The BEST episodes of Gardeners' World season 51
Every episode of Gardeners' World season 51, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gardeners' World season 51!
Gardeners' World is a long-running BBC television programme about gardening that continues to this day. The first episode was filmed in 1968, presented by Ken Burras and came from Oxford Botanical Gardens. Most of the episodes of the show are 30 minutes long, though there are many specials that last longer.
#1 - Episode 8
Season 51 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/11/2018
The programme pays a visit to the RHS Malvern Spring Festival to see this year's hottest garden designs and the season's must-have plants. Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Adam Frost explore the event, sampling the best from the floral marquee and show gardens. Meanwhile, at Longmeadow, Monty Don plants herbaceous perennials for summer colour and gives timely advice on how to care for carnivorous plants. Plus, Frances Tophill catches up with the growing trend for greening up indoor spaces with house plants.
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#2 - Episode 9
Season 51 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/18/2018
Monty Don adds plants to give height and drama to his cottage garden borders, while Carol Klein's plant of the season is the delicate dog's tooth violet. Joe Swift travels to the Trellisick garden in Cornwall to meet a special garden volunteer and Adam Frost returns to Leicestershire to monitor the progress of the new-build garden.
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#3 - Episode 10
Season 51 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/1/2018
With summer on the horizon, Monty Don plants up pots for summer colour, as well as giving his box hedging a seasonal cut. Frances Tophill offers an update on her shared allotment as she checks on the progress of crops, Mark Lane heads to Suffolk where he gives advice on the elements of successful woodland planting design and Nick Bailey travels to a garden in Cheshire to answer a viewer's query about how to plant up a rocky area of their garden. The programme also visits Worcestershire where a garden has been given a tropical twist and the final garden in the Every Space Counts competition is revealed.
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#4 - Episode 12
Season 51 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/15/2018
At Gardeners' World Live, Adam Frost and Joe Swift take a close look at all the show gardens for fresh ideas as well as inspiration. Mark Lane finds planting ideas around the showground, while Carol Klein and Nick Bailey explore the floral marquee. The presenters meet the designers whose innovative ideas have resulted in a show garden made from scrap iron and junk shop finds, go behind the scenes to visit the nurseries who bring their best specimens to the show and meet a woman who has travelled from the Isle of Skye with her plants. Plus, the winner of the Every Space Counts competition is announced.
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#5 - Episode 7
Season 51 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2018
Monty Don begins to divide ornamental grasses, offering advice on what to do with containers that are past their best. He also plants up a colourful alpine trough and gives tips on what to sow now in the vegetable garden. Nick Bailey travels to Shropshire to assist a viewer whose border has become a tangle of shrubs. Plus, Frances Tophill makes progress on her shared allotment in Bristol as she prepares the beds for sowing her first crops and Arit Anderson visits an extraordinary high-rise building in Milan that has been designed as a living forest.
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#6 - Episode 13
Season 51 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/22/2018
At Longmeadow, Monty Don celebrates the mid-summer glory of roses in all their forms. He also plants some statuesque shrubs in pots for year-round interest, and deals with a pesky rabbit problem in the vegetable patch. Carol Klein revels in seasonal flower the peony, Adam Frost finds inspiration from the wild flowers that grow near to his Lincolnshire home, and Arit Anderson visits a garden in Derbyshire designed to capture and use rainwater. Plus, the iris enthusiast in Gloucestershire who is attempting to collect all the varieties created by one of her ancestors.
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#7 - Episode 1
Season 51 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/9/2018
The imminent arrival of spring heralds a new gardening year at Longmeadow, as Monty Don reveals his new plans for the year and takes stock of any winter damage. As well as offering seasonal hints and tips, the presenter embarks on a mission to reduce the use of plastic in his garden, starting by exploring alternative containers to use for seed sowing. Adam Frost brings his design expertise to a tiny back yard to demonstrate that, with a bit of ingenuity, every inch of space can count. A Wolverhampton couple show off their inspirational garden, packed to bursting with surprises.
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#8 - Episode 5
Season 51 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/13/2018
Monty Don gets to grips with a new project, beefs up his borders by dividing perennials and celebrates spring-flowering shrubs. Frances Tophill prepares her vegetable plot on an allotment, while Nick Bailey has tips on how to get everything shipshape for the season ahead. Plus, Adam Frost explores a tropical garden in Dorset and meets a man who is passionate about growing unusual and exotic plants from seed and Carol Klein profiles the camellia.
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#9 - Episode 4
Season 51 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/30/2018
On the busiest gardening weekend of the year, Monty Don has plenty of ideas and inspiration from planting summer bulbs to sowing perennials. New projects are on his mind as he begins to mark out a brand new area at Longmeadow. Meanwhile, Carol Klein profiles the bravest and most colourful of spring flowering plants when she delves into the botany of the hellebore. The programme also pays a visit to Sheffield to view a garden crammed full of colour and new ideas. Includes Weather.
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#10 - Episode 6
Season 51 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2018
Monty Don gets going in his vegetable garden, sowing seeds for a bountiful summer and growing some more unusual species. Mark Lane creates a floral celebration in a container and shares his recommendations for great planting partners for seasonal colour, while Flo Headlam joins the arborists at Westonbirt Arboretum to find out how they manage their collection of trees from around the world. Plus, Nick Bailey goes out and about enjoying that most seasonal of flowers, the daffodil.
#11 - Episode 2
Season 51 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/16/2018
Monty Don makes plans for a bumper harvest of fruit when he adds raspberries to his fruit garden, and gives advice on how to plant bare-root trees. Carol Klein explores one of the unsung heroes of the spring border, the daphne, while Joe Swift shares designs on brightening up dull and uninteresting spaces with pots full of colour that can be planted now.
#12 - Episode 3
Season 51 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/23/2018
At Longmeadow, Monty Don makes plans for the summer by starting dahlias and other tender perennials and sowing annual climbing plants hoping to light up his borders with colour. Adam Frost heads to Dorset to meet a tropical plant enthusiast who has filled his small back garden with unusual and rare exotic plants, many of which he has grown from seed. Plus, a visit to a garden in the Isle of Wight, which is filled with daylilies. Includes Weather.
#13 - Episode 14
Season 51 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/29/2018
Adam Frost meets an extraordinary woman who runs a community project in the centre of Birmingham, while Frances Tophill catches up with her allotment in Bristol. Joe Swift travels to Dorset to a garden that has been designed around a challenging landscape and Nick Bailey visits the restored Temperate House at Kew Gardens. Monty Don shares his tips on how to keep displays going all summer long, there is plenty to do on the veg plot too and things are looking promising in the Longmeadow fruit garden.
#14 - Episode 11
Season 51 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/8/2018
At Longmeadow Monty Don finds places in his borders for bananas and dahlias, while in the vegetable garden courgettes and tomatoes are planted out. At RHS Chatsworth show in Derbyshire, Nick Bailey, Carol Klein and Joe Swift highlight the best of the plants and show gardens that the exhibitors have to offer. Adam Frost is in London where he offers tips on how to bring tiny garden spaces to life, and the programme reviews the finalists' gardens in our Every Space Counts competition and opens the vote.
#15 - Episode 29
Season 51 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/19/2018
Monty Don continues work on the water feature in his paradise garden and makes a start on the planting. He also has tips on how to protect tender plants over the winter as well as making use of fallen leaves. Adam Frost travels to Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham, to meet an eight-year-old with a passion for gardening and invention, Nick Bailey gives advice on how to choose the right tree for small gardens, while Carol Klein is at Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire explaining the science behind autumn colour and revelling in the plants that produce the best seasonal display. Last in the series.
#16 - Episode 28
Season 51 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/12/2018
Monty Don gives advice on what to plant now for spring and finds out more about the mysterious world of earth worms and why they are vital for the garden. Adam Frost shares plans for his own garden, while Toby Buckland discovers a garden in Scotland where contemporary planting has been the solution to challenging climactic conditions. Flo Headlam visits a project where gardening has been prescribed by a doctor to help improve mental health, Joe Swift attends the Malvern Autumn show, and the programme visits a small garden in Kent transformed into an exotic jungle paradise.
#17 - Episode 27
Season 51 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/5/2018
Monty Don makes additions to his spring garden, offers advice on how to dry and preserve herbs for winter and plants up a container to give interest for the next six months. Carol Klein celebrates one of the plant successes of an extraordinary summer - the Canna, while Frances Tophill tackles a viewer's garden and suggests plants that will perform throughout the winter. Plus, Toby Buckland visits a garden in Devon with Japanese influences and Nick Bailey visits a garden where nature has taken over and produced the conditions where a proliferation of different types mushrooms are thriving.
#18 - Episode 26
Season 51 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/28/2018
Frances Tophill makes a final visit to her shared allotment and joins in with the festivities at an annual show. Adam Frost visits the RHS garden at Wisley, Surrey, where he meets its curator to find out which plants have fared well and which have suffered during the hot, dry summer. Plus, Nick Bailey investigates knotweed, Arit Anderson provides inspiration for colourful late-season containers and a visit to Northamptonshire to meet a gardener who extracts natural dyes from the plants she grows in her garden.
#19 - Episode 25
Season 51 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/21/2018
Monty Don celebrates fruits of the season by planting crab apples in his paradise garden and bulbs in pots for early spring colour. Carol Klein travels to Yorkshire where she takes a look at the enormous colour range and form of the late-season perennial the salvia, while Mark Lane is in Oxfordshire looking at how ornamental grasses can be used in planting design to create exciting combinations. Arit Anderson tackles growing concerns about the use of plastics in the horticultural industry and Environment Minister Michael Gove is quizzed about government plans for improving recycling.
#20 - Episode 24
Season 51 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/14/2018
Monty Don makes plans for a colourful spring by planting bulbs and nectar-rich wildflowers for an early and welcome feast for insects. Frances Tophill travels to a Birmingham allotment to meet an enthusiast who has filled his plot with dahlias, which he grows for competitions, and Nick Bailey is at Powis Castle in Wales to find out what it takes to trim their centuries-old, 14-metre-tall yew hedges. Adam Frost visits Sezincote Garden in Gloucestershire to find out about its history, and Toby Buckland takes a look at a garden in Cheshire where different sections have been designed with small gardens in mind.
#21 - Episode 23
Season 51 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/7/2018
Monty Don gives advice on how to deal with overcrowded clumps of summer flowering bulbs and plants yew to make a start on creating a topiary Nellie. Frances Tophill travels to Somerset to the garden of a woman who grows a huge collection of unusual vegetables used in Thai cooking, while Carol Klein is in Devon celebrating one of the brightest additions to the late summer border - the rudbekia. Plus, Mark Lane gives design tips on the main elements of a formal garden and Adam Frost puts the finishing touches to the new build garden in Leicester he started earlier in the year.
#22 - Episode 22
Season 51 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/30/2018
Monty Don catches up on his vegetable garden and harvests potatoes, before seeking advice on how to install a water feature in his paradise garden. Frances Tophill helps to erect a greenhouse out of recycled materials on her shared allotment, Joe Swift visits a classically designed garden with a contemporary edge in Northamptonshire, and Juliet Sargeant heads to Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex to see how this year's hot weather caused a rare tree to flower for the first time in 30 years.
#23 - Episode 21
Season 51 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/24/2018
Monty Don offers plenty of advice from pruning blackcurrants, taking cuttings and planting bulbs for flowering this autumn. Carol Klein finds a collection of plants that are at their peak right now and gives her advice on how to grow one of the late summer garden stunners, the Monarda. Meanwhile, Adam Frost adds the finishing touches to the Leicestershire couple's garden that he helped them start from scratch earlier this year, Joe Swift meets Peter Moore, who has spent his working life breeding plants for gardens and Nick Bailey shows how to use colour to the best effect in pots and borders.
#24 - Episode 20
Season 51 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/17/2018
As part of the BBC's Big British Asian Summer, the team celebrates South Asian influences on British gardens. Monty Don visits a Hindu temple in Neasden, to learn more about the melding of the traditional Hindu Mandir and north-west London suburbia. Frances Tophill and Nick Bailey pick up growing advice from allotmenteers in Bradford and Birmingham. Plus, Joe Swift visits gardeners in Middlesex who have created a garden celebrating their Indian roots and the programme meets botanical horticulturist Bala Kompalli, who runs the orchid unit at Kew Gardens.
#25 - Episode 19
Season 51 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/10/2018
Monty Don looks at how his autumn crops are faring as well as giving tips on how to keep the garden looking at its best. Adam Frost returns to Leicester where he has been helping to create a garden from scratch on a new build estate, Frances Tophill celebrates the summer harvest on her shared allotment, and Mark Lane takes a look at the Mediterranean planting at Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of Wight. The programme also visits Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where an immaculate and tiny garden is packed with colour.