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Episode 5

Episode 5 of 30

Gardening magazine. Monty gets to work in his wildlife garden to ensure that there are plenty of plants in flower for early pollinators.

For the first time this season, Monty gets to work in his wildlife garden to ensure that there are plenty of plants in flower for early pollinators.

Carol Klein meets Stuart Donachie, who has embraced every planting opportunity in his shady garden in Herefordshire, and Frances Tophill invites viewers to grow easy summer vegetables along with her as she trials varieties for taste and productivity at RHS Rosemoor.

29 minutes

Vegetable Trials

Vegetable Trials

If you are growing vegetables this year, whether a first time grower, seasoned hand, and/or trying something new or different, we’d love to hear how you’re getting on so please send us your news and pics via our ´óÏó´«Ã½ Gardeners’ World Facebook page

To whet your appetite, here is a list of the vegetables and varieties being grown in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Gardeners’ World RHS trials:

Ridge cucumber:
Marketmore
Burpless Tasty Green
Crystal apple 

Tomato:
Tumbler
Tumbling Tom Yellow
Hundreds and thousands

Sweetcorn:
Swift F1
Northern Extra Sweet
Mirai Picnic

Climbing French Beans
Cobra
Violet Podded
Helda

GARDENS VISITED
RHS Garden Rosemoor - Open all year except Christmas Day

‘The Lyndalls’ is a private garden not open to the public

List of plants mentioned by Carol in the film:

Wood anemone
Anemone nemorosa

Sweet woodruff
Galium odoratum

Wake robin
Trillium kurabayashii

Barrenwort
Epimedium ilicifolium

Bleeding heart
Dicentra formosa ‘Pearl Drops’

Siberian bugloss
Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’

Honesty
Lunaria annua ‘Alba Variegata’

Scopolia carniolica ‘Z·É²¹²Ô±ð²Ô²ú³Ü°ù²µâ€™

Skunk cabbage
Lysichiton camtschatcensis

Shuttlecock fern
Matteuccia struthiopteris

Marsh spurge
Euphorbia palustris

Chinese mayapple
Podophyllum pleianthum

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Monty Don
Presenter Carol Klein
Presenter Frances Tophill
Executive Producer Paolo Proto
Series Producer Chloe Rawlings

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