0:00:12 > 0:00:18Hello there. Welcome to Beechgrove on a nice, warm day and I'm on glasshouse duties today.
0:00:18 > 0:00:22There's a lot to be done, so I've got the peeny on and the gloves.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24That green stain gets everywhere.
0:00:24 > 0:00:30A couple of weeks ago at Gardening Scotland, we were asked quite a lot about this condition.
0:00:30 > 0:00:36In tomatoes in a cold greenhouse, it causes leaves to roll over. There's nothing really wrong.
0:00:36 > 0:00:43High day temperatures plunging to low temperatures at night, they can't cope with the big swing.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47But it's cosmetic and doesn't do any harm. Getting to the work,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50we've got to regularly remove side shoots.
0:00:50 > 0:00:56Like little ones like that. I move them one side to the other and they come out cleanly.
0:00:56 > 0:01:02Then you get this size and it happens in the best of circles that you sometimes get this.
0:01:02 > 0:01:07Which one should I take off? Well, this has a good truss of fruit on it
0:01:07 > 0:01:11so it's this one here that I need to take off.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14And I will snap it out...
0:01:14 > 0:01:18that way and that way. Look - clean as a whistle.
0:01:18 > 0:01:23That's how it should be. But it gets dangerous when they get to this size
0:01:23 > 0:01:26and you've got to do it regularly.
0:01:26 > 0:01:31I'll do it with this hand, then snap it back the other way. Comes out cleanly.
0:01:31 > 0:01:37Some people use a knife. That leaves an edge which is liable to dampen off.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40I've got all this lot to go through.
0:01:40 > 0:01:44Before you go, in the corner we've got Leslie's Sister.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48There are six plants, each one in an individual pot,
0:01:48 > 0:01:54in trays that are watered from underneath by the liquid in that reservoir in the corner.
0:01:54 > 0:02:00It's working an absolute treat. I've got it at home and the plants are doing really well.
0:02:00 > 0:02:07These have been watered with liquid feed all the time. You put liquid feed in the tank.
0:02:07 > 0:02:12It goes underneath and they suck it up and are the better for it.
0:02:12 > 0:02:17If you give the plants too much plain water, they get blowsy and disease-prone
0:02:17 > 0:02:23and the fruit is not as tasty. So feed it every watering. Half-strength will do.
0:02:23 > 0:02:29Cucumbers. They start to produce fruit very early, these new modern hybrids.
0:02:29 > 0:02:34It stunts growth as their efforts go into producing the fruits.
0:02:34 > 0:02:40If I actually takes these off, for about a foot up the plant,
0:02:40 > 0:02:44it allows the plant to use its energies to put on more growth.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48Take off these tendrils, like so.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52Get it onto the string and away it goes.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Finally, a quick word about peppers. It's a funny old plant, the pepper.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00Do you see what it does? It goes so far and then it divides.
0:03:00 > 0:03:06It finished up usually with a flower bud, as you see in the next one.
0:03:06 > 0:03:11It grows so far then it divides to two shoots
0:03:11 > 0:03:14and a flower bud which will be the fruit.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18Well, you can imagine over time this plant gets this way.
0:03:18 > 0:03:23It becomes an absolute menace to train it and they can fall over.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28So what the commercial grower does is he takes that one off.
0:03:28 > 0:03:34So you've got a stem with - when I come to the next one you'll see it - he takes that one off...
0:03:36 > 0:03:38..and he's got a fruit there.
0:03:38 > 0:03:44You keep on going. As they grow they produce more than one fruit at each joint.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48And you've got a plant that you can take up a string. Easy peasy.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51In the rest of the programme...
0:03:51 > 0:03:55In Problem Corner, my challenge is to make a small decking area
0:03:55 > 0:03:58both pretty and productive.
0:03:58 > 0:04:04We're well into the Scotland's Gardens year and this week there are eight gardens
0:04:04 > 0:04:07open in Stirling on the same day.
0:04:12 > 0:04:18- Now we've bedded out all the plants in the greenhouses, we've got loads of space here.- Not for long!
0:04:18 > 0:04:23- We're going to fill it.- Rapidly! With these peppers.- Yes, baby peppers and some chillies.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28Some hot chillies as well. We'll fill this greenhouse with them.
0:04:28 > 0:04:34Which will look really ornamental. Just looking at this one, the leaves are quite puckered.
0:04:34 > 0:04:39That's a sign of aphid attack, but there's no sign of any more.
0:04:39 > 0:04:45I wondered about pinching them out, but you'd lose the flowers. I think they'll come true OK.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50They should be fine. The greenhouse behind us is empty as well.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55I think we should fill them with some greenhouse annuals. I did this a few years ago.
0:04:55 > 0:05:00You end up with a lovely lot of colour in the winter and spring.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04I haven't ever done this before, so I'm fascinated by this.
0:05:04 > 0:05:09There's an array of things like Cineraria. I don't like the foliage.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12The leaves are coarse, but the flowers are lovely.
0:05:12 > 0:05:18Then Browallia, lovely blue flowers. The Celosia, that's used as a bedding plant as well.
0:05:18 > 0:05:24- Lovely feathery foliage. - Called a cockscomb, isn't it? - Yes, that's another one.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28- And then you've got... - Schizanthus or angels wings.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32I have to say when you get these seed packets out,
0:05:32 > 0:05:38- the seed is very, very small and it's like...- They're well wrapped-up in the foil.- Yeah.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42Well, you say those are tiny, but you need a magnifying glass here.
0:05:42 > 0:05:47- There's some tiny little seeds in the bottom.- What's that one?
0:05:47 > 0:05:51That's Calceolaria. I'll have to add sand to that.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55I'll gently sow this here, very, very carefully.
0:05:55 > 0:06:01I think I can be precise enough to get them spread. When they germinate,
0:06:01 > 0:06:05- we will pinch them out. - Yes, it's just like bedding plants.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09I'll put a bit of sand into this, just so.
0:06:09 > 0:06:14You can maybe see now I've got a lot in there. Give it a good shake.
0:06:14 > 0:06:19I can spread it on the compost. They'll be potted on just like bedding plants,
0:06:19 > 0:06:23but in the greenhouse. We have a little propagator here
0:06:23 > 0:06:28because you do, to start off with, need to give them a little heat.
0:06:28 > 0:06:35But after that, most of these will survive with temperatures down to about 8-10 degrees Centigrade.
0:06:35 > 0:06:41Just to complete the story here, I've broadcast the seeds then I'll put a very fine layer of compost
0:06:41 > 0:06:45on top and stand it and allow the water to come up.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50- With fine compost, the flour sieve is perfect. Just don't cook after! - You mean baking flour.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53- Baking flour, yeah.- I'll wash it.
0:06:55 > 0:07:01This week I'm in Glasgow visiting Lisa who has a lovely tenement flat and a small space she can use,
0:07:01 > 0:07:06but she's not sure how to tackle it so I'm here with some inspiration.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11- Hi, Lisa.- Hi!- What a lovely secluded back yard.- Thank you.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14- How long have you been here? - Nearly 7 years.
0:07:14 > 0:07:19We had to rip the place out and focus on the inside,
0:07:19 > 0:07:23- so we've only just begun to look at the outside more recently.- Right.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27How much of all this is yours? Obviously it's communal.
0:07:27 > 0:07:32- As you come out, everything to the right.- What have you done so far?
0:07:32 > 0:07:36Well, a couple of years ago we had the decking put in
0:07:36 > 0:07:40and we just grew some normal container plants.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45Last year we grew some strawberries, peas, beans, courgettes, tomatoes,
0:07:45 > 0:07:47which I was really encouraged by,
0:07:47 > 0:07:53so I'd like to learn a wee bit more about how to get the best out of them.
0:07:53 > 0:07:59- Have you had any problems? - We have a lot of shade from the trees, which are overhanging.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- That's a problem. - They're nice, but big.
0:08:02 > 0:08:10- All these windows are yours?- Yes. - Well, containers are the things we need to use for the decking.
0:08:10 > 0:08:17- The light, I take it you've spoken to your neighbours about taking bits off trees?- I have spoken to them
0:08:17 > 0:08:20because you guys were coming. That's OK.
0:08:20 > 0:08:25I do have with me a secret weapon called Mark. He's going to help us
0:08:25 > 0:08:30- lop some branches off, let light in and everything will do better. - Excellent.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Is that the bit we agreed on?!
0:08:44 > 0:08:49What I need to do now is come in and look from the inside out.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52There's obviously some to come off at the top.
0:08:52 > 0:08:58I've got my pointy stick to point at the branches. ..Can you reach up there?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Yeah, go for it.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06- See the light? Isn't that great? Come and look - it's amazing!- Wow!
0:09:06 > 0:09:11- What a difference!- Feel the sun! - The sun's just come out in time.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22Lisa, I've got a couple of things to put on the wall.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27- Your sandstone walls are beautiful, but a little decoration...- So plain.
0:09:27 > 0:09:32Well, I was thinking I've got these pots that you can just hook onto a wall.
0:09:32 > 0:09:37- Something like that.- They're lovely. - For here. They just hook on.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41They've got a flat back. So a couple of those there.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45And then... wall baskets further down.
0:09:45 > 0:09:51- You've got a step here, so if you had one at that height and one a wee bit lower.- Yeah.
0:09:51 > 0:09:57- To match the fact that you're stepping down. - Yeah, they're really nice. Lovely.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01- It softens that wall a wee bit. - Great, perfect.
0:10:08 > 0:10:15We've got a selection of things here. I know your remit was pretty, scented, edible.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18- And good for wildlife.- Yeah.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22- So we've got lavender.- I love it. - Nice and scented.- Gorgeous.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26You wanted a holly, so you've got berries and evergreen colour.
0:10:26 > 0:10:32A lot of people really like Buddleias, but they think they'll be too big. This is a dwarf Buddleia
0:10:32 > 0:10:36- which stays small and can go in a pot.- Lovely.
0:10:36 > 0:10:42Edible things, I know you like cooking so I tried for a range of things and you can choose.
0:10:42 > 0:10:48- I brought a couple of courgettes. - I love courgettes.- One is pretty much a courgette already!
0:10:48 > 0:10:54- But still wanting to make it pretty, yellow courgettes.- Fabulous. - That'll be nice in your vegetables.
0:10:54 > 0:11:01- They're so easy to grow. - They are. There's some herbs - chives, coriander, parsley,
0:11:01 > 0:11:06some sweetcorn, some lettuce, so it looks really nice as well.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Some scent with some rosemary and I couldn't resist sweet peas.
0:11:10 > 0:11:16- We can put them in this basket, put some canes up to give us height.- Gorgeous.
0:11:16 > 0:11:21But the first thing really is you've got pots here with old pansies.
0:11:21 > 0:11:27We need to take out the things that are coming out, see what we've got, lay it out so it looks nice
0:11:27 > 0:11:30- and then decide what to plant.- Yep.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38It's quite nice to have space for another pot.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Let's leave a space for sweet peas.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46You're strong, Carolyn!
0:11:46 > 0:11:51- I'd be as well doing this with my teeth!- Do you need scissors?
0:11:56 > 0:12:00Have you seen this stuff before? This is water retaining granules.
0:12:00 > 0:12:08- No, I have not.- It basically starts life like that, crystals. Imagine what wallpaper paste turns into.
0:12:08 > 0:12:13It's like that kind of idea. You put that in with the compost
0:12:13 > 0:12:17and then give it a little... You want it into the compost.
0:12:17 > 0:12:23When you wet the compost, it holds on to the moisture so you don't have to water as much.
0:12:26 > 0:12:31The courgettes get quite big, so leave them a fair amount of space.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35And remember to keep cropping regularly or you'll have marrows!
0:12:42 > 0:12:46- These wall pots are lovely. - They're gorgeous.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49The petunia and lobelia will trail out and tumble down.
0:12:49 > 0:12:54I can't believe it's just a couple of plants in each one.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58It just finishes it all off. The thing that's nice with a small space
0:12:58 > 0:13:03is you've got a little bit of everything. It should be manageable.
0:13:03 > 0:13:10- It's perfect. I can't wait to see it all come into full bloom.- So you've got potatoes, beans, tomatoes,
0:13:10 > 0:13:17- rocket, chives, everything! - It's exactly as I imagined it, but even better.- I'm so pleased.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- Thanks very much.- Cheers.
0:13:27 > 0:13:34I'm at the far end of the Silver Garden and there's quite a lot of noise going on.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38We have a nest of blue tits. They are just about to fledge.
0:13:38 > 0:13:46We have a quite attractive wall here, but I want to clothe it - lots of plants tumbling over the edge
0:13:46 > 0:13:52to soften it. I'm using things which we would more often see maybe in a basket or container.
0:13:52 > 0:13:58These are tender plants. Using Bacopa, this is the Gulliver series.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01The flowers are much bigger and a lovely, startling white.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05I've got Dichondra, silver falls in here.
0:14:05 > 0:14:10I'm trying to keep most things silver and white for the Silver Garden.
0:14:10 > 0:14:15I haven't had much success with Dichondra, but we'll see. Some white trailing lobelia.
0:14:15 > 0:14:22I'll be not at all surprised if some have blue in the flower. It's inevitable, it seems, with them.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24This is the tender Nepeta.
0:14:24 > 0:14:29This can get up to six foot and will cascade over here.
0:14:29 > 0:14:36This Convolvulis Sabatius - beautiful bluey-white flowers. They just add a little contrast
0:14:36 > 0:14:39so it's not too grey and white. More lobelia.
0:14:39 > 0:14:46This Helichrysum is silver. Sometimes this can be too vigorous in a hanging basket and takes over,
0:14:46 > 0:14:53but it should be really good here. And my final one is variegated ivy. It will nicely flop over the edge.
0:14:53 > 0:14:59So this is all tender stuff, but we'll put more permanent planting against one of the other walls.
0:14:59 > 0:15:06Up here in the trials beds, we've got a wee wall, so an opportunity for more dangulation!
0:15:06 > 0:15:12- But this is permanent planting. - They are. I've chosen five. Oh, you've moved that one.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15- Is that hole big enough? - We'll pop fertiliser in.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18This is a halimiocistus.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21- So that's a cross. - Between something and cistus!
0:15:21 > 0:15:29- It's got these little flowers which cascade over.- Cistus sometimes isn't particularly hardy.
0:15:29 > 0:15:34- Will that be OK?- This is the best chance they'll get - sunshine, good drainage.
0:15:34 > 0:15:41- This Campanula, it's beginning to exhibit the tendency that we want. - Yes, it's nice and spready.
0:15:41 > 0:15:46- Presumably you have to encourage it. - I want to make sure it does go over
0:15:46 > 0:15:52- and doesn't interfere with Jim's Crocosmia.- They're settling in well. - This is a Hebe - Summer Frost.
0:15:52 > 0:15:57- Again, the prostrate ones are good and hardy.- Smaller the leaves, hardier the hebe.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00We've gone very blue and white again.
0:16:00 > 0:16:07- We're still in the silver theme. This is Prostrate Rosemary, which you reckon is hardier?- I do.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Rather than the upright form.
0:16:09 > 0:16:14The last one - this is Eau de Cologne Mint.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18- It's gorgeous if you run it under a hot tap in the bath.- Lovely!
0:16:18 > 0:16:23And we're going to plunge this bottomless pot or it'll spread.
0:16:23 > 0:16:28And we will keep our eye on that and make sure there's no excursions.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32- That's going into the shady part? - The shadiest bit that we can.
0:16:41 > 0:16:47'This Sunday, eight gardens in Stirling are going to open under the Scotland's Gardens scheme.
0:16:47 > 0:16:53'I'm going to visit two of them, the first being the very large garden of John and Lesley Stein.'
0:16:59 > 0:17:05- John, what was it like when you moved here 25 years ago? - It was April Fool's Day, 1986.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09We arrived and there was a very Victorian garden
0:17:09 > 0:17:13with a beech hedge. Up here was the place with rockeries and plants.
0:17:13 > 0:17:19And these three trees - the copper beech with its elephant feet.
0:17:19 > 0:17:25- It's absolutely stunning. You wouldn't want rid of that. - We wouldn't be allowed to.
0:17:25 > 0:17:30Then you have the cedar and across there is the Camperdown elm, which is wonderful.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34- You obviously redesigned it. - Well, we didn't, actually.
0:17:34 > 0:17:39We were consulted, but we had this wonderful man who chopped down the dead cedar
0:17:39 > 0:17:44and we were sort of burbling on about what we might do.
0:17:44 > 0:17:51- He said, "We should start again." So we did.- You've planted a lot of trees, like the silver birch.- Yes.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55- Beautiful.- That was a tremendous bit of inspiration by him.
0:17:55 > 0:18:02- He could see that we were north-facing and if he coppiced it... - Cutting it right down.
0:18:02 > 0:18:09..with lots and lots of stems coming up, we'd get this tremendous reflected light from the silver bark.
0:18:09 > 0:18:15- It's the best way to treat it, actually. Multi-stem is the answer. - I think you're right, absolutely.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Lesley, tell us a bit about the herbaceous border. It's some size.
0:18:32 > 0:18:38It certainly is, isn't it? It's a traditional double Victorian herbaceous border.
0:18:38 > 0:18:46The idea behind it was to bring it up to the house and so the view from the kitchen window
0:18:46 > 0:18:51is permanent, lovely, throughout the year. We've got irises, we've got peonies,
0:18:51 > 0:18:55- various repeat plants. - Nice early colour.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59But you also repeated the Aruncus there. That's a lovely plant.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Yes, I was inspired by walled gardens for these repeat ideas.
0:19:03 > 0:19:09The Aruncus starts off a lovely lime colour, develops into a very nice creamy colour
0:19:09 > 0:19:13- and even the brown's attractive. - A value for money plant!- Absolutely.
0:19:13 > 0:19:18- I'd like to know about your Open Gardens day, this Sunday, the 19th. - That's right.
0:19:18 > 0:19:25We're open from 1 till 6. There are eight gardens opening with things going on in each one.
0:19:25 > 0:19:31We've got the Big Noise Raploch Children's Orchestra in this garden along with a singer
0:19:31 > 0:19:36and in the others there's a hat show, strawberries and cream, Pimm's, cream teas here,
0:19:36 > 0:19:43- home baking, a bottle store, silver jewellery, plants... - There's so much!- ..silk scarves!
0:19:43 > 0:19:48I'll be looking for the cream teas! And you don't have to be a gardener.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52- No. Come along.- I'd like to look at one of the other gardens now.- OK.
0:19:59 > 0:20:05This garden is just round the corner from John and Lesley's and it's open on Sunday, too.
0:20:06 > 0:20:13'And the second garden I'm visiting in Stirling belongs to Fleur McIntosh.'
0:20:19 > 0:20:25- You've been gardening for six years. - That's right.- And this was a blank canvas?- We started from scratch.
0:20:25 > 0:20:30It was laid out to lawn and gradually we bought more plants at the garden Scheme stalls
0:20:30 > 0:20:37and we've grown some from seed and eventually filled up the whole garden, though I'd squeeze more in!
0:20:37 > 0:20:43- Now looking at it, you have a bit of a colour thing going on.- Yes.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47I seem to be drawn to the purples and then things contrast with them.
0:20:47 > 0:20:55- The pinks and the acidic green of the Alchemilla.- The Alliums are beautiful architectural plants.
0:20:55 > 0:21:01- They last quite a while.- They have this year and they have done so well in the storms, bouncing back up,
0:21:01 > 0:21:05- even with the very strong winds. - I'd like to mention the design.
0:21:05 > 0:21:10Our Lesley was talking about long, thin gardens.
0:21:10 > 0:21:16- You've divided it into two.- Yes. We did want the garden to feel a bit bigger and not see it all at once.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20And more of a sense of a journey that you're on.
0:21:20 > 0:21:26We worried about putting in a thick hedge here in case it shadowed these beds.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31So my husband put up the fence to give a dividing structure.
0:21:31 > 0:21:36- It's because it's south-facing. You want the light.- Exactly.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40We didn't want to lose the sunniest bit by putting more shadows in.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44- Am I right in thinking you are a bit of a plantaholic?- Yes.
0:21:44 > 0:21:49- I can imagine the grass getting smaller!- It has a couple of times.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53If I had my way this spring, it would be smaller again!
0:21:53 > 0:21:57But I've got two young kids and they need space.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01What about the chickens? Do you garden organically?
0:22:01 > 0:22:05We try to. We've got the compost and the hens help with that.
0:22:05 > 0:22:11We've got some aphids, but lots of ladybirds and butterflies, which the kids love.
0:22:11 > 0:22:17- I think you're being really brave. This is the first time you've opened to the public.- It is.
0:22:17 > 0:22:23Quite nervous about it, but I've been to lots of garden openings and I know how enjoyable they are.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27- I hope people enjoy this one. - I wish you luck.- Thank you.
0:22:35 > 0:22:42How about this for a really colourful display? You've brought these all along, these geraniums.
0:22:42 > 0:22:47We're going to try to look at all the different geranium types.
0:22:47 > 0:22:54- Talk me through this. Start with the zonals.- These are all cutting raised, so should be stronger.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58This is one called Moonlight. It's a compact dark green leaf.
0:22:58 > 0:23:03This is called Fredo, a lovely, salmony orange and lovely dark stem.
0:23:03 > 0:23:09I like that contrast of the dark foliage. It's really compact as well.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12There's Veneta and Violina.
0:23:12 > 0:23:18- Compact and dark green leaf.- That one's really nice, Fredo.- Super.
0:23:18 > 0:23:25- OK, that's the zonal. Where next? - Next is a lighter green leaf. This is Peach Kiss. More vigorous.
0:23:25 > 0:23:32- Great colour. Super colour. - And a nice contrast.- It is. The next one is this light green leaf.
0:23:32 > 0:23:38This is Sunrise. It's what they call XL, so it's even bigger and more vigorous.
0:23:38 > 0:23:45- Softer colour, too.- Nice, isn't it? - Can we move to the ones with variegated foliage?- They're popular.
0:23:45 > 0:23:51If you go through a city centre and look at the parks, they use a lot of these.
0:23:51 > 0:23:58- You've got the extra interest. - And this one is called...? - It's my favourite. Frank Headley.
0:23:58 > 0:24:03- Then a real golden leaf here. - Madame Salleron.- That's gorgeous.
0:24:03 > 0:24:09- And then in contrast, these are seed-raised.- You tend to get them in a little pack.
0:24:09 > 0:24:16£3.50 or something for a pack. They won't flower as long, but I want to compare them.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20- If you want to grow them at home, you must start early.- Too late now.
0:24:20 > 0:24:26- This is interesting, almost like a ground cover geranium. - They crossed an ivy leaf trailing
0:24:26 > 0:24:29and a zonal. This is a landscaping geranium.
0:24:29 > 0:24:36So it gives you this sprawling, spreading habit. This is Saxonia. That will cover a metre squared.
0:24:36 > 0:24:43- Wow. That'll keep the weeds down! - Nice, single flowers so it should shed the rain better.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47- You can see it's got the ivy leaf. - So does the one in front of you.
0:24:47 > 0:24:52This is Schone Von Rheinberg. Lovely big, single red flowers.
0:24:52 > 0:24:57- That will just sort of lean, not trail.- Leaning over.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02- Well, we hope it leans that way! - And this is an ivy leaf geranium.
0:25:02 > 0:25:08- That's the one I'm more familiar with.- This is Pacific Soft Pink. A beautiful colour.
0:25:08 > 0:25:14The only one I'm contributing is the climbing one, Sky Rocket. It climbs to six feet in height.
0:25:14 > 0:25:21- I'm interested to see... It's going to have to be tied in. - Yeah, it'll have to be encouraged.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25We've also got some ivy leaf geraniums in these baskets.
0:25:25 > 0:25:30- I really like that one up there. - It's Atlantic Burgundy. It's great.
0:25:30 > 0:25:37- This is a lovely white one. - And then the regals. People forget about the regals.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41This is an interspecific type. Grandiosa Royal Salmon.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- And this one at the end... - It's stunning.
0:25:44 > 0:25:50This is Cherry Picotee. It's really striking. That will mass out.
0:25:50 > 0:25:55- Hopefully, loads of flowers.- It'll look amazing in a couple of months.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59- So what do you call a group of geraniums?- A grove?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01A gorge? A gaggle?
0:26:04 > 0:26:11believe it or not, I'm still catching up from Gardening Scotland two weeks ago.
0:26:11 > 0:26:17From John Stowar we got some plants of his Saskatoon berries and here they are, fruiting.
0:26:17 > 0:26:22Why are they in this calendar border? Because the autumn foliage is stunning.
0:26:22 > 0:26:27And we had to put nets on to save these from the budgies.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31Here in the cutting garden, the hardy annuals have come through from seed.
0:26:31 > 0:26:38We can see where the weeds are and we need to remove those. Beth is planting out the half-hardy annuals.
0:26:38 > 0:26:43We're now just going to wait for the most glorious summer show.
0:26:43 > 0:26:49Back in the geranium border, I'm just finishing off planting the seed-raised varieties.
0:26:49 > 0:26:55You don't have to plant them all together. You can use them just to fill in a gap.
0:26:55 > 0:27:01I like to use some rose fertiliser when I'm planting. It gives good growth, loads of flowering potential
0:27:01 > 0:27:06and keeps them healthy and flowering right the way through summer.
0:27:06 > 0:27:12I'm sorry. I did come off best today having the indoor glasshouse, in more ways than one.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15- It's been a bit wet!- It has.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19We're picking the first strawberries of this challenge
0:27:19 > 0:27:25- that we could pick strawberries from May to September. - Did we make it in May?- Not quite.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29- On 31st May, there was one with a red cheek!- Aww.
0:27:29 > 0:27:35- Embarrassed!- But since then this is the main pick. There are three varieties. The faraway one
0:27:35 > 0:27:40is Sonata. Then we've got Darlisette.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43And we've got Elegance.
0:27:43 > 0:27:49- We'll do a total overall. - We're weighing, so I can't eat them? - Not yet, not yet.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53But what a wonderful way to go on. When these lot finish,
0:27:53 > 0:28:00the outside ones will start to crop and then we've a third lot, in little boxes in the cold frame.
0:28:00 > 0:28:08We'll bring them in in July and they're the ones that will produce fruit in August, September.
0:28:08 > 0:28:13- The ones in the hanging baskets, Mount Everest, are doing well. - That's from last year.
0:28:13 > 0:28:18- They've come away nicely. - If you'd like any more information
0:28:18 > 0:28:25about anything in the programme, have a look at the factsheet and the best way is online.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29Next week I'm back with a year in containers and summer colour.
0:28:29 > 0:28:34And I'll be sowing vegetables and salads to produce micro-leaves.
0:28:34 > 0:28:39Indoors this week... and I shall be in the fruit case next week, out of doors.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42- Until then, goodbye!- Bye!- Bye!
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