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Episode 13

Monty turns his attention to containers and citrus plants, Joe Swift meets the designer of an award-winning contemporary garden, and we catch up with three extraordinary sisters from Dorset.

At Longmeadow, Monty turns his attention to containers, planting them up for drama and summer colour in the jewel garden and showing us how to repot citrus plants.

In Hampshire, Joe Swift meets the designer of an award-winning contemporary garden to explore the techniques and the plants she has used to seamlessly integrate both house and garden. Meanwhile, we catch up with the three extraordinary sisters from Dorset who we met last year to find out about a whole new growing project they have started.

In Cheshire, we visit a garden where lack of space has not deterred the gardener from packing it full with tropical plants, and in Staffordshire, we get expert growing tips from the holder of a national collection of one of summer’s most delicate flowers, the angel’s fishing rod. We also find out what our viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.

59 minutes

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Music Played

  • Eoghan Quigg

    Learn To Fly

  • Simone

    Ich Lieb Dich Oder Nicht

  • Amazing Karaoke

    Titanium

Derek's tropical paradise

Derek's tropical paradise

What Derek Ferguson has achieved with his garden in Cheshire is truly remarkable. At only 10.5m (35ft) x 6m (20ft), it’s not like he has a great deal of space to play with, yet his clever use of bold colours and large-leaved plants makes it feel so much bigger than it really is. If you’d like to create something similar in your garden, here are Derek’s top 10 recommendations to get you started.

Butia capitata (Jelly palm)
Colocasia esculenta (Taro)
Dicksonia antarctica (Soft tree fern)
Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii' (Ethiopian black banana)
Musa basjoo (Japanese banana)
Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax)
Phyllostachys nigra (Black bamboo)
Rheum palmatum (Chinese rhubarb)
Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Rex' (Chinese rice-paper plant)
Trachycarpus fortunei (Chusan palm)

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Monty Don
Presenter Joe Swift
Production Manager Janelle Backes
Series Producer Sharon Fisher
Executive Producer Gary Broadhurst

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