Planting autumn colours, Cooking with figs and Cultivating climbers
Planting autumn colours, the best fig recipe ideas, inspiration for creating a biblical garden and how to successfully grow climbers.
Nicola Singleton visits Dumfries railway station and finds an intriguing garden space on the platform!
Station gardener Louis Wall explains the story behind this garden and the 15 other gardens along the line he tends to.
Along the platform and right beside the church lies the biblical garden, crammed full of plants which feature in the bible. Which other books could you use as inspiration for your own garden?
Figs are grown in the biblical garden and they are bang in season but how best to use them? Chef Graeme Pallister demonstrates a simple but delicious fig sundae recipe.
If you're short of space in your own garden, Carole Baxter offers tips and advice for getting climbing plants just right.
Back at Dumfries station garden, Louis shows Nicola the planting he's currently doing for the autumn, injecting bursts of colour that will last through to November...
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Roast fig, goats cheese & honey sundae by Graeme Pallister
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