All language subtitles for Gardeners’ World 2021 S54E27

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I am taking some cuttings. Because
this is a very good time of year to

take cuttings because a lot of the
new growth has ripen. That means it

is going to dry out and basically
die back more slowly which gives a

time for the rich to develop.
Because it is new shoots, they have

got bigger. We need new shoots that
don't have a flower bud.

don't have a flower bud. This is
salvia, but it is not hardy, so I

always take cuttings. We will put it
straight into a polythene bag. The

reason you do that is to reduce the
pace at which it dries out. Taking

cuttings is something that you do to
plan for next year. I always think,

October the 1st is New Year's Day
for the gardener. All our gardening

should be about preparing for next
spring and summer to look as good as

it possibly can.

On today's programme...

We find out how one man's obsession
with colour and shape

has filled his garden
with bold architectural plants.

Whether there is a problem or not
with collecting, I am not sure yet.

It is nice in some ways, but one is
never enough of something.

Adam and Advolly head
to North Yorkshire to uncover

the work of two celebrated designers
born centuries apart.

This, the original dipping pond. By
all accounts, it's about nine feet

deep. They would have had watering
cans and dipping it in the dipping

pond and running around and watering
four and a half acres.

And I'll be sowing garlic
to harvest next year.

We normally take cuttings from the
plants we like the best because it

is a good way of increasing our
stock without spending any money.

But sometimes you can find a healthy
plant that doesn't have a single

flower on it. And this penstimon is
a perfect example. It is what we

know best as penstimon garnet. But
it has had a name change. If you go

and ask for penstimon Garnet, they
will give it to you. Anyway, it is a

lovely plant. But they are a problem
because they don't like heavy soil

and wet winters. They like good
drainage, so taking cuttings is

almost essential. What you are
really looking for is growth that

doesn't have a bud. Nice, straight,
strong growth. You can see the

leaves coming out from the stem. It
is called a node. Cut below it, just

like that. We want to reduce the
rate of transpiration from the plant

before it gets roots before it can
take up more water, so that means

taking off leaves. We want to leave
some leaves, so when the route do

appear, they get fed by
photosynthesis. It is a bit of a

balance. The easy way to do it is
with a sharp knife. Cut one like

that. And then take apart. I am
using a free draining compost. There

is a lot of perlite in this. For
cuttings to phone, they need two

things only, they need oxygen and
they need water. They don't need

nutrition, that comes later once the
roots have been formed. If it is too

solid and too dense, it won't have
enough oxygen. If it drains too

quickly, there won't be enough
water. This absorbs water and once

it is saturated, the rest drains
away. And then the water is

released. Use some kind of

released. Use some kind of dibber,
so you don't crush the stem. OK,

let's push the other one in. Water
it, don't let the soil dry out and

if

if you can, mist it. You know the
roots have formed if you see new

growth. You can bring them out in
about March, grow them on and they

will be ready to plant after the
last frost. The thing I love about

cuttings is it is completely
democratic. It doesn't matter what

kind of garden you have, but
sometimes it is nice to go and visit

a garden that is quite unlike your
own, that is big, dramatic and grand

and full of history as well as
modern inspiration. Which is exactly

what Adam did when they went to
scamps Tom Hall in Yorkshire.

This is packed with history, famous
designers and, some lovely planting.

. It has a massive 4.5 acre walled
garden that has been redesigned by

Pete Orloff into a series of
distinctive and artful rooms. And

the parklands around the house was
designed by the masterful capability

Brown. With his exquisite eye for
lakes, views and very beautiful

bridges. The estate and the House
have been handed down the same

family line for over 300 years. So
there has been lots of stories and

quite a few challenges to keep
evolving this garden to modern

times. We are here to look at the
tail is on the triumphs. I will be

rolling up my sleeves. I am
discovering ancient rooms. That is

just downright dangerous. As we get
let loose on this glorious, historic

estate.

estate. Scampston Hall was built in
the 16 90s. It was built by an MP

who was in office for 11 terms, and
as was common at that time, was

guaranteed his post by paying the
local voters. Over the years, it

cost him nearly £11,000. That is
over £1 million into day's money. I

wonder what it would have meant to
be an MP back then. Lots of goodies,

I'd expect.

I'd expect. Subsequent generations
have been much more productive with

their money. The walled garden was
an early edition next to the house

and grew the usual cut flowers and
veg. While the conservatory would

have had exotics and fresh fruit. It
has been recently restored, but

there are some untouched treasures
tucked away in the garden's yard. If

I am honest, as a gardener, I would
be happier here in the engine room

than anywhere else in the garden.
Back in the day, this would have

been buzzing with people. There are
four gardeners, how many roughly

that there have been then? At least
20, easily. At least 20, because you

needed somebody to do every single
little job. You would have your part

boys, boys watering the pots and you
might be a specialist in a

glasshouse, gaining all this
knowledge as he went along for the

sole purpose of being the head
gardener. I know some of this has

not been done up, but these
presumably look like hot beds? I

think these are melon pits. What
they would do is David Tutt tanner's

bark that would create the heat as
it was fermenting and then you would

put soil on top and then you would
use them to grow pineapples as well.

My version, modern day, four pallets
on their sides tied together, horse

manure or something that will create
the heat. Soil on top and then any

crops. Bob's is your uncle. Exactly.
But definitely for me, this would

have been a happy place. Scampston
has worked hard to preserve and

respect its history. This glasshouse
is next to be renovated and there

are lovely details, like this bell
at the walled garden gate which

summoned the gardeners when visitors
arrived. Then, when the designer

arrived just over 20 years ago, he
honoured the history.

honoured the history. This, the
original dipping pond. By all

accounts, it is about nine foot
deep. Really? Yes, it would have

been spring fed and they would have
used this, the water and everything

out the back. You need a lot of
water, because they would have had

watering cans, coming in and dipping
it in the dipping pond and running

around and watering 4.5 acres. It is
a lot of water. It is crackers. What

I love is the fact he has kept that
and must have designed the rest of

the garden from that. It has a
lovely sight line through and he

started to build the rest of the
rooms. This place, I have seen so

many pictures over the years,
because this is quite a famous

garden in the design world. To get
onto the skin of it, I think would

be really good. Talking of water, I
have heard there is a plunge pool, a

lady top two -- lady's plunge pool.
They are capability Brown's. He is

garden designer and engineer but
every now and again he dabbled in

architecture. It is a small space
where the ladies could go in there

and get their little knees wet. I
can't wait. You have got that look

in your eye, you can't wait, can
you? Oh, dear.

We'll re-join Adam and Advolly
later in the progamme.

There is a lot more to see. A few
weeks ago I suggested you might

like, as a job for the weekend to
take runners from your strobe is. I

have got some here. I tend a runner
into the soil so it would take root.

All I have to do now is cut it free
from the parent and just take that

there, cut and now I have a
strawberry plant. I would say the

time to plant that out is in about
three weeks, into the garden. You

could leave it in the plot over
winter and supplant it in spring but

if you can get into the ground when
the soil is still warm, it will

establish quicker. This one has put
out another runner. That should be

removed and I will just take that
off. I think all of us gardeners

share the thrill of growing any
plants, new vegetable, fruit or even

creating a new border. But, tackling
a brand-new garden from scratch is

daunting for anyone and particularly
as you get older. However, for one

of our viewers in Swansea, this is a
challenge that she is embracing with

enthusiasm.

Hello, my name is Anne and welcome
to my garden.

to my garden. It is a fairly new
garden. I moved here about four

years ago. It is the first time that
I have started a garden conscious of

pressure of time. Since I was
nearing my 80th birthday, I felt a

sense of my own mortality. A person
in their 80s may not have the energy

to spend on the garden. For
instance, I would have had in my

40s. I think one of the things is to
have an awareness that if you cannot

maintain it, it needs to be
something that is easily maintained

by someone else.

by someone else. I certainly was
aware that I couldn't start with

very young trees. I wanted to have
trees which were mature enough to

have an impact, but not so big that
I was unable to care for them as

they got established.

It is essential to me to have a
garden. Even if it was a very small

one, to just be able to handle
plants. I like getting my hands in

the soil. I just like spending time
outdoors talking to the plants.

I think that's really inspirational,
not just for those of us whose youth

is in a dim and distance past, but
for anyone that it is never too late

to start something new. And for Anne
to make a wonderful garden when she

could be forgiven for taking things
easy and looking back more than

forward, I think is a lesson for all
of us and long may she enjoy her

lovely guarden. I had her growing
courgettes and they were really good

this year. Now that is over, I have
a free bed and I'm going to plant

some garlic. Garlic needs winter
cold. They should be planted by

Christmas at the latest. I like to
get them into the ground as early as

mid-September sometimes and
certainly in October. If you don't

have cold weather and plant them in
February or March, they will grow,

but just make one bulb like an
onion. To get them to divide you

need that cold period. As you will
know, I'm a fan of elephant garlic

and it is milder and easy to handle.
Each Clovis that big. They're

whoppers. Each garlic should be
planted pointy end up. Work on

getting three or four inches of soil
above the top of the pointy tip. And

you grow it exactly the same as any
other kind of garlic. I allow for

elephant garlic about 18 inches
between each clove. A normal garlic

about nine inches. It does best in
quite rich soil. Add fresh compost,

whether in a container or a bed. It
does need plenty of water as it is

growing. It does like sunshine. It
is no good growing garlic in the

shade.

Well, I hope that in allotments all
over Britain garlic will be planted

out. Except for one. Because I can
guarantee in Andy Gladman's

allotment it is a plant that will
not feature.

I think now look at the allotment as
it is, I think there is something

special when you're sat in a garden
where everything you see is because

of your work and you're the master
of your own little domain. It is a

sense of pride as we sit in the
allotment now. As you can see around

me, my allotment is dedicated
ornamental plants. It is different

to what everyone else is doing,
growing vegetables. By day I'm a PhD

researcher working on the control of
aphids on brassicas. I'm doing

trials. When I come to my allotment,
I don't want to see any brassicas.

People in my family have always been
fond of growing plants. I can

remember being dragged around the
garden centres as a child. I would

be drawn to the cacti. That is often
the case with children. They're so

different. That is the impact of the
plants I like to grow now. It is the

forms that stand out, they're almost
statuesque in their shapes. There is

a lot of tall plants here. This is
the third year I have had the plot

and the plants have settled in. I
added some organic matter. Like

planting taller plants to the front
and it gives you a much more

interesting look and adds the height
to make it more interesting. I think

I'm just a big fan of the
architectural shape of the plants

and I'm always getting in trouble
for putting them too close to the

front of the borders. When you grow
spiky plants you have to get used to

pulling prickles out of your
fingers. But I think it is

worthwhile for the plants that I
love.

This allotment has been set up for
creating the ideal habitat for the

plants and the design has come in
sort of second to the plants.

So these in front of me, these are a
wonderful plant which I grown from

seed. It is a plant I suspect very
few people would recognise. But

they're very spiky. I have had
people describe them as a mace in

the flower form. Or a firework. This
is one of my favourites, this is a

south African spiky Daisy and it is
not one people would want to put at

the front of border. But they will
always stand out as feature plants.

This is a wonderful sea holly. It is
covered in bees. You've to be

careful touching it. But it stands
out in the allotment. I think that

there is no doubt that I have a,
whether it is a problem or not with

collecting, maybe it is nice in some
ways, but one is never enough of

something. I think with plants it is
a nice thing to be able to collect,

because you end up with a garden
with diversity in the different

forms, which adds to the sort of
dramatic look of a garden like this.

One of the plant groups that I love
and had loads of was red hot pokers.

As I have been growing more, I
started to make a collection now.

You've this huge range that flower
June until August. We have one which

is Kniphofia painted lady. It is an
orangey red down to a cream. Another

nice variety are smaller American
cultivars that have been bred to

have grassy leaves. Often people
think of huge brash plants, but they

are supposed to be more dainty. I
think my first experience with red

hot pokers was in my Nan's garden. I
was drawn to them, because of how

difficult they are and how tactile
the flowers are. You almost want to

reach out and grab the plants. When
I took on the allotments I knew it

was a type of plant I wanted to get
as many different types to enjoy

seeing the different flowers
throughout the season. One of the

groups along with the spiky plants
that I like are thistles.

that I like are thistles. Usually
plants in that group. The first one

is a UK native and a classic purple
thistle. It is a nice tall one and

it is airy and you can see through
it. This is native to central

Europe. The flowers are much more
cream in colour and still very good

for pollinators. In eastern Europe
and China this is grown as a edible

crop. When the plant is young you
get leaves that are used as a salad.

I haven't tried it yet, but maybe
next year! I think having an

allotment where everyone around me
is growing a lot of vegetables, the

second they find I'm researching
aphids I gets about what should I do

about aphids. The best advice I give
is immediately rubbing them off.

You're causing a stress response in
the aphids and releasing a chemical,

the release of that has been proven
to attract in predators from other

plants. I think when I took on the
allotment I had in mind it was

almost like a practice garden for a
future house. Perhaps I got carried

away, but I can't imagine my life
without a lot of these plats now. I

think that in some way these plants
will always be with me and there

will be new ones that will get added
to the collection, but I think that

is probably a nice thing, if
anything else.

It is quite unusual to see an
allotment devoted to flowers. Andy

had to have special permission to do
that. But I thought it looked great.

Now, at this time of year, I'm
relishing the colour while it lasts.

For the next couple of weeks there
is still plenty of colour here in

the jewel garden for the oranges and
purples and strong reds. But

actually as the light gets lower,
the colours get darker and richer

and more opulent and I cling on to
them for every day they last. Now

Still to come on
today's programme...

Adam and Advolly dig
deeper into the grounds

and gardens of a historic home
in North Yorkshire.

They used to use it as a viewing
mount. So they could look out over

the garden and they could look over
the walls and the hedges to the

wider landscape. That is the clever
bit to me.

And I'll adding to the new sloping
border on the mound

with herbaceous perennials.

First we go to London to visit the
roof garden of Debbie Friedman. This

is our garden. It is a roof garden.
From the outside it looks like a

sort of slatted wooden box. We have
what we call an intensive roof

garden system. You only have about
12 inches of soil, that is 30

centimetres of soil, which is made
up of very light weight recycled

bricks and clay and a bit of
composted bark. It is light weight,

because it is sitting on top of a
roof. Also because the garden is

built on a slope for the drainage,
all the water drains to the left.

all the water drains to the left. So
the things we have been able to grow

reasonably well are this plant that
was really tiny and they have grown

incredibly quickly. In is in bed,
which is the dry bed, we have some

Russian sage and some Salvias. Also
some zebra grass and some rosemary

and other perennials and they have
done well, provided we keep watering

them. Something that is amazing is
as soon as you put down a bit of

earth and put in a few plants, how
quickly the space gets colonised by

insects, ants and wood lice, bees
and even we have had the occasional

dragon fly passing through. All in
all, it has been a most beautiful

experience. Really enjoying watching
this garden take shape, watching it

thrive.

I don't know about you, but I was
convinced initially that the garden

was on the ground. It is very
clever. I have been making big

changes as part of evolution of the
Mount, I started to plant up these

borders with shrubs a few weeks ago.
And now on to the next stage, which

is adding herbaceous plants. October
is a good plant to herbaceous plants

and to move them, because the roots
will get into the warm soil, grow

and get established before the cold
weather comes.

weather comes. Now I'm starting with
some these. The great thing about

these plant is they're very
adaptable and cope with good

drainage and even drought, which of
course is what the slope is all

about. A sloping border is one that
drains well. Just start by placing

them where you think they might
work. Just thinking like that.

This is cheating a little bit
because this is Russian SAGE. And it

is technically a shrub. It doesn't
die right back. But I have never

unable to grow it successfully here
at Longmeadow because the soil is

too heavy and too wet for it to
thrive. It likes good drainage,

sunshine and will cope with
relatively poor soil. To have a

slope means that for the first time
I can give this a go. If we can put

one there, I think. That will grow
up three or four foot tall with

rather lovely, delicate foliage.
This is the last of the larger

herbaceous plants. This is tapped to
Zia australis. This has got blue

flowers and needs good drainage. I
quite like the idea of it being high

up here. As you can see, I've got
more to plant. This is just the

beginning. But it is time to get
back to Scampston, where they are

exploring its 18th-century history.

When capability Brown took on an
estate like Scampston, he didn't

just tackle the garden, he
redesigned the entire parklands

around the house.

around the house. In the 1700s it
was all the rage to look out onto a

designed landscape with big lakes
and avenues of trees.

and avenues of trees. Brown came to
Scampston in 1773 and he was paid

the grand sum of £100 to do his
stuff.

stuff. There is 80 acres of parkland
which was flat. So he planted copses

and contoured the land to make new
lakes and new bridges.

lakes and new bridges. Scampston got
a very, very special one.

a very, very special one. Isn't this
wonderful? This is the Palladium

bridge with tellers that nod to
classical architecture. It is an

immensely elaborate and beautiful
way to cross the water.

way to cross the water. Brown's lake
was originally a stream, so while

the view is wide and lovely at the
front, it is much less majestic

round the back. As a result, garden
historians have a special name for

it. It is known

it. It is known as a sham bridge,
which is harsh for something so

gorgeous. Especially as this one
comes with extras. In the stream is

a tiny dam with a little cascade and
at the back of the bridge, he built

an extra room with a half-moon
window, all rather mysterious. I

have got the key and it is really
exciting.

exciting. That is just downright
dangerous. This is incredible, there

is no floor, no steps. It looks
very, very deep and the water comes

from the lake in front of the
bridge. It is absolutely amazing.

While men could swim in the lake, it
was unseemly for women, so this is a

plunge pool. It would have had
steps, painted walls and probably

some pretty drapes overhead. This
would have wafted gently, because it

was a really small space. But here,
small is special. You don't see

these very often. In fact, this is
the first one I have ever seen as a

garden historian, which is why it is
so exciting.

Out front, Brown's beautiful Lake
bends around a corner, lowering

visitors to explore. And it is worth
it for the spectacular new view of

the bridge. Isn't that lovely, with
its reflection. The next feature,

you can almost hear it, before you
see it. It's another classic brown

technique, tantalising visitors by
the sound of water. It is made by

the big cascade he built at
Scampston. This is another leg and

it was remodelled in the 1960s when
the original stonework collapse. The

water rushed down at such a rate, if
flooded some houses on the estate.

So the cascade was rebuilt using
concrete to make it stronger.

concrete to make it stronger. Some
of Brown's stone is still visible

just under the water. And the lake
above is huge. To make it, he

re-contoured the land completely,
but that wouldn't have fazed him. It

was common practice to divert entire
roads around your design, just like

this one. And then put in a cleverly
angled bridge. It meant that passing

carriages caught a tantalising
glimpse of the house.

Moving tonnes of earth and the old
road is exactly why Lancelot Brown

was given his middle name. When
Brown visited houses he rode around

surveying the landscape, spotting
what he called capabilities in

different areas, so he would say,
that has capabilities, that has

capabilities. And so the nickname
stuck. He was no fool and if a

lovely feature was nearby, he
incorporated it, like the elaborate

field shelter. All this ice house,
which was packed with ice and straw

to keep food cold.

to keep food cold. Both would have
helped stretch the budget, because

his 100th is a fee is about 8000
into day's money. Not much for a

whole parklands. Brown was a master
of illusion, creating beautiful

landscapes that have impressed the
visitors for almost 300 years. But

maybe he hadn't banked on an nosy
Adam Frost. This is rather lovely,

isn't it? It is, absolutely. I love
stonework and brickwork, I started

doing that and I thought, it doesn't
feel quite right. And then it

doesn't sound right. They are
hollow. When the owners for having

these restore, they discovered they
were made of wood. Obviously, it was

cheaper than stone. In a way, so
much of it was about show?

Absolutely, totally. Showmanship.
What I really want to know, I want

to know if you went in the plunge
pool? Did you? No, I didn't, because

it was really cold. It is really
deep and I hadn't brought my

swimming costume with me. I am
disappointed, I was certain he would

have gone in the pool. But there you
go.

I think she was wise not to take the
plunge, I don't think I will be

overly keen either.

Adam will be back later with a look
at some contemporary design

in the grounds of the house.

You can see, I have put the plants
in the ground. The next stage is to

look at the lower level. Eventually,
I don't want to see any bare soil at

all. When you are planning a border,
think of it as three levels, ground

floor, mid-flow and the top. The
ground floor plants, are hardy

geraniums. What I have got is a
really well-known tried and tested

with this Johnson is blue. Really
good flower, lovely blue and that

will make an mound that is that sort
of size and that sort of spread. We

put it near the front. As well as
Johnson's blue, we have the hardy

geranium, which has become the most
popular, Roseanne. It will start

flowering in June and even mid-May
and carry on right through the

summer, well into autumn. One of the
many virtues of hardy geraniums,

they are very flexible. They will
grow in almost any soil and take

semi shade. Most of this is geared
towards the display from late spring

into late summer. But I have got
some herbaceous plants that start

flowering early in the year. I have
two spring plants which are amongst

my favour. The same family, the
primulas, but they behave

differently. I have Primula
vulgaris, common primrose, probably

my favourite plant, which is
essentially a woodland plant. These

have evolved to flower before the
full eligible of them appears. I can

put this around the corner. --
foliage. The other Primula, Primula

virus, is very different. It is the
cowslip. They like to grow in open

grassland, they like good drainage
and they like lots of sunshine. I

have got them here because I intend
to plant these up at the top of the

slip, underneath here where they get
maximum sunshine. The drainage will

be good and they will flower around
May. We have the makings of a

border. I will add some bulbs later
in autumn and in spring I've also

some annuals and I will add those,
too. It all comes down in the end to

that old adage, the right plant in
the right place. If you give at

length the conditions it wants to
grow in then it will be trouble

free, happy and beautiful. For the
last visit to one of your gardens, I

think we certainly have a case of
the right plant in the right place.

It's just that place is probably not
where you would expect it to be.

Hello, I am one of the doctors at
Epsom General Hospital in Surrey. We

have been very busy in the last 18
months, as you can can imagine with

Covid and we have taken some seeds
and planted them in a hospital

garden in the office. These are the
two large windows we have in the

office. We have been growing a
variety of vegetables. He is a

tomato plant which is providing us
with lunch. There are several

varieties of chilis, some short
ones, some longer ones. We have been

growing more tropical vegetables,
because it is very hot in this

office. Over here we have a tiny
green basil plant, which is growing

really well. And you can see that we
have a cucumber that is doing rather

well in the window. I am most proud
of this particular plant, it is an

unusual vegetable, it is a Chinese
bitter, which is very tender. It is

growing beautifully. We have
harvested lots of this already, and

it is prized by our Filipino nurses.
And we have some of the chilis we

harvested this morning, for making
pickle. I hope that you like seeing

our garden, the garden that made us
very happy and provided us with lots

of vegetables.

very happy and provided us with lots
of vegetables. I loved Dr Guan Lim's

garden. What a brilliant use of
space and I bet it tastes great too.

There is an empty space where my
outdoor tomatoes were, but a week

ago, tomato blight appeared with a
vengeance and as many of you know

when it hits it is devastating. They
turn brown and soggy and it looks

disastrous. But if you have a fruit
that is unaffected it is perfectly

edible and safe. And the plants
should either be bagged up to be

take away or burn them. To protect
our indoor tomatoes, we stripped all

the leaves off. And that does two
things. It dramatically improves

ventilation and ventilation is the
best way of countering blight. But

by taking the leaves off, we are
improving ripening and by October

the ripening days are diminishing
and any tomatoes that are too small

to eat, forget them and certainly
any flowers won't produce fruit. So

you could cut off any growth above
the top ripe tomato and hope the

others will ripen in the next week
or so. Now back to Scampston to see

their walled garden, that 20 years
was redesigned by the Dutch

designer, Piet Oudolf. In 1999
Scampston brought in designer Piet

Oudolf to redesign their four and a
half acre walled garden. Starting

from scratch he embarked on a
massive planting project, creating a

series of superb garden rooms. Some
with flowers and others with form

and structure. Over 20 years later
it has really marched on. But

nothing ever goes quite as planned.
Managing something on this scale is

a mammoth tasks, but we have got the
head gardener that is up to the job.

Andy came here in 2020 with the came
to bring the garden back to its true

order. What's it been like coming
into this, which to me already looks

like a gorgeous garden? Yes it is
exciting and walking in, beautiful

colours, but it felt as if the
colours were going and it wasn't

quite Piet Oudolf any more. So
putting plants back that have been

outcompeted and then take it from
there. Andy is noun as the grim

reaper and has takened out tangled
perennial beds and re-creating the

original layout. And it is not just
the herbaceous plants. There is the

formality of the garden, it wasn't
sharp. It uses formal structure to

accent wait the softness and there
has been a lot of hedge cutting, not

just with hedge cutters, but with
chain saws to get to the height that

is needed.

is needed. This trees will be
coppiced. In the spring garden the

cubes have been managed for blight
and left to grow. So shape-wise,

you've these sort of, well... The
fluffy bits. The idea of the fluffy

bits it is meant to be a dome. A
blacksmith will make us a dome and

we can use cutters to cut around it.
I think he would be chuffed that

you're taking it back to this
detail. It is important and these

domes mirror with the dome of the
house that is hidden behind the

trees. Andy found the dome detail on
original plans and found cut outs on

the edges at either end. He has made
a start already. All you've got to

do is cut that? I thought as you're
with, as a guest it is your honour

to cut it. What you were going to
say, I think it might be funny. Yes

it could be funny. I cored hear you
say it and if it goes wrong, you

don't get sacked. Exactly. That is
the plan. What is great about you...

Is it is really forgiving. It grows.
Exactly. If we get this wrong. It is

like a bad hair cut. It will grow
back.

back. Let's see if it works. This is
the moment of truth. It does work.

That shape as you get that domes
right, that will bounce down to the

house. Amazing. Brilliant. The rest
of the garden is work in progress.

But a very beautiful one. This
garden is a series of rooms and you

can feel when you walk in that they
will carry slightly different

atmosphere and here this is waves
garden. It does what it says on the

tin. You've waves of plants across
the site. And you can see people

will walk in and say, actually it is
just a load of grasses, but in

reality it is not. I think it draws
you down and in. I love that

simplicity and the big bold blocks
that work well against the

horizontal of the lawn.

Just next door is another garden.
And another incredible atmosphere.

Wow! This feels complete my
different. There is an eeriness. I

have that slight shivery thing going
on. Moving from one space to the

other, there is a calmness in here,
which is incredible.

Straightaway you're drawn to this
central pool. And you look, it is an

ever-changing picture, the sky is
reflecting, there is a dark cloud

there at the moment and it is moody.
It is called the silent garden and

you can see why. You have this big
columns of plant there is a don't

move through the space, because
they're static, but they're big and

very bold. So, how could you distil
this calm in front of me. It is

amazing that scene that is going on,
but it doesn't have to be that big,

it could be a container this big,
cup of coffee, wonderful light and

cloud in the sky and you've got
yourself a changing piece of art.

This is a fabulous garden, being
returned almost to living history.

As one of Piet's earlier design, the
last section is masterful, a modern

mound created from spoil and a nod
to the past. This has been

incredible, because even though in
reality, compared to what you have

been walking around, this landscape
is only 20 years old. But it sits

really comfortably and this, as a
finishing spot, to come and have a

look, it is wonderful isn't it? It
is fabulous, because he has created

this wonderful Elizabethan feature.
They used to use it as a viewing

mount, so they could look out over
the garden and they could look over

the walls and the hedges to the
wider landscape. That is the clever

bit, because you wall something in,
you enclose it, but you give

yourself that opportunity still to
connect with what is going on

outside. To look over. Absolutely.
It is lovely the way all of, it is

all about this, there are so many
details that connect this place to

the past. Yeah. But it still feels
modern and I love it. I totally

agree. Yeah.

To combine a really important
historical garden with a wonderful

modern one is inspirational. I think
anybody who possibly can should go

and see it.

The wind falls are beginning. The
apples this year, not so much a

disappointment, as a much smaller
harvest than last year. Last year

was a bumper crop. It is common to
have a small crop in the year

following an extra large one. If
that is happening to you don't

worry. When you pick apples, treat
them like an egg, handle them

carefully, the test to see if it is
ripe. If it doesn't come away in

your hand, lower it back and leave
it. Having picked it, store it

somewhere cool, dark and slightly
humid. A cellar is perfect or a shed

or garage. If you can find the right
conditions, apples will store for

months and months. Now this is a job
that I do daily throughout October.

But here are some jobs you can do
now, this weekend.

A few weeks ago, I suggested that
you sow hardy annuals for next

spring. If you did, like mine, they
will be ready for pricking out. Take

each seedling by a leaf, not the
stem and just easily it out of the

come post with as much root as
possible and replant them into

individual plugs or small pots. They
can be stored in a cold frame until

next spring and they can be put into
their final position.

Although we are coming into autumn,
weeds will go on growing for at

least another month or so. So try
and get as many of them out now as

you possibly can. And then if you
can mulch on top of that, so much

the better. Either way you will make
your life next spring a lot easier.

Autumn onion sets fill the gap in
early spring, long before the

spring-planted ones are ready for
harvest. If you haven't got room or

your soil is wet and heavy, it is a
good idea to put them into plugs to

develop root and shoots and when
you're ready, plant them out into

the soil.

What has become a feature of the
garden are the few pots I've got on

these which are a cross. Put them
together and you get a more robust

plant. But something with a bit more
style and elegance than your average

amaryllis trumpet. That is all for
this week. We are back next week a

special one-hour programme devoted
to trees. Until then, goodbye.