0x3 - First Time Planting

January 1, 1989

Early gardeners world special

0x16 - Winter Specials: S00E16

January 8, 2021

In the first of two special programmes, Monty and the Gardeners’ World team look back at the horticultural highs of the latest series and celebrate the very best inspirational gardens and gardeners up and down the country. There's also another chance to see what viewers were getting up to in their gardens throughout the year when they shared their own home videos.

0x17 - Winter Specials 2021/22: S00E17

December 24, 2021

Monty celebrates the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories, and the team get into the Christmas spirit. At Longmeadow, Monty creates a winter interest container filled with seasonal favourites. Rachel de Thame is joined by florist Arthur Parkinson as they spend a festive day making Christmas decorations with plant material sourced from the garden. Carol Klein meets comedian Joe Lycett at his home in Birmingham and talks to him about his new-found love of gardening. And Adam Frost looks at the ground cover plants which are the perfect backdrop to the border at this time of year. Advolly Richmond heads to Cumbria and uncovers the fascinating history behind the topiary gardens at Levens Hall, while Sue Kent digs out her Christmas jumper and prepares for the big day as she creates some festive gardening gifts.

0x18 - Winter Specials 2021/22: S00E18

December 17, 2021

Adam Frost and the team celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories. Nick Bailey visits the winter garden at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire; Frances Tophill discovers the largest cultivated collection of Mediterranean plants in the great glasshouse at the National Botanic Garden of Wales; and Carol Klein immerses herself in the exuberance of high summer at Kelmarsh Hall Gardens in Northamptonshire. Meanwhile, Arit Anderson meets a couple in the Pennines who have created a garden on the most challenging of plots, and Rachel de Thame shines a light on a plant that dazzles in the depths of winter – witch hazel. We visit an artist in County Wicklow, Ireland, who curates his garden like a living canvas, and we meet a passionate gardener in Wiltshire who has taken her love of tulips to a whole new level. There is also a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their own gardens.

0x19 - Winter Specials 2021/22: S00E19

December 10, 2021

In the first of three special programmes, Monty and the team celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories. Adam Frost finds a world of inspirational planting designed to shine in winter when he visits Cambridge University Botanic Garden; Joe Swift heads to a garden in north London that was inspired by a holiday to the Grand Canyon; Nick Bailey extols the virtues of evergreen planting, which come into its own at this time of year; and Kate Bradbury shows us how we can look after the wildlife in our garden over the winter months. We catch up with the three sisters from Dorset we met last year, who share the joyful highs and occasional lows of their gardening year; we head to Somerset to see how a garden designer achieves not one but two glorious peaks in her own garden; and we get tips on growing perfect peonies from a passionate plantswoman in the Welsh borders.

0x20 - Winter Specials: S00E20

March 12, 2021

In this special episode, Monty and the team look back at more floral highlights from the series, including alliums and auriculas, houseplants and creative containers, as well as the scented stars of the summer garden. There’s also another chance to see what the Gardeners’ World viewers were getting up to in their gardens last year as they share their horticultural adventures.

0x21 - Winter Specials: S00E21

February 26, 2021

In this special episode, Monty and the team look back at some of the floral highlights of 2020. It’s a celebration of some of the star flowers of our gardens, from tulips and roses to salvias and dahlias. There’s also another chance to see what the Gardeners’ World audience were getting up to in their gardens last year.

0x22 - Winter Specials: S00E22

January 15, 2021

In the second of two special programmes, Monty and the Gardeners’ World team look back at the horticultural highlights from the latest series and celebrate the very best inspirational gardens and gardeners up and down the country. There's also another chance to see what viewers were getting up to in their gardens throughout the year.

0x23 - Winter Specials 2022/23: Episode 1

December 2, 2022

In the first of four special programmes celebrating the joy that the gardening year brings, Monty harvests his favourite winter veg, demonstrates how to take hardwood cuttings and plants up a container with tulips for a display of spring colour. Joe Swift meets TV presenter AJ Odudu and discovers her passion for house plants, Carol Klein visits RHS Rosemoor in Devon, a garden with enough colour and texture to brighten even the darkest of winter days, and Sue Kent and Toby Buckland take an inspirational trip to Piet Oudolf’s garden at Hauser & Wirth in Somerset. The head gardener at West Dean Gardens in West Sussex shares his tips on growing ranunculus, and there's a look at an incredible collection of bamboo at Trebah Garden in Cornwall. There’s also a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.

0x24 - Winter Specials 2022/23: Episode 2

December 9, 2022

Frances Tophill and the team continue to celebrate the joy that the gardening year brings throughout the seasons. Rachel de Thame visits Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, a garden designed to look its best in winter. On a trip to the Knepp Estate in West Sussex, Arit Anderson hears how the principles of rewilding can increase biodiversity in our own gardens, and Nick Bailey meets a man whose potting bench is more like a laboratory bench where he grows hardy orchids from seed. There's a gardener in Worcestershire who has amassed an astonishing collection of cacti and succulents, and a couple of friends in London share their passion for growing cut flowers. There’s also a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.

0x25 - Winter Specials 2022/23: Episode 3

December 16, 2022

Adam Frost demonstrates how to build a rose arch, mulches his beds and plants a blackcurrant to train up a fence. Frances Tophill visits RHS Wisley in Surrey to witness the seasonal colour that heathers can provide in the winter months. Carol Klein immerses herself in a sea of roses at Hanham Court Gardens near Bristol, and there’s a touch of the Mediterranean in Devon as Toby Buckland harvests a crop of home-grown olives. There's a catch-up with three sisters from Dorset as they plant up their new borders and a visit to a spectacular display of tulips in Norfolk, as well as a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.

0x26 - Winter Specials 2022/23: Episode 4

December 23, 2022

Monty Don gets stuck into some winter jobs - demonstrating how to store dahlia tubers, planting out a clematis as well as a container for winter colour and scent. Nick Bailey shows that a conifer is not just for Christmas on a visit to Great Dixter in East Sussex. Rachel de Thame joins gardener and florist Arthur Parkinson as they create some spectacular seasonal table decorations using plant material sourced from the garden. And at Spetchley Park in Worcestershire, Advolly Richmond reveals the intriguing story of influential plantswoman and gardener Ellen Willmott. Joe Swift visits a garden in Cumbria designed to shine in winter through its inspirational planting that favours structure over colour, and there's a masterclass in growing food for a year-round harvest from a gardener in Ceredigion. There’s also a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.

0x27 - Compilations 2023: Episode 1

February 17, 2023

The team celebrates the joy that gardens and gardening can bring by looking back at some of their seasonal highlights. Monty harvests tomatoes from the greenhouse and plants out some of his favourite flowers for long-lasting summer colour, heleniums. Carol Klein pays an inspirational trip to an early summer garden in Wiltshire, Toby Buckland meets a passionate gardener in Devon who has created and nurtured her garden over the last 60 years, and Rachel de Thame visits the garden of hairstylist Sam McKnight. There's also a young gardener in Cumbria with a passion for dahlias and a dedicated grower whose allotment is towering with structural plants, as well as another look at films from viewers' own gardens.

0x28 - Compilations 2023: Episode 2

February 24, 2023

Monty plants tender annuals for high summer colour, as well as sharing his tips for growing cherries and pruning blackcurrants. Arit Anderson discovers a paradise garden in Cambridge that has become a focal point for the local community. Adam Frost heads to a beautiful walled garden in West Sussex that is both ornamental and productive, and Frances Tophill meets an enthusiast in Devon who grows a huge variety of perennial veg. Also, how one gardener transformed the alleyway behind his house into a relaxing space full of plants, as well as a grower from Suffolk sharing her obsession with tomatoes. There's also another look at some viewers’ films from their own gardens.

0x30 - Compilations 2023: Episode 4

March 10, 2023

Monty shows us how almost anything that holds soil and drains water can be used to grow seasonal veg, salad crops and herbs. Frances Tophill visits some hardy gardeners on the Isle of Man whose beachfront plots are at the constant mercy of the sea. Arit Anderson meets a woman on a mission to ‘green up’ neglected urban spaces. Kate Bradbury shares her tips for attracting wildlife into our gardens, and Toby Buckland helps Sue Kent tackle some tricky jobs in the garden. There's also a tech-savvy grower in Bristol who loves to experiment on his allotment, and a gardener in Manchester who grows an interest array of plants on his 18th-floor balcony. Plus another look at viewers’ films from their own gardens.

0x31 - Winter Specials 2023/24 Episode 1

December 8, 2023

Monty has advice on how to pot up one of the stars of the festive season - amaryllis. Carol Klein surrounds herself with colour and scent in Kent as she champions one of winter’s most spectacular shrubs – witch hazel. In South Yorkshire, Arit Anderson visits Professor Nigel Dunnett to find out how the man responsible for transforming many public green spaces tends his own garden. Toby Buckland joins Sue Kent on her allotment in Swansea to share tips on how to prepare for the growing season ahead. There's also a couple in Cornwall whose allotment is the ultimate ‘secret garden’, perched on the side of a cliff, plus a gardener in Herefordshire who preserves the spirit of summer throughout the darkest days of winter by pressing flowers.

0x32 - Winter Specials 2023/24 Episode 2

December 15, 2023

Adam Frost visits Mary Berry at home to hear about another of her great passions in life, gardening. Mary shares her love of cut flowers and some tips on freezing herbs, while Adam shows her how to sow the tiniest of snapdragon seeds with a cocktail stick - something Mary has an abundance of! Meanwhile, Rachel de Thame visits a ‘cut your own flower' field in Dorset; Frances Tophill joins garden designer Tom Massey to look at the ways urban greening projects can breathe new life into our towns and cities; Nick Bailey visits a garden near Dorchester bursting with more that 350 different rose varieties; and there's some home-grown produce on the menu as Joe Swift visits the kitchen gardeners at Le Manoir Hotel in Oxfordshire.

0x33 - Winter Specials 2023/24 Episode 3

December 22, 2023

Monty Don and the team are not only celebrating the joy of the gardening year but also Christmas! Monty has tips on how to clean garden tools before putting them away for winter. Rachel de Thame marvels at some magical topiary at a garden in Lincolnshire. Frances Tophill revels in the beauty and versatility of willow in Carmarthenshire. Carol Klein embraces the festive spirit with some home-harvested decorations. There's a head gardener in Northamptonshire who prunes, bends and weaves roses into amazing sculptural forms, and a visit to an impressive low-budget allotment in Lancashire that reaps rich rewards. There’s also a chance to see what viewers have been getting up to in their gardens.

0x34 - Winter Specials 2023/24 Episode 4

December 28, 2023

0x35 - Compilations 2024: Episode 1

January 26, 2024

0x36 - Compilations 2024: Episode 2

February 2, 2024

0x37 - Compilations 2024: Episode 3

February 9, 2024

0x38 - Compilations 2024: Episode 4

February 16, 2024