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The Beechgrove Garden

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Beechgrove Garden: 2011

Gwyneth Hardy

Jim McColl

Carole Baxter

The Beechgrove Garden: 2011: Episode 22

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Episode 22

2011

BBC Two - The Beechgrove Garden, 2011, Episode 22

Jim reviews his potager veggies and Carole shows how to take cutting for easy propogation.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim reviews the vegetables he has been growing in the potager and Carole demonstrates how to take semi-ripe cuttings for easy propogation.

In the Beechgrove Garden, Jim is taking a look at some of his weird but hopefully wonderful veg that he has been growing in the potager as well as finishing off the summer pruning in the Family Orchard.

Carole meanwhile always says that she likes a bit of propagation in the garden, and what she enjoys even more is if it's simple and money saving. This week Carole shows us how to take semi-ripe cuttings and these are an easy way to propagate a wide range of hardy climbers, herbs, ground-cover plants, shrubs and trees without the need of special equipment or skills. Perfect!

Carole is also with Marlene and Davie Gallon in Brodie. Both amateur gardeners who enjoy all aspects of gardening, they have an area of trees which is very bare and exposed, with dry soil and impossible to dig because of tree roots. Carole concentrates a new border around one tree stump which she dresses with ivy and creates a mini fernery for Marlene and Davie.

Jim visits Michael Wickenden who runs a specialist nursery in Gatehouse of Fleet. Cally Gardens is within an 18th century walled garden with an old vinery and bothy, all surrounded by the Cally Oak Woods. Michael has over 3,500 plants and a range of rare herbaceous perennials and is a modern day plant Hunter. His travels have taken him to extremely remote areas of the world to study, photograph and introduce new plants into cultivation. All of Jim's crocosmia trial plants at Beechgrove came from Michael so Jim will be at the garden to look at the full range of crocosmias but also feature other choice plants giving late summer colour like agapanthus and kniphofias.

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