0:00:02 > 0:00:05I'm Carol Klein and this is my garden,
0:00:05 > 0:00:09nestled in the heart of North Devon, 15 miles from the coast
0:00:09 > 0:00:13and surrounded by this tranquil and beautiful countryside.
0:00:17 > 0:00:21I've taken care of my garden for 30 years.
0:00:21 > 0:00:26I know every inch of this place and every plant.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Each season brings its own delights.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35There are plenty of challenges too,
0:00:35 > 0:00:39but that's what makes it so exciting and so fulfilling.
0:00:44 > 0:00:50Over the next half hour, I want to share with you the huge transition my garden makes
0:00:50 > 0:00:54as it passes from winter into spring.
0:01:07 > 0:01:13March and April is a time of huge changes in my garden, in any garden.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18This time of the year starts with the remnants of winter -
0:01:18 > 0:01:21cold, brown, dank, gloomy.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24But it ends in the middle of spring.
0:01:26 > 0:01:32Moments of apprehension and despair are replaced with feelings of hope
0:01:32 > 0:01:36and it all happens within a matter of weeks.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41It's a really busy time in the garden -
0:01:41 > 0:01:45clearing the last of the debris and detritus
0:01:45 > 0:01:49which makes way for waves of planting.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Every day is frenetic. There is never enough time.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04And crucially, all pruning must be done by the end of March.
0:02:04 > 0:02:11But one of the most exciting bits of all is sowing my first seeds of the year.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17Although I suppose, chronologically,
0:02:17 > 0:02:23as far as official calendars are concerned, the year starts in January,
0:02:23 > 0:02:30to me, my gardening year really starts with sowing these first seeds.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34I always find it, no matter how many times I do it,
0:02:34 > 0:02:38an extremely exciting activity.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42It's a great leap of faith, I suppose,
0:02:42 > 0:02:48to put this little seed into a tray or a pot
0:02:48 > 0:02:52and believe that it's going to turn itself into a plant.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01This is Nicotiana langsdorffii.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05Langsdorffii is this gorgeous pale green.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07It's got blue anthers.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Now, although that's just a pinch of seed,
0:03:11 > 0:03:15there's probably a hundred plants in there.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Sometimes you'll get a mass of poppy seed and you think,
0:03:23 > 0:03:28"I'll bung them all in cos they're bound to work like that," but don't.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32It doesn't work cos your seedlings are so close when they start to grow
0:03:32 > 0:03:35that they're very prone to damping off.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37- MIAOWING - Here comes the cat.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40So make your sowing fairly sparse.
0:03:40 > 0:03:45I always, always just... put grit over the top.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56It retains the moisture.
0:03:56 > 0:04:02It keeps any sort of weed seeds from germinating.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Well, from flying in really.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07There won't be any in the compost cos it's sterile.
0:04:07 > 0:04:13It's another reason why you shouldn't use your own compost off the compost heap.
0:04:13 > 0:04:19It's full of pathogens and weed seedlings, so it's not a good idea at all. And then label.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23With some idea of the date too.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28So "March" will do - Nicotiana langsdorffii.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Afterwards, I'm going to stand this whole lot in water
0:04:32 > 0:04:36because I love them to imbibe the water from underneath.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40That actually pulls the seed down into contact with the compost.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43So...I tell you what.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Let's sow one of these big seeds.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49Something like...Cerinthe.
0:04:49 > 0:04:55Now, "station sowing" just means quite simply sowing one seed at a time,
0:04:55 > 0:04:58so it's got its own individual place.
0:05:12 > 0:05:18'You look at a piece of garden one week and it's almost bare. There are just a few shoots here and there.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22'You look the next week and everything is thrusting forwards.
0:05:22 > 0:05:27'Within a matter of weeks, everywhere is green.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35'And this border is finally back in order.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40'All the plants that were taken out have now been divided and replanted.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46'All I've got to do is to give them some love.
0:05:46 > 0:05:51'Sometimes you can give a plant all the love it needs,
0:05:51 > 0:05:53'but nature always has the last word.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56'The winter was so harsh,
0:05:56 > 0:05:59'it killed my beloved Astelia.
0:05:59 > 0:06:04'It had grown to such a size that I had to get my husband Neil in to help.'
0:06:04 > 0:06:06- Is it out?- Yeah.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10- Are you all right?- Yeah.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13I'm going for this tree through here.
0:06:26 > 0:06:33Well, this is the scene of a... a terrible tragedy,
0:06:33 > 0:06:35but also a wonderful opportunity.
0:06:35 > 0:06:40I'm going to plant this gorgeous Amelanchier - Snowy Mespilus.
0:06:40 > 0:06:45And it's going in here in place of our lovely Astelia.
0:06:45 > 0:06:49- This was just such a magnificent specimen, wasn't it? - Yeah, it was beautiful.
0:06:49 > 0:06:55- About that big?- It was. At least. - Yeah. It'll never be the same again. - It was magnificent, wasn't it?
0:06:55 > 0:06:58That's the thing about gardening.
0:06:58 > 0:07:06- When something reaches its time, it's better just to take it out. - And start again with something else.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10Yeah, and the tree roots grow outwards, anyway, don't they?
0:07:11 > 0:07:15- It's very clayey, isn't it? Shall I get some compost?- Yeah. Do.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19That's lovely compost, isn't it?
0:07:19 > 0:07:22This Amelanchier...
0:07:22 > 0:07:25It's called La Paloma, "The Dove".
0:07:25 > 0:07:29It's a real beaut and it's been grafted on to a rootstock.
0:07:29 > 0:07:35You can hardly see the join now, but I must make sure that it's planted dead level there
0:07:35 > 0:07:39because I don't want any of that graft under the ground.
0:07:39 > 0:07:44- Isn't it a beautiful shape, this tree?- Yeah.- It's so lovely. Thank you very much.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49Brilliant roots. I don't need to tease them out because it's just going to find its way here.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53I want to plant it, so it's going to be just level with this soil.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Dig a bit more out for us, Neil, please.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Just a bit from the middle. That's it.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Very heavy soil, isn't it?
0:08:02 > 0:08:07But it's got shillet underneath it, so it's going to drain really well.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11That's it. Just move it around a bit. That's it.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15What I don't want it to do is... Put a bit back.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Put a bit of that compost in.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22Lovely. Ideal.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24And this is our own compost,
0:08:24 > 0:08:27home-grown at Glebe.
0:08:39 > 0:08:45A few weeks ago, the only colour in the garden was a bit of green and then white
0:08:45 > 0:08:48with snowdrops, snowdrops everywhere.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50But now they've gone.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54They're already setting seed and the foliage is growing.
0:08:54 > 0:09:00They've been replaced by all these sparkling bits of jewel-like colours.
0:09:01 > 0:09:07Pulsatilla and these soft little violets seeded themselves.
0:09:08 > 0:09:14And it's almost like you had to be introduced to colour gradually.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21You've got...not a kaleidoscope of colour, not yet,
0:09:21 > 0:09:26but you've got all these beautiful little sparkly bits everywhere.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36It's typical March weather.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40The sun's been shining. It's been rainy. It can't make its mind up.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44This part of the garden is the brick garden.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49At long last, I've managed to start tidying it up and clearing the debris.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53And at the same time, because the weather is just right for it now,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56I've had the opportunity to start dividing plants,
0:09:56 > 0:10:00especially those that flower really late in the year.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03I'm going to start with this Helenium.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07Now, I've got three big clumps right the way through here.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11But they are clumps and they've been here for a few years now.
0:10:12 > 0:10:18I think if you use a plant in different places around the garden,
0:10:18 > 0:10:23it gives the whole thing a sort of integrity, you know, some cohesion.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Now, the great thing about dividing heleniums,
0:10:26 > 0:10:29even if they're in claggy soil like this,
0:10:29 > 0:10:33is they pretty well do it for themselves.
0:10:33 > 0:10:38You can use the old stems as levers to sort of prise it apart,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42but they don't need a lot of prising, really.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46Look at that - a perfect little rosette.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48So that's one plant.
0:10:48 > 0:10:54You can swish the soil off these if you want to in a bucket, so you can see what you're doing.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57But look, it's got a really good root system.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00And I can replant that straight away.
0:11:00 > 0:11:05And when I do... That's the old bit. That's no good at all. That's useless now.
0:11:06 > 0:11:12And when I plant these new bits, I shall put them in five or seven at a time,
0:11:12 > 0:11:18so I make a nice, big clump and I can plant them in whatever sort of shape I want.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25It's a wonderful feeling to know that you've given the plant what it needs
0:11:25 > 0:11:30and to watch it expand and do its own thing, to be itself.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32That's what I love to do.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55That's it, down you go. Yeah, that's it.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Yes, we're going for a nice walk.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Come this way. Yeah.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10You know when somebody asks you, "What's your favourite flower,"
0:12:10 > 0:12:14it's so difficult to answer, but I think this has got to be mine.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16The primrose.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20It's so typical of Devon, of the place I live.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25And it's just such a perfect sort of simple kind of flower.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28And I love everything about it.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32I love these pale, pale flowers and little, fine pink stems
0:12:32 > 0:12:34and this deep egg yolk centre.
0:12:34 > 0:12:39And I've got it all over the place in my garden at home now.
0:12:39 > 0:12:44But when I started off, I just bought one plant from a wildflower nursery
0:12:44 > 0:12:49and from that, I've grown generation after generation of them.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52You just can't have too many of them.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55It's such a simple and yet exciting kind of process
0:12:55 > 0:12:58because as these petals begin to fade,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00the seed pod expands
0:13:00 > 0:13:05and it turns into a little, fat spear.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09It's bright green and the seed within it is bright green too,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12but it's completely fertile and ready to sow.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15And you just take off a seed head
0:13:15 > 0:13:21and you pop it with your thumb nails. You pop this sort of membrane that surrounds it
0:13:21 > 0:13:26and push out these seeds again with your thumb nail because they're a bit sticky.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30And wipe them on the surface of compost in the seed tray.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34And you just cover it with grit,
0:13:34 > 0:13:38water it from underneath, stand it outside
0:13:38 > 0:13:43and within a matter of weeks, these little plants will start to germinate.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48And very often, they'll flower the year after you've sown that seed.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58BIRDS SINGING
0:14:10 > 0:14:17I keep deluding myself that I'm going to get everything done during daylight hours,
0:14:17 > 0:14:21but even though it's the end of March now,
0:14:21 > 0:14:24and we've got so much more daylight,
0:14:24 > 0:14:30I'm still finding that I'm spending all these evenings in the potting shed.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34But I don't mind spending a very intimate time with this plant.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38These are some of my most treasured possessions.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42They're big, fat, huge eucomis bulbs.
0:14:42 > 0:14:48It's one called Sparkling Burgundy and it's got these deep, rich purple leaves.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Or it will have. They're all inside, waiting to shoot upwards.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56I always keep the in pots. You can grow it outside,
0:14:56 > 0:15:00but they're so sort of important to me
0:15:00 > 0:15:05that I always want to show them how special they are.
0:15:05 > 0:15:10But I just want to put this one now into a bigger pot.
0:15:10 > 0:15:16Lovely rich compost, so the whole thing is going to get bigger and more bountiful.
0:15:16 > 0:15:21I'm going to put them back in the greenhouse after this
0:15:21 > 0:15:27and then I'm going to bring them out as they start to shoot and these big purple leaves come up.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30A bit of grit on the top.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13It's not just the garden taking up our time at the moment.
0:16:13 > 0:16:19We're doing some major work on the cottage. Still, the scaffolding has come in handy.
0:16:26 > 0:16:32We used to have barn owls, a pair of barn owls here about thirty years ago
0:16:32 > 0:16:36and I'm trying to encourage whatever barn owls are around
0:16:36 > 0:16:41to come back and raise a new generation. So I've built
0:16:41 > 0:16:45a little barn owl box for them. I'm trying to encourage them.
0:16:45 > 0:16:50We'll just have to wait and see and hope if they approve or not.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02I can feel its heart beating.
0:17:02 > 0:17:07I just found it in the kitchen, fluttering about, looking for a new home.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12But I think it'll be all right. Look at those beautiful feathers.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15All that way you've come. Yeah.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35Well, it's April - it's tulip time!
0:17:35 > 0:17:39What gardener could resist growing tulips? I certainly can't,
0:17:39 > 0:17:43even though I haven't got the right sort of soil for growing them.
0:17:43 > 0:17:50What tulips need is light, alkaline, free-draining soil, baking in hot sun.
0:17:50 > 0:17:55I've got the opposite sort of conditions! It's very heavy clay,
0:17:55 > 0:17:59slightly on the acid side. That's why I grow them in pots.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04If they're going to flower to their best, they need a period of cold,
0:18:04 > 0:18:09so I keep the pots up on the top terrace. As they begin to flower,
0:18:09 > 0:18:14I carry them off, quite triumphantly, to different parts of the garden.
0:18:14 > 0:18:19And although I adore them when they're at their peak,
0:18:19 > 0:18:23I also love, even with a little sadness, the way they begin to fade.
0:18:23 > 0:18:29I love it when these petals start to fall and you see the stigma, the ovary, inside
0:18:29 > 0:18:32and it has its own beautiful geometry.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36To me they sort of signify that whole thing about gardening.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39You know, each plant has its time.
0:18:50 > 0:18:55This box hedge has been bothering me for a bit.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58It needs bringing under control.
0:18:58 > 0:19:04Instead of just giving it a conventional prune, I want something special.
0:19:04 > 0:19:10We're getting somebody in today who's going to elevate this hedge into art, isn't he?
0:19:10 > 0:19:16He's going to cloud prune it, but first of all I want to show you something down this end.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21I really want you to see.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26Just in this corner - I'm being very quiet - a hedge sparrow,
0:19:26 > 0:19:29a little Dunnock, has built a nest.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33And it's perfect, absolutely perfect.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36There are several bright turquoise eggs in there,
0:19:36 > 0:19:40but there's one chick who's hatched with this big orange beak.
0:19:40 > 0:19:47So I think when Jake comes to cut this hedge, we're going to leave this bit.
0:19:51 > 0:19:58'Cloud pruning is a real craft. Jake Hobson studied different pruning styles and techniques
0:19:58 > 0:20:04- 'so I can't wait to see what he's going to suggest for my hedge.' Oh, hello!- Hi, Carol.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08- You're Jake I presume?- Yeah. - I'm just getting ready for you.
0:20:08 > 0:20:13- Gosh, you're tall! I bet that comes in handy.- Good for pruning.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17On these tall hedges. Well, this isn't so big, is it?
0:20:17 > 0:20:23- Did you get a good look at it? - It's great. Lovely and healthy and dense and bushy.
0:20:23 > 0:20:29I don't know about formal cloud pruning. It was supposed to be a big sort of organic line
0:20:29 > 0:20:35linking one side with the other. I want it to fit in with the countryside.
0:20:35 > 0:20:41Yeah, it should be natural and organic looking with just a little definition to it.
0:20:41 > 0:20:47I've got some pictures here. We've got several pictures. This is a yew hedge in Shropshire.
0:20:47 > 0:20:52- That's beautiful. - English-style cloud pruning.
0:20:52 > 0:20:58- That's hundreds of years old.- It's sort of lumpy.- Lumpy and organic. - Yeah. It's gorgeous.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02We've got a nice Japanese azalea. That's Phillyrea latifolia.
0:21:02 > 0:21:09- Some Mediterranean plants. - It looks sort of - I don't know. It doesn't look as country-ish.- No.
0:21:09 > 0:21:15These are all a bit more intentional. That's box, of course. But that's Japanese azalea.
0:21:15 > 0:21:21- Right.- In Kyoto. It's treated the same as box. - That's beautiful, isn't it?
0:21:21 > 0:21:27- All these shapes tucked into one another.- I think a combination of those two, with a few details
0:21:27 > 0:21:33- like this and general sweeps. - So where do we start?- If we get stuck in here, it's a good place.
0:21:33 > 0:21:38- Put your photos away.- OK.- Am I going to get to have a go?- Definitely!
0:21:39 > 0:21:46I'd start off with a pair of secateurs, just roughing out the shape like a stone carver would.
0:21:46 > 0:21:51- So a good pair of secateurs. Just taking out...- The big woody growth!
0:21:51 > 0:21:55If we start off down here maybe and just take a few of those off.
0:21:55 > 0:22:01It's always good to cut to a point where there are small side branches to still have some foliage showing.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06- This is coming up there? - That's right. A nice sweep down to bulge here.
0:22:06 > 0:22:13- Can you get the same sort of shape and definition with something like box as you can with yew?- Yeah.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17Small foliage is what you want for this.
0:22:17 > 0:22:22Ideally, you do this in the autumn or spring, before it comes to full growth. It's just growing now.
0:22:22 > 0:22:27- It is. We're quite late, really, aren't we?- It's good timing.
0:22:27 > 0:22:34We don't want to lose any of the growth that we would have had. We'll now have 6-8 weeks of growth.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37While Jake's finishing that off,
0:22:37 > 0:22:44I've borrowed his wonderfully sharp, beautiful secateurs to do a job I've been meaning to do for ages.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49It's this Cotoneaster here.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52It's horizontalis
0:22:52 > 0:22:57and it's really beautiful, the way it swoops forward over this wall.
0:22:57 > 0:23:03And it kind of replicates or echoes the shapes that Jake's cutting into the hedge.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06But it doesn't know its place!
0:23:06 > 0:23:10It's evergreen so you can see it all the time and it keeps growing.
0:23:10 > 0:23:16What it has done is invade this space. It's really trying to take over.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20In this case it's taking the mickey because what I don't want it to do
0:23:20 > 0:23:23is spoil that glorious Pulsatilla.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25I mean, just look at that.
0:23:25 > 0:23:30The sun's shone just so we can appreciate it. This is a high alpine
0:23:30 > 0:23:34and you can just tell it's perfectly at home in this situation.
0:23:34 > 0:23:40First of all, its flowers are upright like that and then gradually they'll fall over
0:23:40 > 0:23:44until it's pollinated. Then the stem lengthens and becomes erect.
0:23:44 > 0:23:51By this time, these silky seed heads have started to change to fluff.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Later on, when there's a windy day,
0:23:53 > 0:24:00all those seeds will be carried away on these beautiful little gossamer parachutes.
0:24:13 > 0:24:18I think that's just such a brilliant job. It's beautiful!
0:24:18 > 0:24:25- Oh, thanks.- I mean, look how it echoes these cumulus. Doesn't it?- Yeah.- It really does.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28And all flowing this way. Wonderful.
0:24:28 > 0:24:35- How often am I going to have to maintain it?- Well, traditionally, people clip it once a year, in June.
0:24:35 > 0:24:41Derby Day, something like that. For you it would be easier in autumn when access is easier.
0:24:41 > 0:24:46- So once a year. I don't need to feed it.- It should be fine, yeah.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50I might have to restrict it a bit and put some slate in the ground!
0:24:50 > 0:24:54But it's a truly lovely job. It's wonderful.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58- Is this bit for me?- I left that for you. Do you want to have a go?- Yeah.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02I feel as though I'm naming a ship or something.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- Right the way across here?- Yeah.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07One...
0:25:07 > 0:25:12Look at that. You've got to do this with a flourish, haven't you?
0:25:21 > 0:25:26April's a real time for trees. Everything's beginning to come out.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29You see these buds bursting open,
0:25:29 > 0:25:34but I think my favourites of all have to be my two magnolias.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36This one is Leonard Messel.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39It has deep lilac buds
0:25:39 > 0:25:43and then they open to these much paler, water lily sort of flowers.
0:25:43 > 0:25:49And up at the top near the house I've got magnolia stellata. It's of epic proportions,
0:25:49 > 0:25:53smothered in literally thousands of flowers,
0:25:53 > 0:25:57who were around perhaps 100 million years ago.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00They were in existence before bees,
0:26:00 > 0:26:02so they don't produce any nectar.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05They're pollinated by beetles.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09You'll often see a disappointed bee fly away from there.
0:26:09 > 0:26:14In complete contrast to the levity of the magnolia,
0:26:14 > 0:26:18my dark Trilliums are at their best during April.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21This is Trillium chloropetalum.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24It's sort of dark and dangerous.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27It's a wonderful plant
0:26:27 > 0:26:29and very, very long lived.
0:26:29 > 0:26:36But it takes a whole seven years to grow it from seed to flowering. Well worth it, though.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04Just look at these lovely little Cerinthe.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07They're beautiful plants.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11These are the ones I sowed from seed just a few weeks ago
0:27:11 > 0:27:15and already they've made strong, robust little plants.
0:27:15 > 0:27:22They've got wonderful root systems and they're ready to have their own little homes in these pots to grow
0:27:22 > 0:27:25and grow up into big plants.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31And these Nicotiana. This is langsdorfii,
0:27:31 > 0:27:35the one with those gorgeous long, green, trumpety flowers.
0:27:35 > 0:27:41They've made true leaves and very delicately I'm going to get my chopstick
0:27:41 > 0:27:43and put them into little seed trays.
0:27:44 > 0:27:50I mean, you can't believe the way the garden has changed in the last few weeks.
0:27:50 > 0:27:57We had the most terrible weather to begin with, but when we started these two months
0:27:57 > 0:27:59everything was bare and bleak.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03You really felt some days a sense of disillusionment
0:28:03 > 0:28:08like nothing was going to grow, but now look at it!
0:28:08 > 0:28:10And what's next? May!
0:28:10 > 0:28:15My favourite time. It's froth time in the garden.
0:28:15 > 0:28:21You know, this is the time of sort of hope and growth and everything getting going.
0:28:21 > 0:28:26And May is the time when you just celebrate!
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