Gardeners' World - Season 53

The green-fingered team guides team enthusiasts through seasonal highlights from across the country visiting stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success. Monty Don and faithful hounds Nigel and Nellie are at Longmeadow to bring inspiration as well as outline all the essential gardening jobs for this weekend. Co-presenter Rachel de Thame visits stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success.

The green-fingered team guides team enthusiasts through seasonal highlights from across the country visiting stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success. Monty Don and faithful hounds Nigel and Nellie are at Longmeadow to bring inspiration as well as outline all the essential gardening jobs for this weekend. Cameras also travel the UK, visiting stunning gardens, meeting the gardeners and finding out their secrets of success.

Rachel de Thame reviews the progress of her new kitchen garden, and begins planting out peas and sowing flower seeds. Nick Bailey shows how to make an easy cold frame for storing precious plants and seedlings, and Joe Swift meets Will Young, whose new-found love of gardening was key to his recovery from mental health problems.

From her garden at Glebe Cottage in Devon, Carol Klein goes back to the basics of propagating plants by demonstrating how to take cuttings. There is also an interview with Advolly Richmond, whose love of garden history is reflected in her own garden, and she shares her passion for a flower with a surprising past. Joe Swift has a large plant in his London garden that is due for some timely remedial work, and the team travels to Brighton to visit a garden packed with exotic plants grown in raised beds and containers.

With lockdown affecting new filming, Monty Don is at Longmeadow to take an indulgent, horticultural romp through the Gardeners' World archives. From delphiniums to clematis, irises, orchids and dahlias expert growers share their passion along with hints and tips. Plus, Carol Klein visits a garden in Shropshire where she discovers picture perfect plant combinations, Adam Frost travels to the Cotswolds and finds out what happens when plants are brought together with imagination and daring and Nick Bailey offers a guide to the world of Britain's favourite flower -- the rose.

Monty Don reveals how to pot tomatoes on to the next stage of their growth. He also pots up tender vegetables and plants containers for summer colour. Adam Frost enjoys the seasonal plants in his garden and shares plans to transform a part of his plot into a seating area using a few logs and plants. Arit Anderson fills a range of imaginative containers with a variety of plants, while Frances Tophill explores spring flowering trees and their benefits for bees. Plus, how one man has designed his home around his love of houseplants.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don adds a variety of herbs that thrive in shade to the herb garden and adds summer annuals to the cottage garden. Nick Bailey has taken a rare opportunity to design his town garden from scratch and gives tips on how to plan and lay out a path, while Carol Klein celebrates the hardy geranium and the abundance of varieties that give masses of colour to the summer garden. Plus, the programme finds a Wolverhampton couple who have created a garden full of mystery and imagination.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don makes space in the writing garden for plants that will flower later in the season and plants out tender vegetables for late summer harvests. Cameras revisit Frances Tophill's allotment to join her as she demonstrates an unusual method of reducing weeds and also catch up with a gardener in Wales who has dedicated years to breeding some very special varieties of rhododendrons. Plus, Joe Swift heads to Devon to find out about the design and planting challenges faced when creating a coastal garden.

Monty Don gives tips on growing tomatoes and has ideas of how to fill gaps in the garden once the flowers of spring are over. Joe Swift visits the small city garden of an interior designer where some unusual plants have been used to add an element of surprise to the outdoor space, while in Kent Arit Anderson meets a community whose members have all been prescribed gardening as part of their recovery from physical and mental illness.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don shows how to prune spring-flowering roses and makes successional sowings of vegetables to ensure continuous crops. Adam Frost gives tips helping plants cope with drought conditions and shows how to save precious water. The programme meets two sisters from Dorset who have discovered a new love of gardening, supported in their efforts by many followers on social media, and in Bognor Regis visits a gardener who has used unusual materials and bargain plants to create her own dream garden. Plus, Frances Tophill heads to Hertfordshire to meet a couple of brothers whose gardens are designed with wildlife in mind and in.

Monty Don adds plants that give shelter to insects and invertebrates to his wildlife pond, plants up a summer display in a pot and gives tips on planting celery. From her garden in Devon, Carol Klein gives a comprehensive guide to getting plants for free, turning her attention to climbers like honeysuckle and clematis. In Brighton, cameras return to Kate Bradbury's garden to see how the once barren plot is being used by wildlife. Plus, from the archives, Rachel de Thame's visit to Gloucestershire's Kiftsgate Court Gardens, where she heard about the three generations of female gardeners who have made their mark there.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don checks the progress of the potatoes he planted earlier in the year and recommends plants for dry shade under trees. There are water-saving tips from a water scientist in Somerset who uses a variety of techniques to save as much water as possible in her own garden and advice from a head gardener in Dorset, dedicated to growing plants for their aromatic properties both in leaf and flower. Plus, Nick Bailey on summer-flowering clematis and Arit Anderson meeting people planting up the Birmingham canal sides.

Adam Frost brings viewers up-to-date on how his garden has been developing over the summer as well as offering advice on looking after and growing hydrangeas. In Devon, Toby Buckland shares tips on dealing with damaged shrubs, tree pruning and transplanting perennials, while Frances Tophill travels to West Sussex to meet a gardener and professor of biology whose garden has been planted with the conservation of insects in mind. Plus, a second chance to see Carol Klein's in-depth profile of a national collection of hydrangeas at Darley Park in Derby.

Monty refreshes a container of overgrown herbs. Arit Anderson travels to Kent to meet a designer who is placing sustainability and the environment at the heart of the gardens she designs.

With the summer garden in full swing, Monty shows how to stake dahlias, sows seeds of perennials and celebrates an abundant vegetable harvest.

Adam Frost shares his love of ornamental grasses. In Margate, the team visit a man who has come up with a unique way of using a shed roof to grow vegetables.

At Longmeadow, Monty plans for next spring when he plants some early-flowering wildflowers and gives his recipes for the different compost mixes he uses to take successful cuttings.

From growing the perfect sweet pea to plants pollinated by a single human hair, Monty celebrates the plant passions of some of the extraordinary people that we have met over the last few years.

Adam Frost is in his garden, catching viewers up on his new patio project and discussing his plans for the autumn.

Adam Frost travels to York to meet a couple who took on 20 acres of land and filled it with flowers.

The seasonal planting of bulbs for spring-flowering begins at Longmeadow, and Frances Tophill meets a gardener whose allotment is filled with both traditional and exotic vegetables.

Join Adam Frost in his garden for a special programme celebrating some of the most glorious gardens the team have visited over the last few years.

Monty revels in the early autumn colour in his garden, and in Scotland, Fish, from rock band Marillion, gives a tour of his garden and reveals how it has helped his mental health.

Monty plants garlic and gives advice on autumn lawn care. Joe Swift visits Kate Garraway in her London garden to discuss how it has been a sanctuary over recent months.

At Longmeadow, Monty prepares his pond for the season ahead and celebrates the garden as it moves into autumn. Adam Frost gives ideas and inspiration for a winter display of containers.

At Longmeadow,Monty Don shares his tips on how to feed the birds over the coming months, plants raspberries both in the ground and in a pot, and makes a start on lifting his tender salvias. Joe Swift visits a nurseryman in Essex who loves to experiment with ornamental grasses, and Arit Anderson meets Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter, to discover how the planting and garden management have increased biodiversity. The programme also features a Staffordshire couple with a fondness for Japanese maples and a man whose love of dahlias has taken over his back garden in Stockport.

In the final programme from Longmeadow this year, Monty harvests his pumpkins, plants bulbs in a pot and has plenty of jobs we can be getting on with over the coming weeks.