The WORST episodes of Gardeners' World

#1 - Episode 8

Season 45 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/27/2012

With plenty of advice and tips on how and what to plant in a pond, Rachel de Thame joins Monty at Longmeadow to give a helping hand. Monty also gets up to date with all the seasonal jobs in the Jewel garden, from sowing his collected opium poppy seed to trying out a method of growing lilies in plunge pots for bold summer colour. Carol follows the trail of one of spring's brightest plants to an allotment in South Yorkshire and a man who has amassed a national collection of Euphorbias there. Joe visits Charles Rutherfoord, architect and chair of the Society of Garden Designers to talk to him about the unique design of his own small garden. And the confectionary colours of Primulas come under the spotlight when we go to the RHS garden at Harlow Carr to find out tips for their successful cultivation.

#2 - Christmas Special

Season 44 - Episode 28 - Aired 12/9/2011

In this Christmas special, Monty Don, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame celebrate the festive season from a gardener's point of view. At Longmeadow, Monty and Rachel have a good clear up, cutting back some plants but leaving others for winter structure and wildlife. Monty also rejuvenates his rhubarb patch and introduces a local Herefordshire heritage variety apple tree to his orchard. He enlists Joe Swift's help to move a holly tree that has outgrown its situation. Out and about, Carol Klein discovers some of Britain's best winter walks. Rachel de Thame gets tips on how, with a bit of ingenuity, anyone can make beautiful Christmas decorations from their own garden. Joe Swift visits an urban vineyard in Hackney, East London to find out which grapes can be grown at home. As a special Christmas cracker, Pam Ayres, poet and gardener, shows us how she encourages wildlife into her garden and provides for seasonal visitors during the colder months.

#3 - Episode 1

Season 45 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/9/2012

Gardeners' World returns for the start of the gardening year with Monty Don in the garden at his Herefordshire home, Longmeadow. As the charge towards spring gathers pace, Monty, along with Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame, are preparing for the season ahead. They'll have a host of practical tips to help you grow better and will be seeking out the most inspiring gardens in the UK to visit. This week, as well as revealing the changes to his garden that have taken place over winter, Monty shows us how to plant bare-rooted raspberries in his renovated fruit garden and gets his secateurs out to chop back his buddleja and clematis. As the soil warms up and activity increases in all our gardens, Monty recommends jobs for the weekend to ensure that all our seeds, seedlings and plants get off to the best possible start. Carol Klein visits an ancient woodland site in Essex where wild species of hellebores are thriving and meets an enthusiast who is using the native plant's characteristics to help produce the next generation of garden hellebores. Joe Swift starts his guide to terrific garden design by studying the one thing every garden has in common - boundaries, and Rachel de Thame visits the world-renowned garden of Sir Harold Hillier in Hampshire to luxuriate in the sight and scent of late winter flowering shrubs.

#4 - Episode 2

Season 45 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/16/2012

With the official start of spring and Mothering Sunday only days away, Monty Don and the team look at the practical ways to achieve a better looking garden at this busy time of year. Monty is selecting and planting climbing roses at his garden in Herefordshire and gives plenty of advice on how to get them to thrive. A visit to a national collection of rambling roses in Gloucestershire provides plenty of inspiration for gardeners to choose different varieties to suit different garden situations. Monty also gets on with some timely and essential border maintenance tasks that we could all be doing in our gardens this weekend. With a large part of the UK already suffering from drought conditions, Carol Klein looks at how some plants have adapted themselves to grow in the driest of soils and gives us her choice of plants which, for those of us who may not be able to water our gardens this year, should survive with the minimum of attention. And Joe Swift continues his design series looking at different gardens to find out what we could learn from their layout and how to apply those rules to our own back gardens.

#5 - Episode 3

Season 45 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/23/2012

As the clocks move forward, the longer days of spring are welcomed by every gardener. It's a busy time in the garden and the longer daylight hours present a great opportunity to get on with larger gardening projects. Weather permitting, Joe will join Monty in his garden to get to grips with lining his newly created pond giving plenty of advice for anyone wanting to use water in the garden. Monty is also getting on with seed sowing and recommends varieties which, if sown now, will give a sensational display later this year. Joe Swift continues his design series with a look at how crucial the choice of landscaping materials can be to a successful garden. He also illustrates how water can add atmosphere and surprise and he shows us how we can apply these design principles to our own gardens. From her garden in Devon, Carol Klein responds to a viewer's gardening dilemma by showing us how to select and propagate plants suited to a dry bank situation.

#6 - Episode 4

Season 45 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/30/2012

With the garden growing apace, Monty shows us how we can take advantage of the new growth of all sorts of perennials, and begins by taking cuttings from emerging Delphiniums in his border and also from a pot grown plant. He also demonstrates the best way of planting Clematis against a wall to ensure a profusion of summer flowers, keeps on top of the seasonal seed sowing and explains why, at this time of year when growing space and plant protection is at a premium, a coldframe can be an essential bit of kit for any gardener. Carol travels to Southern Ireland looking at wild primroses and meets a remarkable man who has spent the last 35 years conserving old 19th century Irish primroses as well as breeding new varieties. We find the secrets of growing successful Clematis from a woman whose passion for them has led to her collecting and growing over 100 of them in the harsh climate of her Northumberland garden.

#7 - Episode 13

Season 25 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/1/1992

#8 - Episode 25

Season 25 - Episode 25 - Aired 8/1/1992

#9 - Episode 25

Season 29 - Episode 25 - Aired 8/9/1996

#10 - Episode 26

Season 29 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/16/1996

#11 - Episode 5

Season 45 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/6/2012

It's Easter and the biggest gardening weekend of the year; the team give plenty of advice and inspiration - from large projects to tackling weeds. At Longmeadow, Monty is getting started on the vegetable plot, where he recommends a palette of potatoes for delicious summer crops. He also returns to his newly created pond, where he is showing how to conceal the liner with an attractive edge. Carol Klein celebrates the humble daffodil. She travels to Lincolnshire and discovers drifts of wild daffodils, but also meets a man whose passion is to preserve and identify a historic collection of cultivated varieties. Rachel de Thame helps a group of military wives as they begin growing cut flowers for the first time. And Joe concludes his series on design when he shows how even the smallest garden can have areas where focal points and plants can create a pleasing effect.

#12 - Episode 6

Season 45 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/13/2012

This episode is packed with know-how about how to sow a seed and ideas about improving gardens this summer. Monty begins by explaining that, by sowing a few simple seeds, he has been able to stock the beds in his walled garden with summer colour. He also carries out some timely pruning of winter flowering shrubs to ensure plenty of flowers next spring. As a response to a keen gardener's cry for help, Carol gives a masterclass on successful seed sowing and shows what mix of compost to use, how to sow different sizes of seed, how to water them and what aftercare they need. Rachel returns to her group of novice gardeners as they get going on their cut flower patch and begin sowing the easiest of all seeds to grow - hardy annuals. And the programme visits a man who last year set himself the challenge of creating a two-acre meadow in Somerset crammed with a heady mix of annual flowers with such spectacular results that it became known as the field of dreams.

#13 - Episode 7

Season 45 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/20/2012

If you have a shady spot in your garden that is bereft of flowers, then Monty Don has some great suggestions of stalwarts which not only thrive in those tricky conditions but return year after year. On the veg plot, he also shares his tips on putting up a runner bean support. Carol Klein discovers our native lungwort, the pulmonaria, growing prolifically in the woodlands and verges of the New Forest, and meets a woman who has been growing them in her Hampshire garden for over 15 years. Joe Swift travels to an allotment site in West Yorkshire to visit a vegetable grower who, using the power of manure, is already harvesting an astonishingly early bounty of potatoes.And we meet a gardener whose Essex garden is full of summer colour, all down to his passion for lilies.

#14 - Episode 27

Season 44 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/28/2011

Monty Don gets going with autumn garden maintenance whilst looking back over the year and reviewing his borders to see which plants have done well and which haven't. As he clears annuals that are past their best, he plans a colourful display for late spring by planting up the garden with tulips. Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage, continuing work on her new raised beds and taming an overgrown and unruly rambling rose, explaining how to prune and tie it in for maximum flower performance next summer. Joe Swift visits Alnwick Castle in Northumberland and looks at how its strong structural design ensures the garden's interest over the winter months. And Monty Don gets going with autumn garden maintenance whilst looking back over the year and reviewing his borders to see which plants have done well and which haven't. As he clears annuals that are past their best, he plans a colourful display for late spring by planting up the garden with tulips. Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage, continuing work on her new raised beds and taming an overgrown and unruly rambling rose, explaining how to prune and tie it in for maximum flower performance next summer. Joe Swift visits Alnwick Castle in Northumberland and looks at how its strong structural design ensures the garden's interest over the winter months. And Monty extols the virtues of making your own leaf mould as well as recommending several jobs we could all be doing in our gardens this winter.

#15 - Episode 9

Season 45 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/12/2012

The programme comes from the Malvern Spring show where Monty Don, Carol Klein and James Alexander Sinclair bring the very best that the show has to offer. From planting and design in the show gardens to new and exciting varieties in the floral marquee, they search out beautiful and innovative ideas to draw inspiration from.

#16 - Episode 10

Season 45 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/18/2012

Monty Don returns to Longmeadow with inspirational ideas and plants gathered at the Malvern Spring Show. He has tips and advice for planting ferns for dry places and then turns his attention to the pond where he shares ideas on different types of water lilies and how to plant them. Carol Klein delves into the quirky world of moisture-loving ferns, discovering them in the wild and admiring their variety when she visits a restored Victorian grotto in Wales. There is also a catch-up on the novice gardeners at Didcot army barracks, as they continue to develop their cut-flower garden.

#17 - Episode 11

Season 45 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/1/2012

With warm weather and little risk of frost, Monty Don is planting out his tender annual plants into a container for colour and interest all summer long. He is also busy in the vegetable garden with tips and advice on how best to grow cauliflowers and protect them so that you get to eat them before the birds and caterpillars do. Carol Klein answers an unusual dilemma from a gardener that lives in a lighthouse and has particularly harsh, exposed growing conditions to deal with. Garden visiting is more popular than ever in Britain, particularly over the summer months. To kick the season off we go to the tranquil Worcestershire village of Feckenham where over 30 private gardens are getting ready to open their doors to the public.

#18 - Episode 12

Season 45 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/8/2012

With the garden springing into life and new blooms opening each day, it gives Monty Don plenty of opportunity to get on top of all the seasonal jobs at Longmeadow and answer a few viewer questions along the way. With a postbag full of gardening dilemmas, Carol Klein helps out one viewer with propagation queries. There is also a look behind the scenes with Rachel de Thame as she races to get the royal barge planted up and pristine in time for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.

#19 - Episode 13

Season 45 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/15/2012

In this hour-long special, Monty Don, Carol Klein, Rachel de Thame and Joe Swift report from Gardeners' World Live at the NEC in Birmingham on the very best the show has to offer - from fabulous show gardens to stunning plants in the floral marquee. The team are also inviting the public to contribute spare plants to the Gardeners' World Living Wall, made up of plants for sun, for shade and plants that are wildlife friendly. As there is still plenty to be getting on with in the garden at this time of year, Monty also has ideas for seasonal jobs to do for viewers at home.

#20 - Episode 14

Season 45 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/22/2012

t is the summer solstice so the days are the longest of the year and the sun is at its highest. With the garden growing before our eyes, Monty Don is in his borders replacing plants like wallflowers that are past their best with other annuals that will give colour right through to autumn. Carol Klein will be answering a viewer's letter with advice on gardening to provide a habitat for wildlife. Joe Swift picks up design tips from Kelmarsh Hall, whose 18th century garden is the epitome of the effortless, relaxed, English country style. And in Monty's vegetable garden, the first fruit and summer vegetables are ready to harvest.

#21 - Episode 26

Season 38 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/9/2005

#22 - episode 27

Season 38 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/16/2005

#23 - Episode 28

Season 38 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/23/2005

#24 - Episode 29

Season 38 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/30/2005

#25 - Episode 30

Season 38 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/7/2006