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Monty Don has a surprise guest visiting for Easter - Rachel de Thame. Joe Swift and Florence Headlam visit a community growing project for children with special needs.

Gardeners’ World has a full hour of gardening this Easter weekend and Monty gets going with a new planting project, as well as giving plenty of tips on getting our lawns and plants into tip top condition for the season ahead. And Monty has a surprise guest visiting for Easter, Rachel de Thame.

If you have dry shade, dappled shade or deep shade, Carol Klein is on hand to show us the spring planting partners which grow happily together, Adam Frost meets a woman who has created seven individual gardens around her home in Worcestershire, and Joe Swift and Florence Headlam are on a Walsall allotment helping out on a community growing project for children with special needs.

59 minutes

Last on

Fri 24 May 2019 08:00

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  • Smokie

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Plants for dry shade

Plants for dry shade

Carol visited one of Cornwall’s best kept secrets and knocked our socks off with the planting combinations in their dry shady woodland. Dry shade can be a real problem area, but Carol shows us that once you know what you’re dealing with, those conditions can be turned to your advantage. Here are some plants she really thought stole the show while she was there.

Epimedium x versicolor ‘S³Ü±ô±è³ó³Ü°ù±ð³Ü³¾â€™
Epimedium x younganium ‘N¾±±¹±ð³Ü³¾â€™
Helleborus x hybridus
Adiantum capillus-veneris
Muscari ‘Baby’s Breath’
Erythronium ‘Jeanette Brickell’
Astelia chathamica ‘Silver Shadow’
Omphalodes cappadocica
Trillium rivale
Lathyrus vernus ‘A±ô²ú´Ç°ù´Ç²õ±ð³Ü²õ’

(www.bosvigo.com)

Grow your own fabric dyes

Grow your own fabric dyes

Using plants to produce natural fabric dyes has really caught our attention and the visit last year to Christine Lewis’ dye garden was the icing on the cake. We can’t wait to see how the plants Monty has put in specifically for producing natural fabric dyes get along. If you would like to try growing plants for making fabric dyes, here are the plants Monty is starting with.

Isatis tinctoria (Woad)
HypericumÌý³æÌýhidcoteense 'Hidcote' (St John’s wort)
Alcea rosea 'Halo Cerise' (Hollyhock)
Calendula officinalis (Pot marigold)
Rubia tinctorum (Dyer's madder)

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Monty Don
Presenter Rachel de Thame
Presenter Florence Headlam
Presenter Carol Klein
Presenter Joe Swift
Presenter Adam Frost
Series Producer Sharon Fisher
Executive Producer Gary Broadhurst
Production Manager Caroline Morgan-Fletcher

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