Video Documentaries

There's a wee chill in the air in the Beechgrove Garden episode 23 2016 and Jim decides to take the Camellias inside after their summer holidays outdoors. Carole and George are thinking ahead to spring, taking half-hardy perennial cuttings and planning a spring bedding display. [video width="832" height="468" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Beechgrove-Garden-ep.23-2016.mp4"][/video]   Jim takes a final trip to Tillicoultry Allotments and this time it's harvest thanksgiving. Jim also visits Gordon Castle garden near Elgin, where the team are restoring one of the oldest walled-kitchen gardens in Scotland. What a cracking day it was this week in the Beechgrove Garden – a lovely sunny autumn day, but of course with autumn arriving so do the lower overnight time temperatures. At Beechgrove a low of 5.2°C has been recorded, meanwhile, George and Jim have had temperatures down to 7°C in their own gardens. For Carole and Bob, the so

In the Beechgrove Garden, Jim is attempting to turn yellow into green as he tackles the lawn, which has turned a washed-out yellow after all the rains of winter. And continuing the theme of upgrading the 20-year-old Beechgrove Garden, Jim takes on an unloved corner of the low-maintenance garden, removing a rotting fence and pruning a wayward quince. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BG-ep.4-2016.mp4"][/video]   Brian Cunningham visits the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, which is home to one of the most impressive alpine collections in the world, for inspiration as to how to recreate that in miniature back in Beechgrove. In Beechgrove Garden episode 4 2016:  1. Spring Bedding The wet winter weather that we have had at Beechgrove has definitely affected the spring bedding display in the trials plot. Things like the Violas and pansies used as ground cover have suffered although in the planters they wer

It's daffolicious in the Beechgrove garden as Jim takes a look at his trial of new versus old daffodils to see if traditional beats contemporary in the daffodil world. [videopress 1mjlkH9Y w="560" permalink="false" hd="true"] Meanwhile George further tests that theory as he visits Backhouse Daffodils near Auchtermuchty who have daffodils that are the origins of many of the modern daffodils in use today. Chris reviews his climbers for every aspect and to complement them he adds roses to the cutting garden. Pruning is sometimes a thorny issue and so Carole and Jim are pruning their way around the garden to show us how to take the mystery out of it. Spring Bedding Carole took a look at the Northern Lights spring bedding display and layered bulbs in pots. This led on to the design of a display around the colours of the Northern Lights with a swirly abstract pattern. Carole pointed out the vivid Tulip praestans ‘Shogun’, which had opened up in the sunshine