Name: Gardeners' World
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Description: The most recognisable gardening brand in the world; for over 40 years this BBC series has nurtured gardens and gardeners, revelling in the very best gardens around, offering hands-on tips.

The most recognisable gardening brand in the world; for over 40 years this BBC series has nurtured gardens and gardeners, revelling in the very best gardens around, offering hands-on tips.

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Gardeners' World returns with Monty Don back at the helm, in the garden at his own Herefordshire home. This week, with winter receding Monty, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame are preparing for Spring.

Episode 1

As winter draws to a close, work in garden starts to step up gear. With flowers and fruits of summer in mind, Monty Don gets going by planting pots of summer bulbs for color and scent.

Episode 2

At Longmeadow Monty Don introduces us to the coppice, a woodland area where his favourite flower, the primrose - Primula vulgaris, is in bloom. He also plants spring flowers.

Episode 3

As April gets under way, Monty begins the process of reinvigorating his Jewel Garden where, over the coming months, he will be using plants which will give an evolving tapestry of colour over the seasons.

Episode 4

Monty sows hardy annuals in the walled garden at Longmeadow. He sows Centaurea cyanus - Cornflower. And If it's April then it is time for wood anemones. In Monty's coppice the primroses are coming to an end and are replaced by Wood Anemone.

Episode 5

As spring gets well underway, there are enough beautiful flowers popping up in the countryside to inspire any gardener. At Longmeadow, Monty Don adds to his collection of fritillaries in the wet meadow with pot-grown plants and also some seeds.

Episode 6

It's the busiest gardening weekend of the year and it's a special hour-long programme for Easter. At Longmeadow, Monty gets going on planting climbing roses for different aspects in his walled garden.

Episode 7: Special

Monty introduces an area of his garden which regularly floods and shows how through planting he has used the conditions to create what he calls his 'damp garden'. In the Dry Garden, which is sheltered and sun baked, Monty replaces an old Rosemary.

Episode 8

Monty Don, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame kick off the flower show season at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show. Monty finds lupins and foxgloves flowering earlier than usual due to the unseasonably warm spring.

Episode 9

Monty starts the show by showing us the best ways to plant Tomatoes and how pairing them with Basil is a great idea. And as Roses herald the start of summer, the jewel garden begins to show signs of the abundance of colour that is to come.

Episode 10

Monty Don is back at Longmeadow. By the first week of June, plants are growing with such speed that some have a tendency to flop. Staking is the answer. Rachel de Thame is at RHS Wisley and Carol Klein visits a lady with bees.

Episode 11

In the herb garden at Longmeadow Monty plants out culinary herbs including rosemary, four varieties of mint, dill and cherville, and in the richer soil of his vegetable garden Monty plants parsley and corriander.

Episode 12

Monty is at Longmeadow where he shows us how he is cleaning up his Spring garden and planting grasses and perennials to make the Jewel garden look its best in late Summer.

Episode 14: Special

There are plenty of timely midsummer jobs to be getting on with this week and at Longmeadow, Monty revels in the sweet peas he grew from seed earlier in the year and shows how to keep their display going on into the weeks ahead.

Episode 15

In this weeks show Monty is showing us how to lift and divide Irises in the Damp Garden. We then go to Glebe Cottage, home of Carol Klein. Carol talks us through her summer jobs paying particular attention to the borders at Glebe.

Episode 16: Special

We start the show with Monty cutting hedges in his garden. He explains why they are so key to garden design and why he loves them so much. He explains the difference between evergreen and deciduous hedges, both of which are planted at Longmeadow.

Episode 17

This week's Gardeners' World is presented by Monty Don from Longmeadow. Carol Klein visits The Secret Garden in Staffordshire and Joe Swift is at Marks Hall in Essex.

Episode 18

Monty Starts the show at a part of the garden that has been least 'gardened'. It's the wet meadow where his Writers' Shed is. He shows us how he is cutting back the long grasses ready to turn it into a Wet Wildflower Meadow.

Episode 19

Monty Don shows what to do now to maximise next year's soft fruit crop by pruning his summer raspberries and planting out the strawberry runners he potted up a few weeks ago.

Episode 20

We start the show at Longmeadow with bees in mind, Monty plans for spring by planting some early nectar sources for them using bulbs which flower early in the year, namely crocus and winter aconites.

Episode 21

Monty explains that today is the autumn equinox where we have the exact same amount of day and night.

Episode 22

In a special programme which comes from all four of the Royal Horticultural Society gardens, the Gardeners' World team are out on the road exploring how each location's differing climate affects the plants they grow.

Episode 23

Monty picks quinces from his garden. In his orchard, he picks apples and gives advice on how to successfully store them. He suggests to leave them in a dark and cool place and stacks them in rows on shelves that used to belong to his grandfather.

Episode 24

At Longmeadow Monty is admiring his still flowering Dahlias and, as October is the ideal time for planting shrubs, plants Star magnolia in the Jewel Garden. Monty also observes that his Japanese snowball is still flowering in the warm October climate

Episode 25

With autumn well under way, some plants in the garden need to be brought in under cover. Monty Don makes a start by insulating his greenhouse to provide a winter home for all sorts of tender plants and gives his tips to ensure their survival.

Episode 26

Monty Don gets going with some autumn garden maintenance whilst looking back over the year and reviewing his borders in the Jewel Garden, checking which plants have done well and which haven't, and he clears annuals that are past their best.

Episode 27

It may be frosty outside but there's still plenty to be getting on with in the garden. In this Gardeners' World Christmas Special, Monty Don, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame celebrate the festive season from a gardener's point of view.

Episode 28: Special

Gardeners' World returns for the start of the gardening year with Monty Don in the garden in his home.

Monty and the team look at the practical ways to achieve a better looking garden at this busy time of year.

As the clocks move forward, the longer days of spring are welcomed by every gardener.

Monty shows us how we can take advantage of the new growth of all sorts of perennials.

Monty Don shows us how to plant pots of bulbs, and Rachel de Thame shares her passion for rare plants.

Monty adds colour to his Walled Garden and we visit a man who created a two-acre meadow in Somerset.

Monty plants woodland perennials in the Spring Garden amongst weeds.

Episode 7

Monty and Rachel add plants to the pond at Longmeadow.

Monty searches for beautiful and innovative ideas we can all draw inspiration from for our own gardens.

Monty Don shows us how to plant different types of water lilies.

Monty plants large pots in the Jewel Garden.

In the Walled Garden, Monty lifts out the spent bulbs from their pots and replaces them.

In the Walled garden Monty tells us to watch out for balling due to the exceptionally wet weather.

Episode 14

At Longmeadow, Monty Don reveals how the garden has changed over the last four weeks.

Monty Don puts to use his homemade fertilizer and catches up with his tomato-growing trial.

Episode 16

Monty's herb garden has suffered from the rain, he plans to take some cuttings and plant them elsewhere.

Monty helps to improve the quality of the water and prevents unwelcome growth in the Jewel Garden pond.

Monty Don gives gardening tips to ensure the garden stays in tip top condition throughout the summer.

Monty discusses the relationship between colour and texture in the borders of the Jewel Garden.

Blight has swept through Monty's greenhouse and Monty strips all the foliage off the plants.

With the start of a new gardening season, Monty recommends vegetables to sow now for winter cropping.

Monty is in the Dry Garden and is cutting away anything that doesn't look good whilst discussing its plants.

Monty Don visits the RHS garden at Wisley in Surrey.

Monty discusses the equinox and how it affects certain plants.

Monty plants Mediterranean herb cuttings in the greenhouse to give them extra warmth for the Winter.

Monty is in the writing garden and wants to dig up the grass and plant it up.

Monty opens the programme in the Dry Garden with the Rosa 'Madame Grégoire Staechelin'.

Episode 28

Monty demonstrates how to harvest pumpkins and to make the most of what you've got.

Episode 29

Monty shows us different ways to make leafmould, which is fantastic for improving the structure of the soil.

Episode 30

Monty is deciding what needs keeping, what needs throwing out and what needs cutting back.

Episode 31

Monty reveals the changes he's made over the winter and updates us on the jobs that have been done.

Monty is at Longmeadow to lift and divide Monkshood, a herbaceous perennial.

Monty advises on what to do with hellebore black spots.

It's Easter weekend and Monty Don has plenty of ideas of what to do now.

It's been one of the coldest springs, but this has given Monty time to get on with other jobs.

Monty is at RHS Garden Wisley to get advice on how to look after orchids and how to create a mini-meadow.

Monty Don is at Longmeadow where he begins with putting up a bean stick support for his sweet peas.

Spring is finally here and Monty Don is in his garden looking at the wood anemones and dog's tooth violets.

Monty Don, Joe Swift and Carol Klein go behind the scenes at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show.

Monty Don is in his Longmeadow garden, looking to see the growth in the last few weeks.

Monty plants up a large pot with summer bedding plants in the Jewel Garden at Longmeadow.

Monty is at Longmeadow, Carol visits Minterne House and Joe discovers gardens in London.

Monty Don is in his Longmeadow garden, Carol looks at geums and we visit Sir Frank Williams' garden.

Episode 13

It's the longest day of the year and there's plenty of work in the garden at Longmeadow.

Monty is back at Longmeadow, Carol looks at foxgloves and Joe meets garden designer Dan Pearson.

Monty Don is in his Longmeadow garden whilst Carol Klein is in her own Glebe Cottage garden.

Monty digs up wallflowers and plants them out in the vegetable garden at Longmeadow.

Monty is pleased to see that his hostas haven't been nibbled, due to the balanced wildlife at Longmeadow.

Monty looks ahead to the future whilst collecting seeds and cuttings at Longmeadow.

Monty puts the cuttings of purple sweet peas in the greenhouse which will take a few weeks to root.

Monty turns his attention to autumn at Longmeadow whilst Carol is in Glebe Cottage looking at the crocosmia.

Monty is in his orchard picking apples, he's decided to make juice as well as eating them.

The meadow that Monty sowed on the mound has had a mass of growth

The hot garden is still looking good, but the miscanthus flowers have really caught Monty's eye.

Monty is at Longmeadow harvesting, storing and planning ahead whilst Carol is in North Wales.

As autumn unfolds in the garden, Monty and his dog make the most of the season.

Monty is in the Lime Walk. He moved the white cyclamen to the White Garden and left the pink cyclamen.

Monty Don, in his Longmeadow garden, is thinking about preparing his garden for next year.

Monty Don is in his Longmeadow garden, planning for winter and next year.

There is lots to prepare for winter at Longmeadow, now is the time to start planting for next year.

Longmeadow has had a fabulous flowering and fruiting year.

Spring is in the air and Gardeners' World is back for a new series. Through the coming spring, summer and autumn, Monty will be in his garden, Longmeadow, with a host of timely tips, ideas and inspiration for our own gardens.

Monty tackles problem of box blight in his garden at Longmeadow. It means taking drastic action, but in long term will hopefully be for best.

Monty Don gives his pond a spring clean and adds some much needed colour to his Jewel Garden pots. And we meet a grower whose love of butterflies and bees has inspired his fabulous collection of Buddleia.

We visit dahlia enthusiast Darren Everest on his allotment in Kent. He's been growing them, in all shapes and sizes, since he was just 11. At Longmeadow, Monty Don pots up his own dahlia tubers, and offers tips for getting the best results.

Monty Don gives his ornamental grasses an overhaul. He's got tips on how to lift and divide ones that have grown too large, plus advice on which ones should be cut back now for the best display in the autumn.

This week at Longmeadow, Monty Don finishes rejuvenating his dry garden, a sun baked corner of the garden that had become over-run by thuggish plants. He'll have advice on how to make the most of a dry border where the soil is poor.

The long Easter weekend offers lots of opportunities to really get cracking in the garden. Monty Don has a solution for brightening up a shady wall and gets on with planting up his vegetable garden.

Carol Klein visits Keith Wiley at his garden in Devon, which celebrates exquisite dog's tooth violet. At Longmeadow, Monty cracks on with some timely tasks and makes a start at planting up a Yew hedge.

With the growing season well and truly underway, Monty turns his attention to planting out Sweet Peas and sowing Sweetcorn. Carol Klein returns to Gloucestershire to help first-time gardeners, Dan and Dominique.

Monty Don offers some advice on what to do with your spent tulips and shares some tips on how to make the perfect herb garden. And Carol Klein is with new gardeners Dan and Dominique, giving their veg patch a necessary kick-start.

Monty Don and the team celebrate the start of summer as they indulge in the stunning array of colour and scent beginning to take over our gardens. Carol Klein continues her celebration of great plants and the people who champion them.

Carol and Joe are at Gardeners' World Live casting an expert eye over the show gardens and floral marquee.

Joe meets the gardening team responsible for the floral displays at the Wimbledon tennis championships.

With the garden growing before our eyes, Monty has plenty to be getting on with at Longmeadow. He shows us how he creates ingenious colour combinations, and is filling the gaps that the diseased box hedges have left with grasses he's grown from seed.

Monty offers some timely tips on keeping our gardens at their best right through to the end of the season. Carol Klein meets wildlife enthusiast, Steve Head, to discover more about the wildlife that depend on the habitat our garden ponds provide.

This week Gardeners' World is all about pots! Monty revels in their versatility, practicality and potential and shows us how best to use them in our own gardens.

Longmeadow is now under full sail but needs a gentle steer to keep it looking beautiful all summer long. This week, Monty Don will be cutting back his delphiniums and adding a touch of the exotic to his Jewel Garden.

Carol Klein continues her journey around the country meeting plant people and the plants that are their passion. And Monty Don is at Longmeadow where he reveals the secrets of his success when making homemade compost.

Monty Don's garden at Longmeadow is thriving in the summer sunshine, but the warm, wet weather has meant the hedges are growing like crazy and are in need of a good haircut. Monty has tips on how to best tackle this annual task.

It's summer and the perfect time to get out and about visiting gardens. With that in mind, Monty Don has left Longmeadow this week to explore the beautiful gardens at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex. He seeks inspiration from their amazing dry garden.

As August draws to a close, Monty Don turns his attention to his ornamental grass borders. They're just coming into their prime, but are in need of some late summer colour.

Monty Don harvests an abundance of delicious produce, at the same time as looking ahead to the spring.

As the last days of summer start to fade and autumn takes hold, it's time to start planning ahead for next year. At Longmeadow, Monty Don adds some foxtail lilies to his dry garden for a touch of drama in May and June.

As autumn gathers momentum, there's still plenty to do in the garden. Monty Don cuts back his wildflower meadow and, with an eye on some early season colour next year, makes a start on planting up his spring containers.

Monty Don meets world-renowned garden designer, Piet Oudolf, at his latest creation in Somerset. He gets to grips with Oudolf's iconic naturalistic planting and explains how we can adapt this style to our very own gardens.

Monty shares his secrets on how to get a successful garlic crop. Carol Klein takes first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique out for some seasonal inspiration for their new garden, and what better place to look than RHS Rosemoor?

Carol Klein helps first-time gardeners plant a range of tasty fruit in their garden in Gloucestershire.

As autumn gathers, it's time to start putting the garden to bed for winter. Monty Don has some timely advice on what to do. Carol Klein meets a nurseryman in Herefordshire and together they indulge in the seasonal beauty of the Japanese maple.

As the days get shorter, it's a busy time in the garden. Monty cracks on with his seasonal tasks at Longmeadow, giving hints and tips along the way. Carol Klein visits first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique as they get their garden ready for winter.

In the last programme of the current series, Monty Don prepares his garden for winter and takes stock of his year at Longmeadow. Carol Klein is at home in Devon celebrating her wildlife hedge and all the creatures that depend upon it.

With spring just around the corner, Gardeners' World is back for a new series. Monty will be at Longmeadow and this week, he'll be tackling some urgent pruning, as well as revealing some of the projects he's got in store over the coming months.

Hellebores, the jewels of the early spring border, come under the spotlight on this week's show. Monty Don shares his top tips on how to get the best from them. And Carol Klein visits a couple who have an overgrown garden.

If there's one flower that's fallen foul of fashion in recent times it's the once popular chrysanthemum. Monty Don thinks that they're well worth revisiting, and shows us how to get them off to a flying start.

The clocks spring forward this weekend, so it's time to get down to business in the garden. Monty Don plants up a new bed of asparagus and shows us how to lift and divide hostas.

With the long Easter weekend ahead, the time is ripe for tackling some major projects in the garden. At Longmeadow, Monty Don breaks ground for his new pond; and Carol Klein pays Geoff and Sally Davis another visit in their Somerset garden.

As the weather begins to warm up, there's plenty to be getting on with in the garden. Monty Don welcomes us to Longmeadow and cracks on with some timely tasks.

Magnolias are the showstoppers of the tree world right now and to celebrate them in all their glory, James Alexander-Sinclair pays Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex a visit. Monty is busy at Longmeadow, giving his borders a bit of a boost.

Everything in the garden is shooting up, so it's time to lift and divide herbaceous perennials, and Carol Klein is doing just that with Sally and Geoff in their new garden.

As Monty's wildlife garden begins to take shape at Longmeadow, bees are very much at the forefront of his mind. He plants up a nectar-rich border that will attract all sorts of bees and other pollinating insects, from spring through to the autumn.

With hanging basket season well and truly under way, Joe Swift meets a florist in Surrey who has perfected art of kokedama.

This weekend, over 400 gardens in England and Wales will be opening to the public for the National Gardens Scheme. It's an eventful day at Longmeadow, too, as a local beekeeper arrives with a swarm for Monty's new hive.

This week, Carol Klein and Joe Swift are at Gardeners' World Live in Birmingham. Back at Longmeadow, Monty Don catches up with various tasks to ensure that his garden stays in tip-top condition all summer long.

Carol explores one of the nation's most beautiful gardens to find out why their borders work so well.

This week, as ever, Gardeners' World is bursting with colour and packed with information. At Longmeadow, Monty Don celebrates the arrival of summer by making a start on his new scented border.

We look at plants that have a head for heights this week. At Craigieburn Garden in the Scottish Borders there's a unique collection of Himalayan plants; and we visit a nurseryman in Hebden Bridge who has been growing alpines since he was a teenager.

As the summer gathers pace and the weather starts to warm up, drought tolerant plants really hit their stride. Monty Don shares some of his favourites from Longmeadow and garden designer, Adam Frost, shows us how to build a gravel garden.

July is a great time to get out and about visiting gardens, and this week, Monty travels to Cambridge for an exclusive tour of the garden at Clare College. At Longmeadow, with luck, he will be harvesting his first tomatoes.

This week, Carol Klein is at Logan Botanic Garden near Stranraer, famed for its colourful, exotic borders. And Monty Don shares a wealth of ideas on how to keep your garden looking top-notch all summer long.

With the holiday season well and truly upon us, Monty shares some timely tips on how to make sure your garden doesn't suffer while you are away. But there are some gardeners that daren't leave home, as Joe Swift discovered when he met Phillip Vowles.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don's box hedges are still riddled with blight, so it's time to call in an expert to decide on the next course of action. Meanwhile, Rachel de Thame visits the garden at Downton Abbey location Highclere Castle, in Berkshire.

Carol catches up with Geoff and Sally Davis to see how their garden renovation project is coming along.

It's that time of year when there's plenty to be getting on with in the garden. Monty Don takes stock of what's worked and what hasn't at Longmeadow, with a view to planning ahead to the autumn.

Whilst enjoying the late season colour in the Jewel Garden as the summer begins to fade, Monty Don turns his attention to his spring borders which are in need of refurbishment if they are going to pack a punch early next year.

Monty Don tackles some seasonal gardening jobs at Longmeadow and guest presenter, Matthew Wilson, has some ideas to brighten up a dark, north-facing wall.

As autumn unfolds in the garden, Monty Don has plenty to be getting on with at Longmeadow. And in his quest to track down some of the nations most remarkable allotments, Joe Swift visits a tropical paradise in Runcorn.

Joe Swift visits a 'drinkable' allotment in London where much of the produce is grown to make beer, wine and cider. Carol Klein looks at the capsules of potential that herald the start and end of most plants' lives: seeds.

Carol Klein goes underground to unravel the mysteries of roots and why they are so important to the health of our plants. And Joe Swift meets Dame Zandra Rhodes, to explore how the flowers she likes to grow have influenced her designs over the years.

Monty Don is at Longmeadow with a host of seasonal jobs to keep his autumn garden looking beautiful for as long as possible. And in the third of her fascinating films about how plants work, Carol Klein investigates the science of stems.

Carol Klein explores the inner workings of leaves - how they harness the sun's energy and turn it into food. And Joe Swift meets Griff Rhys Jones for a private tour of his remarkable garden and discovers what a passionate gardener he is.

In the last programme of the current series, Monty Don takes stock of his year at Longmeadow. And in the final instalment of her botany series, Carol Klein celebrates the glorious displays put on by flowering plants to attract pollinators.

Monty is at Longmeadow where he reviews the effects the winter weather has had on his garden.

Monty tells us that now's the time to cut back all grasses and give the new growth a chance to come through.

Monty starts the programme in the vegetable garden and clears and composts the remains of Cavolo Nero.

Monty shows us the borders surrounding the pond and he demonstrates how to divide and move the hostas.

Monty takes an initial look at his bee hive and supplements their diet with some sugar fondant.

Monty prepares a bed dedicated to growing flowers to pick and prepares a trench to plant Gladiolus 'Zorro'.

Monty is in the constantly changing Jewel Garden with levels of green and with touches of intense colour.

Monty shows us the Dry garden at its best with the electric lime green of the euphorbias.

Monty opens the programme from the Orchard where most of the blossom has now arrived.

This week we are celebrating the work of the volunteers which keep gardens looking their best for visitors.

Monty deals with a swarm of bees as he plants out tender annuals and harvests honey.

Monty gives his tips on late croppers to sow now.

Whilst celebrating the glory of summer flowers at Longmeadow Monty has plenty of tips.

Monty begins to harvest crops from the vegetable garden and gives tips on extending the flower season.

Monty demonstrates that it's not too late to start growing vegetables by showing us which types to sow now.

Earlier in the year Monty put aside a patch of his garden and now he returns to assess the results.

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