Gardeners' World - Season 52

Monty Don and his team of horticultural experts return to offer viewers at home more gardening tips, including advice on how to plant spring flowering perennials for instant impact.

Monty Don recommends varieties of seeds to sow now for months of summer colour, and with conifers enjoying a revival, also plants up a pot to give interest all year round.

Monty Don takes the next step in planting up his new Paradise Garden, and provides some timely inspiration for planting up a spring pot as a Mothering Sunday present.

Monty Don inspects the annual climbers he has been growing from seed, plants out sweet peas and recommends perennial plants that can be grown from seed now for late summer colour.

Monty Don gets going with a new planting project as well as giving plenty of tips on getting lawns and plants into tip-top condition for the season ahead.

Monty Don makes a start on getting some tender vegetables underway, recommends plants which thrive with very little water and gives tips on the spring maintenance of houseplants.

Adam Frost gets to grips with planting up his gravel garden with spring colour, sows some unusual vegetables and starts work on a new project.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don plants out his tomatoes, continues work in his paradise garden and reveals plans for a new project. Plus, a trip to the Malvern Spring Festival.

Monty Don gets going on a new project as he begins planting a colour-themed, fragrant border and he offers on successional planting in the vegetable garden. Nick Bailey begins his ultimate guide to growing clematis, while Arit Anderson visits a new, free, public roof garden in London, which soars above the city space below. Plus, Carol Klein travels to Arundel Castle in West Sussex where alliums are taking centre stage and Joe Swift finds out about the restoration of one of country's most historic woodland gardens.

At Longmeadow this week, Monty Don turns his attention to the tender annuals he has grown from seed, including climbers and sunflowers and plants out beans for a bountiful summer harvest. Nick Bailey celebrates the rhododendron, one of our most colourful spring flowering shrubs and, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, there's a feature on the Second World War veteran who has planted an orchard for peace to commemorate those who lost their lives during the war. Carol Klein, Frances Tophill and Joe Swift travel to Derbyshire to focus on the floral highlights from the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show.

Monty Don and the team focus their attention on the loss of wildflower habitats in the UK and the part that gardeners can play in averting the resulting loss of wildlife. In Lincolnshire, Adam Frost finds out how crucial meadows are to supporting the ecosystem, Arit Anderson visits East Sussex to discover the results of a recent wildlife survey carried out in the gardens there and Nick Bailey travels to Staffordshire where meadows are being grown in gardens for the benefit of wildlife. Plus, Carol Klein identifies plants that can help increase insect and bird populations.

Monty Don demonstrates how to produce a medley of vegetables from a small space. He also lifts and divides irises and adds spires of summer colour to his borders. Frances Tophill visits an allotment on the Isle of Man where plants are grown and harvested as ingredients for cosmetics, while Adam Frost is in Northamptonshire finding out about the design and planting at Cottesbrooke Hall. Plus, an interview with a woman whose passion for bees is inspiring young beekeepers at a school in Huddersfield.

Monty catches up on jobs to keep the garden looking good all summer long. Adam Frost visits Sledmere Gardens in Yorkshire, where the borders have been planted with specific colour schemes in mind.

Monty advises on essential summer pruning and adds French beans to the vegetable garden. The programme also meets a gardener in Hertfordshire who combines her love of cottage garden plants with tropical plants and visits a garden in Kent where pots are the stars of the summer show.

As Longmeadow radiates colour in the height of summer, Monty Don takes a range of cuttings to get plants for free and also shows how best to prune lavender. Carol Klein visits a garden in Devon to revel in its eryngiums, while the programme also meets a passionate gardener and his partner in Wiltshire who use their garden as inspiration for art.

With the bank holiday weekend looming, Monty Don has plenty of inspiration for gardeners from planting for late summer colour to tidying up herbs and pruning soft fruit. Nick Bailey concludes his journey into the clematis world by looking at the late summer-flowering varieties and the programme travels to Devon to meet a retired biology teacher with a passion for houseleeks.

At Longmeadow, Monty Don adds some ornamental grasses to his borders for late summer impact and gives advice on how to look after pumpkins for a bountiful autumn harvest. Adam Frost discovers a colourful garden in Gloucestershire where hardy, tender and tropical plants jostle for space in both borders and containers, while Frances Tophill visits an allotment in north London where the main harvest is flowers for floral displays.

Adam Frost gives advice on how to prune overgrown evergreen shrubs and adds to his borders to create height. Rachel de Thame shows how to maintain containers and refresh with plants that will extend the display into autumn, and there's a feature on a gardener whose frequent absences from home have influenced the design and planting of his garden.