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The Beechgrove Garden episode 2 2016

In the Beechgrove Garden, Jim admires the colourful camellias which are conservatory confined to prolong flowering and fragrance. Meanwhile, looking at colour in stems rather than blooms, George creates an inspirational winter-interest border on a slope in Beechgrove.   [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Bg-ep.2-2016.mp4"][/video]   Carole begins a new mini-strand - Garden on a Budget. Meike and Jan Guijt and their young family moved into their new home in Kennethmont in 2015. Throughout the series, Carole will help new gardener Meike mould a garden out of almost nothing.  In The Beechgrove Garden episode 2 2016:  1. Seed Sowing and compost observation Every year Beechgrove tries out a range of new products on the horticultural market on your behalf to see how they work. This year Jim was having a look at a new peat-free compost which is also free of green waste. This has a somewhat coarse texture and s

Greatest Gardens ep.1

Diarmuid Gavin and Helen Dillon visit three very different secret hideaways around a particular part of Northern Ireland. [video poster="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Greatest-Gardens-S01E01-720p-WEBRip-x264-SOIL-mp4-image.jpg" width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Greatest.Gardens.S01E01.720p.WEBRip.x264-SOIL.mp4" id="910" src="" loop="false" autoplay="true" preload="metadata" videopress_guid=""][/video]   In this episode, Diarmuid and Helen are in Counties Down and Antrim. They cast their expert eyes over a stunning compartmentalised paradise behind a Georgian terrace house in Hillsborough, a reclaimed quarry in Carrowdore and an ambitious river landscape in the shadow of a stunning modern house in rural Antrim. Which will Diarmuid and Helen like the best? Greatest Gardens ep.1: Wherever you are in Northern Ireland Irelan

The Beechgrove Garden episode 6 2015

Seed scattered and sown, and lawns grown and mown. Carole shows us an easy way to sow flower seeds while Jim toils away on the lawn. Then it's sweet pea planting - scrambling v cordon-trained. Chris is back with Jenny and Euan MacLean in Linlithgow for a second visit to their nightmare plot and this time it's dreamy breakfast-and-teatime terraces and the perfect pergola.   [videopress dvlurNeJ w="560" permalink="false" hd="true"]   George is still in a tight corner tending his small-space vegetable garden. Carole visits Hamish McKelvie and his prickly friends in Houston, Renfrewshire. Since boyhood, Hamish has built up a huge collection of cacti. The Beechgrove Garden episode 6 Jim, Carole and George were in the Cutting Garden on a bright, sunny morning at Beechgrove. The soil was well-drained and in good condition despite the surprising snow fall a few days earlier. Jim and Carole were planting sweet peas and George was nearby planting chrysanthem