Pruning of these clematis is solely to maintain their size and spread for your convenience rather than for any horticultural benefit. It was probably the best Spring I can remember with day after day of sunny, warm weather and the blossom, tulips and early spring flowers performed like never before. It looks like the restrictions will stay in place in some form throughout the rest of May so it is a time to make the most of what we have and to be thankful that May is the most exciting and beautiful of all months in the garden. He invariably stole every scene, every show.

Throughout April I suspect that more of us spent more time at home than at any time since we were sm The ‘Chelsea Chop’ refers to cutting back some of the growth of late-flowering perennials by about a third to delay flowering and increase the number of side shoots which will result in more - if slightly smaller - blooms and staggers their display later in summer. The point is to get oxygen into the heap which in turn feeds the bacteria that eat the decomposing material and convert it into compost which will then enrich your soil with essential bacteria, fungi and nutrients better than any product known to man.

Gardeners' World 2020 Episode 1 of 32 It is the first day of spring and Monty has sharpened his tools in readiness to open the gardening year. Wherever I went - boarding a plane in Missouri, going to Buckingham Palace, crossing the road in Tokyo, visiting a garden in Iran or filling the car with fuel in a provincial British town I would always be asked ‘Where’s Nigel’? With the popularity of houseplants gaining huge momentum, Frances Tophill visits RHS Wisley to find out how to look after the myriad types of indoor plants now available to gardeners. The Lockdown and severely restricted movement imposed as a result of Coronavirus has been tough for many people but the fact remains that for those of us with a garden there has been a silver lining.

In a border this will create space for planting tender annuals such as cosmos, zinnias, tithonia or sunflowers.

Then when you have finished, weed round the plant, water it well and mulch generously with garden compost or bark chippings. It is the first day of spring and Monty has sharpened his tools in readiness to open the gardening year, accompanied, of course, by Nigel and Nellie, in the first episode of the series. The secret of making it reasonable quickly is to have a good mix of matter high in nitrogen (green) like grass clippings and drier material (brown) that is high in carbon and then to aerate it often by turning it. Much of the garden is coming to full fruition with flowers, fruits and vegetables all ripening and acquiring a fulsome quality that no other month matches. Unlike herbaceous perennials, grasses are best divided once they have started to grow vigorously. Some grasses seed themselves freely and form crowded clumps and these can be thinned and moved by lifting entire young plants and repositioning with more space around them.

This will stop the development of seed so that all the energy goes into forming new bulbs for next year’s flowers. So cut back freely, not worrying about individual stems or the position of the cut. Through his weekly appearances on ‘Gardeners' World’ he became known and loved by millions all over the world. Yet, despite the sense of a garden rising to its crescendo there is always the sense of more to come, of growth and expansion and a soaring hope driving through every living cell.

The best way to do this is in the morning when the plant is turgid, simply breaking them off with finger and thumb. The vegetable garden is providing asparagus, lettuce, rocket, spring cabbages, early broad beans, chard, spinach, radish and the last of the purple sprouting broccoli. Compost is the alchemy of a garden, turning waste into black gold and we should compost every scrap of garden and kitchen waste. If you place supports in position whilst the plants are still relatively short they will quickly be hidden by the new growth and as a result your borders will not look corseted and constrained. Throughout April I suspect that more of us spent more time at home than at any time since we were small children and here at home the weather throughout April was a joy.

By the middle of May tender annuals like sunflowers, Zinnias, Cosmos or Tobacco plants can be planted out into all but the coldest gardens, especially if you have hardened them off for at least a week.

His story is both ordinary - he was a beautiful dog that was a much loved member of our family - and completely extraordinary. Lift the clump and divide into fairly substantial sections - they grow slowly so do not cut them up into too small pieces. Read about our approach to external linking. The days lengthen out luxuriously and by the end of the month I could start gardening outside at five and continue till ten at night all in full daylight. May begins in Spring and ends in Summer with the garden unfolding like a paper flower in water. The Lockdown and severely restricted movement imposed as a result of Coronavirus has been tough for many people but the fact remains that for those of us with a garden there has been a silver lining. Unlike most bulbs, the foliage of alliums can be cut back immediately after flowering. For climbing beans sow two seeds at the base of each support and remove the weaker of the two once one is established and growing strongly. He gave a talk at Hay literary festival to a sell out crowd - and loved it. MONTY DON - a presenter on Gardeners' World - has spoken out about 'proposed changes' to the BBC show, after he was quizzed by fans about introducing a winter version of the popular programme. These are tender plants that will be knocked right back by a touch of frost and will survive but not grow if the temperature drops below about 10 degrees and then become fair game for slugs and snails. So they should be removed as they appear. Gardeners’ World 2017; Gardeners’ World 2016 Gardening show packed with ideas and timely reminders to get the most out of your garden. By the middle of May the water of any pond is likely to be warm enough to plant into and to lift and divide any existing plants as well as plant deep water aquatics like water lilies. I never had to tell him where to lie or walk because he instinctively knew exactly where and how to pose to capture the best light. With this extra light - and hopefully heat - the flower borders cease to limber up and put on a full, passionate performance.

He is now buried in the garden with many of his beloved tennis balls to accompany him on his journey. Nigel had star quality.

Peonies, irises, roses, poppies, alliums and delphiniums rise to their astounding glory. Replant them at the same level they were in before and water in well. These have a bright red casing on their upper side but are brown on the underside so although very visible when nibbling the leaves - which they do voraciously - they will drop off if they sense trouble and lie on their backs on the ground so are completely camouflaged.

I like to use tender annuals both in containers and borders and in the latter I do not use them as bedding but to enrich the general tapestry of the overall planting. As the young plants grow they form shoots between the leaves and the stem and these are known as side-shoots.

As long as the temperature does not drop below 5 degrees they should grow strongly and flower well into autumn. When he was a guest on the ‘One Show’ he had his own limo stocked with tennis balls and the best dressing room with a choice of different coloured biscuits.

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