Gardeners' World

As usual, Monty Don is at Longmeadow where he sets out his plans for the coming year. This week, Monty reviews the effects the winter weather has had on his garden.

As the gardening year gets underway at Longmeadow, Monty is tidying up his ornamental grass border, pruning roses, and planning for a summer scent.

On a frosty morning, Monty starts the programme in the vegetable garden and clears and composts the remains of Cavolo Nero, black Tuscan Kale, which Monty sowed last Spring and has enjoyed the crop for almost a year.

The first big gardening weekend of the year gets underway with Monty dividing perennials and giving plenty of tips for how we can kick-start the garden for the season ahead.

Monty takes an initial look at his beehive and supplements their diet with some sugar fondant in case we have a burst of bleak weather and spring flowers are scarce.

Monty starts a new project - a cutting garden - and gives advice on what to grow to provide plenty of cut flowers for gorgeous summer bouquets.

Monty gets his new vegetable garden underway by making raised beds. He also offers advice on how to cut back herbs.

Monty Don visits the RHS Malvern Spring Festival, where he is joined by Carol Klein and Chelsea gold medal winner Adam Frost.

As the growing season picks up a pace, Monty is sowing vegetables and planting out the scented plants which he brought back from the Malvern Spring Festival.

At Longmeadow, Monty's focus is on summer when he plants up containers for colour in the Jewel Garden.

This week we are celebrating the work of the army of volunteers who keep gardens up and down the country looking their best for visitors.

Tender vegetables, bedding plants and bees are the focus of Monty's gardening at Longmeadow as he plants out squashes and scented annuals and harvests honey.

As the longest day of the year approaches, there is more time for everyone to be outside and enjoy the garden, and Monty is no exception.

Whilst celebrating the glory of summer flowers at Longmeadow, Monty has plenty of tips, from pruning and propagation techniques for different types of clematis to troubleshooting problems with roses.

Monty is reaping the rewards of the summer when he begins to harvest crops from the vegetable garden and gives tips on extending the flower season in the borders.

Monty demonstrates that it is not too late to start growing vegetables by showing which types to sow now, and he adds some summer colour to the Spring Garden by sinking plants in pots into the borders.

Earlier in the year, Monty put aside a patch of his garden to grow his own cut flowers, and this week he returns to assess the results and harvest his first crop of colourful blooms.

As summer gets into full swing, there is plenty for Monty to be doing at Longmeadow, and this week he gets to grips with summer pruning as he tackles his espaliered pear trees.

Now that rambling roses have finished flowering, Monty turns his attention to pruning and tying in new growth for a good display next year.

Whether you are staying at home or going away on holiday, Monty has plenty of tips for how to keep the garden looking good and remaining productive during August.

Now that birds are no longer nesting in hedges, it is time to get them looking trim and neat and Monty has plenty of tips on how to cut them so that they grow well.

With the bank holiday ahead, there are plenty of opportunities to catch up with some essential jobs in the garden and Monty gives a masterclass on how to look after and prune soft fruit to ensure maximum production next year.

This week sees the first of eight hour-long episodes of Gardeners' World. Monty and the regular team are joined by some new faces offering tips, advice and inspiration from gardens large and small across the country.

In another full hour of gardening, Monty is at Longmeadow giving advice on how to deal with unruly roses, taking cuttings of herbs and planting a new tree.

September is the perfect time for planting and Monty adds some autumn flowering asters to his borders, as well as refreshing his strawberry beds with new stock.