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Monty presents an hour of gardening for the Easter weekend. Nick Bailey gives tips on how achieve a luscious lawn, and Adam Frost starts to transform a herbaceous border.

Monty brings you a full hour of gardening for the Easter weekend. From sowing summer vegetables and soft fruit planting to propagating and pruning, as well as jobs to tackle over the long weekend, there is plenty of inspiration.

If your gardening plans only extend to tidying up the lawn, Nick Bailey gets to grips with an unpromising patch of grass and gives his tips on how achieve a luscious lawn. We return to Adam Frost's garden as he starts to transform a herbaceous border and gives his advice on how to rid borders of bindweed. And we meet Roger Butler, who grows over one hundred varieties of hydrangea at his nursery in Kent.

Carol continues her series on her gardening heroes when she visits Waterperry Gardens to find out about the legacy of Beatrix Havergal, Frances Tophill selects her golden jubilee plant, and Flo Headlam visits a garden centre in Manchester which is run by the local community.

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Beatrix Havergal

Beatrix Havergal

Beatrix Havergal was a pioneer in the world of gardening. She was a woman on a mission and her legacy still lives on at Waterperry Gardens where her School of Horticulture for Ladies was based. The gardens are open to the public every day and on Easter Sunday, will be open in aid of charity under the National Garden Scheme. For more details, click on the link below.

Waterperry Gardens
Wheatley
Oxfordshire
OX33 1J
Tel. 01844 339226

(www.ngs.org.uk)

Community project

Community project

As Flo Headlam discovered, Hulme Community Garden Centre is doing great things for the local community in Manchester. If you live in the area and have been inspired by the work that they do, why not go along and support them? They’re open every day of the week and are always looking for volunteers to help with the day-to-day running of their project.

Hulme Community Garden Centre
28 Old Birley Street
St George’s 
Manchester
M15 5RG
Tel. 0161 227 8198

(www.hulmegardencentre.org.uk)

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Monty Don
Presenter Nick Bailey
Presenter Adam Frost
Presenter Flo Headlam
Presenter Frances Tophill
Presenter Carol Klein
Production Manager Mandy Knight
Series Producer Sharon Fisher
Executive Producer Paolo Proto

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