Gardeners' World

Gardeners' World returns with Monty Don back at the helm but this time in the garden at his own Herefordshire home - a place that he's lovingly nurtured for the last twenty years.

As this winter draws to a close, work in the garden starts to step up gear and with the flowers and fruits of summer in mind, Monty gets going in his garden by planting pots of summer bulbs for colour and scent.

This is the third programme in the current series with Monty Don, Carol Klein and Joe Swift. British summer time means that, from Saturday, we all have an extra hour to get out in our gardens in the evenings.

Monty Don opens at Longmeadow in the Spring Garden and show us spring flowers: Leucojum aestivum, Summer snowflake; Helleborus x hybridus, Lenten rose; and Fritillaria meleagris, Snake's head fritillary.

Carol Klein visits a garden that embraces art, design and architecture. The Gibberd Garden in Harlow is considered one of the most important postwar gardens in the country, a space where sculpture and plants compliment each other perfectly.

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.

Monty takes a look at the Floral Marquee whilst the exhibtors are still setting up before it's open to the public.

Monty Don is back in his garden, Longmeadow, Rachel de Thame is at RHS Wisley and Carol Klein visits a lady with bees.

In the herb garden at Longmeadow Monty plants out culinary herbs including rosemary, four varieties of mint - spearmint; peppermint; applemint and moroccan mint, also dill and cherville.

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.

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.

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.

Monty Don is back in his garden at Longmeadow, Carol is also in her own garden at Glebe Cottage and Rachel is in Berkshire.

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.

Monty picks quinces from his garden. His reason for growing them is that they taste delicious and good for cooking. In his orchard, he picks apples and gives advice on how to successfully store them.

At Longmeadow Monty opens the programme admiring his still flowering Dahlias and, as October is the ideal time for planting shrubs, plants Magnolia stellata, Star magnolia in the Jewel Garden.

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.

Monty Don gets going with some autumn garden maintenance whilst looking back over the year and reviewing his borders in the Jewel Garden

At Longmeadow Monty opens the programme admiring his still flowering Dahlias and, as October is the ideal time for planting shrubs, plants Magnolia stellata, Star magnolia in the Jewel Garden.

Joe Swift visits The Alnwick Garden in Northumberland and looks at how its strong structural design ensures the gardens stays looking good through the winter.