Open Gardens

Season 2 - Open Gardens

• Season 2 Episode 29: EPISODE: 29 Carol Klein explores a vast plot in Bristol centred around an imposing cedar and featuring a pergola walkway. She also takes a look at a beautiful cottage garden in Staffordshire brimming with herbaceous plants, shrubs and fruit trees
• Season 2 Episode 28: Goosehill Lane and Kendal Place Carol Klein explores a three-acre plot in Somerset containing a large vegetable patch, an orchard, a Mediterranean-style courtyard and an interesting listed feature. She also takes a look at a smaller garden in Staffordshire, teeming with pots. Carol offers the owner advice on how to make things more interesting
• Season 2 Episode 27: Honeybrook House & Springfield Road Worcestershire gardener Gerald Majumdar has his sights set on gaining entry into the Yellow Book after returning from Canada to work on the gardens at Honeybrook House for the past four years. In East Sussex, presenter Carol Klein helps Maggie Feeny, whose shady jungle-themed plot has a patchy lawn
• Season 2 Episode 24: Pump Cottage and Green Lane Carol Klein visits a romantic Worcestershire garden in which paths meander through a woodland dell by a natural pond, and a Devon plot with a folly, a pergola of pillars from Turkistan and an aviary containing 130 doves. Despite their charms, both still need her help to get into the prestigious Yellow Book
• Season 2 Episode 23: The Look Out and Brynheulog Jackie Mitchelmore of The Lookout, a coastal garden in Devon, hopes to tackle some health and safety hazards and find plants that can survive the harsh elements. Meanwhile, Lorraine Rudd from Brynheulog, Glamorgan, seeks help dealing with bare patches of grass and an ugly fence
• Season 2 Episode 22: Summerlawn and Fuchsia Garden Carol Klein explores two more plots hopeful of entering the Nation Gardens Scheme's Yellow Book. The first is divided into three distinct areas, with a formal terrace and lawn enveloping herbaceous borders, while the second features over 1,000 tender plants on a sea of raised beds
• Season 2 Episode 21: The Rowans and the Twitten Cheshire gardeners Paul Philpotts and Alan Bourne set their sights on gaining entry into the Yellow Book with their five-year project. In Sussex, presenter Carol Klein is impressed with a majestically mature eucalyptus and a Judas tree in the garden of Katherine Willig, who hopes a quarter of a century's work will pay dividends
• Season 2 Episode 20: Mansfield Street and World's End Nursery Carol Klein explores a plant-lover's paradise in Hallow, Worcestershire, belonging to a husband-and-wife team who own the nursery next door. She also visits a sensory garden in Bristol which was created by a woman for her blind mother who now feels it is time to let others discover the enjoyment it can bring
• Season 2 Episode 19: Digswell Road and Hoath House Joe Swift explores the garden of Kent's former Yellow Book judge Jane Streatfield, which is in need of major restoration to meet her own high standards, and an exotic Hertfordshire plot - a couple's labour of love for over 30 years - in which the planting may be too random for acceptance into the guide
• Season 2 Episode 18: Doyle Gardens & Ewehurst House Joe Swift meets two more gardeners hoping to secure a place in the Yellow Book. He visits a tropical oasis in London that contains more than 350 different plant varieties, and a formal East Sussex garden that includes two man-made lakes and a wildflower meadow
• Season 2 Episode 17: Daggs Allotments and Holly House Carol Klein meets two people in Thornbury near Bristol who are hoping to gain entry into the Yellow Book directory with their allotment. In Cornwall, a couple have big plans for their wildlife garden, but empty vegetable beds are among several problems in the chaotic two-and-a-half acre plot
• Season 2 Episode 15: Quarryside and Loftus Road Joe Swift helps a passionate Derbyshire plantswoman who has recovered from breast cancer to inject colour into her garden. The presenter also helps to create a strong, year-round backbone for a professional designer from London who is aiming to qualify for the National Garden Scheme
• Season 2 Episode 14: The End House & Fulvens Hanger Joe Swift explores two more applicants for the National Gardens Scheme's Yellow Book - a Moroccan deck and selection of old clinker boats moored in a sea of daffodils to remember a cancer victim, and a three-acre woodland garden surrounding a Surrey Huf house which has so far cost more than £40,000
• Season 2 Episode 13: Gardeners Cottage/Garden House Two gardeners from Devon attempt to introduce a Mediterranean theme to a project featuring seven original Victorian glasshouses and two acres of unkempt land. Plus, a horticultural lecturer from Brighton plans to open her city garden and Carol Klein offers her advice on how to make the most of her wild vegetable patch
• Season 2 Episode 12: Heather Cottage and Old Birmingham Road Carol Klein meets Chat and Nicky, the owners of a Devon wild garden in need of some loving attention to get up to Yellow Book standards, and a proudly self-sufficient couple with an organic plot in Worcestershire who have not yet found time to complete an additional new secret garden
• Season 2 Episode 11: Woody Park and Lift the Latch Pauline Wright of Lift the Latch, a two-acre cottage garden in Somerset, hopes to transform an unsightly area that is supposed to be her husband's responsibility. Meanwhile, Colin and Enid Folds from Woody Park, a sprawling 35-acre parkland in Devon, seek Carol Klein's help with fallen trees and a boggy patch of grass
• Season 2 Episode 10: Bowling Green & Hookhouse Carol Klein travels to Gloucestershire to give advice on building steps around two potentially dangerous ponds. She also investigates the rest of the sunken cottage garden which has a great deal of sentimental value to the principal gardener and her husband. Travelling on to Cornwall, she rectifies a potentially dangerous earth bank
• Season 2 Episode 9: Amber Green and Caxton Manor Joe Swift helps Adele Speelman come up with planting ideas for the parterre of her Japanese garden in Sussex. He then advises Cathryn Draper on how to disguise an Anderson shelter in her Kent haven, creating a rockery and seating area and restoring an overgrown pond to its former glory
• Season 2 Episode 8: Primrose Farm and the Coach House A Somerset couple with a three-and-a-half acre garden enlist help in keeping on top of the work that regularly needs doing and turning their weedery into a place of beauty. Carol Klein helps with the planting of a new bed that will hopefully secure the grounds a place in the Yellow Book
• Season 2 Episode 7: The White House and Forest Lodge Joe Swift meets Lucy Nelson from Somerset who is determined to open her garden to the public as a memorial to her sister, who died of breast cancer. He also helps Sally Pool, whose country garden suffers a lack of height in the planting and features detailed designs he does not agree with
• Season 2 Episode 6: Littlecourt Cottages and Hillcott House Geoffrey Ward from Littlecourt Cottages in Sidmouth plans to add steps to a secret garden, move a tree and put a summerhouse in place. Meanwhile, Andrea Clowes from Hillcott House in Glamorgan receives pointers from presenter Carol Klein on how to deal with a severely exposed and wind-burnt flower bed
• Season 2 Episode 5: Smithwood House & Little Common Gardens Joe Swift makes suggestions for a problem gravel area and a bed that is looking empty, to help Pat Crouch secure a spot in the National Gardens Scheme's prestigious Yellow Book. Elsewhere he helps Elizabeth inject colour into her garden and to plant a dry but shady area under a eucalyptus
• Season 2 Episode 4: Menheniot and Ty Newydd Carol Klein helps Brian Day in Cornwall find a solution for his dying hedge before he can become a member of the Menheniot Village group of gardens. In Ty Newydd in Glamorgan, Glynn and Liz Gibson, who have planted more than 1,400 trees in 14 years, need to clear a large dumping ground at the bottom of their plot
• Season 2 Episode 2: Nash Manor and Moss Cottage Carol Klein helps hopeful Yellow Book applicants, including June and Dennis Caine who have dug holes at the bottom of their garden for two ponds, but are having trouble getting them finished in time. She also meets Jennifer Williams, whose border is overgrown with ground elder
• Season 2 Episode 1: The Orchids and Spindle Cottage New series. Alan and Alban Bunting from Spindle Cottage in Somerset hope to tidy up a pond that has become too wild and could be a health and safety issue. Meanwhile, Margaret Underwood from the Orchids in Gwent seeks pointers from presenter Carol Klein on how to tidy up an area at the side of her house
• Season 2 : Newcombe Drive & Ellis Garden Nursery A mother and daughter's arboreal idyll in suburban Bristol and a one-acre work-in-progress in the private grounds of a family-run Cornish garden nursery. Both pairs of horticulturists have much work still to do if they are to be accepted into the prestigious Yellow Book and seek advice from presenter Carol Klein

Season 1 - Open Gardens

• Season 1 Episode 10: Bramble Hayes & The Brodder The owner of a seaside garden in Devon seeks advice on feeding his trailing rose and planting borders using feng shui colours, while a Staffordshire woman needs help designing a plot to replace her ex-husband's unsightly shed. Presented by Carol Klein
• Season 1 Episode 9: Glan y-cwm and Sprint Mill The Houston family of Glan-y-cwm in Glamorgan hope to show off all their hard horticultural work, and receive a lesson in topiary trimming along the way. Meanwhile, Romola Ackland of Sprint Mill in Cumbria hopes to convince her husband Edward to add more flowers to his wild, working garden
• Season 1 Episode 8: The Barn and Littleham House A family work to restore a plot once included in the National Gardens Scheme to its former glory, adding an Alice in Wonderland theme and a lavender labyrinth. Meanwhile, Carol Klein visits a seaside garden that is being revived following a year of neglect due to illness
• Season 1 Episode 7: Consall Hall and Lakesland Carol Klein visits the 70-acre garden at Consall Hall, Staffordshire, where 87-year-old William Podmore has created a beautiful plot from an old quarry. She also meets a Devon couple who have big ideas they hope will yield similarly impressive results
• Season 1 Episode 6: Meadow House and Wolf House Melanie and Martin Hurst of Wolf House in Glamorgan seek advice on scented plants to counteract the smell of summer garden barbecues. Meanwhile, Paul and Anne-Marie Burill of Meadow House in Cumbria hurry to complete several jobs, including rebuilding a patio which has been deemed unsafe for visitors
• Season 1 Episode 5: The Gargoyle and Owlsbarn Gill hopes to open the Gargoyle, her steeply sloping garden above the Severn estuary, to raise money for the Meningitis Trust. Meanwhile, Pauline and Ray plan a ruby wedding anniversary party in Owlsbarn, their flat sheltered plot just outside Exeter, and believe opening for the National Gardens Scheme would give them another reason to celebrate
• Season 1 Episode 4: Little Winsors and Courtwood House Janet Andrew of Little Winsors in Devon creates a garden from scratch based on the detailed plans of her late husband, whose dream she hopes to complete. Meanwhile, Mike Reeves of Courtwood House in Staffordshire worries his plot is too small to provide the 45 minutes of interest required by the NGS
• Season 1 Episode 3: The Old Bakery and the Birches A design-loving couple are shocked when Carol Klein suggests wild flowers would brighten up their sloping Welsh garden, worrying it will ruin their formal structure. Meanwhile a Bristol woman hopes to use her garden to raise money for the British Heart Foundation, having had two life-saving operations five years ago
• Season 1 Episode 2: Fern Deane and Kennet House Horticultural journalist Richard Shimmell gets tips on how to improve his plot to the National Gardens Scheme standard, which includes leading a path to more than the compost heap. Meanwhile, a Stafford woman tries to make her garden lower maintenance when her husband is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
• Season 1 Episode 1: Lyford Grange and Cardiff Road Carol Klein takes a look at the gardens of hopeful applicants for the National Gardens Scheme's prestigious Yellow Book. Susie and Charles Dingwall's traditional English garden in Oxfordshire and John Langford's riverside garden in Glamorgan are examined

Episodes - Open Gardens

• Abbots Leigh and Moss Cottage Carol Klein explores the gardens of hopeful applicants for the National Gardens Scheme's prestigious Yellow Book
• Corylus and Wilkins Pleck Carol Klein advises a man from Teignmouth who is creating a garden as a memorial to his eldest son who went missing while working in an Angolan diamond mine. The expert also helps a couple with six acres of picturesque land in Shropshire who are hoping to make it into the Yellow Book
• Gardener's Cottage and Garden House Carol Klein explores the gardens of hopeful applicants for the National Gardens Scheme's prestigious Yellow Book
• Goosehill Lane and Kendal Place Carol Klein explores the gardens of hopeful applicants for the National Gardens Scheme's prestigious Yellow Book
• Honeybrook House and Springfield Road Carol Klein explores the gardens of hopeful applicants for the National Gardens Scheme's prestigious Yellow Book
• Jason's Garden and Wilkins Pleck Carol Klein explores the gardens of hopeful applicants for the National Gardens Scheme's prestigious Yellow Book
• Kingston and Cherry Trees A retired couple from Gloucestershire hope to gain entry into the Yellow Book with grand plans for their small plot. In Devon, Harry Butterfield hopes his tiny town garden has what it takes, but presenter Carol Klein is unsure whether he has too much to do
• Nant y Bed & Jeffcot Road Carol Klein offers advice on brightening up a bank to a couple from high up in the Welsh mountains who are passionate about sustainable organic gardening. The green-fingered guru also helps a retired police officer from Wolverhampton whose garden is surrounded by a picturesque old listed wall
• Newcombe Drive and Ellis Gardens Carol Klein explores the gardens of hopeful applicants for the National Gardens Scheme's prestigious Yellow Book
• St Helens and Scutari Road Featuring a retired couple from Sussex who are determined to tidy up their sloping garden and open it to the public, despite suffering from debilitating illnesses. Plus, a fanatical gardener who is determined to be in the Yellow Book receives help from presenter Joe Swift