Episode 7
Monty Don has a surprise guest visiting for Easter - Rachel de Thame. Joe Swift and Florence Headlam visit a community growing project for children with special needs.
Gardeners鈥� World has a full hour of gardening this Easter weekend and Monty gets going with a new planting project, as well as giving plenty of tips on getting our lawns and plants into tip top condition for the season ahead. And Monty has a surprise guest visiting for Easter, Rachel de Thame.
If you have dry shade, dappled shade or deep shade, Carol Klein is on hand to show us the spring planting partners which grow happily together, Adam Frost meets a woman who has created seven individual gardens around her home in Worcestershire, and Joe Swift and Florence Headlam are on a Walsall allotment helping out on a community growing project for children with special needs.
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Planting a dyer's garden
Duration: 02:40
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Bosvigo
Duration: 07:17
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Smokie
Just When I Needed You Most
Plants for dry shade
Carol visited one of Cornwall鈥檚 best kept secrets and knocked our socks off with the planting combinations in their dry shady woodland. Dry shade can be a real problem area, but Carol shows us that once you know what you鈥檙e dealing with, those conditions can be turned to your advantage. Here are some plants she really thought stole the show while she was there.
Epimedium x versicolor 鈥楽耻濒辫丑耻谤别耻尘鈥�
Epimedium x younganium 鈥楴颈惫别耻尘鈥�
Helleborus x hybridus
Adiantum capillus-veneris
Muscari 鈥楤aby鈥檚 Breath鈥�
Erythronium 鈥楯eanette Brickell鈥�
Astelia chathamica 鈥楽ilver Shadow鈥�
Omphalodes cappadocica
Trillium rivale
Lathyrus vernus 鈥楢濒产辞谤辞蝉别耻蝉鈥�
(www.bosvigo.com)
Grow your own fabric dyes
Using plants to produce natural fabric dyes has really caught our attention and the visit last year to Christine Lewis鈥� dye garden was the icing on the cake. We can鈥檛 wait to see how the plants Monty has put in specifically for producing natural fabric dyes get along. If you would like to try growing plants for making fabric dyes, here are the plants Monty is starting with.
Isatis
tinctoria (Woad)
Hypericum听虫听hidcoteense
'Hidcote' (St John鈥檚 wort)
Alcea rosea 'Halo Cerise' (Hollyhock)
Calendula officinalis (Pot marigold)
Rubia tinctorum (Dyer's
madder)
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Monty Don |
| Presenter | Rachel de Thame |
| Presenter | Florence Headlam |
| Presenter | Carol Klein |
| Presenter | Joe Swift |
| Presenter | Adam Frost |
| Series Producer | Sharon Fisher |
| Executive Producer | Gary Broadhurst |
| Production Manager | Caroline Morgan-Fletcher |