Episode 21
Gardening magazine. Now that birds are no longer nesting in hedges, it is the time to get them looking trim and neat - Monty has plenty of tips on how to cut them.
Now that birds are no longer nesting in hedges, it is the time to get them looking trim and neat and Monty has plenty of tips on how to cut them so that they grow well.
Alan Power visits Croome Park in Worcestershire to discover more about one of the first great landscapes of Capability Brown, and we visit a couple in Gloucestershire whose ornamental grass garden was inspired by the Far East.
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Barn House grasses
Duration: 02:54
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Hedgetrimming
Duration: 02:58
Garden featured
If you were inspired by Alan Power鈥檚 trip to Croome, here are the details. It鈥檚听 owned by the National Trust and the park is open throughout the year.
Croome
High Green
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR8 9DW
Tel. 01905 371006
听(www.nationaltrust.org.uk)
Barn House Grasses
Nothing beats the look and feel of grasses in the late summer border and as you saw on tonight鈥檚 programme, Kate and Hitesh Patel have used them to great effect in their garden near Chepstow. If you would like to visit, they鈥檙e open by appointment from April to the end of September, details of which can be found in the link below.
When asked which grasses she couldn鈥檛 live without, Kate came up with the following. Those marked with an asterisk would do well in a pot or choose a dwarf form of one of the others.
Anemanthele lessoniana *
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'
Chionochloa conspicua *
Chionochloa rubra
Hakonechloa macra 'Alboaurea' & 'Aureola' *
Lamprothyrsus hieronymi *
Miscanthus sinensis 'Malepartus'
Molinia caerulea subsp. arundinacea 'Transparent'
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Pennisetum 鈥楩airy Tails鈥� *
Pennisetum macrourum
Pennisetum orientale *
Pennisetum villosum *
Stipa gigantea 'Gold Fontaene'
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Monty Don |
| Presenter | Alan Power |
| Series Producer | Chloe Rawlings |
| Executive Producer | Paolo Proto |