring some of the most popular relations of the rose, and we pay a visit to an orchard in Worcestershire to find out how enthusiasts are caring for one of the rose family members - the plum. Nick Macer is in London visiting a town garden where two different microclimates offer very different planting opportunities. Adam Frost reveals his plans for his new garden, while Flo Headlam is in the heart of Bristol, transforming unpromising grey spaces into vibrant green. And Jane Moore meets a gardener in Torquay who has designed and planted his garden with thousands of plants which reflect areas of the world from Asia to the Mediterranean.

Gardening magazine. Monty adds some autumn flowering asters to his borders, as well as refreshing his strawberry beds with new stock. Carol Klein continues her series on plant families and this week, she takes a close look at one of the largest plant families in the world, the daisy family. Nick Macer is in Essex where he discovers a garden where cacti are grown to monstrous proportions due, in part, to its microclimate. Garden doctor Nick Bailey is in Berkshire, where he provides a remedy for a patch of dry shade in a small back garden, while Jane Moore visits two tiny gardens on the sunny and shady side of the same street in Bristol. And Adam Frost begins the first of his design projects in his new Lincolnshire garden.

Gardening magazine. Monty starts to tidy up the garden for autumn and reviews this year's display in the jewel garden. Carol Klein looks at the Apiaceae family, which includes not only stalwart and wildlife-friendly plants but also edible roots, and we pay a visit to a giant vegetable grower who is hoping to break the world record with his carrots. Adam Frost's designs begin taking shape when he starts to build raised beds for his contemporary kitchen garden, while Nick Bailey travels to a suburban garden in Windsor to tackle overgrown climbers and shrubs. Jane Moore discovers an exuberant garden and gardener whose small space is packed with plants, and Nick Macer discovers a garden in Ireland where the climate resembles an Atlantic rainforest.

Gardening magazine. Monty catches up with seasonal jobs at Longmeadow this week when he divides some perennials and plants alpines for spring colour. He also travels to Dublin to meet Helen Dillon to find out why she is planning to leave her world-famous garden after decades of honing it to perfection. In Scotland, Joe Swift begins his quest to find out why we should rekindle our love for rock gardens, while Frances Tophill perches precariously on a cliff in Cornwall as she joins a couple who have created a garden in extreme conditions. Adam Frost continues his progress on designing his garden in Lincolnshire and Flo Headlam transforms a shady and neglected front garden in London. And garden designer Mark Lane shares his passion for colour in his garden in Kent.

Gardening magazine. After months of nurturing the plants in his garden, Monty reaps a harvest of a different kind when he investigates how productive his bees have been at making honey. Joe Swift visits the world famous Chatsworth House in Derbyshire to explore the history of its monumental 19th-century rock garden and to see how a more contemporary version compliments the original design. Frances Tophill explores the challenges of gardening on the edge of a Scottish loch, while Flo Headlam is in Birmingham, transforming a city rooftop. Adam Frost continues with the transformation of his Lincolnshire garden, Alan Power spends a day with the head gardener at the Bishop's Palace in Wells, and Zephaniah Lindo is in Yorkshire, looking at research into how light can be manipulated to change the way plants grow.

Gardening magazine. There is a visitor at Longmeadow this week when Rachel de Thame lends Monty a hand as he refreshes his dry garden with plants that will thrive in tricky growing conditions. Monty also visits a national collection of vines to search out the best varieties for growing outdoors. Frances Tophill travels to the heart of Wales to meet a couple who have carved out a garden 1000 feet above sea level and Joe Swift visits Chelsea gold medal winner and stonemason Martin Cook to see how he uses contemporary rock sculpture within his Buckinghamshire garden. Garden doctor Nick Bailey offers intensive care to some neglected patio pots, while Adam Frost gets to work on renovating his rose pergola and laying paths in his kitchen garden. Alan Power visits Marks Hall arboretum in Essex, spending a day with the head gardener to find out what it takes to manage a landscape populated with trees.

Monty kicks off the gardening year from Longmeadow as he shares his tips for pruning, planting up pots for spring colour and sharing his plans for the coming year. At Packwood House, the extraordinary herbaceous borders come under Adam Frost's scrutiny as he finds out how they have been planted for maximum colour and impact. Over the series, Carol Klein shares with us some of her heroes of gardening, the people who have impacted the way we garden for the last 50 years. She begins with Beth Chatto.

Monty Don is mulching the borders in preparation for spring and potting up dahlias for the year ahead.

Carol Klein celebrates her plant of the month - the daffodil - while Frances Tophill is brushing up on her horticultural skills as a volunteer at Andromeda Botanic Gardens in Barbados.

As part of the programme's 50th anniversary, Nick Bailey reveals the plant he thinks has had the most impact on British gardens over the last half century.

Monty starts his plans for his revamped courtyard garden when he plants bare root trees and gives advice on climbers which will thrive on east-facing walls. Nick Bailey explores the strange world of lichens and finds out how these plants grow and thrive on trees, wood and stone, and Frances Tophill meets the enthusiastic gardeners of Barbados who fill their gardens, however small, with colour, foliage and world-class flowers. And as part of the programmes 50th anniversary, Flo Headlam reveals the plant she thinks has had the most impact on British gardens over the last half century.

This week at Longmeadow, Monty begins a brand new project when he starts a new soft fruit garden. He also plants new potatoes and divides herbaceous plants in the jewel garden. Frances visits an extraordinary tropical garden in Barbados which was developed from a collapsed cave, and we meet Chris Baines, a legend of gardening for wildlife, in his own small town garden. And as part of the programme's 50th anniversary, Mark Lane offers his choice of the plant he thinks has had the most impact on British gardens over the last half century.

Monty gives his advice on the best apples and pears to grow in small spaces when he begins to plant up his new fruit garden and gets on with planning for colour when he plants summer flowering bulbs. As April gets underway, Carol Klein chooses the humble primrose as her plant of the month, and we meet a couple from Yorkshire who have a passion for growing fruit and have filled their garden with over 100 fruit trees. And as part of the programme's 50th anniversary, Joe Swift makes the case for his Golden Jubilee plant, the one he thinks has had the most impact on British gardens over the last half century.

Monty brings you a full hour of gardening for the Easter weekend. From sowing summer vegetables and soft fruit planting to propagating and pruning, as well as jobs to tackle over the long weekend, there is plenty of inspiration. If your gardening plans only extend to tidying up the lawn, Nick Bailey gets to grips with an unpromising patch of grass and gives his tips on how achieve a luscious lawn, we return to Adam Frost's garden as he starts to transform a herbaceous border and gives his advice on how to rid borders of bindweed and we meet Roger Butler, who grows over one hundred varieties of hydrangea at his nursery in Kent. Carol continues her series on her gardening heroes when she visits Waterperry Gardens to find out about the legacy of Beatrix Havergal, Frances Tophill selects her Golden Jubilee plant and Flo Headlam visits a garden centre in Manchester which is run by the local community.

Monty Don continues work in his courtyard, where he gives advice on plants which thrive on shady walls, sows root crops in the vegetable garden and catches up on work in his cottage garden.

Joe Swift pays a visit to a small-town garden to find out how an interior designer has transformed her outdoor space, and gives tips on how to bring elements of design into back gardens. The team meet Charles Dowding who, since the 1980s, has pioneered the practice of 'no dig' organic gardening. Plus Flo Headlam showcases her golden jubilee plant.

Monty gets to work in the cutting garden, plants his tomatoes and brings pots of citrus out of the greenhouse and into the garden for the summer.

Carol Klein visits another of her gardening heroes, Penelope Hobhouse, and finds out about her lifetime of making grand gardens and how she has now created a low-maintenance haven for herself filled with foliage and colour in her small Somerset garden.

We meet Gill Bagshawe, who has filled her plot in the Peak District with raised beds to grow as many different cut flowers as she possibly can. And Alan Power extols the virtues of the Japanese maple as his choice of plant for the Golden Jubilee award.

There is a full hour of gardens and gardening from not only Longmeadow but also the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Monty gets going on planting herbs in his new herb garden and gives advice on how to divide and move ornamental grasses, while Nick Bailey demonstrates a simple and easy way of making a pond. We meet the queen of herbs, Jekka McVicar, as she builds a herb garden at the Malvern Show and join Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Frances Tophill as they bring us the best from the floral marquee and show gardens. And Adam Frost explains why he has chosen a rose as his Golden Jubilee plant.

There is work to be done around and in the pond this week and Monty also begins planting out his dahlias. Adding zing to the month of May is the euphorbia and Carol Klein visits Oxford Botanic garden to view their extensive collection. Mark Lane is in Hackney finding out how a car wrecker's yard at the side of a Tudor National Trust property has been transformed into an award-winning garden used by the local community, while Adam Frost explains how to plant for structure in his herbaceous border. Rachel de Thame visits a garden which has opened to the public every year for 90 years for charity as part of the National Gardens Scheme, while Nick Bailey is in Devon, where he discovers how a pond plant has now escaped into the countryside and is invading waterways. And we reveal the final candidate for our Golden Jubilee plant and open the vote.

Monty gives advice on herbs which will grow happily in shade and has an unusual choice for his summer containers - bananas. Earlier this year, Monty paid a visit to Chatsworth House to find out about the history of the extensive grounds and gardens and also about the challenges of putting on its first RHS flower show.

Flo Headlam visits a school where gardening is high on the curriculum and Nick Bailey shows us how we can build a pond in a weekend. We also meet the head gardener who manages a garden situated on a barge and discover how and what plants thrive in such extraordinary conditions.

Joe Swift, Carol Klein and Adam Frost bring an exclusive look at the brand new RHS Chatsworth Flower Show. We meet leading designer Jo Thompson as she prepares her show garden with a difference. In the Floral Pavilion, Carol finds pioneering plants that have shaped the gardens of today and garden designer Arit Anderson looks to the future - meeting the team behind a garden built for the changing climate. Back at Longmeadow, Monty provides the ubiquitous jobs for the weekend.

Gardeners' World celebrates its 50th anniversary with a full hour of gardening from Gardeners' World Live at the NEC. Monty kicks off the party and is joined by the whole team, who explore all the show has to offer. Joe Swift and Adam Frost take a look at the show gardens and meet garden designer David Stevens, who has created a garden showcasing 50 years of changing trends in our back yards. Carol Klein is in the floral marquee looking at the plants which have defined the decades, while Rachel de Thame, Flo Headlam, Alan Power, Nick Bailey and Mark Lane explore the show features including the Gardeners' World-themed borders and other floral displays. Monty and Alan Titchmarsh meet to talk about their experiences as the nation's head gardener and Mary Berry reveals the winner of the golden jubilee plant award.

Monty Donadds a touch of the exotic to the damp garden by planting a tree fern and protects his new soft fruit garden from feathered predators with netting.Carol Kleinselects hardy geraniums as her June Plant of the Month, Flo Headlam visits a church garden in Lewisham that feeds both the mind and body, while Nick Bailey gets a fascinating insight into parasitoid wasps and their positive impact on our gardens. Adam Frost continues to explore the intricacies of innovative garden design by looking at a small town garden in London, and we meet the husband-and-wife team behind the glorious, 25-year-long restoration of West Dean Gardens in Sussex.

Rachel de Thame joins Monty in Longmeadow and adds more medicinal planting to the herb garden, especially those that the bees love.

At the height of summer, it is time to ensure that fruits and vegetables are given attention to ensure maximum cropping. Monty gives advice on the summer pruning of fruit trees, as well as showing how to get the best from tomatoes and chillies. He also recommends plants which will carry on flowering into autumn.Carol Kleinmeets one of her gardening heroes, Roy Lancaster, and joins him as he reminisces on his life and explains his passion for plants. Nick Bailey is on the trail of some more alien invaders to our gardens, and we travel to Wales to meet a chef who has taken on a field in which to grow vegetables. Monty pays a visit to an extraordinary garden in Berkshire and we continue our 50 year celebrations when Rachel de Thame reflects back on how we used to garden 50 years ago.Joe Swiftand Flo Headlam begin an exciting new project to celebrate our golden anniversary when they help a community create a garden in Wiltshire.

There are plans for propagating and planting at Longmeadow this week when Monty Don plants up a new bed of irises and takes pelargonium cuttings. Nick Bailey brightens up a dull and shady space at the side of a terraced house and gives advice on plants that will thrive, Carol Klein pays the first of two visits to West Yorkshire to meet a couple whose outstanding planting has resulted in a garden full of late summer interest, and Joe Swift takes a close look at a sloping and shady town garden to find out how the owner has designed this difficult space. The programme also meet a gardener in Dorset who took on the challenge of an overgrown coastal garden to create an Italianate idyll, and take an in-depth look at one of the most colourful of summer stalwarts - the pelargonium.

Monty Don gives advice on how to cut and maintain hedges as well as giving ideas on growing fruit in pots. Carol Klein chooses varieties of late-flowering clematis as her plant of the month, Nick Bailey travels to the southern tip of Cornwall to seek out a plant which escaped from our gardens and is now threatening rare and native plants, and Adam Frost uncovers the secrets of successful planting combinations in an Oxfordshire garden. Mark Lane joins the enthusiasts who have lovingly restored a walled garden in Warwick as they open their gates to the public for the first time, and we visit a garden in Yorkshire where foliage and not flowers are of paramount importance.

As Monty starts to bring in the tastiest of the summer harvest, he is planning for the months ahead as he gives advice on what to sow now to keep the crops coming up to the end of autumn. He also plans for next spring when he gives tips on saving money by propagating perennials. Carol Klein visits a lady who is losing her eyesight and helps her organise her confused borders and to give her recommendations of plants which will be a feast for her senses. Joe Swift takes a close look of the design of a contemporary country garden and Nick Bailey travels to an Essex village to meet a bunch of enthusiastic villagers who are using their gardens to help in the revival and preservation of the historic Pemberton roses. Arit Anderson meets a gardener who is looking to the future in the design and planting of his extraordinary garden and we pay a second visit to Wales to catch up with Shaish Alam to find out how his crops have been faring in his newly planted field.

As well as propagating succulent plants, Monty revisits his container vegetable garden, gives advice on how to get a good crop of pumpkins and gets out and about when he meets Jake Hobson, one of the UK's leading cloud pruning and topiary experts. Adam Frost looks at a newly planted garden at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex, which has been designed to display both hardy and exotic vegetables, Rachel de Thame visits a garden in Wiltshire where vibrant colours are the key to the success of its summer borders and we meet two enthusiasts in Manchester who have a passion for air plants. And Flo Headlam returns to Potterne to check on the progress of the new community space and to join the local residents as they get to grips with building and planting the garden.

As the plants in the jewel garden reach the peak of their late summer glory, Monty starts planning for the spring, planting ferns and advising on the care and maintenance of wildlife ponds.

Carol Klein pays a second visit to Dove Cottage in Halifax to see the garden at its summer peak and to find out the secrets of its successful borders.

Frances Tophill travels to Portsmouth to find a man whose passion for ferns has extended from his garden and onto his allotment, while Arit Anderson finds out that rubbish skips can be used to grow all manner of plants in an inner-city space.

A Sheffield paramedic reveals how his passion for wildflowers has transformed an area around a busy ambulance station, and there is a look at the blooming of one of the world's largest water lilies.

Monty shows us how to harvest and store potatoes at Longmeadow and he also adds late summer colour to the cottage garden and prunes shrub roses.

Carol Klein travels to Norfolk to meet Adrian Bloom, a member of ahorticultural dynasty, who have had a big influence on our gardens for the last 50 years. Adam Frost takes a close look at the design of an outstanding small garden in Abingdon and Frances Tophill is in Scotland meeting a man who is passionate about potatoes. Joe Swift and Flo Headlam pay a visit to Potterne in Wiltshire to check on the progress of the community garden and renowned plantswoman Helen Dillon joins Monty at Longmeadow.

Monty's thoughts turn to spring as he gives his recommendations for bulbs to plant now that will thrive in pots and bring much needed colour next year. Monty also shows how to prune summer fruiting raspberries. Frances Tophill travels to Norfolk to visit a gardener who, at 97, still gardens every day, Adam Frost takes a look at a new garden at RHS Wisley which has been planted up with tropical plants and Carol Klein is in Buckinghamshire helping a viewer who is struggling to find plants that will thrive in heavy clay soil. Alan Power guides us through seasonal spring highlights at Stourhead and we visit a tiny garden in Essex which is packed with plants, ponds and seating areas.

Monty Don plans for next year, while Adam visits a community allotment in Manchester where growing food is providing solace and support to refugees.

Monty Don plans for next year's fruit harvest when he adds gooseberries to the fruit garden he planted earlier in the year. He also divides and moves herbaceous perennials and advises on the best bulbs to plant now for cut flowers next year. Frances Tophill meets a couple who have filled their garden with tender plants and devised a meticulous method of protecting them over the winter, and we catch up with Adam Frost in his own garden when he gives design tips on placing and planting trees. Nick Bailey explores a myriad of colour in leaf, bark and berry when he travels to Bluebell Arboretum in Leicestershire, and Arit Anderson is in Yorkshire, where she finds out about a project using innovative techniques for producing food. We also visit Warwickshire to look at their collection of hardy chrysanthemums and to see how they can bring much-needed late colour into our gardens

As October progresses and nights become colder, Monty advises on what plants need protection and how to protect tender plants over the coming months. Carol Klein celebrates ornamental grasses as her plant of the month, Adam Frost travels to Peterborough to find out about the work of a Children in Need project for disadvantaged and vulnerable children and Nick Bailey gives a step-by-step guide on how to build a cold-frame for a budget price. We visit Mark Diacano in Devon, who shows us how to grow our own szechuan pepper, and we go to Surrey to talk to an enthusiast who grows thousands of South African succulents in his back garden in Surrey.

In the last programme of the series, Monty has ideas for pots which will remain colourful throughout winter, gives tips on how to protect tender banana plants and harvests pumpkins. Frances Tophill helps a viewer whose overgrown pond needs some renovation, Adam Frost visits a garden in Nottinghamshire where the season of winter highlights its design, and we celebrate one of the up-and-coming winter flowers, the snowdrop. We visit great grandmother Eunice Mcghie, who, at 83, still teaches gardening to young people in her back garden in Handsworth, Birmingham, while in Hampshire we meet twins Stuart and Ian Paton, who are hoping to break the world record this year with their giant pumpkin.

A new gardening year begins at Longmeadow and Monty reveals his new plans for the year as well as taking stock of any winter damage. As well as seasonal hints and tips he is embarking on a mission to reduce the use of plastic in his garden and starts by exploring alternative containers to use for seed sowing.

Monty makes plans for a bumper harvest of fruit when he adds raspberries to his fruit garden and gives advice on how to plant bare-root trees. Carol Klein explores one of the unsung heroes of the spring border, the Daphne. Joe Swift has designs on brightening up dull and uninteresting spaces with pots full of colour that can be planted now.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don is making plans for the summer, so he starts dahlias and other tender perennials into growth and sows annual climbing plants to light up his borders with colour. Frances Tophill visits The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to meet an expert on the most exotic plant of the tropical border, ginger. Plus the team explore one of the most colourful perennials of the summer in the Isle of Wight, visiting a garden which is filled with daylilies.

It is the busiest gardening weekend of the year and Monty has plenty of ideas and inspiration, from planting summer bulbs to sowing perennials. Carol Klein profiles the bravest and most colourful of spring flowering plants when she delves into the botany of the hellebore and we travel to Sheffield to visit a garden crammed full of colour and new ideas.

There is a full hour of gardening from Longmeadow this week and Monty gets to grips with a new project, beefs up his borders by dividing perennials and celebrates spring flowering shrubs.Frances Tophill is growing vegetables this year on an allotment and this week she begins to prepare her plot and, if your shed is chock full of out-of-date seeds, old compost, dirty pots and rusty tools, Nick Bailey has lots of hints and tips on how to get everything shipshape for the season ahead. Adam Frost explores a tropical garden in Dorset and meets a man who is passionate about growing unusual and exotic plants from seed, we travel to Suffolk to meet a woman who collects and grows a wide range of bellflowers and Carol Klein profiles the best of the season's flowers - this week it is the camellia.

There is a full hour of inspiration as Monty works in his vegetable garden sowing seeds for a bountiful summer, grows some more unusual vegetables and recommends varieties of summer bulbs to plant in the spring. Mark Lane creates a floral celebration in a container and shares his recommendations for great planting partners for seasonal colour. Flo Headlam joins the arborists at Westonbirt Arboretum to find out how they manage their incredible collection of trees from around the world. Adam Frost meets a couple who have recently moved into a new-build house to show them step by step how they can transform their awkwardly shaped garden on a very small budget. Nick Bailey is out and about enjoying that most seasonal of flowers, the daffodil. Plus Monty reveals the first of the finalists in the Every Space Counts competition.

Despite the slow awakening of the garden this year, there are still plenty of jobs to be getting on with and Monty begins to divide ornamental grasses and plant up a colourful alpine trough. He also gives advice on what to do with containers which are past their best and what to sow in the vegetable garden at this time of year. Nick Bailey travels to Shropshire to respond to a cry for help from a viewer whose border has become a tangle of shrubs. The show catches up with Frances Tophill's progress on her shared allotment in Bristol, as she begins to prepare the beds for sowing her first crops. Arit Anderson explores the future of gardening in our cities when she visits an extraordinary high-rise building in Milan which has been designed as a living forest. Plus the garden of the second finalist in our Every Space Counts competition is revealed.

Monty Don plants herbaceous perennials for summer colour and gives advice on how to care for carnivorous plants. Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Adam Frost explore the showground at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival and bring us the best from the floral marquee and the show gardens.

Carol Klein's plant of the season is the delicate but easy to grow dog's tooth violet, Joe Swift travels to the Trelissick garden in Cornwall to meet a very special garden volunteer, and Adam Frost returns to Leicestershire to monitor the progress of the new-build garden.

With summer on the horizon, Monty is planting up pots for summer colour as well as giving his box hedging a seasonal cut. Frances Tophill checks on the progress of crops on her shared allotment. Mark Lane is in Suffolk where he gives advice on the elements of successful woodland planting design and Nick Bailey travels to a garden in Cheshire to answer a viewer's query about how to plant up a rocky area of their garden. Plus a visit to a Worcestershire garden where the owner has created a garden with a tropical twist and the final garden in our Every Space Counts competition is revealed.

It is warm enough for all the tender plants to go out into the garden now and at Longmeadow Monty finds places in his borders for bananas and dahlias, whilst in the vegetable garden, courgettes and tomatoes are planted out.

We pay a visit to the RHS Chatsworth show in Derbyshire where Nick Bailey, Carol Klein and Joe Swift explore the showground to bring us the best of the plants and show gardens that the exhibitors have to offer. Adam Frost is in London where he finds plenty of tips on how to bring tiny garden spaces to life, and we review the finalists' gardens in our Every Space Counts competition and open the vote.

The team head to Gardeners' World Live this week to bring you the highlights in plants and design.

Adam Frost and Joe Swift take a close look at all the show gardens for fresh ideas as well as inspiration, Mark Lane finds planting ideas around the showground, and Carol and Nick explore the floral marquee. We also meet the designers whose innovative ideas have resulted in a show garden made from scrap iron and junk shop finds, go behind the scenes to visit the nurseries who bring their best specimens to the show, meet a woman who has travelled from the Isle of Skye with her plants and reveal the winner of our Every Space Counts competition.

At Longmeadow Monty celebrates the midsummer glory of roses in all their forms, plants some statuesque shrubs in pots for year-round interest and deals with a pesky rabbit problem in the veg patch.

Carol Klein revels in one of our most flamboyant seasonal flowers - the peony. Adam Frost finds inspiration for his own garden from the wild flowers that grow near to his Lincolnshire home, and Arit Anderson takes a look into gardens of the future when she visits a garden in Derbyshire designed to capture and use rainwater. Flo Headlam gets involved with a community project that can totally transform a garden in a single day, and we visit an iris enthusiast in Gloucestershire who is attempting to collect all the varieties created by one of her ancestors.

As the borders at Longmeadow hit their stride, it is time to take stock of what is looking good and what needs replacing. Monty shares his tips on how he keeps his displays going all summer long. There is plenty to do on the vegetable plot too, and things are looking promising in the fruit garden.

Adam Frost meets an extraordinary woman who runs a community project in the centre of Birmingham, while Frances Tophill catches up with her allotment. Joe Swift travels to Devon to a garden which has been designed around a challenging landscape, and Nick Bailey visits the restored Temperate House at Kew Gardens.

Monty catches up with maintaining his pond and gives advice on planting water lilies. He also gives tips on how to grow and plant herbaceous clematis as well as harvesting potatoes.

If you don't know your hybrid teas from your hybrid musks then Nick Bailey begins his guide to demystifying roses. Arit Anderson takes a trip on a canal boat to find out how volunteers are bringing plants and wildlife back into the city of Birmingham, Mark Lane gives his guide on how to get the cottage style look into your garden, and Adam Frost takes a tour of Woburn Abbey to explore the restoration of its Humphrey Repton landscape.

We also meet a woman who, in her 70s, transformed two acres of derelict swamp behind her semi-detached home in Mancheser.

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 biosecurity, 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.

At Longmeadow Monty is planting bulbs in pots and around the garden for an explosion of spring colour. Carol Klein travels to Yorkshire where she takes a close look at the enormous colour range and form of a late season perennial, the salvia. Mark Lane is in Oxfordshire looking at how ornamental grasses can be used in planting design to create exciting combinations. Arit Anderson gets to grips with growing concerns about the use of plastics in the horticultural industry, and we find out from environment minister Michael Gove about any future plans for controlling its use and improving recycling.

Frances Tophill makes a final visit to her shared allotment and joins in with the festivities at their annual show. Adam Frost visits the RHS garden Wisley, where he meets the curator to find out which plants have fared well and which plants have suffered during the hot, dry summer.

Monty tackles three seasons of gardening this week when he makes additions to his spring garden, gives advice on how to dry and preserve herbs for winter and plants up a container to give interest from now until spring. Carol celebrates one of the plant successes of an extraordinary summer - the canna.

In the cottage garden, Monty moves a rose which has outgrown its space, and in the vegetable garden he gives advice on what to plant now for spring. He also finds out more about the mysterious world of earthworms and discovers why they are vital for the garden.

In the last programme of the series, Monty Don continues work on the water feature in his paradise garden and makes a start on the planting. He also has plenty of tips on how to protect tender plants over the winter as well as making use of a valuable seasonal resource - leaves.

Monty Don and his team of horticultural experts return to offer viewers at home more gardening tips, including advice on how to plant spring flowering perennials for instant impact.

Monty Don recommends varieties of seeds to sow now for months of summer colour, and with conifers enjoying a revival, also plants up a pot to give interest all year round.

Monty Don takes the next step in planting up his new Paradise Garden, and provides some timely inspiration for planting up a spring pot as a Mothering Sunday present.

Monty Don inspects the annual climbers he has been growing from seed, plants out sweet peas and recommends perennial plants that can be grown from seed now for late summer colour.

Monty Don gets going with a new planting project as well as giving plenty of tips on getting lawns and plants into tip-top condition for the season ahead.

Monty Don makes a start on getting some tender vegetables underway, recommends plants which thrive with very little water and gives tips on the spring maintenance of houseplants.

Adam Frost gets to grips with planting up his gravel garden with spring colour, sows some unusual vegetables and starts work on a new project.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don plants out his tomatoes, continues work in his paradise garden and reveals plans for a new project. Plus, a trip to the Malvern Spring Festival.

Monty Don gets going on a new project as he begins planting a colour-themed, fragrant border and he offers on successional planting in the vegetable garden. Nick Bailey begins his ultimate guide to growing clematis, while Arit Anderson visits a new, free, public roof garden in London, which soars above the city space below. Plus, Carol Klein travels to Arundel Castle in West Sussex where alliums are taking centre stage and Joe Swift finds out about the restoration of one of country's most historic woodland gardens.

At Longmeadow this week, Monty Don turns his attention to the tender annuals he has grown from seed, including climbers and sunflowers and plants out beans for a bountiful summer harvest. Nick Bailey celebrates the rhododendron, one of our most colourful spring flowering shrubs and, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, there's a feature on the Second World War veteran who has planted an orchard for peace to commemorate those who lost their lives during the war. Carol Klein, Frances Tophill and Joe Swift travel to Derbyshire to focus on the floral highlights from the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show.

Monty Don and the team focus their attention on the loss of wildflower habitats in the UK and the part that gardeners can play in averting the resulting loss of wildlife. In Lincolnshire, Adam Frost finds out how crucial meadows are to supporting the ecosystem, Arit Anderson visits East Sussex to discover the results of a recent wildlife survey carried out in the gardens there and Nick Bailey travels to Staffordshire where meadows are being grown in gardens for the benefit of wildlife. Plus, Carol Klein identifies plants that can help increase insect and bird populations.

Monty Don demonstrates how to produce a medley of vegetables from a small space. He also lifts and divides irises and adds spires of summer colour to his borders. Frances Tophill visits an allotment on the Isle of Man where plants are grown and harvested as ingredients for cosmetics, while Adam Frost is in Northamptonshire finding out about the design and planting at Cottesbrooke Hall. Plus, an interview with a woman whose passion for bees is inspiring young beekeepers at a school in Huddersfield.

Monty catches up on jobs to keep the garden looking good all summer long. Adam Frost visits Sledmere Gardens in Yorkshire, where the borders have been planted with specific colour schemes in mind.

Monty advises on essential summer pruning and adds French beans to the vegetable garden. The programme also meets a gardener in Hertfordshire who combines her love of cottage garden plants with tropical plants and visits a garden in Kent where pots are the stars of the summer show.

As Longmeadow radiates colour in the height of summer, Monty Don takes a range of cuttings to get plants for free and also shows how best to prune lavender. Carol Klein visits a garden in Devon to revel in its eryngiums, while the programme also meets a passionate gardener and his partner in Wiltshire who use their garden as inspiration for art.

With the bank holiday weekend looming, Monty Don has plenty of inspiration for gardeners from planting for late summer colour to tidying up herbs and pruning soft fruit. Nick Bailey concludes his journey into the clematis world by looking at the late summer-flowering varieties and the programme travels to Devon to meet a retired biology teacher with a passion for houseleeks.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don adds some ornamental grasses to his borders for late summer impact and gives advice on how to look after pumpkins for a bountiful autumn harvest. Adam Frost discovers a colourful garden in Gloucestershire where hardy, tender and tropical plants jostle for space in both borders and containers, while Frances Tophill visits an allotment in north London where the main harvest is flowers for floral displays.

Adam Frost gives advice on how to prune overgrown evergreen shrubs and adds to his borders to create height. Rachel de Thame shows how to maintain containers and refresh with plants that will extend the display into autumn, and there's a feature on a gardener whose frequent absences from home have influenced the design and planting of his garden.