"Adam Frost and the team celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories.
Nick Bailey visits the winter garden at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire; Frances Tophill discovers the largest cultivated collection of Mediterranean plants in the great glasshouse at the National Botanic Garden of Wales; and Carol Klein immerses herself in the exuberance of high summer at Kelmarsh Hall Gardens in Northamptonshire.
Meanwhile, Arit Anderson meets a couple in the Pennines who have created a garden on the most challenging of plots, and Rachel de Thame shines a light on a plant that dazzles in the depths of winter – witch hazel.
We visit an artist in County Wicklow, Ireland, who curates his garden like a living canvas, and we meet a passionate gardener in Wiltshire who has taken her love of tulips to a whole new level.
There is also a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their own gardens."
It was lovely to see tonight the "dolly mixture" tulip meadow, where used bulbs are planted. I tried this planting of ex-tulips last year in a bed at the back and will be amazed if any come back. But, fingers crossed for the spring. I didn't add grit, I just dotted them deeply around in the rich soil (not clay).
I was interesting to hear the national collection holder say catagorically that there is no such thing as a perennial tulip.
I think she's wrong though... if you have the right conditions, species tulips can be perennial - I had a patch of Tulipa tarda on a free-draining sunny bank in Northumberland which increased by seeding itself. But I've never had success keeping hybrid tulips more than 2 or 3 years.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I think she's wrong though... if you have the right conditions, species tulips can be perennial.
She talked about species tulips, though. So I would have been interested to know exactly what she meant by 'no perennials'. She is the expert - she must have grown species tulips for decades. She said it quite emphatically.
Agree re Species Tulips @Liriodendron, I have had some clumps for several years now and am continuing to add to them. Tulipa sylvestris has also been going for at least 5 years.
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I enjoyed it and didn't nod off once - the Adam Frost factor at play. I have species tulips that come back and last year I had hybrid tulips come back. I think it has a lot to do with planting depth and soil as well as type so it'll be interesting to see which come back next year.
Loved the Hillier's winter garden and the rest was good too.
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"Adam Frost and the team celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories.
Nick Bailey visits the winter garden at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire; Frances Tophill discovers the largest cultivated collection of Mediterranean plants in the great glasshouse at the National Botanic Garden of Wales; and Carol Klein immerses herself in the exuberance of high summer at Kelmarsh Hall Gardens in Northamptonshire.
Meanwhile, Arit Anderson meets a couple in the Pennines who have created a garden on the most challenging of plots, and Rachel de Thame shines a light on a plant that dazzles in the depths of winter – witch hazel.
We visit an artist in County Wicklow, Ireland, who curates his garden like a living canvas, and we meet a passionate gardener in Wiltshire who has taken her love of tulips to a whole new level.
There is also a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their own gardens."
She talked about species tulips, though. So I would have been interested to know exactly what she meant by 'no perennials'. She is the expert - she must have grown species tulips for decades. She said it quite emphatically.
Tulipa sylvestris has also been going for at least 5 years.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Loved the Hillier's winter garden and the rest was good too.