The 2026 Gardening Programme Thread

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Welcome 🤗. Pull up a chair, or an upturned bucket, grab a handle-less mug of whatever takes your fancy, ignore the cobwebs in the corner, there are some seed catalogues on the potting bench for you to entertain yourself until someone else pops in to chat about whatever has taken their interest on the telly or radio in all matters gardening 🌻🐞🌿🐝🍄🐌

Very envious indeed. I just don't have the space. I tried it in a pot once, but it died.

This thread made me very excited!
Has anyone grown flowers for cutting so they can have vases of flowers inside the house too?
Last year was my first year I actually had a garden and I grew some veg (in planters and pots because I have a dog that a)pees on everything and b)likes to help me garden...
This year I thought I would plant flowers to help givs the soil some more nutrients ready for more veg next year :)

Tips appreciated!! :)

Hi may I join , I am just starting out in our garden having just finished refurbishing most of our house to get it liveable
I have put some grass seed down this week which will either sink or swim and I am planning a border behind a nw facing fence that we have put up having taken out a load of overgrown conifers

My apologies a North east facing fence , I am looking at a boston ivy to scrabble up and over the fence

Do you want to post a picture? Do you want to cover it totally? I personally am wary of Ivy as it pokes through the fence and destroys it. We one or two layers of trellis - passion flower is good to cover it or a wisteria, jasmine or honeysuckle?

I tried passion flower before without much success , Jasmine I have had succcess with in the past but it thrived in a sunnier aspect

I will post a sketch of the overall plan

Is Boston Ivy another name for Virginia creeper?

@FuzzyPuffling yes.

@Bumblebeesince19 on Gardeners' World from last week at 28 minutes in Sue Kent was visiting a garden where the owner grows flowers for drying. Not maybe what you were looking for but a wee bit of inspiration anyway.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rxzl

Now DH has dug mine out (it is sitting in a wheelbarrow sprouting new leaves, must get it in the ground soon) I am not surprised - the roots are absolutely immense
I have a massive hole where it used to live, in a raised bed, so I suppose I had better go and buy a bag of compost to fill that

Happy "Gardeners World" Eve, ladies!

I was just having similar thoughts earlier 🤗

I'm off to a garden centre tomorrow morning with my two DDs. Mother's Day treat for us all.

I need twine!

Hi Monty!

The alpine garden section was interesting. I like these folk who get obsessed about 1 type of plant

And the dahlia tubers section was also useful. As is the "Jobs for the Weekend" bit, as ever.

Anything on grasses or outdoor tropical plants (I'm in Scotland!) leaves me cold.

Alan Titschmarsh has an 8 minute video just out "Jobs to do in March"

Adam's moved again!
I'm nervous about his flooding river though.

🤣My husband said exactly the same! Wonder why he has moved again. His last new garden was gorgeous.

Didn't he move to the last smaller house because of daily health issues? Hopefully this move means things are improving.

Hope Ash the cat isn't finding it too muddy!

I thought the same, he didn't stay long in the last one! Maybe he won the lottery

I think his wife was very ill, hopefully it does mean she is doing better!

Oops! forgot about Gardeners World tonight. I'm clearly not back in my routine. Will watch on catch up now.

Beechgrove is back on Thurs 2 April. So in 2 weeks. I'm in Scotland so it's helpful.

Finished watching GW.

I wonder why Monty doesn't like Camellias?!

I'm always intruiged at these folk who have a lot of their garden as an overgrown wildflower meadow. In the nicest possible way, I always assume they are hoarders and have messy cars! Doesn't suit my personality at all albeit I can see it is pretty (well from May-June anyway!) They strike me as genuinely artistic types. Unlike me who is a bit of a basic bitch tbh with my neat row of flowering bushes and my line of herbs and line of bulbs.

Alan Titschmarsh has moved house - here is a tour of his new garden!

I haven't watched all of last night's GW but I'm with Monty on not liking camelias. I couldn't tell you why but it's something to do with the leaves. And the flowers

Thank you for the heads up about Beechgrove @AntiqueVases

I don't like camellias much either although we have one in a hedge and it has done good flowering this year I'm also not keen on rhododendrons - I think it is the very stiff, shiny leaves I dislike. Although I like a hoya as a house plant so who knows