Video Documentaries

The best sign of spring is when the Beechgrove Garden returns and Jim McColl, Carole Baxter, George Anderson, Chris Beardshaw and Brian Cunningham are all back in the garden dispensing sage advice to keep growing. Post moved here:   https://hdclump.com/ beechgrove-garden-episode-1-2017 / This is also a job which can be done with evergreen ferns such as Asplenium and evergreen Epimedium and allows us to clean up the plant and to appreciate this year’s flowers better. A nice tip that we picked up from Lady Anne Fraser at Shepherd House, Inveresk, was to put a small mirror under the Hellebore flowers so that they can be viewed without having to lift the heads .

Beechgrove is back despite winter storms, Jim McColl, Carole Baxter, George Anderson and Chris Beardshaw and the Beechgrove garden are all in one piece, looking radishing and ready to grow. Scotland has suffered the wettest winter on record so Jim and the team wade in to find out how that affects growing conditions. When Maggie Patience came to live near Aboyne she found winter days short on light and colour. Carole visited Maggie's garden in early winter to experience the unique way she has added year round colour. Plus Chris literally wades in to Beechgrove's newly re-vamped pond. In The Beechgrove Garden episode 1 2016: Jim, Carole and Chris launched the new seriesfrom a part of Beechgrove that has been cleared ahead of replanting and revamping later in the season as part of our general overhaul of the garden now it’s reached its 20th season. The weather held out for the first full day of filming in the garden and it was definitely a short sleeve spring weather kind of day.