The long Easter weekend offers lots of opportunities to really get cracking in the garden. Monty Don has a solution for brightening up a shady wall and gets on with planting up his vegetable garden.

Carol Klein returns to help first-time gardeners Dan and Dominique, and guides them in what to look for at a garden centre as they shop for trees and shrubs for their new borders.

And Joe Swift visits a very special quarry garden in Staffordshire, racing to get ready in time to open to the public on Easter Sunday, despite being hit by the severe winter storms. Show less