Episode 26
After an extraordinary season, Monty's orchard has produced a bountiful harvest of apples and he gives advice on how to pick and store them.
After an extraordinary season, Monty's orchard has produced a bountiful harvest of apples and he gives advice on how to pick and store them.
Frances Tophill makes a final visit to her shared allotment and joins in with the festivities at their annual show. Adam Frost visits the RHS garden Wisley, where he meets the curator to find out which plants have fared well and which plants have suffered during the hot, dry summer. Nick Bailey investigates Japanese knotweed, one of the most pernicious weeds in the UK, Arit Anderson provides inspiration for colourful late season containers, and the programme travels to Northamptonshire to meet a gardener who extracts natural dyes from the plants she grows in her garden.
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Plant dyes
Duration: 06:20
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Weed control
Duration: 03:00
Arit's autumn containers
As we head into autumn, planting up a big container is a great way of injecting some colour into your garden. And with a bit of careful planning, it鈥檚 possible to include some winter interest to take you through to the spring. Here鈥檚 a list of the plants Arit used.
Container for autumn
Phormium Black Velvet (Flax lily)
Rudbeckia fulgida 'Little Goldstar'
Leucanthemum x superbum Broadway Lights (Shasta daisy)
Carex comans 鈥楤ronze Form鈥� (New Zealand hair sedge)
Ajuga reptans Black Scallop (Bugle)
Physalis alkekengi (Chinese lantern)
Tulipa 'Ballerina'
Container for shade
Tricyrtis formosana (Toad lily)
Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' (Siberian bugloss)
Muehlenbeckia complexa (Maidenhair vine)
Hakonechloa macra (Japanese forest grass)
Liriope muscari (Big blue lilyturf)
Helleborus niger (Christmas rose)
Geranium 'Dusky Rose'
Athyrium niponicum var. pictum (Painted lady fern)
Container for wildlife
Miscanthus sinensis 'Yakushima Dwarf'
Aster 'Purple Diamond' (Michaelmas daisy)
Euphorbia x martini 'Rudolph' (Martin鈥檚 spurge)
Hylotelephium spectabile 'Crystal Pink鈥� (Ice plant)
Erigeron karvinskianus (Mexican fleabane)
Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue' (Scabious)
Armeria pseudarmeria 'Ballerina Lilac' (Large-flowered thrift)
Hedera helix (Common ivy)
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Monty Don |
| Presenter | Frances Tophill |
| Presenter | Arit Anderson |
| Presenter | Nick Bailey |
| Presenter | Adam Frost |
| Series Producer | Sharon Fisher |
| Executive Producer | Paolo Proto |
| Production Manager | Michael Rogers |