Episode 4
Frances Tophill and the team celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings throughout the seasons.
Frances Tophill and the team celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings throughout the seasons.
Frances is at Wildside Garden in Devon, inspired to make the winter gardens sparkle and do jobs to get them ready for next spring. Nick Bailey visits a garden in Bedfordshire that blends soft grasses with textural trees and crisp topiary to create a space full of winter interest.
Advolly Richmond reveals the fascinating history of greenhouses along with the enormous challenges involved in engineering those early designs. Adam Frost gets stuck into some winter jobs, including chitting potatoes and planting up a container for seasonal interest.
In Northamptonshire, there's a collection of snowdrops with more than 650 varieties, and there's a man from Somerset whose world has been rocked by lithops - also known as living stones.
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Adam's winter container
A container planted up with a few of hardy perennials can add extra layer of interest to your garden in winter. And it doesn鈥檛 have to be complicated. A good mix of evergreens with different shaped leaves is all you need, along with the odd splash of colour. For his galvanised trough, Adam used a variegated sedge, a white hellebore and three species of native fern. That鈥檚 it.
Carex 鈥業ce Dance鈥� (Variegated
sedge) x 1
Helleborus niger (Christmas rose)
x 3
Polystichum setiferum (Soft shield fern) x 3
Asplenium scolopendrium (Hart鈥檚 tongue fern) x 2
Polypodium vulgare (Common polypody) x 3
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Frances Tophill |
| Presenter | Nick Bailey |
| Presenter | Adam Frost |
| Presenter | Advolly Richmond |
| Executive Producer | Gary Broadhurst |
| Series Producer | Becky Pratt |
| Production Manager | Ash Morris |