Monty Don and Joe Swift look back at the highlights of their week at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018.
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 Episode 15
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Gardeners World 2018 episode 6
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.
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Gardeners World 2018 episode 1
In Gardeners World 2018 episode 1, 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.
Great Gardens: Chatworth House
The Duke of Devonshire guides us through the stunning grounds of Chatsworth House.
Jardins de Normandie : La Colline aux Oiseaux (Caen)
Drôle d’histoire que cette Colline aux Oiseaux, mais belle histoire aussi.
Inauguré pour le 50 ème anniversaire du Débarquement, ce Parc dédié à la Paix était un pari fou : transformer l’ancienne décharge de la ville en zone verte naturelle.
C’est Jean François Stefan, présent dès l’origine du projet qui est le mieux placé pour en parler et qui nous fait visiter ce lieu étonnant où se côtoient labyrinthe, mix border, roseraie, ferme pédagogique, etc…
un lieu de promenade que les habitants de Caen investissent dès les beaux jours, mais un lieu aussi où les passionnés de plantes, observateurs, pourront y trouver leur compte.
Nouvelle Aquitaine : le “Jardin” de Saint Avit
Le “Jardin”, c’est son nom, en vrai, même si tout le monde l’appelle le Jardin de Saint Avit (Saint Nazaire). Il est comme son nom ne l’indique pas, en Aquitaine, entre Libourne et Bergerac à Saint Avit / Saint Nazaire.
C’est un merveilleux endroit avec de merveilleuses personnes : Carine et Laurent Bianvet et bien sûr leur “jardin”. C’est leur générosité qui s’est incarnée en jardin, dans un lieu improbable, le long du chemin de fer, d’ailleurs, ils habitent la maison du garde-barrière… mais quel travail pour faire de ces terres à tournesols et à moutons un lieu de quiétude et d’humanité. Vingt années déjà pour ces très jeunes jardiniers, si ce n’est pas de la passion ?
Merci à vous deux, mon passage à Saint Avit est gravé dans ma mémoire et j’espère que les images sont à la hauteur de la qualité du cadeau que vous faites à vos visiteurs.
Le jardin est aussi une pépinière remplie de trésors, rien que des bébés des plantes que vous pouvez voir dans le jardin… pas de plantes belges… (je rigole)
Centre Val de Loire : La ferme du Bois Richeux
Non loin du château de Maintenon dont elle dépendait autrefois, la ferme de Bois Richeux a été restaurée par ses actuels propriétaires. La ferme est l’une des plus vieilles fermes de France établie, à l’époque celte, au centre de la forêt des Carnutes. Un jardin d’inspiration médiévale, itinéraire dans la symbolique du Moyen Age, a été conçu au coeur des bâtiments.
RHS Garden Bridgewater | A New Beginning
The creation of RHS Garden Bridgewater will be the largest gardening project in Europe. The Society’s first new garden in 17 years, it will deliver benefits to the local community as it grows into a world-class garden. The first phase includes the restoration of the four hectare (11 acre) Walled Kitchen Garden, one of the largest in the UK. Plans also include a new schools Learning Centre to grow young people’s horticultural knowledge.
Great Gardens: Ford Ranch” by Albert Moya
The British Garden: Life and Death on Your Lawn
The British back garden is a familiar setting, but underneath the peonies and petunias is a much wilder hidden world, a miniature Serengeti, with beauty and brutality in equal measure. In this documentary, Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts spend an entire year exploring every inch of a series of interlinked back gardens in Welwyn Garden City. They want to answer a fundamental question: how much wildlife lives beyond our back doors? How good for wildlife is the great British garden?
Through all four seasons, Chris reveals a stranger side to some of our more familiar garden residents. In summer he meets a very modern family of foxes – with a single dad in charge – and finds that a single fox litter can have up to five different fathers. In winter he shows that a robin’s red breast is actually war paint. And finally, in spring he finds a boiling ball of frisky frogs in a once-in-a-year mating frenzy.
The secret lives of the gardens’ smallest residents are even weirder. The team finds male crickets that bribe females with food during sex, spiders that change colour to help catch prey, and life-and-death battles going on under our noses in the compost heap.
So how many different species call our gardens home? How well do our gardens support wildlife? By the end of the year, with the help of a crack team from London’s Natural History Museum and some of the country’s top naturalists, Chris will find out. He’ll also discover which type of garden attracts the most wildlife. The results are not what you might expect… You’ll never look at your garden in quite the same way again.
Great Gardens: Las Pozas, Mexico
Las Pozas (“The Pools”) is a subtropical garden established by twentieth-century British poet Edward James. Soaring out of the Mexican jungle near the town of Xilitla, the gardens are home to enormous concrete works of art that live alongside the tropical landscape.
Nature Close-ups
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2017 | Young Designer of the Year
Meet the three finalists who took part in this year’s RHS Young Designer of the Year competition Ula Maria, Anca Panait and Jake Curley.
Our three Young Designer finalists have each created their very first RHS Show Garden. The brief was to create a garden office – inspired by the idea of using gardens as a workspace, whether as a practical or quiet space, a place to hold meetings or space within an urban setting. They produced three stunning designs, winning two Golds and a Silver-Gilt.
Cactus porn in the desert garden oasis of Sunnylands Gardens.
Cactus porn in the desert garden oasis of Sunnylands Gardens. For the second of our latest series of Great Gardens, we visit the Californian landscape designed by artist James Burnett, which has hosted guests including Queen Elizabeth II, Frank Sinatra and Truman Capote.
Cactus porn in the desert garden oasis of Sunnylands Gardens. For the second of our latest series of Great Gardens, we visit the Californian landscape
